Stephen J Forsythe

I have a strong research interest in foodborne bacteria, with a focus on Cronobacter primary isolation, phenotyping , genotyping, tissue culture, genomic and bioinformatic analysis. I have published the genomes of all the species in the Cronobacter genus, and established the open access MLST scheme for 7-loci, rMLST & core genome MLST (www.pubMLST.org/cronobacter). Our group identified the Cronobacter pathovars (CC4), as well as capsule (K-antigen-colanic acid) and CRISPR-cas profiles.