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Matthew Taylor
- Professor, Meat Science
- Office:
- Kleberg 310
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 979-314-8518
Education
- Undergraduate Education
- B.S. Food Science, North Carolina State University
- B.A. Sociology, North Carolina State University
- Graduate Education
- M.S. Food Science, North Carolina State University
- Ph.D. Food Science and Technology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Professional Summary
Dr. Matthew Taylor is a professor of food microbiology in the Department of Animal Science. He is also a member of the Graduate Faculty of the Department of Food Science and Technology.
Dr. Taylor’s primary research interests are in the utilization of food antimicrobials to inhibit bacterial foodborne pathogens. Specifically, research is conducted to investigate and determine the manner by which food antimicrobials inhibit microbial pathogens. Collaborative research is conducted that seeks to overcome obstacles to the use of food antimicrobials in some product by the encapsulation of food antimicrobials. In addition, he leads collaborative research programming to provide microbiological and mathematical tools to members of the U.S. food industry to facilitate improved validation of food safety protection from microbial foodborne pathogens. Since joining Texas A&M University, his research program has collaborated on over $37.5 million in intramural and extramural research funding.
Dr. Taylor is the lead instructor for the undergraduate courses ANSC/FSTC 326 (Food Bacteriology) and FSTC 327 (Food Bacteriology Laboratory). He leads the graduate course ANSC/FSTC 697 (Applied Food Microbiology for Foods of Animal Origin). In addition to his on-campus teaching, he regularly leads the delivery of Basic HACCP courses approved by the International HACCP Alliance, Produce Safety Alliance-approved Grower Training Courses, and Food Safety Preventive Controls courses for Human and Animal Food as approved by the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance, offered around the U.S.
Dr. Taylor is an active member of the International Association for Food Protection, Phi Tau Sigma Honorary Food Science Society, and functions as Treasurer of the Texas A&M chapter of the Agricultural/Biological Sciences Honor Society Gamma Sigma Delta Society. He sits on the editorial boards of the refereed journals Food Microbiology, International Journal of Food Microbiology, Journal of Food Protection and Food Protection Trends. He also provides expert reviews in food safety microbiology for multiple journals publishing refereed food microbiology research.