Editorial Board for section 'Food Microbiology'
- Food Physics and (Bio)Chemistry Section
- Food Engineering and Technology Section
- Food Quality and Safety Section
- Food Analytical Methods Section
- Food Microbiology Section
- Food Nutrition Section
- Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Section
- Food Security and Sustainability Section
- Food Packaging and Preservation Section
- Sensory and Consumer Sciences Section
- Foodomics Section
- Food Toxicology Section
- Food Systems Section
- Food Biotechnology Section
- Meat Section
- Foods of Marine Origin Section
- Plant Foods Section
- Grain Section
- Dairy Section
- Drinks and Liquid Nutrition Section
Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members (97)

Interests: microbiology; pathogenesis; host–pathogen interaction; nanobiotechnology; food safety
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Interests: mycotoxins; mycotoxicology; mycotoxigenic fungi; lactic acid bacteria; fungal enzymes; detoxification
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Interests: food safety; gut health; public health; controlling pathogens in food systems; understanding pathogen survival and persistence along the food chain, their virulence attributes and the application of probiotics to control foodborne pathogens; the efficacy of currently applied intervention (hurdle) technologies to reduce pathogen transmission during pre- and post-harvest processing of fresh produce, meat and dairy products; potential application of probiotics and functional foods in the prevention and treatment of gut pathologies; elucidating the molecular cross talk between diet, microbiome and host on all levels of regulation namely, genes, proteins and metabolites; developing evidence-based dietary interventions for restoring health and preventing chronic pathologies

Interests: fermented food; Lactic acid bacteria; probiotic

Interests: table olives; biofilms; metagenomics; probiotics; predictive microbiology; food safety; food quality; lactic acid bacteria; yeasts
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Interests: food microbiology; food safety; food quality; food biotechnology
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Interests: food fermentation; dairy; wine fermentation; food safety; probiotics; functional foods; food processing; lactic acid bacteria; yeast; table olives; biofilm; predictive microbiology
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Interests: food microbiology; foodborne pathogens; food safety; food preservation; probiotics; predictive microbiology
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Interests: foodborn pathogen; microbial biofilm; rapid detection of pathogen; microbial drug resistance; lactic acid bacteria; antimicrobial peptide
Interests: food spoilage; lactic acid bacteria
Interests: virus; metagenomic studies; next-generation sequencing; microbial contaminants; viral detection techniques; food safety
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Interests: food safety; microbiology; shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli; campylobacter; salmonella

Interests: lactic acid bacteria; wine; Oenococcus; food microbiology; fermented foods
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Interests: food quality; food safety; food-borne bacterial pathogens; bacterial injury; antimicrobials; food microbiota; molecular methods in food microbiology; food spoilage; seafood quality and safety
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Interests: rapid detection of pathogens; pre-analytical sample preparation; flow cytometry and other methods for single cell analysis; multicomponent antimicrobial systems for use in foods, on food contact surfaces or in environmental applications; leveraging advances in materials science and chemistry for detection or inactivation of pathogens
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Interests: food safety microbiology; food toxicology; predictive microbiology modeling; microbiological risk assessment; mycotoxin; food safety regulations
Interests: dairy science; meat science; food processing; food safety; food shelf life
Interests: microbial food safety of fresh and fresh-cut fruits & vegetables and of fresh & processed meats; non-thermal technologies for pathogen control in foods; microbiome of fruits and vegetables; food irradiation; HACCP systems
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Interests: salmonella; EHEC; biofilm; bacterial genetics; antibiotic resistance; antimicrobial intervention
Interests: lactic acid bacteria; food quality; olive oil microbiology; table olives processing; yeast fermentation

Interests: yeast fermentation processes; wine and beer fermentation; yeast physiology; bioprocess; biomass recycling
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Interests: innovative technologies for food preservation; food science; food microbiology and safety; lactic acid bacteria and probiotics; predictive microbiology
Interests: food mycology; food microbiology; microbial ecology; food fermentations; secondary metabolites; mycotoxins; LC-MS; filamentous fungi; yeasts; lactic acid bacteria
Interests: food safety; Listeria monocytogenes; salmonella; Listeria; food preservation; foodborne diseases; antimicrobials; antimicrobial resistance; food packaging
Interests: veterinary epidemiology; infectious disease epidemiology; zoonotic diseases; molecular epidemiology
Interests: lactic acid bacteria; foodborne pathogens; food microbiome; bacteriocins; biopreservation

Interests: food microbiology; food-borne bacterial pathogens; rapid detection of foodborne pathogens; molecular methods in food microbiology; food-borne viruses
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Interests: food safety; control of foodborne pathogens; antimicrobial compounds; bioactive molecules; probiotics; prebiotics; edible coatings; intestinal microbial ecology
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Interests: molecular microbiology and biotechnology of vegetable/fruit, sourdough and cheese lactic acid bacteria; synthesis of biogenic compounds by lactic acid bacteria; transcriptomics and phenomics of lactic acid bacteria in response to plant niche environments; phenolics, fatty acids, phytochemicals; human intestinal microbiome in response to dietary habits
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Interests: foodborne pathogen; Bacillus cereus; risk assessment; hazardous formation; edible fungi; nutriceutical; active component; redox; neurodegenerative disease