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 process 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.

Publications

Peer-reviewed research articles

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 only)

Reyes De Corcuera. J.I.; Cavalieri, R.P. (2003) Biosensors, in Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering, Heldman, D., Editor. Marcel Dekker Inc., pp. 119-123 [http://www.Dekker.com]

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]