Rapid and Accurate COVID19 & Viral Detection and Monitoring in Wastewater
Tue, Dec 7, 2021 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Israel Standard Time (UTC+2)
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Dutch Israeli Mini-Symposium on Rapid and Accurate Viral Detection and Monitoring in Wastewater
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Program
16:00-16:05 Welcome note
- HE Hans Docter, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Israel
- Jasper van Mastrigt, Netherlands Embassy in Israel
16:05-16:20 Applied wastewater surveillance for SARS CoV2 in Israel, Dr. Itay Bar Or, National Center for Environmental Virology – Head Laboratory of Environmental Virology, Public Health Services, Israel Ministry of Health, Israel
16:20-16:35 Setting up a national sewage surveillance for COVID-19 and beyond, Dr. Ana Maria de Roda Husman, Head of the environmental department, RIVM Laboratories, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
16:40-16:55 Protecting public health using wastewater derived data, Ido Blank, VP Business Development, KANDO Environment Services, Israel
16:55-17:10 High-resolution monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 circulation through sewage surveillance, Frederic Been, Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE), KWR Water Research Institute (KWR), The Netherlands
17:15-17:30 SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern detection and quantification in wastewater, Prof. Ariel Kushmaro, Head of Environmental Biotechnology Lab, Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben Gurion University, Israel
17:30-17:45 Mobile microbial water testing: Udetect’s opportunities, Marc van Bemmel, Managing Director, Orvion, The Netherlands
17:45-18:00 Discussion