Dr Andrea Cossu

Senior Lecturer in Biosciences

Andrea Cossu

  • School Faculty of Science and Technology

  • Department Natural Sciences

  • Location London

Research activities

Dr Cossu's research has focussed on different aspects of the applied microbiology and food safety microbiology. Research carried out included: the use of new photosensitization technologies to inactivate microbes in wash-water from fresh produce and the quantitative correlation between oxidative stress biomarkers and survived bacteria; the use of rechargeable antimicrobial films for surface disinfection and destruction of bacterial biofilms; the rapid detection of low numbers of pathogens in food matrices with conventional PCR and RTi-qPCR without enrichment by removal of PCR inhibitors using bentonite coated charcoal and soluble starch; the encapsulation of novel controlled-release emulsions in buccal films against fungal oral infections.


Current Teaching

Module Leader of the following modules:

BIO1160 - Environmental Health Science

BIO3226 - Gene Technology

BMS2141 - Medical Microbiology

BMS2145 - Infection Sciences

 

Module Tutor of the following modules:

BIO1525 - Cell Biology

BIO2405 - Food Safety

BIO2502 - Applied Microbiology

BIO2556 - Molecular Biology

BIO4115 - Pollution and Health Protection

BMS2425 - Food and Nutrition Science


Biography

Andrea Cossu is a Senior Lecturer in Microbiology within the Department of Natural Sciences at Middlesex University. Andrea joined Middlesex University after working as a Scientist at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), a government agency which is part of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). He previously worked in USA for several years where he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass) and then at the University of California, Davis (UCDavis).

Publications

View publications