Saturday |
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session: Emerging Biodefense |
| Dr. Carol Linden, Principal Deputy Director
Biomedical Advanced Research and
Development Authority
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Preparedness and Response
Department of Health and Human
Services |
| Discussion Leader: Charlotte Hall (University of Exeter/Dstl, United Kingdom) |
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Carol Linden (US Department of Health and Human Services, USA) "Emerging Biodefense" |
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Host Impact of Chemical and Biological Threats |
| Discussion Leaders: Stephanie Suzuki (University of Washington, USA) and Charlotte Hall (University of Exeter/Dstl, United Kingdom) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Kyle Hubbard (USAMRICD, USA) "A Functionally Relevant Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neuron-Based Platform to Measure the Potency of Botulinum Neurotoxin" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Amber McBride (University of New Mexico, USA) "Inhalational Delivery of Protocells as a Treatment Strategy Against Tularemia" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Robin Holland (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) "Mitochondrial Targeting by Human Pathogenic Microbes" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Seid Muhie (Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, USA) "Stress-Induced Anergy of Leucocytes Towards Staphylococcus Enterotoxin B and Exposure Transcriptome Signatures" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Countermeasures to Chemical and Biological Threats |
| Discussion Leader: Charlotte Hall (University of Exeter/Dstl, United Kingdom) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Blake Farrow (California Institute of Technology, USA) "Letting Toxins Pick Their Poison: Protein-Catalyzed Assembly of Designer Therapeutics" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Isamar Ortiz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) "Self-Powered Enzyme Pumps for Detecting and Reacting with Specific Analytes" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Brandon Slaughter (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) "Overcoming Characterization Challenges with Therapeutic Nanoparticles" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Becky Hess (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) "Discerning Viable from Nonviable Yersinia pestis pgm- and Bacillus anthracis Sterne Using Propidium Monoazide in the Presence of White Powders" |
10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Applied Chemical and Biological Forensics Research |
| Discussion Leader: Kate Weinbrecht (Oklahoma State University, USA) |
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Caroline Watson (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA) "Quantifying Human Exposure to Organophosphorus Nerve Agents: Simultaneous Detection of Unadducted, Adducted, and Aged Butyrylcholinesterase Biomarkers" |
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Tim Wood (Protechnik Laboratories, Div. of ARMSCOR SOC Ltd, South Africa) "The Mobile Chemical and Biological Defence Laboratory" |
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |