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John P. Bowman is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields within biological sciences, focusing primarily on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, agricultural and biological sciences.

The main topics of Bowman's work include:

  • Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Meat and Animal Product Quality
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Food Safety and Hygiene
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Bowman's research also covers subfields such as:

  • Food Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Ecology
  • Immunology

They have published extensively in academic journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Food Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Aquaculture

Bowman's recent papers demonstrate a focus on microbial ecology and food safety in aquaculture and meat production contexts. Selected recent papers include:

  • Microbial Ecology of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Hatcheries: Impacts of the Built Environment on Fish Mucosal Microbiota, 2020, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Salinity and fish age affect the gut microbiota of farmed Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), 2020, Aquaculture
  • Effect of abattoir, livestock species and storage temperature on bacterial community dynamics and sensory properties of vacuum packaged red meat, 2020, Food Microbiology
  • Effects of feed ration and temperature on Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) microbiota in freshwater recirculating aquaculture systems, 2021, Aquaculture
  • Characterisation of Listeria monocytogenes food-associated isolates to assess environmental fitness and virulence potential, 2021, International Journal of Food Microbiology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated multiple times with Bowman include:

  • Chawalit Kocharunchitt
  • T Ross
  • Mark L. Tamplin
  • Barbara F. Nowak
  • Mandeep Kaur

Best Publications

  • Description of Cellulophaga algicola sp. nov. isolated from the surfaces of Antarctic algae, and reclassification of Cytophaga uliginosa (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Reichenbach 1989 as Cellulophaga uliginosa comb. nov

    John P. Bowman

  • Diversity and association of psychrophilic bacteria in Antarctic sea ice.

    John P. Bowman;Sharee A. Mccammon;Mark V. Brown;David S. Nichols

  • Revised Taxonomy of the Methanotrophs: Description of Methylobacter gen. nov., Emendation of Methylococcus, Validation of Methylosinus and Methylocystis Species, and a Proposal that the Family Methylococcaceae Includes Only the Group I Methanotrophs

    John P. Bowman;Lindsay I. Sly;Peter D. Nichols;A. C. Hayward

  • Bioactive compound synthetic capacity and ecological significance of marine bacterial genus pseudoalteromonas.

    John P. Bowman

  • Biodiversity, Community Structural Shifts, and Biogeography of Prokaryotes within Antarctic Continental Shelf Sediment

    John P. Bowman;Robert D. McCuaig

  • Bacterial Exopolysaccharides from Extreme Marine Environments with Special Consideration of the Southern Ocean, Sea Ice, and Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents: A Review

    C.A. Mancuso Nichols;J. Guezennec;J.P. Bowman

  • The Methanotrophs — The Families Methylococcaceae and Methylocystaceae

    John Bowman

  • Algicidal Effects of a Novel Marine Pseudoalteromonas Isolate (Class Proteobacteria, Gamma Subdivision) on Harmful Algal Bloom Species of the Genera Chattonella, Gymnodinium, and Heterosigma

    Connie Lovejoy;John P. Bowman;John P. Bowman;Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff

  • The genus Flavobacterium

    Jean-François Bernardet;John P. Bowman

  • Information systems in food safety management.

    T.A. McMeekin;J. Baranyi;J. Bowman;Paw Dalgaard

  • A molecular phylogenetic survey of sea‐ice microbial communities (SIMCO)

    Mark V. Brown;John P. Bowman

  • Effects of biochar and compost amendments on soil physico-chemical properties and the total community within a temperate agricultural soil

    Ibrahim S. Abujabhah;Sally A. Bound;Richard Doyle;John P. Bowman

  • Taxonomy of Antarctic Flavobacterium species: description of Flavobacterium gillisiae sp. nov., Flavobacterium tegetincola sp. nov., and Flavobacterium xanthum sp. nov., nom. rev. and reclassification of [Flavobacterium] salegens as Salegentibacter salegens gen. nov., comb. nov.

    Sharee A. McCammon;John P. Bowman

  • Algoriphagus ratkowskyi gen. nov., sp. nov., Brumimicrobium glaciale gen. nov., sp. nov., Cryomorpha ignava gen. nov., sp. nov. and Crocinitomix catalasitica gen. nov., sp. nov., novel flavobacteria isolated from various polar habitats

    John P. Bowman;Carol Mancuso Nichols;John A. E. Gibson

  • Production of exopolysaccharides by Antarctic marine bacterial isolates

    C.A. Mancuso Nichols;S. Garon;J.P. Bowman;G. Raguénès

  • Characterization of Ferroplasma Isolates and Ferroplasma acidarmanus sp. nov., Extreme Acidophiles from Acid Mine Drainage and Industrial Bioleaching Environments

    Mark Dopson;Craig Baker-Austin;Andrew Hind;John P. Bowman

  • Shewanella gelidimarina sp. nov. and Shewanella frigidimarina sp. nov., novel Antarctic species with the ability to produce eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5 omega 3) and grow anaerobically by dissimilatory Fe(III) reduction.

    John P. Bowman;Sharee A. McCammon;David S. Nichols;Jenny H. Skerratt

  • Methylosphaera hansonii gen. nov., sp. nov., a psychrophilic, group I methanotroph from Antarctic marine-salinity, meromictic lakes

    John P. Bowman;Sharee A. McCammon;Jenny H. Skerratt;Jenny H. Skerratt

  • Chemical characterization of exopolysaccharides from Antarctic marine bacteria.

    Carol Mancuso Nichols;Sandrine Garon Lardière;John P. Bowman;Peter D. Nichols

  • Novel Psychrobacter Species from Antarctic Ornithogenic Soils

    John P. Bowman;Joanne Cavanagh;Jeremy J. Austin;Kevin Sanderson

  • Diversity and community structure within anoxic sediment from marine salinity meromictic lakes and a coastal meromictic marine basin, Vestfold Hills, Eastern Antarctica

    John P. Bowman;Suzanne M. Rea;Sharee A. McCammon;Tom A. McMeekin

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Ross
Tom Ross University of Tasmania
Tom A. McMeekin
Tom A. McMeekin University of Tasmania
Mark L. Tamplin
Mark L. Tamplin University of Tasmania
Peter D. Nichols
Peter D. Nichols Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Elena P. Ivanova
Elena P. Ivanova RMIT University
Ian Snape
Ian Snape Frontline Mind
Gary S. Sayler
Gary S. Sayler University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Sergey Shabala
Sergey Shabala University of Western Australia
Valery V. Mikhailov
Valery V. Mikhailov Russian Academy of Sciences

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