10:10 a.m.-1 p.m. Microbiology companies · exhibition:
- How to automate industrial microbiology processes? Air samplers, dilutors, blenders, spiral plater, automatic colony counter and lateral flow readers (IUL, SA) 10:10-10:50 a.m.
- Food analysis made easy (BioSystems, SA) 11-11:40 a.m.
- From classic microbiology to molecular microbiology. Solutions for metagenomics studies (Cultek, SLU – dDBioLab, SL) 11:50 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
- Food quality control. Food pathogens control: Listeria, Salmonella and Campylobacter (Scharlab, SL) 12:20-1 p.m.
3-3:30 p.m. Official opening of the workshop
3:30-4:50 p.m. Opening lecture by Dr. José Juan Rodríguez Jerez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra -Cerdanyola del Vallès-, Barcelona):
- Visión general de los métodos rápidos y miniaturizados, y la automatización en microbiología [Overview on rapid methods, automation and miniaturization in microbiology]:
- Sampling of solid and liquid foods, surfaces, and air
- Miniaturization: microtiter plate, most probable number (MPN), viable cell counts. Diagnostic kits
- Methods for viable cell counts: hydrophobic grid, spiral plating, flow cytometry, direct epifluorescence filter technique (DEFT), turbidity
- Methods for viable cell counts, based on electric impedance and conductance
- Methods for viable cell counts, based on ATP – bioluminiscence and colorimetry
- Immunological methods for microbial and toxin detection and identification: immunomagnetic separation, ELISA and ELFA, reversed passive latex agglutination, lateral immunomigration, immunoprecipitation
- Molecular biology methods for microbial detection and identification: hybridization (DNA and rRNA probes); polymerase chain reaction (PCR); DNA and rRNA characterization (fingerprinting, riboprinting); sequencing; proteomics