Dr Edward Fox

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.

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• Genomic and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Clostridium perfringens isolated from pets in China, Fang, M., Yuan, Y., Tian, X., Liu, Y., Wu, K., Zhu, Y., Zhang, L., Fox, E., Li, R., Bai, L., Li, M., Macori, G., Wang, X., Ye, D., Yang, Z., Zhang, R., Wang, J. 28 Mar 2025, In: Veterinary Microbiology
• Prevalence and genomic characteristics of becAB-carrying Clostridium perfringens strains, Fang, M., Yuan, Y., Fox, E., Wu, K., Tian, X., Zhang, L., Feng, H., Li, R., Bai, L., Wang, X., Yang, Z., Zhang, R., Wang, J. 1 Jan 2025, In: Food Microbiology
• Draft genome sequence of Amycolatopsis camponoti RTGN1, a bacterial endophyte isolated from Alnus glutinosa root nodules, Thompson, R., Fox, E., Montero-Calasanz, M. 17 Jan 2024, In: Microbiology Resource Announcements
• Draft genome sequence of Streptomyces poriferorum RTGN2, a bacterial endophyte isolated from Alnus glutinosa root nodules, Thompson, R., Fox, E., Montero-Calasanz, M. 15 Feb 2024, In: Microbiology Resource Announcements
• Draft genome sequences of five Mycobacterium strains, isolated from Alnus glutinosa root nodules, Thompson, R., Fox, E., Montero-Calasanz, M. 15 Feb 2024, In: Microbiology Resource Announcements
• Draft genome sequences of two Micromonospora strains isolated from the root nodules of Alnus glutinosa, Thompson, R., Fox, E., Montero-Calasanz, M. 12 Mar 2024, In: Microbiology Resource Announcements
• Genomic adaptation of Clostridium perfringens to human intestine, Wu, K., Wang, J., Yan, Z., Zhu, Y., Wang, S., Fu, B., Sun, C., Li, R., Fox, E., Fanning, S., Bai, L., Wang, Y., Tang, Y., Yin, Z., Zhang, R., Wang, H. 1 Dec 2024, In: iMetaOmics
• Genomic insights into cpb2 -positive Clostridium perfringens and the potential biological function of cpb2 gene, Wu, K., Yuan, Y., Fang, M., Liu, Y., Yang, D., Zhang, L., Tian, X., Dou, L., Ye, D., Fox, E., Wang, J., Yang, Z. 30 Aug 2024, In: One Health Advances
• Persistence of microbiological hazards in food and feed production and processing environments, Koutsoumanis, K., Allende, A., Bolton, D., Bover‐Cid, S., Chemaly, M., De Cesare, A., Herman, L., Hilbert, F., Lindqvist, R., Nauta, M., Nonno, R., Peixe, L., Ru, G., Simmons, M., Skandamis, P., Suffredini, E., Fox, E., Gosling, R., Gil, B., Møretrø, T., Stessl, B., Da Silva Felício, M., Messens, W., Simon, A., Alvarez‐Ordóñez, A. Jan 2024, In: EFSA Journal
• Profiling the Enterobacterales community isolated from retail foods in England, Harding-Crooks, R., Jones, A., Smith, D., Fanning, S., Fox, E. 1 Nov 2024, In: Journal of Food Protection

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• Editorial work: Journal of Food Protection (Journal) 2018