Dr. Jovana Kovacevic is an Associate Professor at OSU College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University. She completed her B.Sc. studies in Food Science and Technology at the University of Alberta in 2005, M.Sc. studies in Food Science and Technology—Food Microbiology at the University of Alberta in 2007, and PhD studies in Food Science—Food Microbiology at the University of British Columbia in 2014. Her research interests include molecular methods and genomics in food safety, survival, stress response mechanisms, and prevention of Listeria monocytogenes contamination in food processing environments, antimicrobial resistance in the food chain, pathogen stress survival and biofilms, and understanding and preventing foodborne outbreaks.