Institute of Food Research (IFR)

Person in charge: József Baranyi (jozsef.baranyi@bbsrc.ac.uk)
Site: Food Safety and Computational Microbiology Group
Main tasks in the project: Leader of WP6 (WP7, WP9)

Description of Participant and Expertise:
Understanding and predicting pathogen response to stresses
- Special expertise: Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonellae, Clostridium botulinum

Quantitative risk assessments and Predictive Microbiology for complex hazards
- Modelling bacterial growth, survival and death.
- Dynamic models of bacterial responses to the environment
- Stochastic modelling of bacterial lag and growth.
- Computer realisations of predictive models.
- Databases on microbial responses to food environments
- Detection and characterisation of pathogens

Participating people

2 senior researchers with scientific background will carry out the research activities:

József Baranyi - Mathematical modeller (Principal Research Scientist) working on modelling of microbial responses to food environments (predictive microbiology)
Aline Métris - Senior Research Scientist. Mathematical modeller (Senior Research Scientist) working on Predictive Microbiology and Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment.

References relevant to the field of research:

Baranyi J. and Roberts T.A. (1994). A dynamic approach to predicting bacterial growth in food. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 23, 277-294
Baranyi J., Pin C. and Ross T. (1999). Validating and comparing predictive models. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 48. 159-166
Ross T., Baranyi J. and McMeekin T.A. (1999). Predictive Microbiology and Food Safety. In: Encyclopaedia of Food Microbiology. Ed: Robinson R., Batt, C. and Patel, P. Academic Press
Métris A., George S.A. Peck M.W. and Baranyi J. (2003). Distribution of turbidity detection times produced by single cell-generated bacterial populations. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 55: 821-827
Baranyi J. and Tamplin M. (2003). ComBase: A Common Database on Microbial Responses to Food Environments. J. Food Prot. 67, 1967–1971