Cafe Scientifique November 19, 2009

Topic 10: Food Pathogens: Is there an app for that? Using infrared light, customers will soon be able to detect bad chemical agents, toxins, pathogenic organisms, and explosives in our everyday life. What does this mean for our future? Join Ken Puzey, Owner, QuantaSpec Inc., for a fascinating conversation in ECHOs salon. FREE Event. Cash bar with themed drinks opens at 6.30 p.m., discussion begins at 7 p.m.; free light hors doeuvres sponsored by VT Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society. www.echovermont.org; 1.877.324.6386

Ken Puzey, CEO of QuantaSpec, Inc. in Burlington, VT has had a long history of electrical engineering. Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering, from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and U. Colorado-Boulder, respectively.
Contracts with Dept. of Homeland Security, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and more, for his work in detecting explosives, chemical/biological sensors, cancer diagnostics. They have also been supported by the US Army and the Department of Energy.