1996 FDA FORUM ON REGULATORY SCIENCES
December 5, 1996

Final Program

7:30 am   Registration and poster set-up

8:30 am - 5:00 pm   SIGMA XI POSTER SESSION (all day)

8:30 am   Chair's Welcoming Remarks

     Albert Pohland, Ph.D.

     Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

8:45 am   Opening Remarks

     Elkan R. Blout, Ph.D.

     Senior Advisor for Science

         and

     Michael A. Friedman, M.D.

     Deputy Commissioner for Operations

9:00 am - 11:00 am   SESSION I: MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS

 Carl E. Cerniglia, Ph.D., Session Chair

 National Center for Toxicological Research

9:00 am   Plenary Lecture: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Update

     Clarence J. Gibbs, Jr., Ph.D.

     National Institutes of Health

9:30 am   Pathogenic Protozoa in Food and Drink, An Update: 1681-1996

     George J. Jackson, Ph.D.

     Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

9:50 am   Xenotransplantation: Public Health Perspectives

     Amy Patterson, M.D.

     Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

10:10 am   Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring of Zoonotic Enteric Pathogens

       Linda Tollefson, D.V.M., M.P.H.

       Center for Veterinary Medicine

10:30 am   Helicobacter pylori - Status of Research and Vaccine Development

       Dennis Lang, Ph.D.

       National Institutes of Health

10:50 am   Questions and Answers

11:00 am - 12:00 pm   POSTER SESSION (with authors)

12:00 - 2:00 pm   1996 FDA Scientific Achievement Awards Luncheon

      Moderator: Elkan R. Blout, Ph.D., Senior Advisor for Science

      Awards presentation: David A. Kessler, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs

2:00 pm - 3:50 pm  SESSION II: METHODOLOGY

 J. Christopher Cordaro, Ph.D., Session Chair

 Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

2:00 pm   Plenary Lecture: Rapid Methods for the Detection of Foodborne Pathogens

     Peter Feng, Ph.D.

     Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

2:30 pm   Genetic Detection Methods to Identify Foodborne Pathogens

     Walter E. Hill, Ph.D.

     Office of Regulatory Affairs

2:45 pm   Development and Commercialization of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)-based Methods

      for the Detection of Foodborne Pathogens

     Scott Fritschel, Ph.D.

     Qualicon

3:00 pm   Detection of Pathogens by Automated Fatty Acid Analysis

     Myron Sasser, Ph.D.

     Midi

3:15 pm   Automated ELISA for Detection of Foodborne Pathogens

     Carol Gravens, M.A.

     bioMérieux Vitek, Inc.

3:30 pm   Questions and Answers

3:50 pm - 5:15 pm   SESSION III: CONTROL UPDATES

 D.B. Shah, Ph.D., Session Chair

 Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

3:50 pm   Plenary Lecture: The Incidence and Control of Microbial Biofilms in Device-Related Infections

     J. William Costerton, Ph.D.

     Montana State University

4:20 pm   Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP)

     John E. Kvenberg, Ph.D.

     Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

4:40 pm   Infections/Medical Devices/Risk Assessment

     Katharine Merritt, Ph.D.,

     Center for Devices and Radiological Health

5:00 pm   Questions and Answers

5:15 pm   Concluding Remarks

      B.A. Schwetz, D.V.M., Ph.D.

      Associate Commissioner for Science