Food microbiology, microbial genomics and antimicrobial resistance, Postdoctoral researcher @TheQuadram.
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Seafood can be wild-caught or aquacultured, but do these methods expose us to dangerous bacteria? In our paper doi.org/10.1016/j.fm.2025.10… published in Food Microbiology, we used genomics to investigate the Vibrio collected from seafood produced using different methods.
How is AMR able to spread? Vibrio has an arsenal of mobile genetic elements associated with AMR genes: 25% were found on plasmids, 52% were associated with insertion sequences, and similar AMR gene-containing chromosomal regions were found amongst different Vibrio species.
Lots of hard work by @ae_mather, Raphaёlle Palau, Nicol Janecko and Craig Baker-Austin and others at @TheQuadram, with grateful acknowledgement of funding from @BBSRC and @foodgov.
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Check out our latest blog from @BloomfieldMicro at @TheQuadram about their ublication in #MGen where they investigated using metagenomics to understand the microbial populations on food to make it safer. 🔬🦠microb.io/3WVdalo @ae_mather @aldertzomer
Food metagenomics is an emerging field, but can it be used for food surveillance? In our paper doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.00133… published in Microbial Genomics, we compared the metagenomes of food to the genomes of pathogens collected from the same samples to test its effectiveness.
Do metagenomes differ amongst different types of food? Certain microorganisms, metabolic pathways and AMR genes were associated with specific food commodities, e.g., pectin degradation was associated with leafy greens.
Lots of hard work by @ae_mather, Falk Hildebrand, @aldertzomer, Raphaёlle Palau and others at @TheQuadram, with grateful acknowledgement of funding from @BBSRC and @foodgov.
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Excited to share that the first paper from my PhD research investigating Campylobacter diversity on retail chicken has just been published! 🧬🧫 doi.org/10.1017/S09502688240…
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🆕 Blog! Dr Samuel Bloomfield (@BloomfieldMicro) explains how Quadram Institute researchers are exploring the food safety risk of Pseudomonas bacteria ⤵️
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🆕 Genomics reveals potential underappreciated threat to food safety.
Yersinia enterocolitica bacteria may be an underappreciated potential pathogen in the food chain 🦠
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Pseudomonas everywhere but is it dangerous to eat? In our paper (doi.org/10.1186/s12866-023-0…), published in BMC Microbiology, we looked at Pseudomonas on food and its clinical significance, including antimicrobial resistance.
Were the food P. aeruginosa dangerous? All P. aeruginosa isolates contained multiple antimicrobial resistance genes, displayed virulence and a quarter of strains had been seen in human infections. The burden of food to P. aeruginosa infections should be evaluated more closely.
Lots of hard work by @ae_mather, Raphaëlle Palau, @emmaraholden, @ma_webber and others at @TheQuadram, with grateful acknowledgement of funding from @BBSRC, @MesResFnd and @foodgov.