Sunday, 17 November 2002: 8:00 AM-5:00 PM | |||
Floridian Ballroom A (Convention Center, Third Floor) | |||
Biosafety and Bioterrorism: Assessing the Threat to Agriculture from Biological Agents | |||
| Session Chair(s): | Ernest S. Delfosse Peter R. Scott | ||
| 8:00 AM | Welcome and Introduction | ||
| 8:15 AM | 0001 | Overview to threats to biosafety posed by arthropods and pathogens Governor Tom Ridge (Invited) | |
| 8:45 AM | 0002 | Identification of gaps in the American safety net for exclusion, early detection and rapid response, and eradication of arthropods and pathogens Richard L. Dunkle | |
| 9:10 AM | 0003 | Research gaps in systematics of potential arthropod biological agents Michael Schauff | |
| 9:35 AM | 0004 | Research gaps in systematics of potential pathogen biological agents Amy Y. Rossman | |
| 10:00 AM | Break | ||
| 10:15 AM | 0005 | Deliberate or accidental? A proactive or reactive response? What do we need to do to prepare for new introductions of biological agents? Ian McDonell | |
| 10:40 AM | 0006 | Risk analysis of biological agents that could be used to disrupt food and fibre production Ernest S. Delfosse | |
| 11:05 AM | Facilitated Audience Discussion | ||
| 11:50 AM | Summary and Conclusions | ||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 PM | 0007 | Student debate (Pro): can we be prepared for deliberate release of biological agents against agriculture? Matthew A. Fossen, Paul Rabedeaux, Jarrad R. Prasifka, To Be Announced | |
| 2:00 PM | 0008 | Student debate (Con): can we be prepared for deliberate release of biological agents against agriculture? Brooke A. Edmunds, Ronda Hamm, Zahi Atallah, Heather L Smith | |