XIV WORKSHOP on RAPID METHODS AND AUTOMATION IN FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, November 24-27, 2015

Designed for: directors and technicians of industries, consultancies and laboratories of food, and other sectors (microbiological, clinical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, chemical, environmental, etc.); food inspectors and other government staff; university teachers and technical staff, graduate and postgraduate students; people from other research centres; etc.

Updated and detailed information: http://jornades.uab.cat/workshopmrama/en

Lecturers and lectures:

• - Key-note speaker and Major lecturer: Dr. Daniel Y. C. Fung (Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA): overview on rapid methods, automation and miniaturization in microbiology
• - Dr. Cécile Lahellec (AFSSA, Maisons-Alfort, France): “Short story of a long period of interaction with poultry bacteria: the saga of salmonellas”
• - Dr. Armand Sánchez Bonastre (UAB): “Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)”
• - Mr. Daniel López Medina (PremiumLab, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain): “Validation of ELISA kits for allergen determination”
• - Mr. Jon Basagoiti Azpitarte (Imagining  Management Systems, Ermua, Spain): “Microbiological analyses: are they the bumper of your system or a guarantee for your consumers’ health”
• - Dr. Daniel Ramón Vidal (Biópolis, Paterna, Spain): “Massive genome sequencing applied to food safety”
• - Ms. Alicia Subires Orenes (UAB): “Flow cytometry for injured foodborne pathogenic bacteria detection”
• - Dr. Norbert Langfeldt (Zentrales Institut des Sanitätsdienstes der Bundeswehr Kiel, Kronshagen, Germany): “Food hygiene and safety in crisis regions: application of rapid methods in a field laboratory”
• - Mr. David Tomás Fornés (Nestec Ltd, Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland): “Sample preparation for microbiological analyses: challenges and improvements in the food industry”

3-day laboratory sessions:

• - sample preparation and plating
• - rapid viable cell count methods
• - environmental control
• - chromogenic culture media
• - miniaturization
• - diagnostic kits
• - methods based on ATP – bioluminescence, colorimetry, fluorometry
• - immunological detection methods (latex agglutination, immunoprecipitation, lateral immunomigration)

Demonstrations:

• - Use of internet for applications of predictive microbiology
• - Typical deviations in food safety system certification audits (BRC, IFS and FSSC22000) (SGS ICS Ibérica)
• - Tecnología PlasmIA: detección fácil, rápida y múltiple de patógenos mediante un nuevo ensayo inmuno-óptico (Prestodiag)

And also:

• - 2 round tables (Massive genome sequencing applied to food safety / Instrumentation in food microbiology, world trade trends, and other current topics)
• - Exhibition from 11 microbiology companies: 3M España, BD Biosciences, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Gomensoro, INGENASA, Interscience, IUL, Panreac Química, Sigma-Aldrich Química, Thermo Scientific, Werfen – QIAGEN