Foodborne Diseases

Dr. Grumezescu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, in the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, with a second affiliation to the Faculty of Medical Engineering, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Romania. He is an experienced and oft-published researcher and editor in the field of nano and biomaterials, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of three journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience, and Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Bulletin. He also serves as editor or guest editor for several notable journals. Dr. Grumezescu has published 150 peer-reviewed papers, 20 book chapters, 6 co-authored books and 11 edited books. Alina-Maria Holban is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 42 conference/symposia proceedings, and has edited more than 21 edited books.

• 1. Foodborne Diseases2. Recent advances in molecular techniques for diagnostics of food borne diseases3. Important emerging and re-emerging tropical food borne diseases4. Foodborne pathogens produced toxins acting on signal transduction5. Campylobacteriosis - An Emerging Infectious Foodborne Disease 6. Listeria monocytogenes: A foodborne pathogen7. Bacillus spp. as pathogens in the dairy industry8. Staphylococcus aureus - a food pathogen: virulence factors and antibiotic resistance9. Food-borne mycotoxicoses: Pathologies and public health impact10. Foodborne botulism from a systems biology perspective11. Pathogenic biofilm formation in the food industry and alternative control strategies12. Biosensor Based Methods For The Determination Of Foodborne Pathogens13. Molecular Typing of Major Foodborne Pathogens14. Environmental Pollution and the Burden of Food-borne Diseases15. Food borne illness: threats and control