Mr Glen Mellor

Glen Mellor is a Research Microbiologist in the Food Safety and Stability Group at CSIRO. He has undertaken a variety of research projects for the Australian red meat industry that focus on microbial safety and quality aspects of meat production. Glen has coordinated large scale national surveys of pathogens and antimicrobial resistant bacteria in Australian cattle and sheep populations, with a major focus on STEC of regulatory importance to the Australian beef industry. He has a particular interest in understanding the interactions between pathogenic E. coli and their animal hosts, transmission pathways to humans and molecular risk factors for infection. Glen is also involved in projects that apply novel genomics tools to explore microbial community structures within foods and food production systems.