Prof. Dr. Anna Akhmanova
Biological and related sciences , Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microscopy
Agriculture, Biological and related sciences , Veterinary
Food hygiene
Microbial food spoilage and hygiene, microbial interactions, (meta)genomics and (meta)transcriptomics of food spoilage communities, lactic acid bacteria and enterobacteria
Order of the White Rose of Finland Knight 1st Class, 2008
English, Finnish, German, Swedish
Björkroth, K.J., Geisen, R., Schillinger, U., Weiss, N., De Vos, P., Holzapfel, W.H., Korkeala, H.J. & Vandamme, P. 2000. Characterization of Leuconostoc gasicomitatum sp. nov. associated with spoiled raw tomato-marinated broiler meat strips packaged under modified atmosphere conditions. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66: 3764-3772.
Koort, J.M.K., Murros, A., Coneye, T., Eerola, S, Vandamme, P., Sukura, A. & Björkroth, K.J. 2005. Lactobacillus oligofermentans sp. nov., associated with spoilage of modified-atmosphere-packaged poultry products. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71: 4400-4406.
Vihavainen, E. & Björkroth, J. 2007. Spoilage of value-added, high-oxygen modified-atmosphere packaged raw, beef steaks by Leuconostoc gasicomitatum and Leuconostoc gelidum. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 119: 340-345.
Vihavainen, E., Koort, J.M.K., Lundström, H.-S., Susiluoto, T., Auvinen, P., Paulin, L. & Björkroth, K.J. 2007. Role of broiler carcasses and processing plant air in contamination of modified-atmosphere-packaged broiler products with psychrotrophic lactic acid bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73: 1136-1145.
Vihavainen, E. & Björkroth, K.J. 2009. Diversity of Leuconostoc gasicomitatum associated with meat spoilage Int. J. Food Microbiol. 136: 32-36.
Nieminen, T.T., Vihavainen, E., Paloranta, A., Lehto, J., Paulin, L., Auvinen, P. & Björkroth, K.J. 2011. Characterization of bacterial communities in modified-atmosphere packed minced meat with terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 144: 360-366.
Rahkila, R., Johansson, P., Säde, E. & Björkroth, K.J. 2011. Identification of enterococci from broiler products and broiler processing plant and description of Enterococcus viikkiensis sp. nov. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 77: 1196-1203.
Johansson, P., Paulin, L., Säde, E., Salovuori, N., Alatalo, E.R., Björkroth, K.J. & Auvinen, P. 2011. Genome sequence of a food spoilage lactic acid bacterium Leuconostoc gasicomitatum LMG 18811T, in association with specific spoilage reactions. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 77: 4344-4351.
T. Nieminen, K. Koskinen, P. Laine, J. Hultman, L. Paulin, E. Säde, A. Paloranta, P. Johansson, K.J. Björkroth & P. Auvinen. 2012. Comparison of microbial communities in marinated and unmarinated broiler meat by metagenomics. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 157: 142-149.
Jääskeläinen, E., Johansson, P., Kostiainen, O., Nieminen, T., Schmidt, G., Somervuo, P., Mohsina, M., Vanninen, P., Auvinen, P. & Björkroth, J. 2012. Significance of Heme-based Respiration in Meat Spoilage caused by Leuconostoc gasicomitatum. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.79: 1078-1085.
External funding has been obtained since 1998 from the Academy of Finland, TEKES, the food industry, University of Helsinki and several foundations. In the Academy of Finland national programme for Centres of Excellence (CoE) research program 2008-2013, Professor Björkroth is the vice leader and one of the 5 team leaders of the CoE in Microbial Food Safety research.
Research Policy Committee of the League of European Research Universities, Chair, since 2013
Research Policy Committee of the League of European Research Universities, Member, since 2011
Board of the Academy for Technical Sciences, Member, since 2010
Academic Executive Advisory Board of Elsevier, Member, since 2010
Pre-selection group of TAF Millennium Technology Prize, Member, since 2009
Academy of Finland Advisory Board for PhD education, Member, 2009 – 2011
Board of Viikki Graduate School in Biosciences, Member, 2004 – 2010
Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus and Related Organisms, Member, since 2005
Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Public Health, 2005
Approbatur level in university pedagogics, University of Helsinki, 2002
Certificate of Proficiency in English, University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, 1997
The National Defence Course 188 / 2009, 2009
Leadership training Deep Leadership (2008 – 2009) by Deep Lead Ltd, Finland, 2009
Specialist degree in leadership training (JET-koulutus, Haaga-Perho), 2006
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