Technical Meeting on the impact of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) on food safety management - Tuesday morning session
Rome time
FAO convenes a "Technical Meeting on the impact of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) on food safety management" on 23-25 May 2016. The meeting discusses the benefits and potential drawbacks of using Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) for food safety management. More than 170 people including public sector officials working in the area of food safety as well as experts from private sector, civil society organizations, research/academic institutions, and international organizations have registered to the meeting. The meeting will be conducted in English only.
Introduction
08:30 – 08:40 Overview of the GMI initiative and its working groups (Jorgen Schlundt, NTU, Singapore)
08:40 – 09:00 FAO/WHO initiatives on WGS for food safety including the summary of Day 1 (Masami Takeuchi, FAO)
Active system
09:00 – 09:15 NCBI pipeline (Bill Klimke, NCBI, USA)
09:15 – 09:30 EBI – building the database with international isolates (Guy Cochrane, EMBL, Eur. Bioinformatics Institute, UK)
09:30 – 09:45 Application of WGS in the industry (Alex van Belkum, Biomérieux)
09:45 – 10:00 Genome Trakr (Eric Brown, FDA, USA)
Identification/characterization – global capacity
10:30 – 10:45 Web applications for rapid microbial taxonomy identification (Ole Lund, DTU, DK)
10:45 – 11:00 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) / Ebola / Norovirus – WGS developments (Marion Koopmans, Erasmus, NL)
11:00 – 11:15 The GMI Proficiency Test (Rene Hendriksen, DTU, DK)
11:15 – 11:30 Building bioinformatics resources for the global community (James Pettengill, FDA, USA)
11:30 – 12:00 Discussion.
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