Abstracts

Scientific Program
Friday, September 25, 2015
8:00 – 8:45 am Surveillance Keynote I
Blue Room
Session Chair: Eric Brown
Priming the Innovation Pump: FDA’s Role in Advancing and
Using NGS
Stephen Ostroff; US Food and Drug Administration, Silver
Spring, MD
8:45 – 10:00 am Session 1: Genomics for Food and Veterinary Pathogen
Blue Room
Surveillance
Session Chair: Eric Brown
8:45 – 9:15 am GenomeTrakr: A Pathogen Database to Build a Global
Genomic Network for Pathogen Traceback and Outbreak
Detection
Marc Allard; US Food and Drug Administration, Silver
Spring, MD
9:15 – 9:45 am Global Microbial Identifier – is Global Harmonization and
Comparison of WGS Data Feasible?
Frank Aarestrup; Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby,
Denmark
9:45 – 10:00 am Three Months of Surveillance of S. Typhimurium and
S. 1,4,[5],12:i:- in Denmark Based on Whole-genome
Sequencing and MLVA Typing
Marianne Kjeldsen; Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen,
DENMARK
10:00 – 10:30 am Coffee Break
Blue Prefunction Room
and Patio
10:30 – 12:00 pm Session 2: One Health, Regulation and Assuring the
Blue Room
Quality of NGS for Pathogen Surveillance
Session Chair: Eric Brown
10:30 – 11:00 am Assuring the Quality of Next-Generation Sequencing in
Clinical and Public Health Laboratories
Amy Gargis; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ASM Conference on Rapid Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic
Pipelines for Enhanced Molecular Epidemiologic Investigation of Pathogens
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