Welcome to the PEN project website
International Conference:'Control and Management of Pathogenic E. coli',
Dublin, Ireland, 17-18th September, 2009.
Please see the conference webpage for details
International Conference:'Food processing stresses & associated genomics of Gram-negative food-borne bacteria', Ashtown Food Research Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 16th September, 2009.
For further information contact Séamus Fanning (UCD) sfanning@ucd.ie or clodagh.oneill@teagasc.ie
The PEN forum section of the site is now live. This forum will allow for the discussion of topics related to pathogenic E. coli and PEN. Click here for further information.
Details and application form for the PEN travel fellowships are now available on-line.
The objective of this website is to provide information about the PEN project including international conferences and to facilitate the dissemination of publications.
As part of the PEN project, six international conferences will be organised around Europe over a three year period. For further information, please click on News & Events. Each conference will focus on a particular aspect of pathogenic Escherichia coli and will deliver a report. For further information, please click on Publications. We hope you will find the information and conclusions in these reports both interesting and useful. PEN is a Co-ordination Action project, funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme.
Project Co-ordinator
The PEN project is co-ordinated by Dr. Declan Bolton who is a Principal Research Officer at Teagasc – Ashtown Food Research Centre. He has 15 years research experience in which he has managed 20 projects with over 300 partners including the European Union Risk Analysis Information Network (EU-RAIN (www.eu-rain.com)) project (QLK1-CT-2002-02178). He has over 100 peer reviewed and technical publications. His research interests include the microbiology and genomics of Salmonella, Campylobacter and pathogenic E. coli.
