18th Biodetection Technologies - Detection & Identification of Biological Threats

Biodetection Technologies is an internationally recognized event for experts in detection & identification of biological threats and will explore the latest R&D developments as well as ready-to-market systems for major biothreat detection, identification, and analysis both in the field and at the point-of-care. Known for its impressive lineup of speakers from around the world and industry leaders exhibiting the latest technologies, this conference is not to be missed.

The keynote presentation will be delivered by Dr. Peter Emanuel, BioScience Division Chief at the US Army RDECOM Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, and will reveal the results of the 2011 CBRN Surveillance Survey commissioned by the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency/Joint Science and Technology Office. This survey targeted information on commercially available and maturing diagnostic & identification/detection products that have technology readiness levels from TRL 4 to TRL 9 which does not include basic research concepts. Dr. Emanuel will discuss what that effort found and what it may mean for the interagency needs for purchasing technologies in the coming years.

Other Program topics include:

Cost-effective/sensitive/selective/reliable detectors for first-responders
Point-of-care/clinical applications for pathogen/virus/threat detection and identification
Technological challenges for rapid/early/specific sensitive detection
Role of nanotechnology and system miniaturization; MEMS and bioMEMS
Use of biochip technology; micro- and nanofluidics
Bioinformatics for biodefense
Reducing false positives vs. detector sensitivity
Field-deployable devices: portability/compatibility/reliability/scalability
Reagentless vs. reagent biodetection systems
Non-PCR vs. PCR based detection techniques
Advances in microarray and sequencing technologies
Issues of sensitivity/testing/evaluation/validation

Speaker and Presenter Information

Program Outline Rapid Detection of Biothreats Using Phage-Quantum Dot Nanoparticles Shanmuga Sozhamannan, PhD, Head of Genomics Department, Naval Medical Research Center Rapid Detection and Identification of Biological Aerosols and Other Threat Materials with Single-Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometry (SPAMS) Matthias Frank, PhD, Advanced Diagnostics and Instrumentation Group Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory A Novel Biochip System Focusing on Protein Detection by the Use of Protein Finger Prints Generated by Arrays Consisting of Designed Peptide and Glycopeptide Libraries Kiyoshi Nokihara, DPharmSci, CEO and CSO, HiPep Laboratories A Functional Blister-Pack LabDisk System for Rapid Field Testing of Biological Threats Felix von Stetten, PhD, Laboratory for MEMS Applications, University of Freiburg Meeting User Needs: Developing Field-Deployable Biodetection Systems Using a Microseparations Approach Julie Fruetel, PhD, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories Fully Automated System for the Multiplex Detection of Biothreat Agents and Emerging Infectious Diseases Amy L. Altman, PhD, Vice President, Luminex Corporation Automated Sample Preparation for Highly Sensitive and Rapid Detection of Genomic Samples Using Next Generation Sequencing Ryan Kim, PhD, Director of Genome Center, National Center for Genome Resources Unbiased Known and Unknown Pathogen Detection and Characterization Using Next Generation Sequencing Technologies Willy A. Valdivia-Granda, PhD, CEO, Orion Integrated Biosciences Inc. An Integrated Approach to Real-Time, Array-Based Molecular Diagnostics Enabled by Nano-Photonics Reinhold Wimberger-Friedl, PhD, Principal Scientist, Dept of Molecular Diagnostics, Philips Research EpiSENSE�: A Rapid Detection Sensor for Air-Borne Biological Pathogens Dinakar Ramadurai, PhD, Scientist and Team Leader, Episensors, Inc. Technological Challenges for Rapid/Early/Specific Sensitive Detection Robert F. Standaert, PhD, Biological and Nanoscale Systems Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Keynote Address: CBRN Technology to Enable an Effective Biosurveillance Strategy Peter Emanuel, PhD, BioScience Division Chief, RDECOM Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, US Army Assessment of Clostridium Difficile Infections by Quantitative Detection of tcdB Toxin on Real Time Cell Analysis System Yi-Wei Tang, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Medicine, Director, Molecular Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Hot Start dNTPs - Novel Chemistries for Use in Advanced PCR Applications Natasha Paul, PhD, Scientific Investigator, TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. ApoH Technology, a Solution for Ultrasensitive Detection of Viruses and Bacteria from Different Origins Francisco Veas, PhD, Research Director, Head of the Comparative Molecular Immuno-Physiopathology Lab, University Montpellier 1 Impedimetric Platform for Real-Time Bio-Affinity Detection: Assay Procedure and Data Analysis Andrei Gindilis, PhD, SHARP Laboratories of America Is Normalization Of Raw Data Necessary? Truly Automated qPCR Data Analysis Using the AzurePCR Method Ze'ev Russak, CTO, Azure PCR Limited Deeply Multiplexed PCR Robert Haushalter, PhD, President and Founder, Parallel Synthesis Technologies T-COR 4 Handheld Real-Time PCR Thermocycler David Almassian, Senior Product Manager, Tetracore, Inc. Diagnostic MicroFluidics Assays: Lab Benchtop to Lab-on-Card Steve Jackinsky, MS, Director of Diagnostics, Wi, Inc. Development of a Rapid Method for the Quantification of Legionella spp in Environmental Waters in 48 Hours by FISH- ScanRDI� Marie Binet, Research Engineer - MICENE Project Manager, EDF Magnetic Modulation Biosensing for Rapid Detection of Specific DNA Sequences and Proteins at Low Concentrations Amos Danielli, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

Expected Number of Attendees

200

Relevant Government Agencies

Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps, DOD & Military, Dept of Health & Human Services, Dept of Homeland Security, EPA, USPS, FEMA, National Institutes of Health