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Peter Gerner-Smidt is the Chief of the Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch at CDC in Atlanta, USA. As such he is in charge of the laboratory based surveillance and response to outbreaks of bacterial food- and waterborne infections in the United States. His research interests cover the epidemiology and subtyping of enteric pathogens including Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli. |
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Tine Hald is leading the "Epidemiology and Risk Modeling" group at the National Food Institute, Technical Univeristy of Denmark. The main research area is the epidemiology, surveillance and control of foodborne zoonoses including antimicrobial resistance in the whole production chain. Tine Hald was recently appointed a member of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) expert panel on biological hazards (BIOHAZ). Finally, her work includes teaching and supervision of PhD students. |
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Hannu Korkeala is head of the Department of Food Hygiene and
Environmental Health at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in the University of Helsinki. He has focused on the epidemiology and genomics of psychrotrophic and/or spore-forming food-borne pathogenes. |
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Semir Loncarevic is senior researcher at the Department of Food and Feed Safety at the National Veterinary Institute in Oslo, Norway since 2000. He is involved in consultancy, troubleshooting, auditing and training as well as research. His research interests cover the microbiological aspects of food and food processing and preservation strategies including HACCP and disinfection, quality loss and spoilage, methods development and diagnostics. |
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Eyjólfur Reynisson is a microbiologist working at Matís-Icelandic Food and Biotech R&D since 2003. His research interests are microbial interactions in food processing and storage, detection and quantification of microorganisms in food and environment. Resent research activities are on microbial changes in fish during storage using molecular analysis methods. |
 Scientific Committee
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Ivar Vågsholm Professor microbial food safety, Dipl ECVPH, Member of Biological Hazards panel EFSA, previously scientific Veterinary Committee for Veterinary Public health. Involved in food chain research of food borne hazards and zoonoses, both pre-harvest, harvest and post harvest, based on epidemiology and risk analysis. The current main interests has been salmonella control, economics of antibiotics resistance and validations of animal disease data bases. Previously worked a lot with fish diseases. |
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Jonas Blomberg is a professor of Clinical Virology at Uppsala University since 1996. His main research areas are both clinically oriented;
towards detection of viruses, but lately of many different microbes(viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites), using nucleic acid based techniques; and more basic into origins and functions of
retroviruses. An important current diagnostic problem is the development of a multiplex technique for simultaneous detection of
gastroenteritis agents (Caliciviruses, Sapoviruses, Hepatitis A and E and Enteroviruses as well as Enteric bacteria and Parasites). This diagnostic panel is also useful for detection of foodborne infectious agents. In this activity we collaborate with the National Food Administration, and the National Veterinary Institute of Sweden. Our experience shows that a
complete analytical chain, with microbe enrichment, nucleic acid extraction and multiplex detection is required in an efficient surveillance for foodborne microbes.
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Eva Olsson Engvall is a veterinarian and professor in Bacteriology at the National Veterinary Institute (SVA) and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden. She is head of the research section at the Department of Bacteriology at SVA and also head of the European Community Reference Laboratory (CRL) for Campylobacter. Her research has been focused on infectious diseases in animals, food borne zoonoses, and development of analytical methods including molecular methods. |
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Riikka Laukkanen is a DVM working as a university instructor at the Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of
Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland. She focuses on curriculum design and student advising in teaching and she is finishing
her PhD on enteropathogenic Yersinia in pork production.
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Miia Lindström (DVM, PhD) is Professor of Dairy Hygiene in the Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of
Veterinary Medicine, the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on molecular epidemiology, diagnostics and stress response of spore-forming and psychrotrophic foodborne pathogenic and spoilage bacteria, with particular attention to Clostridium botulinum.
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Per Einar Granum Professor in food safety since 1993. Head of Centre for Food Safety. Involved in research on Bacillus cereus enterotoxins, germination of bacterial spores and EHEC. Presently in charge of a scientific group of 12 people. |
