Micro Imaging Technology Inc (MMTC)

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Zach found some PASSION, for the MIT-1000 !!!!
THNX FOR THE GOOD WORK ZACH!!! bringing faster testing for listeria forward
with the MIT1000.

4/2017 NMU STUDENT SYMPOSIUM.
Listeria Rapid Identification with MIT Laser Technology.
- Zach Jodoin, Junior – Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Josh Sharp – Biology

Oral Presentation – Jamrich 1322 at 9:30 a.m.

In America alone, food–borne pathogens cause approximately 3,000 deaths and cost the economy more than $15 billion. Of all the food borne pathogens, Listeria monocytogenes, is one of the most troublesome. Listeria targets the most vulnerable members of society resulting in more than 260 deaths of elders, infants, and pregnant women.

Current methods used to detect
and prevent Listeria outbreaks are both expensive and extremely slow leading to misidentification and, consequently, extremely dangerous and expensive outbreaks. With the use of Micro Identification Technologies MIT1000 laser light scattering technology, Dynabead antibody microbead use, and selective media,

-- we optimized an assay that drastically reduced the amount of time and resources required to accurately identify Listeria from a liquid culture.

This new assay has the potential to save hundreds of lives and millions of dollars each year, while at the same time, holds significant potential for rapidly identifying various other bacterial species.

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1/2016 mcnair scholars.

Zach Jodoin is a sophomore majoring in Biology with a physiology emphasis. He writes that, “Although biology interests me, my true passion is medicine and children.

I am currently accepted to Wayne State’s medical school through Northern’s MedStart Program. I hope to one day become a pediatric surgeon.

I want to fight disease to give sick children the fair shot at life that they deserve. I have shadowed various physicians over the last four years and have logged around 500 hours in the hospital.”

Zach writes that he didn’t always want to be a doctor: “Since I was in middle school, up until my junior year of high school, I was sure I wanted to be a pharmacist. I did all the research and was up to the school work, but after only one day of shadowing a pharmacist, I knew I couldn’t do that for the rest of my life.

Signing off on orders and counting pills was not my cup of tea, I guess.
My teacher decided to put me in the operating room to show me a completely different healthcare aspect.

I observed a surgery performed that gave a man a second shot at a normal life (removed a colostomy), and when I saw the guy two weeks later in the office, he was in great shape and beyond happy with his life.

I knew then that this was my new passion and I have been working towards that passion ever since.”