Monika Ehling-Schulz, Head of the Center for Pathobiology and Head of the Institute of Microbiology at the Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria, is internationally renowned for her work on toxigenic Bacilli. Her team has identified key regulators that orchestrate virulence in B. cereus. In 2016, she was awarded the Otto von Guericke Prize for her groundbreaking work on emetic Bacillus cereus, which opens new avenues for next-generation risk-based diagnostics. With her team, she successfully applied AI-assisted FTIR spectroscopy at the interface of food safety and veterinary medicine as part of a One Health concept.  She is an elected Fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM), a board member of the Society of Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (ÖGHMP), and Austrian delegate to the Expert Committee on Microbiology of the Food Chain.

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From Taxonomy to Risk: Differential Bacillus cereus diagnostics.