Agenda
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Event Start
1:00 PM - 1:10 PM
1:00 PM - 1:10 PM
Welcome
Brian Schaneberg, Executive Director
Institute for Food Safety and Health, Illinois Tech
1:10 PM - 1:30 PM
1:10 PM - 1:30 PM
Artificial Intelligence: Considerations for its Use and Implementation in Food Safety Systems?
Behzad Imanian, Research Assistant Professor, FDSN Dept.
Leader of IFSH HTS Initiative, Illinois Tech
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
An Added Value for WGS: Precision Food Safety and the Role of WGS in Exploring Novel Mitigation Steps for Pathogen Control
Eric Brown, Division of food safety genomics, Director, Office of applied microbiology and technology, Food and Drug Administration
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Coordination of Approaches to Characterize Foodborne Illness Bacteria: The Multiagency Genomics in Food and Feed Safety Work Group (GenFS)
Heather Carleton, Chief, Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch
DFWED/NCEZID/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Economic Impact of WGS
Marc Allard, Human Foods Program (HFP), Office of Scientific Coordination and Computational Sciences (OSCCS), GenomeTrakr and Computational Science Staff (GTCSS)
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Break
2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
Targeted metagenomics approaches for characterizing Salmonella directly from stool
Amanda Jo Williams-Newkirk, Co-lead, Culture Independent and Metagenomic Subtyping, Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, DFWED/NCEZID/CDC
3:05 PM - 3:25 PM
3:05 PM - 3:25 PM
FSIS Laboratory Innovations
William Shaw, Executive Associate for Laboratory Services
3:25 PM - 3:45 PM
3:25 PM - 3:45 PM
Whole Genome Sequencing: The Compliance Perspective
Leslie Hintz, Compliance Officer, CFSAN, Food and Drug Administration
3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
From Concept to Practice: WGS Integration into FDA's LFFM Testing Programs
Ruth Timme, Acting Director, GenomeTrakr & Computational Science Staff
4:05 PM - 4:15 PM
4:05 PM - 4:15 PM
Break
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
PANEL OF EXPERTS (GOVERNMENT AGENCIES) DISCUSSION & QA SESSION: Perspectives from Governmental Agencies
FDA: Marc Allard, Eric Brown, Errol Strain, Leslie Hintz, Ruth Timme
CDC: Heather Carleton, Amanda Jo Williams
USDA/FSIS: William Shaw
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Reception
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
Agenda & Logistics
Behzad Imanian, Research Assistant Professor, FDSN Dept. Leader of IFSH HTS Initiative, Illinois Tech
8:40 AM - 9:00 AM
8:40 AM - 9:00 AM
IOWarp: Intelligent Data Management to Accelerate Food Safety Genomic Research
Anthony Kougkas, Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept. IIT
9:00 AM - 9:20 AM
9:00 AM - 9:20 AM
Exploring the Salmonella Mobilome for Source Attribution and Clustering
Errol Strain, Senior Science Advisor for Bioinformatics at FDA’s Human Foods Program
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM
From Colony to Clarity: Accelerated Salmonella and Escherichia coli ID Using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing
Maria Hoffmann, Research Microbiologist, Food and Drug Administration
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
The Research at High Throughput Sequencing Initiative (HTSI)
Renmao Tian, Research Scientist, IFSH HTS Initiative, Illinois Tech
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Break
10:15 AM - 10:25 AM
10:15 AM - 10:25 AM
Evaluating the Microbiomes of Enoki Mushrooms
Joelle Salazar, Research Microbiologist, FDA
10:25 AM - 10:35 AM
10:25 AM - 10:35 AM
Cronobacter sakazakii Biofilms: Influence of Powdered Infant Formula Microbiomes and Water Activity
Megan Fay, Research Microbiologist, FDA
10:35 AM - 10:45 AM
10:35 AM - 10:45 AM
Influence of Enrichment Method on the Relative Abundance of Salmonella enterica and Native Microbiota on Peaches
Joelle Salazar, Research Microbiologist, FDA
10:45 AM - 10:55 AM
10:45 AM - 10:55 AM
Enrichment Dynamics of Cronobacter sakazakii and Native Microbiota in Powdered Infant Formula
Emily Smith, Research Microbiologist, FDA
Jodie Ulaszek, Scientist, Microbiology, IIT
10:55 AM - 11:05 AM
10:55 AM - 11:05 AM
Food-safe antimicrobial coating for reusable packaging to alleviate specialty crop export barriers to the European Union
Catherine Wong, Senior Research Associate, IIT
11:05 AM - 11:25 AM
11:05 AM - 11:25 AM
Illumina Innovations: Introducing the MiSeq i100 Series
Claire White, Executive Territory Account Manager
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM
Transforming food safety with a clearer picture of microbial DNA
Aaron Pomerantz, Director, Global Segment Marketing – Non-Human and Applied Markets, Oxford Nanopore
11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Changing the Game with PacBio HiFi long-read Sequencing
Turner Duncan, Genomic Sequencing Specialist, Pac Bio
12:05 PM - 1:05 PM
12:05 PM - 1:05 PM
Lunch
1:05 PM - 1:25 PM
1:05 PM - 1:25 PM
Industry Perspective on HTS Application to Environmental Monitoring
Matthew Henderson, Director of Food Safety, Land O'Frost
1:25 PM - 1:45 PM
1:25 PM - 1:45 PM
WGS: Our “Ultimate” Tool
Genevieve Sullivan, Senior Specialist, Microbiology, Mars
1:45 PM - 2:05 PM
1:45 PM - 2:05 PM
Benchmarking Whole Genome Sequencing Pipelines
Balasubramanian Ganesan, Principal Scientist, Mars Global Food Safety Center, Mars
2:05 PM - 2:35 PM
2:05 PM - 2:35 PM
Foodborne Illness Litigation
Bill Marler, Marler Clark Food Safety Law Firm
2:35 PM - 2:50 PM
2:35 PM - 2:50 PM
Break
2:50 PM - 4:15 PM
2:50 PM - 4:15 PM
PANEL OF EXPERTS (INDUSTRY) DISCUSSION & QA SESSION : HTS/WGS, Its Benefits, Challenges, Future
Land ‘O Frost: Matt Henderson
Nestlé: Daniel Smieszek
Mars: Bala Ganesan
Marler Clark Food Safety Law Firm: Bill Marler
4:15 PM - 4:20 PM
4:15 PM - 4:20 PM
Closing Remarks
Behzad Imanian, Research Assistant Professor, FDSN Dept. Leader of IFSH HTS Initiative, Illinois Tech
5:15 PM
5:15 PM
Event End
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