1. Orders of business (9 – 910 am)

• Call to order and welcome. Greg Siragusa – Chair, Karen Jarvis - Vice Chair
• Introduce Karen Jarvis new Vice-Chair
• Make sure your badge was scanned!
• Update your PDG affiliations. Go to: https://www.foodprotection.org/members/dashboard/
• Symposia of interest at this meeting. Karen

2. State-of-the-Science (910-1020am)

• 10 min “thunder” talks
• Ed Dudley, PSU, Sequence-based serology
• Junia Jean Gilles-Beaubrun, FDA, Spice metagenomics: best practices to extract DNA from complex matrices such as spices
• Jesse Miller, NSF; Utilization of NGS to Detect Adulterants in Food
•  Nur Hassan, CosmosID, Antimicrobial Resistance Gene screening in the food supply chain
• 5 min “lightning” talks
• Zachery Geurin, NSF, DNA Sequencing to ID pathogens
• Mario Gadanho, ThermoFisher , The Food DNA Analyzer: How to make NGS a routine method for food species ID
• Anna Colavecchio, McGill, NGS identifies an emerging class of bacteriophages that encode antibiotic and heavy metal resistance genes
• Meg Kirchner, NCSU, Changes in Turkey Microbiome Associated with Gastrointestinal Syndromes and Antibiotics
• Maria Hoffmann, FDA, TBD

3. Jobs Forum. Karen Jarvis (1020-1030)

• SEEKERS Current and Up and Coming Scientists
• EMPLOYERS With Open Positions

4. Discussion: Ideas and New Business (1030-11am)

• Symposia, Roundtable, Workshop Ideas for Proposals for IAFP 2018;
• Questions and items to discuss from the membership
• White paper or handout or webinar?
• Other new business or items to discuss.

5. Adjourn (11 am)