During the BIOTRACER Dissemination Conference and 3rd General Meeting, prizes for the best publication and top three posters were awarded. Mansel Griffiths and John Sofos of the International Advisory Board served as judges.
The publication prize went to Immuno-ultrafiltration as a new strategy in sample cleanup of aflatoxins, by Elisabeth Viktoria Reiter, Margit Cichna-Markl, Duck-Hwa Chung, Jürgen Zentek and Ebrahim Razzazi-Fazeli.
Pictured: Mansel Griffiths and Elisabeth Reiter
Poster prizes were awarded to the following three posters:
Flotation and real-time PCR to extract and quantify Salmonella cells from carcass swab samples, by Charlotta Löfström, Jenny Schelin, Börje Norling, Jeffrey Hoorfar and Peter Rådström
Pictured: Mansel Griffiths, Jenny Schelin and Charlotta Löfström
Towards operational biotracing for S. aureus in the dairy chain, by G. C. Barker, N. Gomez-Tome and M. A. Fernandes
Pictured: John Sofos and Gary Barker
Modeling the effect of acid and osmotic shifts across the growth boundaries on the adaptation and growth of Listeria monocytogenes, by H. Belessi, S. Merkouri, A. Gounadaki, S. Schvartzman, K. Jordan and P. N. Skandamis
Pictured: Mansel Griffiths, John Sofos, Antonia Gounadaki and Panos Skandamis