Conor O'Byrne

National University of Ireland, Galway
Galway Ireland

Biographical Sketch: Following my doctoral research, at the University of Dundee, with Professor Charles Dorman, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Unilever Plc in Bedfordshire, England, where I became interested in Listeria as a food-borne pathogen. I then took up an independent postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Aberdeen to work on stress responses in Listeria monocytogenes. In 2002 I took up a lectureship at NUI Galway, where I am now senior lecturer and director of the Bacterial Stress Response Group. I have pursued research and published extensively on the stress physiology and molecular biology of Listeria monocytogenes.

Papers:
A Three-Year National Survey of Listeria monocytogenes Prevalence in the Irish Food Chain: Implications for Food Safety