Triona O’Brien
Research Officer - Dairy Microbiology Food Safety ResearchResearch Interests
Risk base approach to the control and reduction of pathogens and spores in dairy products and production.
Microbial methods advancement to support food quality & safety challenges in the dairy industries.
Current Projects
PI: RiskSystemMicrobes;Early detection and risk assessment of bovine subclinical mastitis related microorganisms and their potential survival during processing.
PI: BacillusDairy:Controlling Bacillus spores in dairy powders; factors affecting behavior during processing conditions Teagasc funded
Project partner bTB-RISK; Qualitative and quantitative risk assessment for unpasteurised cheese, produced from milk supplied by herds which subsequently lose their TB free status DAFM
Project partner VM2.20 – Food_JK_DNA Detect; Food Genomics-based technologies for pathogen detection and the development of DNA passports for Irish dairy products. VistaMilk RC
Education
Teagasc Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2019) Moorepark/DPTC: A whole chain approach to the control of bacteria in powdered dairy ingredients, through the development of rapid diagnostic protocols to support food quality & safety challenges in dairy food production.
PhD Risks of Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus in milk and cheese products, Food safety Biosystems Engineering (2014), University College Dublin.
BSc Biological Sciences, North East Surrey College of Technology (NESCOT) UK
Munster Technological University, Ndip Food Science and Technology