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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• A label-free fiber ring laser biosensor for ultrahigh sensitivity detection of Salmonella Typhimurium, Qiu, S., Liu, B., Leng, Y., Fox, E., Zhou, X., Yan, B., Sang, X., Long, K., Fu, Y., He, X., Yuan, J., Farrell, G., Wu, Q. 15 Aug 2023, In: Biosensors and Bioelectronics
• Dissemination of carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae and associated resistance determinants through global food systems, Harding-Crooks, R., Smith, D., Fanning, S., Fox, E. 1 Jul 2023, In: Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety
• Genome characteristics of the optrA-positive Clostridium perfringens strain QHY-2 carrying a novel plasmid type, Wu, K., Li, Z., Fang, M., Yuan, Y., Fox, E., Liu, Y., Li, R., Bai, L., Zhang, W., Zhang, W., Yang, Q., Chang, L., Li, P., Wang, X., Wang, J., Yang, Z. 31 Aug 2023, In: mSystems
• Clostridium perfringens associated with dairy farm systems show diverse genotypes, Santos, R., Abdel-Nour, J., McAuley, C., Moore, S., Fegan, N., Fox, E. 2 Dec 2022, In: International Journal of Food Microbiology
• Characterisation of Listeria monocytogenes food-associated isolates to assess environmental fitness and virulence potential, Gray, J., Chandry, P., Kaur, M., Kocharunchitt, C., Bowman, J., Fox, E. 16 Jul 2021, In: International Journal of Food Microbiology
• Colonisation dynamics of Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated from food production environments, Gray, J., Chandry, P., Kaur, M., Kocharunchitt, C., Fanning, S., Bowman, J., Fox, E. Dec 2021, In: Scientific Reports
• Genomic insights into persistence of Listeria species in the food processing environment, Palaiodimou, L., Fanning, S., Fox, E. 1 Nov 2021, In: Journal of Applied Microbiology
• Preface, Fox, E., Bierne, H., Stessl, B. 2021, In: Methods in Molecular Biology
• Staphylococcus aureus - dairy, Fox, E., Jiang, Y., Tinoco, M. 27 Sep 2021, Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences, Elsevier
• Bacillus cereus non-haemolytic enterotoxin activates the NLRP3 inflammasome, Fox, D., Mathur, A., Xue, Y., Liu, Y., Tan, W., Feng, S., Pandey, A., Ngo, C., Hayward, J., Atmosukarto, I., Price, J., Johnson, M., Jessberger, N., Robertson, A., Burgio, G., Tscharke, D., Fox, E., Leyton, D., Kaakoush, N., Märtlbauer, E., Leppla, S., Man, S. 1 Dec 2020, In: Nature Communications

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

Richard Harding-Crooks Antimicrobial resistance and One Health: Foodborne carriage of antimicrobial resistance markers Start Date: 01/10/2019