Dr Carmen Pin

• Degree in Veterinary Science. PhD in Veterinary Science. BSc and MSc in Statistics. Her work has been focussed on the quantification of bacterial responses to the food environment and recently on biostatistics and stochastic processes in biological systems. Joined the Institute of Food Research in 2002.

Main interests:

• Quantification of bacterial responses to food environments: environmental effects and error estimation.
• Stochastic modelling of bacterial lag and growth.
• Single cell growth and cell physiology studies during the lag phase.
• Development of new biostatistical tools for microarray data analysis.

Selected publications:

• Pin, C. and Baranyi, J. (2006) Kinetics of single cells: Observation and modelling of a stochastic process. Appl. Env. Microbiol. 72. 2163-2169
• Pin, C. and Reuter, M. (2007) Use of genomic DNA control features and predicted operon structure in microarray data analysis: ArrayLeaRNA - a Bayesian approach. BMC Bioinformatics. 8, 455.
• Pin C, and Baranyi, J. (2008) Single cell and population lag time as a function of the age of the cells. Appl. Env. Microbiol. 74, 2534-2536.
• Pin C., Rolfe M. D., Munoz-Cuevas M., Hinton J. C. D., Peck M. W., Walton N. J., Baranyi J. (2009) Network analysis of the transcriptional pattern of young and old cells of Escherichia coli during lag phase. BMC Systems Biology. 3, 108.
•  Muñoz Cuevas M., Fernandez P. S., George S., Pin C. (2010). Modelling the lag period and exponential growth of Listeria monocytogenes under fluctuating temperature and Aw values. Appl. Env. Microbiol. 76, 2908-2915.