Dr. José I. Reyes De Corcuera
Contact Information
Citrus Research and Education Center
Lake Alfred, Florida
Food Process Engineering
Phone: 863.956.1151 ext. 1344
Email: jireyes@ufl.edu
Research
Citrus processing technology development for the improvement of safety, quality and efficiency to provide Florida processors with worldwide competitive advantage.
Instrumentation and automation of food processes with emphasis in the development of biosensors and rapid enzyme methods for food safety and quality assurance.
Enzyme catalysis in organic phase at high hydrostatic pressure
Metabolomics of ctirus and food pathogens
Teaching
FOS 5561C 'Citrus Processing Technology'. A 3-credit course with hands-on laboratory and pilot plant demonstrations on unit operations used in the citrus idustry. Syllabus
FOS 6936 ‘Sensors and data acquisition for biological sciences’. A 1-credit course focusing on the fundamentals of data aquisition, computer interfacing of insturments used by graduate students in their research and basic LabVIEW programming. Syllabus
FOS 6936 'Food Kinetics'. A 3-credit course on chemical, enzyme and microbial kinetics in foods. Syllabus
Refereed Publications
*Corresponding Author
Eisenmenger M.J. and Reyes-De-Corcuera, J.I.* (2010) Effects of high hydrostatic pressure on lipase-catalyzed production of isoamyl acetate in ionic liquids J Mol Cat B Enzym. In press
Cevallos-Cevallos, J.M., García-Torres, R., Etxeberria, E., Reyes-De-Corcuera, J.I.* (2010) GC-MS analysis of headspace and liquid extracts for metabolomic differentiation of citrus huanglongbing and zinc deficiency in leaves of ‘Valencia’ sweet orange from commercial groves. Phytochem Anal. In press
Eisenmenger, M.J., Reyes-De-Corcuera, J.I.* (2010) Kinetics of lipase catalyzed isoamyl acetate synthesis at high hydrostatic pressure in hexane. Biotech Let. In press
Chang, S., Han, A.R., Reyes-De-Corcuera, J.I., Powers, J.R.; Kang, D.H.* (2010) Evaluation of steam pasteurization in controlling Salmonella serotype Enteritidis on raw almond surfaces. Appl. Miocrbiol, 50:393-398.
Eisenmenger, M.J., Reyes-De-Corcuera, J.I.* (2009) High Pressure Enhancement of Enzymes: A Review. Enzyme Microb. Technol, 45:331-347.
García-Torres, R., Ponagandla, N.R., Rouseff, R.L. Goodrich-Schneider, R.M., Reyes-De-Corcuera, J.I.* (2009) Effects of Dissolved Oxygen in Fruit Juices and Methods of Removal. CRFSFS, 8:409-423.
Cevallos-Cevallos, J.M., Reyes-De-Corcuera, J.I.*, Etxeberria, E., Danyluk, M.D., Rodrick, G.E. (2009) Metabolomic analysis in food science. A review. Trends Food Sci Technol, 20:557-566.
Eisenmenger, M.J., Reyes-De-Corcuera, J.I.* (2009) Hydrostatic Pressure Increased Stability and Activity of Immobilized Lipase in Hexane. Enzyme Microb. Technol, 45: 118-125.
Teruel, M.A., Jenkins, D.M., Reyes-De-Corcuera, J.I.* (2009) Crystallization of beta-D-Glucose and Analysis with a Simple Glucose Biosensor. J. Chem. Educ., 86 (8):959-961.
Cevallos-Cevallos, J.M.; Rouseff, R.L.; Reyes-De-Corcuera, J.I.* (2009) Untargeted metabolite analysis of healthy and Huanglongbing infected orange leaves by CE-DAD. Electrophoresis, 30: 1240-1247.
Jenkins D.M.*; Teruel M.A.; Reyes-De-Corcuera, J.I.; Young O. (2008) Simultaneous Determination of Hydrolysis and Mutarotation Rates During the Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Lactose. J. Agric. Food Chem. (56): 8303-8308.
Buranasompob, A.; Tang, J.; Powers, J.R.; Reyes, J.I.; Clark, S; Swanson, B.G.*. 2007. Lipoxygenase activity in walnuts and almonds. LWT 40:893-899.
Lee, S.Y.; Oh, S.W.; Chung, H.J.; Reyes De Corcuera, J.I.; Powers, J.R.; Kang, D.H.* (2006) Reduction of Salmonella enterica serovar enteritidis on the surface of raw shelled almonds by exposure to steam. J. Food Protect. 69 (3): 591-595.
Reyes De Corcuera, J.I.; Cavalieri, R.P.*; Powers, J.R.; Kang, D.H. (2005) Enzyme electropolymer-based amperometric biosensors: an innovative platform for time-temperature integrators. J. Agric. Food Chem. 53 (23): 8866-8873.
Reyes De Corcuera, J.I.; Cavalieri, R.P.*; Powers, J.R. (2005) Improved platinization conditions for over 60-fold increase in sensitivity of amperometric biosensors using glucose oxidase immobilized in poly-o-phenylenediamine. J. Electroanal. Chem. 575 (2): 229-241.
Reyes De Corcuera, J.I.; Cavalieri, R.P.*; Powers, J.R. (2004) Simultaneous determination of film permeability to H 2 O 2 and substrate surface area coverage of overoxidized polypyrrole. Synth. Met. 142 (1-3): 71-79.
Reyes De Corcuera, J.I.; Cavalieri, R.P.*; Powers, J.R. (2003) Prototype instruments for laboratory and on-line measurement of lipoxygenase activity. Food Sci. Technol. Int. 9 (1): 5-9.
Reyes De Corcuera, J.I.; Cavalieri, R.P.*; Powers, J.R. (2002) Improved amperometric method for the rapid and quantitative measurement of lipoxygenase activity in vegetable tissue crude homogenates. J. Agric. Food Chem. 50 (5): 997-1001.
Other peer-reviewed publications
Reyes De Corcuera, J.I.; Cavalieri, R.P.*; Powers, J.R. (2004) Blanching of Foods, in Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering, Heldman, D., Editor. Marcel Dekker Inc. [http://www.Dekker.com] (on-line version)
Reyes De Corcuera, J.I. and Cavalieri R.P.*. 2003. Biosensors. Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food and Biological Engineering, DO1: 10.1081/E-EAFE 120007212. p. 119-123.
Cavalieri, R.P.*; Reyes De Corcuera, J.I. (2003) Kinetics of chemical reactions in foods, in Food Engineering, Barbosa-Cánovas, G.V. and Juliano, P., Editors. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford,UK, [http://www.eolss.net]
