Special Invitations

July 12, 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.

July 12-19, 2002         

Distinguished Fellow Lecturer and Invited Speaker by the Director of “ Rapid Method and Automation in Microbiology 22^nd” committee.  Kansas State University. Title: Rapid methods using DNA Microarray techniques in detecting food pathogens.

Oct. 24-25, 2002        

Invited Speaker by the chairman of the committee of 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.

Jan. 30, 2004  

Invited Speaker. George Washington University School of Medicine. Washington, DC. Title: Building DNA Microarray chip of bacterial pathogens

Feb. 17, 2004 

Invited Speaker. ARS-FSIS Food Safety Research Planning Meeting. National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, WV. Title: Detecting Clostridium perfringens using DNA Microarray Technology

July-16, 2004  

Invited Speaker, Institute of Food Technology. Las Vegas, NV.  Title: A Genomic Approach: Detecting Food Pathogens using DNA Microarray Technology

Nov-26, 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.

September 17, 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.

September  26, 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.