Download  - 2007 BioDefense Summit VI

“Agro-BioDefense Tools and Innovations from Texas to the World”

May 1, 2007

T Bar M Ranch, New Braunfels, Texas

Location: Chuck Wagon Room

PROGRAM AND SESSIONS

PROGRAM AND SESSIONS

7:50-8:00 AM Welcome / Bienvenidos / Wilkommen
Dr. Mary Pat Moyer, SALSA President

8:00-9:30 AM Session I: Agrosecurity Issues
8:00-8:25 AM Robert DeOtte, Head, Texas Panhandle Agrosecurity Working Group
"Agrosecurity in Texas: Targets of Opportunity"

8:30-8:55 AM Jeffrey Addicott, Professor & Director, Center for Terrorism Law,
St. Mary's University School of Law
"Legal Issues in Agrosecurity and Biodefense"

9:00-9:30 AM Dan Sowards, Food & Drug Safety Officer, Texas Dept. of State Health Services
"How Safe is Our Food Supply?"

Session II: Bio-Threat Modeling, Testing, and
the National Bio-Agriculture Facility (NBAF)
9:30-9:55 AM Gen. (retd) Harold Timboe, MD, UTHSCSA
"NBAF -What it is and Its Importance to our National Security"

10:00-10:25 AM Garry Adams, DVM, PhD, Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine
"Pathomics Applications to Understanding the In Vivo Host: Pathogen
Interface of Intracellular Bacterial Select Agents"

10:30-10:55 AM BREAK

Session III: Detection and Diagnosis

11:00-11:25 AM Johnathan Kiel, DVM, PhD, Senior Scientist, Human Effectiveness Directorate,
Air Force Research Laboratory, Biosciences and Protection Division, Counterproliferation Branch
"Scouting for Emerging Infectious Agents (and Bioterrorism Agents)"

11:30-11:55 AM Lisa Lott, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Epidemic Outbreak Surveillance
Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory, Lackland AFB; "Epidemic Outbreak Surveillance-
A Real World Test Base for Emerging Upper Respiratory Pathogens"

12:00-12:25 PM John El-Attrache, PhD, Senior Manager, Business Development, Applied Biosystems
"Animal Health Diagnostics -Are we prepared?"

12:30-1:45 PM LUNCH AT BUCKBOARD DINING ROOM

Session IV: New Strategies and Tools for Prevention and Rapid Response
1:50-2:15 PM Allison Ficht PhD, Director, Center for Microencapsulation and Drug Delivery
and Professor, Texas A&M University Health Science Center
"Controlled Release: Novel Approaches to Biodefense Vaccines"

2:20-2:45 PM Rebecca Steinberg, PhD, University of Texas-IAT:
The Role of the UT-IAT in Preparedness and Response

2:45-3:10 PM Andrew Hayhurst, PhD, Scientist, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
"Disruptive Technologies for Antibody Development against Pathogens and Toxins"

3:15-3:30 PM BREAK

Session V: Ag-Biodefense and Economic Factors

3:35-4:00 PM Terry Tomlinson, BioEconomic Development Corp.
"Rural Economic Development and Gap Financing for Biodefense Applications"

4:05-4:30 PM Dept. Homeland Security representative: TBA
"Implementation of Responsive Actions"

4:35-5:00 PM TX Dept. Economic Development or Agriculture TBA
BioFuels, BIO-Threats, and Economics

5:05-5:30 PM Brian Freeman, London Fire Brigade and Urban Search and Rescue (US&R)
"Rescue and Search Responses-Emphasis on Ag-Defense"

5:35-5:50 PM Closing Remarks

6:00 -9:00 PM RECEPTION AND DINNER: (OPTIONAL $20 per person)

DINNER and Post-Meeting Roundtable Discussion

Strategies to Improve Collaborative Planning for Agricultural and Public Health Threats

SanAntonio Austin Life Science Association [SALSA]

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