Dr Sholeem Griffin

Dr Sholeem Griffin

Dr Sholeem Griffin

  B.A.(Oxon.),B.Sc. (Hons),Ph.D (Swan)

Research Support Officer IV

Room 423
Biomedical Building
University of Malta
Msida
  +356 2340 3286
Dr Sholeem Griffin is a researcher in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking, Metamaterials Unit and Biomedical Cybernetics at the University of Malta. Dr Griffin was awarded her PhD from Swansea University for her contribution to understanding “The host-pathogen interaction between Trueperella pyogenes and the endometrium”, focusing on the interphase between metabolism and immunology.
She conducted post-doctoral work funded by the Centre for Defence Enterprise (UK), focusing on the development of novel bio-inspired materials using gene editing and protein modification. Dr Griffin continued her post-doctoral research at the University of Malta, focusing on developing a hyperspectral imaging system to detect low-level contamination of food products and food adulteration as part of the FIHI and MEDIFIT-PRIMA projects. She is also part of the PROTECT-ITN project, focusing on the impact of climate change on the environment. Dr Griffin contributed towards the award of the SANITAS project, which amounts to around 0.5 million EUR of funding through the COVID-19 R&D fund. Dr Griffin was awarded the Third prize as Engaged Researcher by the 2021 National STEM awards committee in Malta.
  • Molecular biology
  • Microbiology
  • Host-pathogen studies
  • Food Science
  • Biomedical engineering

FARRUGIA, J., GRIFFIN, S., VALDRAMIDIS, V.P., CAMILLERI, K. and FALZON, O., 2021. Principal component analysis of hyperspectral data for early detection of mould in cheeselets. Current Research in Food Science, 4, pp. 18-27.

GRIFFIN, S., MAGRO, M., FARRUGIA, J., FALZON, O., CAMILLERI, K. and VALDRAMIDIS, V.P., 2021. Towards the development of a sterile model cheese for assessing the potential of hyperspectral imaging as a non-destructive fungal detection method. Journal of Food Engineering, 306, pp. 110639.

ROUFOU, S., GRIFFIN, S., KATSINI, L., POLAŃSKA, M., VAN IMPE, JAN F. M. and VALDRAMIDIS, V.P., 2021. The (potential) impact of seasonality and climate change on the physicochemical and microbial properties of dairy waste and its management. Trends in Food Science & Technology, 116, pp. 1-10.

GRIFFIN, S., FALZON, O., CAMILLERI, K. and VALDRAMIDIS, V.P., 2020. Bacterial and fungal contaminants in caprine and ovine cheese: A meta-analysis assessment. Food Research International, 137, pp. 109445.

GRIFFIN, S., IVANOVIC, S., CHATZITZIKA, C., VAN IMPE, J.,F.M. and VALDRAMIDIS, V.P., 2019. The Effect of Carbon Dioxide as a Climatic Parameter on Microbial Food Contaminants and Selective Isogenic Mutants, 2019, IAFP.

GRIFFIN, S., HEALEY, G.D. and SHELDON, I.M., 2018. Isoprenoids increase bovine endometrial stromal cell tolerance to the cholesterol-dependent cytolysin from Trueperella pyogenes. Biology of reproduction, 99(4), pp. 749-760.

GRIFFIN, S., PRETA, G. and SHELDON, I.M., 2017. Inhibiting mevalonate pathway enzymes increases stromal cell resilience to a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin. Scientific reports, 7(1), pp. 1-13.

HEALEY, G.D., COLLIER, C., GRIFFIN, S., SCHUBERTH, H., SANDRA, O., SMITH, D.G., MAHAN, S., DIEUZY-LABAYE, I. and SHELDON, I.M., 2016. Mevalonate biosynthesis intermediates are key regulators of innate immunity in bovine endometritis. The Journal of Immunology, 196(2), pp. 823-831.

PRETA, G., JANKUNEC, M., HEINRICH, F., GRIFFIN, S., SHELDON, I.M. and VALINCIUS, G., 2016. Tethered bilayer membranes as a complementary tool for functional and structural studies: The pyolysin case. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes, 1858(9), pp. 2070-2080.

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