Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, November 25-28, 2025
PURPOSE
To broaden and spread the theoretical and practical knowledge about innovative methods for rapid detection, enumeration, isolation and identification of foodborne and waterborne microorganisms and their metabolites.
Designed for: directors and technicians of industries, consultancies, and laboratories of food and feed and other sectors (microbiological, biotechnological, clinical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, chemical, environmental, etc.); inspectors and other administration staff; university professors and technical staff, graduate and postgraduate students; people from other research centres; etc.
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Lecturers and lectures:
- Dr. José Juan Rodríguez Jerez (UAB): Overview on rapid methods, automation and miniaturization in microbiology
- Dr. Armand Sánchez Bonastre (UAB): Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and massive genome sequencing applied to food safety
- Dr. Beatriz Quintanilla Casas (University of Copenhagen): Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in the food industry. From laboratory to production
- Ms. Laura Verdú Ortiz (AINIA, centro tecnológico): Microbiological stability and shelf-life studies: adapting to new consumer trends
- Dr. Javier Pérez de Juan (CNTA): Food alerts, pathogenic microorganisms, and risk assessment
- Daniel Ramón Vidal (Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera): The future of the application of microbiome knowledge in the agri-food chain
- Mr. David Tomás Fornés (WG Standardisation in food chain microbiology): Listeria in the food industry: new species, new methods and new regulation
3-day laboratory sessions:
- sample preparation and plating
- rapid viable cell count methods
- environmental control
- chromogenic culture media
- miniaturization
- diagnostic kits
- methods based on ATP – bioluminescence, colorimetry, and others
- immunological detection methods (ELFA, latex agglutination, lateral immunomigration, immunoprecipitation)
- molecular detection methods (other than PCR)
Demonstrations:
- Applications of predictive microbiology: practical use of available resources (Barcelona Public Health Agency)
- Food safety: tools for a preventive approach (bioMérieux Iberia)
- Zoning in the food industry. Classification of risk areas, flows and control measures (AENOR)
- Microbiological risks in HACCP systems? At last, identify them properly at your company! (The Enemy in your Kitchen)
And also:
- 2 open discussions (Risks: analysis, assessment, communication / Instrumentation, world trade trends, other current topics)
- Exhibition from 12 microbiology companies: Avantor (VWR International Eurolab), Deltalab member of SCGP, Hygiena Diagnostica España, Illumina Productos España, Interscience, LGC Standards, MicroPlanet Laboratorios, Neogen / Bioser, Scharlab, Sysmex España, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Werfen
