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COMMITTEE AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT GROUP MINUTES
d. Investments doing well.
e. Will need to consider a new financial model going forward since
the Annual Meeting is not generating as many funds as previously.
f. Staff is happy and engaged.
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 17, 2025, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 1:40 p.m. Pacific Time.
Chairperson: Ruth Petran
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GROUPS
Advanced Molecular Analytics PDG
Attendees: Joelle Salazar (Chair), Mu Ye (Vice Chair, Jessica Chen, Niam
Abeysiriwardena, Getahun Agga, Imran Ahmad, Olivia Arends, Cynthia
Austin, Robert Barlow, Teresa Bergholz, Gabriela Betancourt Barszcz,
Greeshma Bharathan, Rachel Binet, Amy Bosco, Jennifer Bosquez, Alex
Brandt, Deborah Briese, Amanda Brookhouser-Sisney, Jessica Brown, Dana
Buckman, Laurel Burall, Alexandra Calle, Astrid Cariou, Melvin Carter, Austin
Cary, Michelle Catlin, Patrice Chablain, Tyler Chandross-Cohen, Kaicie
Chasteen-Ko, Daniela Chavez-Velado, Yi Chen, Taejung Chung, Charlie
Connolly, Roger Cook, Nisha Corrigan, Jianli Dai, Antonio De Jesus, Tom
Denes, Suresh Devatkal, Caroline Smith DeWaal, Edward Dudley, Denise
Eblen, Robyn Eijlander, Emilio Esteban, Michael Evangelista, Patrick Fach,
Amanda Farrens, Jingzhang (Barry) Feng, Rebecca Furbeck, Ying-Xian
Goh, Elizabeth Grasso-Kelley, Josie Greve-Peterson, Jisun Haan, Yihan
He, Yosra Helmy, Sunee Himathongkham, Yuewei Hu, Lauren Hudson,
Minji Hur, Atef Idriss, John Jarosh, Megan Jensen, Tahirah Johnson,
Sarah Johnson, Miseon Kang, Janell Kause, Pete Kennedy, Unji Kim, Hyun
Jung KIM, David Legan, Ioannis Liatsos, Huanli Liu, Xiyang Liu, Paul Liu,
Pierre-Luc Longchamps, Gina Lorenzi, Yuxiao Lu, Jackie Lyle, Luis MarotoMartin,
Rodrigo Mendoza, Patrick Mies, Jesse Miller, Marlee Mims, Amit
Morey, Andrew Morin, Peter Muriana, Cameron Parsons, Urmi Patel, Trevor
Phister, Karen Pietrzen, Toni Poole, Bill Potter, Jorge Quintanilla Portillo,
Ravinder Reddy, Marco Reina Antillon, Amber Richards, Lisa Riesberg,
Karla Rodriguez Flores, Robert Roe, M. Laura Rolon, Abimel Salazar, Hilal
Samut, Valeria Santillan, Deborah Sattely, Wayne Schlosser, John Schmidt,
April Schumacher, Brooke Schwartz, Caroline Scranton, Trushenkumar
Shah, Nikki Shariat, Hunter Sheffield, Amy Siceloff, Katherine Sierra, Calvin
Slaughter, Daniel Smieszek, Diana Stewart, Sriya Sunil, Celina To, Mark
Turner, Brian Tyler, Adwy van den Berg, David Vargas, Nicholas Wagner,
Isabel Walls, Chun Wang, Hua Wang, Surabhi Wason, Vanessa Whitmore,
Stephanie Windschitl, Patrick Wouters, Shiwei Xu, Shaelyn Xu, Brad Yang,
Lei Zhang, Jiayi Zhang.
Number of Attendees: 135.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, July 14, 2024, 1:00 p.m., Pacific Time.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Tyler Chandross-Cohen.
Old Business: The AMA leadership reviewed the antitrust guidelines for the
IAFP meetings and members approved the 2023 AMA meeting minutes.
New Business: The Leadership was introduced: Jasna Kovac was
introduced as the Outgoing Chair, Joelle Salazar was introduced as the
AMA PDG Chair and Mu Ye was introduced as the AMA PDG Vice ChairElect.
Tyler Chandross-Cohen was introduced as the Student Liaison for the
AMA PDG. The antitrust guidelines were presented for the IAFP meetings.
