Shabarinath Srikumar
University College Dublin, Ireland
Biography
Shabarinath Srikumar has his expertise in investigating pathogenomics of food borne pathogens. He has contributed to detection, physiology and intracellular survival with Salmonella Typhimurium as model organism. He has widely used next generation sequencing approaches in characterizing the transcriptional landscape of the pathogen during survival in a variety of in vitro and in vivo conditions. Apart from Salmonella, Srikumar has used also used RNA-seq in characterization of desiccation survival of a neonatal pathogen Cronobacter sakazakii. Recently, Srikumar has focused on the utilization of next/third generation sequencing approaches in the taxonomic characterization of bacteria from complex microbiomes. He anticipates utilizing DNA sequencing technologies to identify the microbiomes of different food processing facilities and thereby ensure food safety.Â
Abstract
Abstract : On the application of DNA pyrosequencing in pathogenomics and food safety