Navigating and Unraveling the Future of Food and Environmental Analysis
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Monday March 24, 2025
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30AM – 9:00AM | Breakfast @ Crocker Room | |
| 8:30 AM | Registration Opens @ Fred Farr Forum Room | |
| 9:15 AM | Charles Yang, President Pacific Section AOAC INTERNATIONAL | Opening Session - Welcome |
| 9:20 AM | Keynote Speaker - Dr. Katerina Mastovska, Deputy Executive Director & Chief Science Officer | AOAC INTERNATIONAL Current and New Scientific Initiatives |
| 10:00 AM | Dr. James Hungerford, Research Chemist in the Division of Human Foods Program at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration | Screening Methods for Seafood Toxins with a Focus on Histamine and Ciguatoxins in Finfish |
| 10:40 AM | Dr. Susan Leonard, Research Biologist in the Division of Food Safety Genomics at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration | Development and Evaluation of a Method for Genotyping Cyclospora cayetanensis with Enhanced Sensitivity and Genomic Resolution |
| 11:20 AM | Sciex Platinum Sponsor Presentation | |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch @ Crocker Room | |
| 1:10 PM | Dr. Ana Gago-Martinez, University of Vigo, Spain, President elected AOAC Europe Section | Eight years of research on the characterization of the Ciguatera Poisoning risk emerging in Europe: main achievements and challenges |
| 1:50 PM | Dr. Olukayode (Kayode) Jegede, Assistant Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist for Agricultural Toxicology, UC Davis | An agricultural toxicologist’s perspective on navigating the future of food and environmental matrices analysis |
| 2:30 PM | Dr. Han Peng, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Davis | Repurposing Plant Byproducts: Discovering and Analyzing Overlooked Functional Ingredients for Improved Health |
| 3:10 PM | Break | |
| 3:20 PM | Student Presentation | |
| 4:00 PM | Student Presentation | |
| 4:40 PM | Student Presentation | |
| 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Dinner @ Crocker Room | |
| 7:10 - 9:00 PM | President Reception at the BonFire Pit - Join us for an opportunity to network with colleagues and future colleagues. |
Tuesday March 25, 2024
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30AM – 9:00AM | Breakfast @ Crocker Room | |
| 8:30 AM | Registration Opens @ Fred Farr Forum Room | |
| 9:15 AM | Charles Yang, President Pacific Section AOAC INTERNATIONAL | Opening Session - Welcome |
| 9:20 AM | Dr. Linda Monaci, Research Director at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) | Development of a chromatography free method based on DART-Triple Quadrupole mass spectrometry for targeting adulterants in saffron |
| 10:00 AM | Dr. Lukas Vaclavik, Technical Manager at Eurofins Food Chemistry Testing | Targeted and Non-Targeted LC-MS Approaches to Analysis of Pharmaceutical Adulterants in Dietary Supplements and Cosmetic Products |
| 10:40 AM | AOAC Update / Business meeting | |
| 11:20 AM | Pickering Labs Platinum Sponsor Presentation | |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch @ Crocker Room | |
| 1:10 PM | Dr. Zeyu Han, Senior Research Chemist R&D Department of Mérieux NutriSciences Burnaby Lab | Analysis of Pharmaceutical Adulterants in Weight Loss and Joint Health Management Supplement Products |
| 1:50 PM | Jonathan DeCezi, Senior Quality Manager at NOW Foods | Pesticide Residue Testing in Dietary Supplements: Addressing Industry Challenges and Regulatory Gaps |
| 2:30 PM | Dr. Mohammadrez Chehelamirani, Research & Development at Center for Analytical Chemistry, CDFA | Non-Targeted Analysis and Data Processing of pesticides in ground water samples |
| 3:10 PM | Break | |
| 3:20 PM | Dr. Lorna De Leoz, Global Food Segment Director at Agilent Technologies | PFAS on our Plates: Regulations, Challenges, and Analytical Methods |
| 4:00 PM | Dr. David Blais, Laboratory Manager at Health Canada | Health Canada - Future of Environmental Analysis for pesticides |
| 4:40 PM | Sheng-Suan (Victor) Cai, Senior Field Application Scientist, Perkin Elmer LLC. | Dual ESI/APCI StayClean Ion Source QSight LC-MS/MS for Analysis of Near 400 Polar and Non-polar Pesticide Residues in Tea |
| 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Dinner @ Crocker Room |
Wednesday March 26, 2024
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30AM – 9:00AM | Breakfast @ Crocker Room | |
| 8:30 AM | Registration Opens @ Fred Farr Forum Room | |
| 9:15 AM | Charles Yang, President Pacific Section AOAC INTERNATIONAL | Opening Session - Welcome |
| 9:20 AM | Dr. Baback Gharizadeh, Chief Scientific Officer at Chapter Diagnostics | MLSTnext: High-Resolution Bacterial, Parasitic, and Viral Genotyping, Subtyping, and Surveillance in a Single-Tube NGS Assay |
| 10:00 AM | Kjell Hope (virtual) | Beyond Aroclors: Ultra-Trace Detection of PCBs in Diverse Matrices for Enhanced Exposure Assessment |
| 10:40 AM | Dr. Mark Dreyer, TBD | Title |
| 11:20 AM | Sponsor Presentation TBD | Title |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch @ Crocker Room | |
| End of conference |