Dr Bertrand LOMBARD, PhD, coordinates reference activities within the ANSES directorate steering the activities of the 9 laboratories, after 20 years at the Laboratory for food safety, where he was in particular responsible for up to 3 EURL mandates. He conducted his PhD works on inter-laboratory studies to validate methods and to assess laboratory performance in the field of food microbiology. From 2001 to 2017 and from 2021, he has chaired/chairs ISO/TC 34/SC 9, the ISO committee in charge of standardization in the field of microbiological analysis in the food chain. He also convenes since 2005 its WG 2 ensuring statistical expertise for the standardization works in this area. He has developed an expertise on method validation and measurement uncertainty, as well as on the organisation of proficiency testing in food microbiology.

Dr Fabrizio Anniballi is a food technologist responsible for the Italian National Reference Centre for Botulism at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and coordinates the National Botulism Surveillance System. Fabrizio is also a member of the EFSA Network on Microbiological Risk Assessment and the ECEC Operational Contact Point for Botulism, as well as several ISO and UNI working groups that address the development and validation of methods and management systems in food safety. He has been appointed as an expert on CBRNe agents for the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. He has conducted studies on the development and validation of rapid and alternative methods for botulinum neurotoxins, on the genomic characterisation of BoNT-producing clostridia, and on mechanisms to mitigate the risk of botulism, including bio-competition and the use of bio-preservatives.

Monika Ehling-Schulz, Head of the Center for Pathobiology and Head of the Institute of Microbiology at the Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria, is internationally renowned for her work on toxigenic Bacilli. Her team has identified key regulators that orchestrate virulence in B. cereus. In 2016, she was awarded the Otto von Guericke Prize for her groundbreaking work on emetic Bacillus cereus, which opens new avenues for next-generation risk-based diagnostics. With her team, she successfully applied AI-assisted FTIR spectroscopy at the interface of food safety and veterinary medicine as part of a One Health concept.  She is an elected Fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM), a board member of the Society of Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (ÖGHMP), and Austrian delegate to the Expert Committee on Microbiology of the Food Chain.

Tentative Title:

From Taxonomy to Risk: Differential Bacillus cereus diagnostics. 

Prof. Sophia Johler is the Chair of Food Microbiology at LMU Munich. Her main research interests are foodborne intoxications, stress response, and the use of -omics and artificial intelligence in microbial risk analysis. She served as President of the Swiss Society for Food Hygiene and member of the board of the European College of Veterinary Public Health. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Food Microbiology.

Tentative title: 

“A fresh take on an old foe - foodborne bacterial toxins"

NIA Yacine : Chair

Laurent LALOUX (Food safety Lab Director)

Jacques-Antoine HENNEKINNE

Khadidiatou CISSAKO: Head of the General Affairs Department

Abdelhak Fatihi: Project leader

Alexandra BOSTON: Logistics and missions Department

Yacine OSMANI: Technical and IT Department

Fabio Zuccon (IZSTO / sponsor)

Michel Federighi (ENVA/SFM sponsor)

RAJKOVIC Andreja (UGent, Belgium)

Dicoris (UCEE)

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For Student registrations, a valid proof of status should be presented. You have to send it with the registration form to the address: FBTIS@anses.fr.

Registration fee includes:

Access to all scientific sessions

Access to the exhibition & poster area

Welcome Reception

Coffee Break and Lunch at the Conference Venue

Free access to the social event

Terms and Conditions

Registrations can only be submitted and paid through the registration form & payement form.

 A confirmation email will be sent to all validated registrations.

The registrations will be performed only online.

The registration fees do not include insurance of participants against accidents, sickness, cancellation, theft, property loss or damage. Participants are advised to take out adequate personal insurance.

Registration implies acceptance of the congress rules and its conditions of participation and cancellation.

The Organizers of the FBTIS symposium reserve the right to limit the capacity of the in-person Conference due to the need to ensure the health and safety of attendees, in accordance with the recommendations

of the World Health Organization, Health (WHO) and local Health Authorities, at the time of the Conference.

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