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Overview

Tom Ross is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia. Their research primarily spans the Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology fields, with a particular focus on Food Science, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology.

The scientist's work addresses main topics including:

  • Food Safety and Hygiene
  • Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
  • Meat and Animal Product Quality
  • Food Supply Chain Traceability
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Gut microbiota and health

Among their recent publications are:

  • Effect of abattoir, livestock species and storage temperature on bacterial community dynamics and sensory properties of vacuum packaged red meat, 2020, Food Microbiology
  • Big Data Impacting Dynamic Food Safety Risk Management in the Food Chain, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Understanding the microbial fibre degrading communities & processes in the equine gut, 2023, Animal Microbiome
  • Review article: Food safety culture from the perspective of the Australian horticulture industry, 2021, Trends in Food Science & Technology
  • Spoilage potential of bacterial species from chilled vacuum-packed lamb, 2022, Food Microbiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tom Ross include:

  • John P. Bowman
  • Chawalit Kocharunchitt
  • Elizabeth J. Frankish
  • Shane M. Powell
  • Hayriye Bozkurt

Common venues for the scientist's publications are:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • International Journal of Food Microbiology
  • Food Control
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Microbiology Australia

Best Publications

  • Indices for performance evaluation of predictive models in food microbiology

    T. Ross

  • Predictive Microbiology : Theory and Application

    TA McMeekin;J Olley;T Ross

  • Predictive modelling of the growth and survival of Listeria in fishery products

    Tom Ross;Paw Dalgaard;Suwunna Tienungoon

  • Validating and comparing predictive models.

    József Baranyi;Carmen Pin;Thomas Ross

  • Estimation of bacterial growth rates from turbidimetric and viable count data

    Paw Dalgaard;Thomas Ross;Laura Kamperman;Karina Neumeyer

  • Modelling the growth rate of Escherichia coli as a function of pH and lactic acid concentration.

    K A Presser;D A Ratkowsky;T Ross

  • Acid habituation of Escherichia coli and the potential role of cyclopropane fatty acids in low pH tolerance

    Janelle L Brown;Thomas Ross;Thomas A McMeekin;Peter D Nichols;Peter D Nichols

  • Predictive microbiology: towards the interface and beyond.

    T.A. McMeekin;J. Olley;D.A. Ratkowsky;T. Ross

  • Growth limits of Listeria monocytogenes as a function of temperature, pH, NaCl, and lactic acid.

    S. Tienungoon;D. A. Ratkowsky;T. A. McMeekin;T. Ross

  • Information systems in food safety management.

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

  • Modelling the Growth Limits (Growth/No Growth Interface) of Escherichia coli as a Function of Temperature, pH, Lactic Acid Concentration, and Water Activity

    K. A. Presser;T. Ross;D. A. Ratkowsky

  • Predictive microbiology: providing a knowledge-based framework for change management.

    T.A McMeekin;T Ross

  • Unifying temperature effects on the growth rate of bacteria and the stability of globular proteins.

    David A. Ratkowsky;June Olley;Tom Ross

  • Modelling the bacterial growth/no growth interface

    D.A. Ratkowsky;T. Ross

  • A simple, spreadsheet-based, food safety risk assessment tool.

    Thomas Ross;John Sumner

  • Variability in biofilm production by Listeria monocytogenes correlated to strain origin and growth conditions

    Rolf E. Nilsson;Tom Ross;John P. Bowman

  • Effect of relative inoculum concentration on Listeria monocytogenes growth in co-culture.

    L.A. Mellefont;T.A. McMeekin;T. Ross

  • Quantitative microbiology: a basis for food safety.

    TA McMeekin;JL Brown;KA Krist;DW Miles

  • Effects of parameterization on the performance of empirical models used in `predictive microbiology'

    J. Baranyi;T. Ross;T.A. McMeekin;T.A. Roberts

  • Information systems in food safety management

    T.A. McMeekin;J. Baranyi;P. Dalgaard;M. Kirk

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom A. McMeekin
Tom A. McMeekin University of Tasmania
John P. Bowman
John P. Bowman University of Tasmania
Mark L. Tamplin
Mark L. Tamplin University of Tasmania
Lana Shabala
Lana Shabala University of Tasmania
Sergey Shabala
Sergey Shabala University of Western Australia
Marcel H. Zwietering
Marcel H. Zwietering Wageningen University & Research
Paw Dalgaard
Paw Dalgaard Technical University of Denmark
Alieta Eyles
Alieta Eyles University of Tasmania
Peter D. Nichols
Peter D. Nichols Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Noel W. Davies
Noel W. Davies University of Leicester

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