Have you ever been to our Phytotron? With this specialized #greenhouse, researchers like FDA #microbiologist Kellie Burris study bacteria, fungi and viruses that infect #plants — or contaminate produce causing foodborne illness — in a safe and secure manner. . NCState’s Phytotron greenhouse is unique in that it is BSL-3 certified, one of only a handful of such facilities in the U.S. The FDA wanted to better understand how outbreak-related #Salmonella strains can contaminate fresh #produce, but they needed access to a high-containment facility to isolate the #microbes from the natural environment. And that’s how my project started. — Kellie Burris