Ed
received a Newman Fellowship at University College Dublin’s Centre for Food
Safety where his researched examined the role of microbial communities in
influencing the colonisation of pathogenic bacteria in food processing
environments.
Ed worked as a Senior Research Scientist at the Australian government’s national scientific research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), where his research focused on molecular ecology of foodborne pathogens through food chains, microbial genomics, and novel biocontrol approaches for pathogen control.
Dr Fox's research interests span across food science and modern food production approaches, with a core focus on food microbiology. This includes understanding the ecology of bacterial pathogens through food supply chains, and strategies to control associated contamination and improve food safety.
Research areas include:
- Global ecology of foodborne pathogens through food chains and their impact on human public health and clinical instance of disease.
- Food safety, including molecular surveillance of pathogens in food processing environments, and control strategies to reduce the burden of bacterial contamination in food systems, such as cleaning and sanitising as well as novel biocontrol strategies.
- Genomics of foodborne pathogens, with a particular focus on stress resistance mechanisms.
- Antimicrobial resistance of foodborne bacteria, and the role of food production systems in the One Health paradigm.
- Microbial food quality, with a particular focus on dairy foods.
Richard Harding-Crooks Enterobacteriaceae and Aeromonas species in retail foods: genotypes associated with antimicrobial resistance Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 17/07/2024
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