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Tamara indicated that post-webinar surveys were generally positive
and that she will send survey summaries to webinar committee members
after all webinars from now on.
Veronica suggested we try to find topical topics like the effect of fires
or air quality on food safety, Conference for Food Protection (CFP)-related topics around the conference, and everyone's favorite COVID-19 and
food safety. Roger Cook suggested that JFP mini-reviews would make
good webinar topics once those mini-reviews are published.
Mike suggested that the diversity of webinar presenters and webinar
committee be investigated and enhanced. Veronica suggested a topic of
mental health in science. Don and Bob indicated that they had potential
contacts who could speak on the subject.

Other announcements included the (i) JFP request for invited review
articles (interested individuals can contact JFP scientific co-editors for
more information) and (ii) Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems special
topic " Using genomics to inform food safety inspection " (submissions are
welcomed until January 14, 2021).

Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.

Next Meeting Date: July 18-21, 2021, Phoenix, Arizona.

Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1.
2.

The Advanced Molecular Analytics PDG recommends Jasna
Kovac as the PDG Vice Chair.
The members recommended increasing the number of PDG
co-sponsors for proposal topics that are multidisciplinary and
relevant to multiple PDGs.

Next Meeting Date: July 18-21, 2021, Phoenix, Arizona.

Meeting Adjourned: 2:33 p.m. EST.

Meeting Adjourned: 4:48 p.m. Eastern Time.

Chairperson: Xiangyu Deng and Jasna Kovac, Vice Chair.

Chairperson: Donald Schaffner.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GROUPS
Advanced Molecular Analytics PDG
Attendees: Xiangyu Deng (Chair), Jasna Kovac (Vice Chair), Amanda
Manolis, Angie Nguyen, BledarBisha, Caleb Richter, Candace Barnes,
Catharine Carlin, Celina To, Daniel Demarco, David Legan, Doug
Marshall, Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, Govindaraj Dev Kumar, Hasan
Nur, Jie Zheng, Joelle Salazar, John David, Jose Luis Rangel Gomes,
Joseph Meyer, Kolawole Banwo, Laura Rolon, Luca Cocolin, Maria
Hoffmann, Nada Alasiri, Naim Montazeri, Pina Fratamico, Pushpinder
Litt, Raj Rajagopal, Ramin Khaksar, Richard Higby, Shaohua Zhao,
Sid Thakur, Siman Liu, Sophie Pierre, Ted Gatesy, and Tricia (no last
name provided).
Board/Staff Present: Michelle D. Danyluk, Didi Loynachan, and Dina
Siedenburg.
Number of Attendees: 40.
Meeting Called to Order: 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Wednesday,
September 16, 2020.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Laura Rolon.
Old Business: A motion was made and passed to accept the 2019
meeting minutes with no revisions.
Updates from the Chair: The previous recommendation to the
Executive Board was accepted. A total of 19 proposals were submitted
in 2019 by AMA PDG members and 9 were accepted (71.4% success
rate with AMA PDG as the primary sponsor). Members were encouraged
to update their contact information on IAFP Connect.
Technical updates from three speakers: 1. Controlling SARS-CoV-2
infections in food processing and retail settings, Govindaraj Dev Kumar,
University of Georgia; 2. Functional genomics toward precision food
safety, Jie Zheng, FDA; and 3. Getting to the source: real-time pathogen
monitoring using next generation sequencing, Ramin Khaksar, Clear
Labs.
New Business:
IAFP Symposia/Workshop/Roundtable proposals were discussed.
The deadline for proposal submission is November 10, 2020. Attendees
identified several topics of interest, including a 2-day WGS and metagenomics workshop (Maria Hoffmann), and symposia on the following
topics: microbiome metadata standardization (Chris Grim), COVID-19
- lessons learned, the role of advanced molecular analytics, impact on
the food security and food safety (potential for collaboration with Applied
Laboratory Methods PDG) (David Legan, Doug Marshal, Ramin Khaksar), protecting food industry from impacts of future pandemic(s) (Ramin
Khaksar), sampling techniques and testing of human touch surfaces or
food contact surfaces for SARS- CoV-2 and the effect of organic food
residuals on virus persistence (potential for collaboration with the Viral
and Parasitic Foodborne Disease PDG) (Naim Montazeri), NGS-based
rapid detection, identification and characterization of SARS-CoV-2
virus from raw metagenomics, metatranscriptomics data (Hasan Nur),
challenges with direct detection of pathogens using metagenomics,
connection between environmental microbiota and pathogens, application
of meta-omics to better understand behavior of pathogens in food (Lucca
Cocolin), workshop on machine learning/data analytics and its application
in food safety.

Applied Laboratory Methods PDG
Attendees: Keith Lampel (Chair), Joseph Meyer (Vice Chair), Armitra
Jackson-Davis, Atef Idriss, Cari Lingle, David Legan, Doug Marshall,
Evan Chaney, Hany Anany, Irwin Quintela, Janet Smith, Jeff Kornacki,
John Jarosh, Johnathan Likens, Josie Greve-Peterson, Julie Ann Kase,
LeAnne Hahn, Mark Muldoon, Mary Tortorello, Megan Brown, Michael
Brodsky, Michele Smoot, Molly Mills, Naim Montazeri, Pamela Wilger,
Patrick Bird, Robert Roe, Ravinder Reddy, Richard Higby, Ricky Falkenberg,
Robbie Smith, Rocelle Grabarek, Ryan Maus, Shannara Lynn, Shaunti
Luce, Siman Liu, Sophie Pierre, Ted Gatesy, and Vikas Gill.
Board/Staff Present: Michelle D. Danyluk, Dina Siedenburg, and Didi
Loynachan.
Number of Attendees: 42.
Meeting Called to Order: 11:05 a.m. Eastern Time, September 15, 2020
by Chair Keith Lampel and with Vice Chair Joe Meyer.
Minutes Recorded by: Keith Lampel, Chair.
All members were reminded that they can update their PDG affiliations by logging into the IAFP website. The Antitrust Guidelines from the
Association were presented on two slides.
Old Business: The minutes from the 2019 were made available prior to
the meeting and a motion to accept the minutes was made by Atef Idriss
and seconded by Pam Wilger. There was no further discussion and the
minutes were approved.
New Business:
Megan Brown (Eurofins) presented a short talk entitled " Validation,
Verification, and Fit for Purpose: What's the Difference. " Briefly, she
provided an overview of validation methods as well as discussing the difference between validation and verification. She noted that with different
food matrices, which should be applied-validation or verification studies.
Also, she summarized work compiled with other colleagues as to an
option to the aforementioned Fit for Purpose Test that incorporates a Risk
Assessment model. This work is soon to be published.
Michelle Danyluk, IAFP Board Liaison, provided an overview of the
upcoming meeting. She encouraged those in attendance to register for
the first Virtual IAFP Annual Meeting. September 21 is the deadline to
upload symposia and roundtable presentations.
Joe Meyer made an announcement on behalf of IAFP that a call for
review articles for Journal of Food Protection is available to those interested in submitting such work.
Several proposal titles for roundtables and symposia proposals for
2021 were collected and sent to Joe Meyer. The ideas were reviewed
and discussed. A spreadsheet summarizing the proposals and contacts
for each will be posted in the ALM PDG Community Library on IAFP
Connect.
Election of Vice Chair: An election will be conducted prior to the next
IAFP meeting.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Recommend more than one secondary PDG sponsor be allowed
for program proposals.
Next Meeting Date: July 18-21, 2021 Phoenix, Arizona.

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