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SfAM Winter Meeting 2009

Wednesday 14th January

Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London

10.00-10.30 Tea, coffee and registration

Chair: Geoff Hanlon

10.30-11.15 The Denver Russell Memorial Lecture: Keeping control: studies in preservation
Stephen Denyer, School of Pharmacy, University of Cardiff.

11.15-11.45 Enterobacteriaceae in foods
Chris Baylis, CCFRA, Chipping Campden.

11.45-12.15 Impact of rapid screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on hospital infection rates.
Dr P. J. Jenks. Department of Microbiology and Infection Prevention and Control, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth.

12.15-13.15 Lunch

Session A Rapid detection and identification in microbiology.

Chair Andrew Sails

13.15 -13.45 Microbial DNA Sequence Profiling of Human Pathogens by Mass Spectrometry.
Cath Arnold. Health Protection Agency, London.

13.45-14.15 New bacteriophage-mediated adenylate kinase assay for high throughput detection of foodborne pathogens.
Pradip Patel, Alaska Food Diagnostics Ltd, DSTL, UK.

14.15-14.45Multi-pathogen microarrays for the diagnosis of infectious disease
Nigel Silman, Health Protection Agency, Porton Down, Salisbury, UK

14.45-15.05 Tea and coffee

15.05-15.35 Rapid diagnosis of sepsis.
Paul Dark, Hope Hospital, Salford.

15.35-16.05 Automation in Clinical Microbiology.
Martin van der Kaap, Kiestra Laboratory Automation., The Netherlands.

Session B. The Enterobacteriaceae in foods

Chair Martin Adams

13.15-13.45 The ecology of Enterobacteriaceae in foods
Mieke Uyttendaele, Ghent University, Belgium

13.45-14.15 Epidemiology of foodborne illness caused by Enterobacteriaceae
Sarah O’Brien, University of Manchester

14.15-14.45 Cronobacter (Enterobacter) sakazakii and infant formula
Stephen Forsythe, Nottingham Trent University

14.45-15.05 Tea and coffee

15.05-15.35 Enterobacteriaceae and hygiene monitoring in frozen foods
Nick Johnson, Unilever, The Netherlands

15.35-16.05 Pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae in Foods.
Tom Cheasty, HPA, London

Event organiser's contact details: Society for Applied Microbiology Tel: +44 (0)1234 761752 Fax: +44 (0)1234 328330 Email: meetings@sfam.org.uk


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