Current Students in Group

Antoinette (Stephens) Gayle – MPhil candidate (Thesis under examination: Varietal impact on the quality of Jamaican coffee – Blue Mountain and non-Blue Mountain coffee)

Ching Chin Lee – MPhil candidate

Names of Graduates in the Group

• Heather Brown-Gordon (MPhil); Investigation of the essential oils and oleoresins of Jamaican pimento, Pimenta dioica.
• Andrea Goldson (MPhil); Investigation of the ackee fruit, Blighia sapida.  
• Orane Blake (MPhil; Co-Supervisor: Jose C Jackson); Chemical and toxicological characterisation of selected components of the ackee (Blighia sapida) fruit.
• Keisha Lambert (MPhil; Co-Supervisor: Jose C Jackson); Antioxidant activity of sorrel (Hibiscus sabdariffa). 
• Madeen Roberts-Miller (MPhil; Co-Supervisors: Jose C Jackson, Paula Tennant) Physicochemical characterization of transgenic and non-transgenic papaya fruit (Carica papaya L.).
• Camille Bowen (PhD); Evaluation of hypoglycins A and B content and the phytochemistry of Blighia sapida.
• Andriene Patterson (MSc Food Science & Technology; Co-Supervisor:
• John Akingbala, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UWI, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago); Evaluation of the anti-oxidant effects of Psidium guajava – Guava leaf and stem extracts in controlling rancidity in soybean oil.  
• Dwyte Bremmer (MPhil); Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Jamaican jerked meats.  Safiyyah Dundee (MPhil); Hypoglycin: partitioning in canned ackee and relationship with seed size. 
• O’Neil Falloon (MSc Food Science & Technology; Co-Supervisor: Gail-Bacchus-Taylor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UWI, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago); Differentiation of proximates in tree-ripened versus rack-ripened ackees