# @ncstatecals on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B-5t3V8DhYP
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15082609-ncstatecals-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-04-13T01:00:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (@NCStateCALS) — https://gondola.cc/NCStateCALS

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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.
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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

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## Tags

plants, microbiologist, microbes, salmonella, produce, greenhouse

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