Stephen Forsythe

Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham United Kingdom

Biographical Sketch: Steve Forsythe is Professor of Microbiology at Nottingham Trent University, and also visiting Professor to the University of Hong Kong. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed papers and three books on food microbiology. His recent research has been on Cronobacter and other emerging pathogens causing infant infections through contaminated feeds. This work ranges from improved primary isolation methods (chromogenic agar) through to whole genome analysis; developing DNA-sequence based profiling procedures based on multilocus-sequence typing (7- loci, 53-ribosomal & core genome MLST), capsule composition and CRISPR-cas arrays. He is curator of the Cronobacter PubMLST database. His email address is steve.forsythe@foodmicrobe.com and his homepage is www.foodmicrobe.com/publications.htm .

Papers:
Examination Challenges for Teachers of Food Safety: Methods vs. Knowledge and Skills Gained