Thursday 10 January 2019
11:00 am – 1:00 pm | Location: Dunes 3
Objective: This session will examine innovations in food safety employing transformational technologies and approaches in animal microbiota research to combat pathogens in the food supply impacting human health.
Co-Chairs
Michael P. Doyle, PhD
Retired Regent’s Professor of Food Microbiology, Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia
F. Kerr Dow, PhD
Vice President, Research and Development Cargill R&D Global Shared Capabilities
Speakers
Noelle Noyes, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
The Science of Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance in the Microbiome
Peter Gerner-Smidt, MD, DSc
Chief of the Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
An Emerging Technology: The Use of Next Generation Sequencing for Improving Food Safety
Robin Anderson, PhD
Research Microbiologist, USDA-ARS
Innovative Treatments Enhancing the Functionality of Animal Microbiome to Improve Quality and Microbiological Safety of Foods Produced from Animals
| Agenda | |
| 11:00 am | Welcome & Introductions |
| Session Co-Chairs: Michael Doyle, PhD, University of Georgia and Kerr Dow, PhD, Cargill, Inc. | |
| 11:05 am | The Science of Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance in the Microbiome |
| Noelle Noyes, DVM, PhD, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA | |
| 11:35 am | An Emerging Technology: The Use of Next Generation Sequencing for Improving Food Safety |
| Peter Gerner-Smidt, MD, DSc, US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA | |
| 12:05 pm | Innovative Treatments Enhancing the Functionality of the Animal Microbiome to Improve Quality and Microbiological Safety of Foods Produced from Animals |
| Robin Anderson, PhD, USDA-ARS, College Station, Texas, USA | |
| 12:35 pm | Concluding Panel Discussion |
| 1:00 pm | Adjourn |
Each talk is expected to be 25 minutes, with an additional few minutes for Q&A immediately after each talk. Additional questions may be posed during the concluding panel discussion.