During the 4th General Meeting of BIOTRACER, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, three poster prizes and three publication prizes were awarded. The International Advisory Board members served as judges: Mansel Griffiths, John Sofos and Aamir Fazil.

The three publication prize winners are the following:

Effect of chicken meat environment on gene expression of Campylobacter jejuni and its relevance to survival in food, by Malgorzata Ligowska, Marianne Thorup Cohn, Richard A. Stabler, Brendan Wren and Lone Brønsted.

Pictured: Aamir Fazil and Malgorzata (Gosia) Ligowska

Use of whole genome sequencing as a high resolution diagnostic typing tool when tracing bio-terror organisms in the food and feed chain, by Bo Segerman, Dario De Medici, Monika Ehling Schulz, Patrick Fach, Lucia Fenicia, Martina Fricker, Peter Wielenga, Bart Van Rotterdam and Rickard Knutsson.

Pictured: Bo Segerman and Aamir Fazil

Culture-independent quantification of Salmonella enterica in carcass gauze swabs by flotation prior to real-time PCR, by Charlotta Löfström, Jenny Schelin, Börje Norling, Håkan Vigre, Jeffrey Hoorfar and Peter Rådström

Pictured: Charlotta Löfström and John Sofos

The three winning posters were the following:

A conceptual model of risk factors for the transmission of Salmonella with feed to pig farms, by C. Binter, J. Straver, J. Zentek, L. Hermansson, P. Häggblom and G. Andersson

Pictured: John Sofos and Claudia Binter

Immobilisation alters the heat shock response of Salmonella typhimurium, by Maj-Britt Nielsen, Gitte Knudsen, Vittoria Danino-Appleton, Jay C. D. Hinton, Tim Brocklehurst, John E. Olsen and Line E. Thomsen

Pictured: Mansel Griffiths and Maj-Britt Nielsen

Monitoring of Ochratoxin A in barley by automatic sampling, by E. Reiter, P. Häggblom, P. Lindqvist and G. Andersson

Pictured: Mansel Griffiths and Elisabeth Reiter