Preparing for Emerging Threats
Rapid Methods, Planning for Emergencies,
Environmental Connections with Human Health
Our lead Keynote Presentation:
Reopening Fisheries after an Oil Spill:
Tainting, Chemical Analysis, and Risks to Human Health
Dr. Tracy Collier, Oceans and Human Health, NOAA Fisheries
The Planning Committee invites Microbiologists, Chemists, Toxicologists, Biochemists, Molecular Biologists, Students and others to join us in beautiful Puget Sound for laboratory training events, and world class speakers at keynotes, seminars, and a banquet.
Laboratory Training
A demonstration during a laboratory training course
The Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Section, June 22-23, 2010 will feature, in addition to our powerful keynote speakers and our popular seminars, a variety of laboratory training courses and supporting lectures this year in microbiology, automation in chemical analysis, and following the meeting, a special two day laboratory workshop on HPLC methods for paralytic shellfish toxin detection June 24 and 25, 2010.
- Molecular Methods in Food Microbiology
- lectures, labs onsite (read more here)
- Microfluidic Automation in Analytical Chemistry
- lectures, labs onsite (read more here)
- Mercury Analysis
- lectures, labs onsite (read more here)
- Sample Pretreatment Automation
- lectures onsite, labs onsite and offsite (read more here)
- Paralytic Shellfish Toxins by HPLC
- lectures onsite, lab offsite (read more here)
Keynotes and Seminars at the Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting will again include keynote presentations by leaders in their fields. Our lead keynote is “Reopening Fisheries after an Oil Spill: Tainting, Chemical Analysis, and Risks to Human Health.” This very timely talk will be presented by Tracy Collier of Oceans and Human Heath, NOAA. Other keynotes will include “From Beakers to Microfluidics” by flow injection analysis inventor Jaromir Ruzicka, University of Hawaii, “Microbiological Research at OARSA – Preparing for Emergencies” by Marleen Wekell of the FDA, and “Green Approaches in Taxol Cancer Research” by Kevin Walker of Michigan State University, and “Emerging and Legacy Organic Pollutants and the Environmental Connection with Human Health” by Don Patterson, Axys Analytical. Our banquet speaker is noted biophysical chemist and mountaineer Arlene Blum, U.C. Berkeley and Green Science Policy Institute, and is entitled “Breaking Trail: Peaks, Public Health, and Policy” We also continue with our popular Seminar Sessions, which will include lectures and informal discussions on topics in Soil and Environmental Chemistry, Pesticides and Industrial Contaminants, Marine and Freshwater Toxins, and Microbiology.