In 2019, the Stakeholder Panel on Agent Detection Assays assembled three working groups to develop consensus standards for the preparation and use of soil testing samples, bacterial strain verification and in silico PCR analysis. The work is now completed and guidance documents for each are currently in press. During the first half of this session, AOAC will showcase this work for the broader AOAC community. The remainder of the session will then explore future extensions of the work.
Linda Beck, JRAD & Morgan Minyard, DTRA
Shanmuga Sozhamannan, Technical Coordinator, Logistics Management Institute supporting Defense Biological Product Assurance Office (DBPAO),
Joint Project Lead, CBRND Enabling Biotechnologies (JPL CBRND EB)
Palmer Orlandi, AOAC Chief Science Officer and Deputy Executive Director
Recommendations for Development of Molecular Assays for Microbial Pathogen Detection Using Next Gen In-Silico Analysis
John SantaLucia, Wayne State University & DNA Software, Inc. and Shanmuga Sozhamannan, Logistics Management Institute Support Defense
Strain Verification: Verifying and Documenting the Relationship Between Microbial Cultures
Katalin Kiss, Senior Manager, Manufacturing Science and Technology, American Type Culture Collection and Dave Rozak, Deputy Director, Unified Culture Collection, Core Laboratory Services, USAMRIID
Voluntary Consensus Standard for Collection and Use of Soils for Biothreat Agent Method Validation and Site Assessments
Linda Beck, JRAD & Morgan Minyard, DTRA
Successes by the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS)
Gregory Tyson, Center for Veterinary Medicine, US Food and Drug Administration
Sharon Brunelle, AOAC INTERNATIONAL
