BACANOVA publications
D’Arrigo M. García de Fernando G.D.,
Velasco de Diego R., Ordóñez J.A. George S.M.
and Pin C. (2005), Indirect measurement of the distribution
of the lag time of single cells of Listeria innocua
in food, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., accepted for publication.
Pin C. and Baranyi J., (2005), Kinetics of single cells:
Observation and modeling of a stochastic process, Appl. Environ.
Microbiol., accepted for publication.
Kutalik Z., Razaz M. and Baranyi
J. (2005), Connection between stochastic
and deterministic modelling of microbial growth, Journal of
Theoretical Biology, 232 (2), 285-299.
Stringer S., Webb M., George S., Pin C., Peck M. (2005),
Heterogeneity of times for germination and outgrowth from single
spores of non-proteolytic Clostridium botulinum, Appl.
Environ. Microbiol., 71, 4998-5003.
Kutalik Z., Razaz M., Elfwing A., Ballagi A. and
Baranyi J. (2005), Modelling individual cell growth
and the effect of sublethal heat shock on Listeria innocua,
Int. J. Food Microbiol., accepted for publication.
Métris A., Le Marc Y., Elfwing A., Ballagi
A. and Baranyi J. (2005), Modelling the variability
of lag times and the first generation times of single cells
of E. coli, Int. J. Food Microbiol., 100(1-3), 13-19.
Kutalik Z., Razaz M., Baranyi J. (2005),
Connection between stochastic and deterministic modelling
of microbial growth, Journal of Theoretical Biology 232 (2),
285-299.
Elfwing A., Le Marc Y., Baranyi J., Ballagi A. (2004),
Observing growth and division of large numbers of individual
bacteria by image analysis, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 70(2),
675-678.
Métris A., George S., Baranyi J., Peck M.W. (2003),
Distribution of turbidity detection times produced by single
cell-generated bacterial populations, J. Microbiol. Methods,
55, 821-827.
BACANOVA Presentations, posters, proceedings
Kutalik Z., George S.M., Razaz M., Elfwing
A. ,Ballagi A., Pin C. and Baranyi J., Comparison of
single cell lag time distributions obtained by Flow Chamber
and Bioscreen - Conference on Single cell, Semmering, Austria,
24-26 May 2005.
Pin C. and Baranyi J., Distribution of the
lag times of individual cells as a function of the age of the
cells in the inoculum. Talk at the 19th international ICFMH
symposium, FOOD MICRO 2004 “New tools for improvement
Microbial Food Safety and Quality Biotechnology and Molecular
Biology Approaches”, Portorož, Slovenia, 12-16 September
2004.
Stringer S.C., Modelling growth of C.
botulinum in foods, Talk at the Food Microbioloy and Sporulation
of the genus Clostridium 4th open meeting of Consorted
action Genus Clostridium (QLK2-CT2001-01267), Oslo, Norway 3-5
June 2004.
Pin C., From single cell observations to microbial population
dynamics, Talk at 104th American Society for Microbiology meeting,
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 23-37 May 2004.
Stringer S. C. , Webb M. D. , George S. G., Peck M. W.,
Lag phase and single spores of Clostridium botulinum,
Talk and abstract in proceedings of Interagency Botulinum Research
Coordination Committee meeting, November 2003, Holiday Inn Select,
Atlanta-Decatur, USA.
Stringer S.C., Webb M. D., Parker M.L., Peck M.W.,
Measurement of individual stages of lag phase for individual
spores of Clostridium botulinum, Poster at the Second
open meeting of the EU concerted action project Genus Clostridium,
Parma, Italy, 17-18 October 2003.
Stringer S. C., Parker M. L., Webb M. D., Peck M.
W., Measurement of stages during germination and outgrowth
of individual spores of Clostridium botulinum, Abstract in proceedings
of 1st FEMS Congress of European Microbiologists, FEMS, Delft,
The Netherlands, 2003.
Métris A., Modelling single cell kinetics, oral
presentation, USDA-ERRC, Philadelphia, USA, 24 Sepetember 2003.
Peck M.W., Measurement and prediction of growth from
single spores of non-proteolytic Clostridium botulinum,
invited oral presentation, University of Lund, Sweden, 11th
September 2003.
Stringer S.C., Parker M.L., Webb M. D., Peck M.W.,
Measurement of stages during germination and outgrowth of
individual spores of Clostridium botulinum, Poster at
1st FEMs Congress of European Microbiologists, Slovenia, 29
June-3 July 2003. Abstract in Proceedings.
Métris A., Le Marc Y., Elfwing A., Ballagi
A. and Baranyi J., Modelling the variability of lag times
and the first generation times of single cells of E. coli,
4th International Conference on Predictive modelling in foods,
France, 15-19 June 2003.
Peck M.W., Stringer S.C., Webb M. D., Pigott R.B. and
Baranyi J., Improved measurement and prediction of
growth from single spores of Clostridium Botulinum, Talk
presented at the IFT Summit Conference on measurement of bacterial
spores, Orlando, USA, January 2003.
Stringer S.C., Webb M. D., Baranyi J., Pigott R.B. and
Peck M.W., Measurement of individual stages (germination,
emergence and time to first division) in lag phase for single
spores of non-proteolilytic Clostridium Botulinum, Abstract
in 'Protein toxins of the genus Clostridium and vaccination:
Proceedings of a meeting', Eds C. Duchesnes, J. Mainil, M. Popoff
and R. Tiball, pp 106, University of Liege Press, 2003.
Stringer S.C., Webb M. D., Baranyi J., Pigott R.B. and
Peck M.W., Measurement of individual stages (germination,
emergence and time to first division) in lag phase for single
spores of non-proteolilytic Clostridium Botulinum, Poster
presented at the Meeting of Concerted Action Project; Clostridium,
Salisbury, U.K., 20-22 November 2002.
Webb M. D., Stringer S.C., Pigott R.B., Baranyi J. and Peck
M.W., Germination, emergence and time to first division
from single spores of non-proteolilytic Clostridium Botulinum
strain 17B, Poster presented at the Inter-agency Botulism
research Coordinating Committe (IBRCC), Madison, USA,
21-25 October 2002.
Elfwing A., Ballagi A., Measuring growth kinetics of
individual bacteria, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference
on analysis of microbial cells at the single cell level, Denmark,
2-4 June 2002.
Métris A., George S., Baranyi J., Peck M.W.,
Sources of variability of the lag times of individual Listeria
innocua measured by optical density, Proceedings of the
2nd International Conference on analysis of microbial cells
at the single cell level, Denmark, 2-4 June 2002.
Métris A., George S., Peck M.W., Baranyi J.,
Effect of sodium chloride and pH on the distribution of the
lag times of individual cells of Listeria innocua, Proceedings
of the 7eme Journée Européenne, Agro-industrie
et methodes statistiques, France, 16-18 January 2002.
Other dissemination activities
Image analysis sequence of lag and germination of Clostridium
Botulinum were provided to Dr Mark Tamplin (ARS-USDA Philadelphia,
USA) and to Dr. Peter Rådström (University of Lund,
Sweden) to include in their lectures to students on spore germination
and for publication in
(i) Huys J. (2003). Sterilisation of medical supplies (2nd
edition). Heart Consultancy, Renkum, Netherlands.
(ii) Newsome R. (2003). Dormant Microbes: research needs.
Food Technology 57 (6) 38-42.
The variability of lag times has been discussed during workshops
of the predictive modelling database ComBase.
