Yousef, Ahmed

Ahmed E. Yousef
Professor of Food Microbiology & Lab Supervisor
email: yousef.1@osu.edu
Link to the Department of Microbiology

Education
Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984

Research Interest
Biopreservation of food using bacteriocin-producing lactic acid bacteria.
Improving food safety using ozone processing technology.
Safety of foods processed by novel technologies (e.g., pulsed electric fields, high pressure and ohmic heating).

Books

• Sapers, G.  M., Gorny, J. R., and Yousef, A. E. 2006. Microbiology of fruits and vegetables.  CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL
• Yousef, A. E. and Carlstrom, C. 2003. Food microbiology: a laboratory manual. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
• Yousef, A. E. and Juneja, V. K. 2003. Microbial stress adaptation and food safety. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL

Patents

• Yousef, A.E. and Rodriguez-Romo, L. 2004. Methods for decontaminating shell eggs. US Patent # 6,800,315 B2.

Papers (selected from a list of over 100 publications)

• He, Z., D. Kisla, L. Zhang, C. Yuan, K. B. Green-Church, and A. E. Yousef. 2007. Isolation and identification of a Paenibacillus polymyxa strain that co-produces a novel lantibiotic and polymyxin. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73:168-178.
• Malone, A.S., Y.-K. Chung, and Yousef, A.E.  2006.  Genes of Escherichia coli O157:H7 that are involved in high pressure resistance. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 77:2661-2671.
• Rodriguez-Romo, L. and Yousef, A. E. 2005. Inactivation of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis on shell eggs by ozone and ultraviolet radiation. J. Food Prot. 68: 711-717.
• Lado, B. H., Bomser, J. A., Dunne, C. P., and Yousef, A. E. 2004. Pulsed electric field alters molecular chaperone expression and sensitizes Listeria monocytogenes to heat. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 2289-2295.
• Khadre, M. A. and Yousef, A. E. 2002. Susceptibility of human rotavirus to ozone, high pressure, and pulsed electric field. J. Food Prot. 65: 1441-1446.