Food Microbiology

Biography

“Dr. Ismail Mohamed Al Bulushi received Ph.D. in Food Microbiology from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2009. Dr. Al Bulushi Jointed Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman in 1989 as a Technician, currently he is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at SQU. He is teaching Food Microbiology, Public Sanitation, Meat, and Fish Courses. He supervised many undergraduate and graduate thesis projects in the several areas of Food Sciences. He organized and chaired several conferences, symposia, workshops, lectures and extension activities nationally and internationally. Dr. Al Bulushi provided many national and international consultancies in several Food Science areas His research areas focus on the microbial, chemical and physical characteristics of traditional foods, marine fish toxicity, freshness, safety, spoilage and processing, marine fish microbial flora,s composition with special references to the Gram-positive bacterial population and microbial spoilage, antimicrobial activities and biogenic amines formation potentials. Dr. Al Bulushi published one book, two chapters and some papers in the international journals and participated in many international conferences in Oman and overseas. His e-mail address is isab@squ.edu.om"

Research Interest

Harmful algal blooms associated bacterial flora Marine bacterial ecology and potential Gram-positive bacterial ecology in sub-tropical marine fish Gram-positive bacterial spoilage and biogenic amines formation potential Media and growth requirements of Gram-positive bacteria Bacteriocins and bio preservative potential of marine bacteria Genotypic and phenotypic techniques in bacterial identification Marine fish products, safety, quality, freshness, spoilage, toxicity, and carcinogenicity Fish and dairy products development Microbial and chemical properties of traditional foods