The IAFP 2024 Annual Meeting App was discussed before reviewing the
2024 AMA-sponsored symposia. Eighteen symposia/roundtable proposals
were sponsored by the AMA PDG, where AMA was the primary sponsor for
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7 of them. Six were accepted (33% success rate). The AMA PDG was the
primary sponsor for 4 of the 6 symposia/roundtables. Co-sponsors included
the Applied Laboratory Methods PDG, Modeling and Risk Analysis PDG,
and International Food Protection Issues PDG. The 6 accepted proposals
for the 2024 Annual Meeting were then discussed. The meeting updates
from the Executive Board were shared, including the number of attendees
for IAFP 2024 (more than 3,300), the number of current IAFP members
(4,577), an announcement of prioritizing the quality and information rather
than the number of sessions submitted from the PDG. The Executive Board
also suggested that the PDGs should consider a webinar as a deliverable
for the PDG, as there were over 4,000 views on the IAFP webinars in June.
An update from the Journal of Food Protection was discussed including
the special issue " Advancements of Machine Learning and Artificial
Intelligence in Food Safety " ; JFP will offer more special issues in the
future. An update from the DEI council, Student PDG, and Mentor Match
program were discussed. Robyn Eijlander and Jessica Chen both gave
short presentations about Nanopore sequencing. The next IAFP Annual
Meeting was introduced, which will be held from July 27 July 30, 2025,
in Cleveland, Ohio. The guidelines for the IAFP Symposia/Workshop/
Roundtable Proposal development were presented. The deadline for
submission of 2025 proposals is October 1st, 2024. It was encouraged that
the DEI principles would be considered during the webinar development
and webinar series. It was noted that each proposal needed to be
sponsored by 2 PDGs, and members that are interested should email Joelle
(Joelle.Salazar@fda.hhs.gov) or Mu (Mu.Ye@KraftHeinz.com). The PDG
then discussed ideas for the 2025 IAFP symposia/workshops/roundtable
proposals. Topics included: (i) using molecular analytics in seafood safety,
(ii) techniques/methods for risk-based analysis of plant based foods,
(iii) comparison of WGS platforms and advantages/disadvantages and
applicability to a small lab or on-site, and (iv) the safety issues associated
with transfer of AMR genes to food.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. The AMA PDG recommends Mu Ye to the Vice Chairperson position.
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 27, 2025, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 2:13 p.m., Pacific Time.
Chairperson Name: Joelle Salazar
Animal and Pet Food Safety PDG
Attendees: Li Ma (Chair) Michele Sayles, Maryam Ajasa, Samoa Asigau,
Michael Batz, Dan Belina, Ledon Black, Neil Bogart, Michael Borg, Alex
Brandt, Nicolette Brown, Ariel Buehler, Yanxuan Cai, LeAnn Chuboff, Paula
J Cray, Jianli Dai, Mary-Grace Danao, Scott Deterding, Natoavina Faliarizao,
Andrew Farnum, Razieh Farzad, Beilei Ge, Charles Giambrone, Jake Gilgen,
Binita Goshali, Dayane Gossner, Halle Greenbaum, Nicolette Hall, Eddie Hall,
Evan Henke, Ian Hildebrandt, Adrienne Hill, Amanda Jones, Harsimran Kaur
Kapoor, Jasmine Kataria, Pete Kennedy, Amit Kheradia, Rob Kooijmans,
William Long, Gina Lorenzi, Christopher Mains, Mackenzie Mayo-Gibbons,
Janny Mendoza, Michael Michel, Jeanette Murphy, Jeff Nauseda, Megin
Nichols, Mike O'Rourke, Juliany Rivera Calo, Marie-Eve Rousseau, Janet
Rowat Kraiss, Kaylee Rumbaugh, Joy Saha, Marsha Sayre, Keith Schuetz,
Ahnna Schulte, Paula Schwarz, Arlette Shazer, Anru Shen, Subash Shrestha,
Julie Simcox, Sherri Stephens, Sara Sterkel Colombo, Savannah Stewart,
Tim Taylor, Thomas Taylor, Deepa Thiagarajan, Collin Timm, Nassifatou
Tittikpina, Jennifer Turpin, Brent Wallen, Richard Walsh, Justin Wiertzema,
Pamela Wilger, Kathy Wilson, Eduardo Ximenes, Kris Young.
Number of Attendees: 76.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, July 14, 2024, 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Halle Greenbaum - Student Liaison.
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