Dr Edward Fox

Dr Fox's research interests span across food science and modern food production approaches, with a core focus on food microbiology. This includes understanding the ecology of bacterial pathogens through food supply chains, and strategies to control associated contamination and improve food safety.

Research areas include:

- Global ecology of foodborne pathogens through food chains and their impact on human public health and clinical instance of disease.

- Food safety, including molecular surveillance of pathogens in food processing environments, and control strategies to reduce the burden of bacterial contamination in food systems, such as cleaning and sanitising as well as novel biocontrol strategies.

- Genomics of foodborne pathogens, with a particular focus on stress resistance mechanisms.

- Antimicrobial resistance of foodborne bacteria, and the role of food production systems in the One Health paradigm.

- Microbial food quality, with a particular focus on dairy foods.

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• Genetic background and plasmid-associated contig profiles of the beta-2 toxin coding genes cpb2 and atypical cpb2 in Clostridium perfringens, Tian, X., Zhao, G., Wu, K., Zhao, H., Wang, S., Fox, E., Xie, Y., Jiao, Y., Hao, H., Chen, S., Huang, Y., Zhang, X., Yang, Z., Wang, J. 19 May 2026, In: BMC Genomics
• Hot water outperforms UV-C and commercial cleaning agents and disinfectants in reducing Listeria monocytogenes on woven conveyor belts, Møretrø, T., Heir, E., Maugesten, T., Rip, D., Corbett, K., Fox, E., Teixeira, P., Langsrud, S. 19 May 2026, In: Food Control
• Large-scale phenotyping and comparative genomics reveal genetic features of Listeria persistence in epithelial cells, Lotoux, A., Bertrand, M., Douarre, P., Kortebi, M., Riveiro, H., Palma, F., Lakisic, G., Fox, E., Guillier, L., Oevermann, A., Roussel, S., Bierne, H., Pagliuso, A., Milohanic, E. 15 Apr 2026, In: PLoS Pathogens
• Managing Listeria by Cleaning and Disinfection: Experiences from Food Processing Industries and from Manufacturers of Cleaning and Disinfection Agents, Langsrud, S., Heir, E., Pedersen, M., Moen, B., Teixeira, P., Corbett, K., Rip, D., Gouws, P., Kovacevic, J., Waite-Cusic, J., Fletcher, G., Fox, E., Michel, V., Hanin, A., Alvarez-Ordóñez, A., Moreno Switt, A., Urzúa Caracci, A., Rivera, D., Dørum, G., Møretrø, T. 1 Jun 2026, In: Journal of Food Protection
• Microbiological quality and safety of raw pet food for canines on sale in the UK, Seneviratne, S., Natarajan, V., Sunil, S., Wang, J., Fox, E. 8 Jul 2026, In: Translational Food Sciences
• Amycolatopsis ponsaeliensis sp. nov., a novel endophytic actinobacterium isolated from the root nodules of Alnus glutinosa, Thompson, R., Fox, E., Koutsidis, G., Del Carmen Montero-Calasanz, M. 16 Jun 2025, In: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
• From pollution to reforestation: the hidden microbiome of Alnus glutinosa nodules over 30 years, Thompson, R., del Carmen Montero-Calasanz, M., George, D., Fox, E. 2 Jul 2025, In: Scientific Reports
• Genomic analysis of Aeromonas species isolated from retail foods suggests an under-investigated population, Harding-Crooks, R., Macori, G., Sangal, V., Jones, A., Smith, D., Fanning, S., Fox, E. 2 Nov 2025, In: International Journal of Food Microbiology
• Genomic and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Clostridium perfringens isolated from pets in China, Fang, M., Yuan, Y., Tian, X., Liu, Y., Wu, K., Zhu, Y., Zhang, L., Fox, E., Li, R., Bai, L., Li, M., Macori, G., Wang, X., Ye, D., Yang, Z., Zhang, R., Wang, J. 1 May 2025, In: Veterinary Microbiology
• Prevalence and genomic characteristics of becAB-carrying Clostridium perfringens strains, Fang, M., Yuan, Y., Fox, E., Wu, K., Tian, X., Zhang, L., Feng, H., Li, R., Bai, L., Wang, X., Yang, Z., Zhang, R., Wang, J. 1 Jan 2025, In: Food Microbiology

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• Editorial work: Journal of Food Protection (Journal) 2018