| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Addressing the national strategy against chemical and biological terrorism |
| Chair: George Korch |
| Maureen McCarthy
"National biodefense research priorities and the role of the Department of Homeland Security" |
| Lawrence Kerr
"Science and Technology for Security" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Broad spectrum enhancement of innate immunity |
| Chair: Limin Li |
| Limin Li
"Host oriented therapeutics" |
| Art Krieg
"CpGs" |
| Bruce Beutler
"How we detect pathogens:sensing and signaling from the TLRs" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Reception |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Bioforensics / BAC |
| Chair: Jim Burans |
| Joan Gebhardt & Robert Bull
"Use of nucleic acid and immunological techniques in bioforensics" |
| Doug Beecher
"Bioforensics, Importance of sample handling and integrity" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Broad Spectrum Diagnostics |
| Chair: Rick Lyons |
| Rick Lyons
Introduction - "Complex Biosignatures of Infection" |
| Marti Jett
"Gene signature responses for assessing exposure to infectious and biothreat agents" |
| Victor Tryon
"High precision gene expression assays and system to anticipate and describe the human response to infectious disease" |
| Michael Spain
"Biochemical Imaging: Towards a More Precise Definition of Disease" |
| 11:00 am | Group Photo |
| David Relman
"Classification of systemic infection using patterns of host gene expression" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chemical Forensics |
| Chair: Dennis Reutter |
| David Wilson
"Attribution: Forensic challenges" |
| Glen Fox
"One molecule at a time: advances in the science and technology of combating chemical threats" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Broad spectrum prophylaxis/vaccines |
| Chair: Connie Schmaljohn |
| Alessandro D. Sette
"Multiepitope DNA vaccines" |
| Karl Y. Hostetler
"Therapeutics for Biodefense: Prevention and Treatment of Smallpox" |
| Robert Whalen
"Shuffled genes for Biodefense" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Agriculture protection/defense |
| Chair: Lynda C. Kelley |
| Doug Luster
"Plant Pathogen Rating Using Analytical Hierarchy Methods and Containment Research on High Priority Exotic Plant Pathogens" |
| Forrest Nutter (Iowa State)
"Safeguarding American Agriculture: The role of plant epidemiology in post-introduction agricultural bioterrorism events" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Broad Application Detection Platforms |
| Chair: George Ludwig |
| David Norwood
"Array Based Diagnostics: An Integrated Approach for Definitive Identification of Biological Threat Agents" |
| Mark Derzon
"Design approaches to a portable diagnostic system containing orthogonal immuno and nucleic acid multiplexing assays along with integrated sample preparation" |
| David J. Ecker
"BW defense in the future: How do we anticipate the un-anticipatable?" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Bioforensics - Broad spectrum approach / molecular tools for event characterization |
| Chair: Paul J. Jackson |
| Paul Keim
"Using Evolutionary Rules for BioForensics Assay Development" |
| Richard T. Okinaka
"Developing tools to characterize an event" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
