2010 Biothreat Agents Workshop

Charlotte, NC
Monday, March 15, 2010
March 15, 2010 
    8:00AM - 5:00PM  (includes Lunch, Panel Discussions, Poster and Vendor Sessions)
     5:30PM - 7:30PM  (cocktail Reception with Vendor and Poster Sessions)

March 16, 2010 
    8:00AM - 1:30PM  (includes Lunch, Panel Discussions, Poster and Vendor Sessions)


           Keynote Speaker 

               Gabe Ramos, 
                           Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO)


            Panel Sessions
                                             
               Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
                  Christopher Ohl, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine in Infectious
                                Diseases at Wake Forest University School of Medicine;
                                Medical Director for the Bioterrorism Planning and
                                Response for NW North Carolina
                                "The Spectrum of Emerging Infectious Diseases"

                  Gerald Epstein, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Science Technology
                                 and Security Policy at the American Association for the
                                 Advancement of Science (AAAS)
                                 "Safety and Security Implications of Synthetic Genomics"
 
               Transmission of Emerging Infectious Disease
 
                   Sally Paulson, Ph.D.,   Associate Professor, Department of
                                  Entomology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
                                  University
                                  "The Biosecurity Risks Posed by Vector-borne Diseases"
 
                   Alan Lindquist, Ph.D., National Homeland Security
                                   Research Center (NHSRC)/U.S. Environmental Protection
                                   Agency (EPA)
                                   "Environmental Risk Assessment for Biothreat Agents"
 
                   Jon Abramson, MD., Chair and Professor of Pediatrics at Wake
                                   Forest University School of Medicine; WHO-Panamerican
                                   Health Organization Representative
                                   "H1N1 Virus"

               Advanced Molecular Tools 
                                       
                     Peter Hobart, Ph.D., Science Director at U.S. Army Medical Research
                                    Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)
                                    "A New Therapeutic Approach to Infectious Disease:
                                Targeting the Host Response"
                               
                      Anthony Richardson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of
                                     Microbiology and Immunology at University of North Carolina     
                                      "The Lactate Dehydrogenases of Staphylococcus aureus:
                               Physiology and Pathogenesis"

                     Shashi Sharma, Ph.D., Molecular Methods & Subtyping Branch,
                                     Office of Regulatory Science at U.S. Food and Drug
                                     Administration (FDA)/Center for Food Safety and
                                     Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)
                                     "Multiplex Detection of Biothreat Agents in Food Matrices"
 
                            Bradford Powell, Ph.D., Bacteriology Division, U.S. Army
                                     Medical Research Institute of infectious Diseases
                                     "A Need for Improved Sample Inactivation and Extraction
                            Methods to Support Systems Biology Analysis"

               Sampling, Detection and Decontamination   
       
                         Jason Edmonds, Ph.D., Scientist at Edgewood Chemical
                                     Biological Center (ECBC)
                                     "Surface Sampling of Biological and Toxin Dry Agent
                                Deposition Aerosols"
 
                      Kunapuli Madhusudhan, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and Program
                                    Manager at CET, LLC.
                                    "Surface Sampling of Biothreat Agents"

                             Daniel Quest, Post-doc, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
                                    "Biological Signature Identification and Threat
                                                Evaluation System"

                     Brian Heimbuch, M.Sc., Senior Bioaerosol Scientist, Contract
                                    Support for AFRL/RXQL, Applied Research Associates
                                    "Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Decontamination of 
                            Filtering Facepiece Respirators to Mitigate Shortages
                            Caused by Pandemic Influenza"
  
                     Richard Remiarz, Vice-President Business Development-
                                       Government Systems, TSI Inc.,    
                              "Real-Time Bio-Aerosol Measurements Using 
                                            Laser-Induced Fluorescence"

              Standards

                       Liz Kerrigan, Ph.D., Director, Standards and Certification, Biodefense
                                     and Emerging Infections at American Type Culture
                                     Collection (ATCC)
                                     "Current Progress and Challenges of Establishing Consensus 
                                        Standards and Reference Material for Biothreat Agent Testing"

                       Kenneth Cole, Ph.D., Deputy Group Leader, Biochemical Science
                                      Division, Bioassay Methods Group at National Institute
                                      of Standards and Technology (NIST)
                                      "Development of ASTM Consensus Standards for the 
                                        Characterization of Reference Materials for Bacillus
                                        Spores and Ricin Biological Activity"

                               Christina Egan, Ph.D., CBSP, Director, Biodefense Laboratory,
                                       Wadsworth Center at the New York State Department of
                                       Health (NYSDOH)
                                       "The Need for Standards Development in Testing of 
                                            Biothreat Agents"    

                               Tod Companion, Ph.D., Program Manager, Test and Evaluations, 
                                       Standards Division, DHS
                                       "Standards for CBRNE Detection Equipment"        

                Vaccines/Assays
 
                          Philip Hanna, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
                                     and Immunology at University of Michigan Medical School
                                     "Mechanisms of SPore Germination: Anthrax"

                          Stephen Morse, Ph.D., Associate Director of Science, Division of
                                     Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response and Director of
                                     the Environmental Microbiology Program at the Center for
                                     Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
                                     "LRN Assays for Biothreat Agents and Their Implications"

                              Aymeric Randanne de Vazeille, M.S., Instrumentation Project 
                                    Manager, Tetracore, Inc.,
                                    "A Novel Field Deployable Real-Time PCR Instrument
                                      Developed with Inexpensive Off-the-shelf Components"

                          


                                                                
 

Contact Information

  •         Julie Turner
                    CET, LLC
            101 N. Chestnut Street
                    Suite 101
         Winston-Salem, NC  27101
       Phone: 336-397-1900, ext 17
            Fax:  336-397-1911
         BTAW@cleanearthtech.com

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