Invited Speaker

1. 2001: Invited speaker at Packard Biochip/Scan Array Users Meeting. NIH. Bethesda, MD. Title: Designing the Staphylococcal Enterotoxin Microarray Chip and the Task of Building the DNA Microarray Facility at Emory University.
2. 2002:  Distinguished Fellow Lecturer and Invited Speaker at the “Rapid Method and Automation in Microbiology 22nd” Meeting.  Kansas State University. Title: Rapid Methods Using DNA Microarray Techniques in Detecting Food Pathogens.
3. 2002: Invited Speaker at the 4^th workshop on “FT-IR Spectroscopy in Microbiological and Medical Diagnostic” Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany. Title: Rapid Methods Using DNA Microarray Techniques in Detecting Food Pathogens.
4. 2004: Invited Speaker. George Washington University School of Medicine. Washington, DC. Title: Building DNA Microarray Chip of Bacterial Pathogens.
5. 2004: Invited Speaker. ARS-FSIS Food Safety Research Planning Meeting. National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, WV. Title: Detecting Clostridium perfringens Using DNA Microarray Technology.
6. 2004: Invited Speaker, Institute of Food Technology. Las Vegas, NV.  Title: A Genomic Approach: Detecting Food Pathogens Using DNA Microarray Technology.
7. 2005: Invited Speaker, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. Title: Using DNA Microarray Technology in Identifying Virulence Genes of  Y. enterocolitica Food Pathogen from Pasteurized Whole Milk.
8. 2006: Invited Speaker, San Francisco District (SAN-DO), Office of Regulatory Affairs. FDA. Alameda, CA. Title: Is Microarray Real or Is It a Myth? Molecular Identification of Virulence Genes in Y.  enterocolitica and S. Typhimurium

9.      2006: Invited Speaker. IBC's Discovery-2-Diagnostics, Boston, MA. Title: Using PCR Amplification to Increase the Confidence Level of S. Typhimurium DNA Microarray Chip Hybridization.

10.  2007: Invited Speaker. National Conference on Science and Education, St. Louis, Missouri.  Title: Food Safety and Careers in Food Science.

11.  2007: Invited Speaker. 121st AOAC International Annual Meeting and Exposition, Anaheim, CA.  Title: The Role of DNA Microarray Technology in Bacterial Identification.

12.  2007: Invited Speaker.  National Science Teacher Association, Denver, CO.  Title: Food Safety and Careers in Food Science.

13.  2008: Invited Speaker. National Science Teacher Association, Boston, MA. Title: Frontiers in Food Safety and Bioscience.

14.  2008: Invited Speaker. National Center for Food Safety and Technology, FDA, Chicago, Illinois.  Title: Is Microarray Bacterial Identification Real or Is It a Myth?  A Close Look: the Pepper Outbreak with the Smoking Gun!

15.  2008: Invited Speaker. National Science Teacher Association,  Boston, MA and Portland, Oregon.  Title: Frontiers in Food Safety and Bioscience.

16.  2008: Invited Speaker. Third National Conference on Environmental Sampling and Detection for Bio-Threat Agents, Las Vegas, NV.  Title: Chasing Down the Source:  US Role in Tracking the Contamination in Peppers.

17.  2009: Invited Speaker. National Science Teacher Association, New Orleans, LA. Title: Frontiers in Food Safety and Bioscience.

18.  2009: Invited Speaker. National Science Teacher Association, New Orleans, LA. Title: Pepper Outbreak with Smoking Gun!

Universityof Georgia, Athens, GA. Title: Using Microarray Bacterial Identification in Food and the Pepper Outbreak with the Smoking Gun!

20.  2009:  Invited speaker. FDA/CFSAN, MOD-1, Laurel, MD. Title: Chasing Down the Source of the Smoking Gun: Pepper.

21.  2009: Invited speaker. National Science Teacher Association, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Title: Dreaming at the Frontiers of Bioscience: Five Technologies that will Change our Lives: Stay Tuned!

22.  2009: Invited speaker. National Science Teacher Association, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Title: Chasing Down the Source of the Smoking Gun: Pepper. 

23.  2009:  Invited speaker. FDA/CFSAN, Office of Food Additive Safety. Division of Biotechnology and GRAS Notice Review. Title: Chasing Down the Source of the Smoking Gun: Pepper.