Food Safety Microbiology Seminar
Friday Oct. 24th, 2008 Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
St. Louis, Missouri
8:00
AM
Check-in with Complimentary Continental Breakfast
8:30
AM
Introduction Dr. Bruce C. Hemming,
President & CEO, Microbe Inotech Laboratories, Inc.
8:45
AM-9:30 AM
Dr. John Herries (Confirmed)
Chemir Analytical Services, St. Louis, MO
Title: Confronting Food & Beverage Quality Failures with Analytical Chemistry
9:30 AM-10:15 AM
Richard S. Brown, MS Executive Director (Confirmed)
MVA Scientific Consultants Inc., Duluth, GA
Title: Characterization of Small Particle Contamination Using Light and Electron Microscopy
10:15 AM-10:30 AM
Refreshment Break
10:30
AM-11:30 AM
Patricia Rule, MS - Sr. Staff Scientist Industrial Affairs (Confirmed)
BioMerieux Industry NA, St. Louis, MO
Title: A New Recombinant Phage Protein for Detection of E. coli O157:H7
11:30 Noon-12:15 PM
Provided
Luncheon at Upper Atrium
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Tour of the Danforth Plant Science Center
1:00
PM-1:45 PM
Agent David Elkington
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), St. Louis, MO
Title: Topics in AgroBioTerrorism
1:45
PM-2:30 PM
Dr. Andrew Bond - Senior Scientist
BioTrove, Inc., Woburn, MA
Title: High-Throughput, Low Volume Real-Time PCR for Pathogen Detection in the OpenArrayTM Platform
2:30
PM-2:45 PM
Refreshment Break
2:45
PM-3:30 PM
Dr. Christiane Honisch, Group Leader - Molecular Applications (Confirmed)
Sequenom, Inc., San Diego, CA
Title: Microbial Nucleotide Target Detection and Identification by Mass Spectrometry
3:30-4:30 PM
Dr. Vanayak Kapatral, Vice-President of Business Development (Confirmed)
Integrated Genomics, Chicago, IL
Title: Genome-wide Metabolic Reconstruction of Multiple Staphylococcus aureus Identifies Novel Antimicrobial Targets
