XV WORKSHOP on RAPID METHODS AND AUTOMATION IN FOOD MICROBIOLOGY (MRAMA)

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, November 22-25, 2016

Designed for: directors and technicians of industries, consultancies and laboratories of food, and other sectors (microbiological, clinical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, chemical, environmental, etc.); food inspectors and other government staff; university teachers and technical staff, graduate and postgraduate students; people from other research centres; etc.

Updated and detailed information: http://jornades.uab.cat/workshopmrama/en

Lecturers and lectures:

• - Dr. José Juan Rodríguez Jerez (UAB): “Overview on rapid methods, automation and miniaturization in microbiology”
• - Dr. Armand Sánchez Bonastre (UAB): “Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and massive genome sequencing applied to food safety”
• - Dr. David Rodríguez Lázaro (Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain): “Harmonization and standardization in food molecular microbiology: Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella spp. cases”
• - Dr. José Martínez Peinado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain): “Food yeasts: good friends, worse foes?”
• - Dr. Mª del Carmen Portillo Guisado (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain): “Microbiological spoilage of wines and cavas: who are the guilty and how to detect them”
• - Dr. Olav Sliekers (Purac Biochem, Gorinchem, the Netherlands): “Meat and meat products spoilage in the genomic era: analysis with metagenomics and culture-dependent methods to meet the suspects”
• - Dr. Martin G. Wilkinson (University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland): “Flow cytometry and food microbiology: challenges, opportunities and progress to date”
• - Mr. David Tomás Fornés (Nestec, Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland): “Sampling techniques for microbiological environmental monitoring in food industry”

3-day laboratory sessions:

• - sample preparation and plating
• - rapid viable cell count methods
• - environmental control
• - chromogenic culture media
• - miniaturization
• - diagnostic kits
• - methods based on ATP – bioluminescence, colorimetry
• - immunological detection methods (latex agglutination, immunoprecipitation, lateral immunomigration)

Demonstrations:

• - Use of internet for applications of predictive microbiology (Barcelona Public Health Agency)
• - Microbiological risks in HACCP systems? At last, identify them properly at your company! (Imagining Management Systems)
• - Food allergens: detection and quantification methods (Bioser – Romer Labs Diagnostic)

And also:

• - 3 round tables (Molecular biology methods applied to food safety / Food spoilage / Instrumentation in food microbiology, world trade trends, other current topics)
• - Exhibition from 11 microbiology companies: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Bioser, BioSystems, BIOTECON Diagnostics – Tiselab, Bruker Española, iMiCROQ, Interscience, Merck – Sigma-Aldrich Química, Nirco – Neogen Europe, Thermo Fisher Diagnostics, Werfen – QIAGEN

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