Frontiers in Microbiology has named Prof. Paul D. Cotter, the Head of Food Biosciences at Teagasc and a Principal Investigator with APC Microbiome Ireland, Vistamilk and Food for Health Ireland, as the new Field Chief Editor. He succeeds Field Chief Editor, Prof. Martin G. Klotz, who is retiring from this post after 11 years.
Taking up his baton, Prof. Paul D Cotter with his vast expertise in microbiology and food science is ready to lead the team with reinvigorating new thoughts and ideas. His deep passion for science from childhood led him to choose a college degree in biological sciences. He moved to Teagasc, a semi-state organization that carries out research as part of the Irish Department of Food Agriculture and the Marine. Here, he established a research team with a focus on microbiome-based technologies for a variety of applications targeting consumers and the agro-food industry. This path also led him and his team to create the Irish DNA Sequencing Centre. In the subsequent years, his team through his leadership have applied sequencing and culture-based approaches to study and generate applications relating to the microbiology of foods, the food chain and of a variety of microbial niches in humans and animals. His paramount contribution to the field of food microbiology is also evident through his involvement with other agencies such as APC Microbiome Ireland, VistaMilk and Food for Health Ireland.
He has also led the Irish Coronavirus Sequencing Consortium and co-ordinates a large EU project, MASTER (Microbiome Applications for Sustainable food systems through Technologies and EnteRprise). Added to this, he is also a part-time CEO of SeqBiome, a microbiome sequencing and bioinformatics service provider that he co-founded in 2020.
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