Triona O'Brien
Research Officer - Dairy Microbiology Food Safety ResearchResearch Interests
Microbial methods advancement to support food quality & safety challenges in the dairy industries.
Risk base approach to the control and reduction of pathogens and spores in dairy products and production.
Education
Teagasc Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2019) Moorepark/DPTC
Teagasc Walsh Scholarship PhD Food safety Biosystems Engineering (2014) University College Dublin
BSc Biological Sciences (1994) The Open University/GlaxoSmithKline
Li, F., Hunt, K., Buggy, A.K., Murphy, K.M., Ho, Q.T., O’Callaghan, T.F., Butler, F., Jordan, K., Tobin, J.T., 2020. The effects of sequential heat treatment on microbial reduction and spore inactivation during milk processing. International Dairy Journal, 104, 104648.
Li, F., Hunt, K., Van Hoorde, K., Butler, F., Jordan, K., & Tobin, J. T. 2019. Occurrence and identification of spore-forming bacteria in skim-milk powders. International Dairy Journal, 97, 176-184.
Hunt, K., Blanc, M., Álvarez-Ordóñez, A., & Jordan, K. 2018. Challenge Studies to Determine the Ability of Foods to Support the Growth of Listeria monocytogenes. Pathogens, 7(4), 80.
Jordan, K., Hunt, K., Lourenco, A., & Pennone, V. 2018. Listeria monocytogenes in the food processing environment. Current Clinical Microbiology Reports, 5(2), 106-119.
Alvarez‐Ordóñez, A., Leong, D., Hunt, K., Scollard, J., Butler, F., & Jordan, K. 2018. Production of safer food by understanding risk factors for L. monocytogenes occurrence and persistence in food processing environments. Journal of Food Safety, 38(6), e12516.
Hunt, K., Kosche, T., & Jordan, K. 2017. Challenges and current limitations in using molecular methods for the analysis of food and foodborne pathogen isolates. Microbiology, 11.
Leong, D., NicAogáin, K., Luque-Sastre, L., McManamon, O., Hunt, K., Alvarez-Ordóñez, Scollard, J., Schmalenberger, A., Fanning, S., O'Byrne, C., Jordan, K. 2017. A 3-year multi-food study of the presence and persistence of Listeria monocytogenes in 54 small food businesses in Ireland. International journal of food microbiology, 249, 18-26.
Hunt, K., Butler, F., & Jordan, K. 2017. Uncoupling growth and increasing cell numbers’ of Listeria monocytogenes in naturally contaminated milk from a sub-clinically infected cow. Food Control, 71, 228-233.
Hunt, K., Vacelet, M., & Jordan, K. 2017. Determination of Listeria monocytogenes numbers at less than 10 cfu/g. Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, 56(1), 25-30.
Casey, A., McAuliffe, O., Coffey, A., Hunt, K., Fanning, S., Fox, E., & Jordan, K. 2015. Complete genome sequence of Listeria monocytogenes strain DPC6895, a serotype 1/2b isolate from bovine raw milk. Genome announcements, 3(3).
Hunt, K., Butler, F., & Jordan, K. 2015. Modelling production of S. aureus enterotoxin C bovine in milk, and its production during cheesemaking. Dairy Science & Technology, 95(5), 747-757.
Metzger, N., Alvarez-Ordóñez, A., Leong, D., Hunt, K., & Jordan, K. 2015. Survival of foodborne pathogens during frozen storage of cheese made from artificially inoculated milk. Dairy Science & Technology, 95(5), 759-767.
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