BioSafety News
2008 Joint Symposium with New England Biological Safety Association
May 8 Pre Symposium Seminar UMASS Amherst
Announcement E-mail Maureen O'Leary to attend
Import and Export Primer for the Biological Safety Professional
Instructor: Angie Birnbaum, Assistant Biosafety Officer, MIT
May 9, 2008 UMASS Amherst
Tentative Agenda
May 9, 2008
8:00 Registration and coffee
8:30 Welcome to the University of Massachusetts/Amherst
8:40 Welcome from NBSA President
8:45 Welcome from NEBSA President
8:50 Welcome from ABSA President
9:00 Safer Together: Building a Multidisciplinary Biological Safety Network
Caryl Griffin, President, Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation
10:00 Break
10:30 High Pathogen Avian Influenza and Risk Management
Dr. Deborah Fuller, Albany Medical College
11:15 Plague Endotoxin and Evasion of Innate Immunity
Dr. Egil Lien, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
12:00 Lunch
1:15 The NIH rDNA Guidelines: Emerging Issues and Common IBC Deficiencies
Dr. Kathryn Harris, Office of Biotechnology Activities, NIH
2:00 Implementing the Science Training Program at Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Penny Holeman, Director of EH&S and Biological Safety, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
2:45 Break
3:15 BSL-3-Ag: Research in High Containment Animal Laboratories
Luis L. Rodriguez D.V.M., Ph.D., Research Leader, Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit, USDA/ARS Plum Island Animal Disease Center
4:00 Closing remarks, questions, Symposium evaluation
2007 Symposium
April 27, 2007 NBSA
Synmposium
RPI
Topics included
Risk Management in MDRTB Work: Dr. Andrea
Cooper, Trudeau Institute
BMBL 5th Edition Update: David
Hill, MEM, CIH Director of
Biosafety, Wadsworth Center NYSDOH
Biosafety and Biosecurity and Food Borne Disease
Outbreaks: Dr. Daniel Rice, Director, Food Laboratory
Division NYS Department of Agricultureand Markets
NanoBiotechnology: Emerging Issues: Dr.
Robert Linhardt, Acting Director, CBIS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Risk Assessment and the BSL-3Planning and
Design Process: J. Paul Jennette, P.E. RBP, Cornell University
The Partnership Between the FBI and ABSA: Robert Scripp, Program Manager
for Bioterrorism, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, WMD Directorate
2006 Symposium
Trudeau
Institute
Click on the following links for PDF fliers
May 12, 2006
Laboratory Diagnosis of BSE and CWD: Procedures and Precautions, Dr. Alfonso Torres, Executive Dir., Animal Health Diagnostic Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
Biosafety in the Mycology Laboratory, Dr. Ira Salkin, Information From Science, LLC
Case Study:Biosafety Response during an Outbreak of LCM in the Animal Facility, Ms. Tina Charbonneau, BSO, Trudeau Institute
Current Issues for IBCs: The Importance of Promoting Biosafety in Today's Research Climate, Mr. Allan Shipp, Office of Biotechnology Activities, NIH
New Frontiers In Influenza Research, Dr. David Woodland, Trudeau Institute
Pandemic Influenza Planning and Preparedness, Dr. Barbara Wallace, Dir. Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, NYS Dept. of Health
2005 Symposium
NYSDOH Wadsworth Center
Center for Medical Sciences
Albany, New York:
NORTHEAST BIOLOGICAL SAFETY ASSOCIATION
Symposium Agenda: April 8, 2005
Opening Remarks
Speaker: Michelle DeStefano, CBSP, President, NBSA
State
and
Local
Emergency Response to Biohazardous Indcidents
Speaker: Elizabeth Whalen, MD, Medical Director and Chair, Albany County
Health Department Communicable Disease Control Workgroup; Jim Miller, MD,
New York State Department of Health
Biosafety
Consideration for Viral Vectors
Speaker: Janice Flesher, MS, REHS, CBSP, Manager of Industrial Hygiene, Safety
and Training, Bristol Myers Squibb
Select
Agents and Associated Biosafety/Biosecurity Considerations
Speaker: Nick Cirino, Ph.D., Director, Biodefense Laboratory, Wadsworth Center,
New York State Department of Health
Round Table Discussion
Biosafety Issues at Academic Institutions: Was that
your chicken soup or your culture media? A discussion on biosafety at public
and private undergraduate and graduate/research institutions. Topics will
include tularemia to blood borne pathogens; IBC's and their function; animal
welfare; sharps concerns and handling of wastes.
Moderator: Sharon Sickles, Ph.D., DVM, University
Veterinarian & Director of Research Compliance, State University of New
York at Binghamton
Speakers: Will Fahey, Acting Director, Environmental Health & Safety,
Resnsselaer Polytechnic Institute; Lisa Donahue, Biosafety Officer, State
University of New York (SUNY) at Albany; John Sowa, Ph.D., Environmental,
Health & Safety Compliance Officer, Union College; Ana Perez, Ph.D.,
Director, Mouse Transgenic Facility, SUNY at Albany; and Russel Mankes, Ph.D,
Associate Professor, Albany Medical Center.
Announcements and Open Forum
Moderator: Tina Charboneau, Safety Coordinator, Trudeau Institute
Speakers: Paul Tranchell, RBP, CSP, CIH, President, Soaring Eagle Safety
Consultants, Inc. (Web Site Development); Alan G. Woodard, Ph.D., President
Elect, NBSA (NBSA Logo); Michelle DeStefano, CBSP, President, NBSA (Nominations
for President Elect)