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Taylor, Matthew

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. Taylor’s primary research interests are in the utilization of food antimicrobials to inhibit bacterial foodborne pathogens to protect microbiological food safety. 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 to develop and validate microbiological and mathematical tools to members of the U.S. food industry to facilitate strong food safety protection from microbial foodborne pathogens. Since joining Texas A&M University, his research program has collaborated on over $52 million in intramural and extramural competitive 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 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 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 as well as having completed several expert reviews of competitive research granting programs in the U.S., France and Canada.

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