FAO convenes a "Technical Meeting on the impact of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) on food safety management" on 23-25 May 2016. The meeting discusses the benefits and potential drawbacks of using Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) for food safety management. More than 170 people including public sector officials working in the area of food safety as well as experts from private sector, civil society organizations, research/academic institutions, and international organizations have registered to the meeting. The meeting will be conducted in English only.

International data sharing

08:30 – 08:45 Added Value of Open data sharing using examples from GenomeTrakr (Marc Allard, FDA, USA)

08:45 – 09:00 Strengthening data sharing for public health – ethical, legal and political issues (Michael Edelstein, Chatham House)

09:00 – 09:15 International challenges regarding the future sharing of sequence data (George Haringhuizen, RIVM, NL)

09:15 – 09:30 WGS data sharing at OIE (Franck Berthe, OIE)

09:30– 09:45 WGS data sharing at FAO by the International Treaty on the plant genetic resources

                    (Shakeel Bhatti, FAO and Jerome Reichman)

09:45 – 10:00 Developing Global Norms for Data and Results Sharing During Public Health Emergencies (Cathy Roth, WHO)

Metagenomics

10:30 – 10:50 Metagenomics – Investigations of complex microbiomes (Stephan Schuster, NTU, Singapore)

10:50 - 11:10 Real time surveillance of the healthy population in Copenhagen, Denmark based on sewage (Rene Hendriksen, DTU, Denmark)

11.10 - 11:30 Developing a national strategy to bring pathogen genomics into practice (Sobia Raza, PHG Foundation, UK)

11:30 – 11:40 GMI10 (Mexico) and GMI11 (Lourdes Simental Oceguera, Mexico)

11:40 – 12:00 Discussion