| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Detect to Warn- The Holy Grail? |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Biggins, DSTL, UK |
| Randy Long, Soldier Biological and Chemical Command
"Early Warning is it Possible?" |
| Ray Mariella, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Livermore, CA
"System considerations for Detect-to-Warn" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microbial Forensics |
| Discussion Leader: Jenifer Smith, FBI |
| Steven Schutzer, UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School
"Status of the Scientific Working Group on Microbial Genetics and Forensics" |
| William Nelson, Tetracorp |
| Rockne Harmon, Senior Deputy DA, Oakland, CA
"Moot Court Exercise" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Laboratory Automation and Surge Capactiy |
| Discussion Leader: John Ezzell, USAMRIID |
| Scott Layne
"Automation in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism" |
| Peter Emanuel, ERDEC
"Automated Laboratory Analysis" |
| Jim Snyder
"The LRN versus the Real World: How One Private Laboratory Responded to the Anthrax Incident" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Advanced Diagnostics |
| Discussion Leader: Alan Rudolph, DARPA |
| Susan Hardin, VisiGen Biotechnologies, Inc.
"Real Time Genome Sequencing" |
| Ron Coifman, Yale
"Advanced Computational Tools for Predictive Diagnostics" |
| Doreen Robinson, Science Applications International Corporation
"A Universal Biological Identification Approach" |
| Dave Stenger, Naval Research Laboratory
"Critical Issues in DNA Microarray-Based Diagnosis and Surveillance of Pathogens" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Medical Intervention Strategies |
| Discussion Leader: Vince Fischetti, Rockefeller University |
| Vince Fishetti, Rockefeller University
"Use of Phage Lytic Enzymes to Control B. anthracis and other pathogens" |
| Jeremy Mogridge, University of Toronto
"Anthrax toxin: Elucidating function and developing inhibitory strategies" |
| Rod Tweten, University of Oklahoma
"Complete Mutagenesis of Anthrax Protective Antigen Provides Insights into its molecular Mechanism and the Nature of Dominant-Negative Inhibitors" |
| Les Baillie, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
"Bacillus anthracis, then, now but where next?" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Chemical Detection Technologies |
| Discussion Leader: Bernie Courtney, Central MASINT Organization |
| Discussion Leader: Andre Lawrence, Dir. General Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Laboratory & Scientific Services Directorate |
| Vitaly Vodyanoy, Auburn
"Gated Switching" |
| Kim D. Janda, The Scripps Research Institute
"Monitoring Chemical Warfare Agents: A Simple, Efficient Method for the Detection of Methylphosphonic Acid" |
| Cam Boulet, Defence R&D Canada
"CB Detection for CB Terrorism: Shaking Military Paradigms" |
| Lawrence F. Hancock, Nomadics Chemist and Manager of the Nomadics Polymer Laboratory Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Detection of Nerve Agents Using Fluorescent Reporters" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chemical Treatments |
| Discussion Leader: Philip L. Smith, WRAIR |
| Prabhati Ray, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
"Phospholipase A2 And Rhob As Pharmacological Antagonists Of Botulinum Toxin A Poisoning" |
| Richard Gordon, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
"Medical Decontamination to Cutaneous Chemical Warfare Agent Exposure" |
| James Dillman III, US Army Institute of Chemical Defense
"Application of Toxicogenomics to the Development of Medical Countermeasures Against Chemical Warfare Agents" |
| Douglas Cerasoli, Pharmacology Division, US Army Medical
Research Institute of Chemical Defense
"Designing Serum Carboxylesterase Knockout Mice for Use in Testing Nerve Agent Bioscavengers"
|
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Novel Treatment Strategies |
| Discussion Leader: Joseph Bielitzki, DARPA |
| E. Peter Greenberg, University of Iowa
"Communication between Bacteria: Quorum Sensing Control of Group Activity." |
| Derek Lovley, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"Mechanisms in bacterial bioremediation and electron flow" |
| Anne Camper, Center for Biofilms Engineering, Montana State University
"Biofilm traps for BW/CW agents" |
| Glen Barber, University of Miami
"Pushing innate immunity" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Vaccine Policy Issues |
| Discussion Leader: Lynda Collins-Kelly |
| Lynda Collins-Kelly
"Foot and Mouth Disease: The Decision to Vaccinate" |
| Dr Paul Kitching, Director, National Center for Foreign Animal Disease, Canada
"Smallpox Vaccination Strategy in a High Threat Situation" |
| Michael A. Stoto, Senior Statistical Scientist, and
Associate Director for Public Health, Center for Domestic and International Health Security, RAND
"Vaccination Strategy for the U.S. Population" |
| Al Zelicoff, Sandia National Laboratory |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
