3rd Annual Detector/Sensor Reseach and Technology for Homeland and National Security

Our nation understands that the traditional requirements for protection of combat forces will not meet the needs for protecting our homeland. Today's technology will not meet the challenge we face. We must explore and understand the tremendous power of revolutionary science … from cyberspace to the genome … and apply it at a national, strategic scale. A critical component of this effort is harnessing and focusing our intellectual might, building an infrastructure of people and facilities that create timely solutions for biological threat detection.

The workshop will be organized around the four major components of all detection systems - sampling, sample preparation, analysis and identification. Abstract are solicited in each of these areas. Presentations on genomics and proteomics and their potential for a next generation detection systems, particularly when coupled with computational advances, are welcomed. Particularly important is advancing research on identifiers of viability - live or dead - and identifiers of genetic alteration. Overlaying this will be a discussion on bioethics and in particular a discussion on a potential Code of Ethics for the life sciences.

The program will feature a panel discussion, plenary lectures by experts as well as invited and contributed talks. Space will be available for a poster presentations and equipment exhibits. Scientists, program managers, and policy makers from national laboratories, government and private agencies, academia, and instrument manufacturers that are interested in technological solutions to homeland security and national defense issues should plan to attend.