Novel Research on Microbial Communities in the Food Chain
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2023) | Viewed by 4794
Special Issue Editors
Interests: study of food-borne pathogens and complex microbial communities using advanced genomic techniques and cutting-edge metagenomic approaches; using high-throughput sequencing to investigate outbreaks of important infectious disease agents; development of novel sequencing and bioinformatics methods to aid the interpretation of genome and metagenome scale data generated in clinical and public health microbiology
Interests: use of cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics approaches to the diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance of infectious disease and food-borne pathogens; using novel sequencing technologies and high-definition phenotypic characterisation for revealing molecular mechanisms that control gene expression in bacteria, with particular attention to studying the regulation of determinants and processes related to antimicrobial resistance; real-time genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Ireland
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microorganisms in all the ecosystems, including the ocean, soil, and the human body, live within complex, multispecies communities, forming an intricate network of relations in the form of metabolites and genetic materials. Due to their complexity, it is often extremely difficult to understand how these communities work and characterise their members, which can be often unculturable and for this reason not yet identified. To address these challenges, novel culture-independent techniques can be used in addition to traditional culturing approaches to understand the basic mechanisms that are at play within microbial communities, involved in driving species interactions, and general principles of community formation and their composition. Novel approaches including a variety of different -omics-based methods have increasingly been recently applied to study the composition of microbial communities along multiple food chains from the perspective of genetic diversity, functionality, and succession, including spoilage microflora, foodborne pathogens and also for studying functional microorganisms and the use of microorganisms to produce foods, for example by fermentation. This Special Issue aim to provide an overview of the significance of studying microbial communities in the food chain, discuss the current state of the research in this field, the methods for facilitating the isolation, development and harnessing of new starter strains, adjuncts, probiotics, with accompanying novel flavour, metabolic, and health-promoting functionalities. It also aims to report on the knowledge around conventional culture-based investigations of the microbiology of food chains complemented by cutting edge metagenomic-based methods and bioinformatic analysis to provide even greater insight into the fascinating systems biology and applied microbiology.
Dr. Guerrino Macori
Prof. Séamus Fanning
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- genomics
- metagenomics
- microbial communities
- functional foods
- foodborne pathogens
- high-throughput sequencing
- NGS
- predictive microbiology
- virulence factors
- metatranscriptomics
- outbreak investigation
- fermented foods
- culture-independent approaches
