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Aug 6-8, 2018 | 14th Annual MABioN Biosafety Symposium
6 August, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 8 August, 2018 @ 1:00 pm CDT
$10 – $110Hosted by


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August 6-8, 2018
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SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION
What is the Biosafety Symposium?
The Symposium is a two day conference for biosafety professionals and others involved in biosafety. The Symposium opens at 1pm on Monday and concludes after lunch on Wednesday. Presentations on various topics related to biosafety are planned for Monday afternoon, all day Tuesday and Wednesday morning. An optional half-day pre-conference workshop will be held Monday morning, and an optional facility tour on Wednesday afternoon. Come and network with biosafety professionals in the Midwest area and learn and share information about biosafety. Register separately for the Monday morning workshop, which includes a break and lunch.
Symposium registration includes:
- Breaks on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
- Lunch on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
- Monday evening Happy Hour Mixer
- Dinner Reception on Tuesday Night
- Optional Wednesday afternoon BRI facility tour (please select one or both tour(s) you would like to participate during the registration)
- Monday morning pre-conference workshop (additional fee applies)
Dietary Restrictions: When entering attendee information you can indicate any dietary restrictions/requirements you may have.
Aug 6, 2018 | Monday Pre-conference course | |
8:00-8:30 am | Pre-conference course registration | |
8:30-10:00 am | Brynn Welch, Introduction to Bioethics for the Biosafety Professional and Researcher | |
10:00-10:30 am | Break | |
10:30-12:00 pm | Brynn Welch, Introduction to Bioethics for the Biosafety Professional and Researcher | |
12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch and Social (all attendee) | |
Monday Symposium open | ||
12:30-1:00 pm | Symposium Registration | |
1:00-1:30 pm | Welcome from Symposium Host Institution | |
1:30-2:00 pm | Patrick Condreay, ABSA International Update | |
2:00-3:00 pm | Holley Trucks, Compliance Evaluation: Getting the Most From Your Lab Inspections | |
3:00-3:30 pm | Break | |
3:30-4:00 pm | John Henneman, Biocontainment Operations: Keeping Routine Maintenance a Priority | |
4:00-5:00 pm | Ron Trewyn, NBAF Development/Location Choice | |
5:00-5:30 pm | MABioN Business Meeting | |
6:00-7:00 pm | Happy Hour Mixer | |
Aug 7, 2018 | Tuesday agenda | |
8:00-8:30 am | Sarah Lawson, University of Michigan Safety Initiative | |
8:30-9:00 am | Lance Luftman & Mark Whitehair, Emergency Response Preparedness | |
9:00-9:30 am | Tami Maier, Strategies and Tactics to Influence Without Authority as a Biological Safety Officer | |
9:30-10:00 am | Michael Marsico, Public‐Private Partnerships to Strengthen Biosafety Across all Laboratories | |
10:00-10:30 am | Break | |
10:30-11:00 am | Ken Burton, Animal Disease Response Training | |
11:00-12:00 pm | Sivarchana Mareedu, Ensuring Biosafety in Academic Research Institutions: Biosafety Survey and Program Development | |
12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch | |
1:00-1:30 pm | Allen Helm, Fear Abatement: Awareness training as a tool to increase transparency, collaboration, and buy‐in at the University of Chicago | |
1:30-2:00 pm | Torsten Hopp, Assessing training effectiveness and implementation of safety practices in BSL‐2 laboratories at University of Louisville | |
2:00-2:30 pm | Brandy Nelson, Academic Biosafety at the University of Kentucky: A BSO goes back to grad school | |
2:30-3:00 pm | Cheryl Doerr, BSL‐2 Lab Inspection Program Development | |
3:00-3:30 pm | Break | |
3:30-4:00 pm | Delena Mazzetti, Navigating Large Animal Waste Disposal | |
4:00-4:30 pm | Gary Schmidt, Validation of Continuous Flow Effluent Decontamination Systems | |
4:30-5:00 pm | Erika Stampoulos, Applications of UV light disinfection technology in the vivarium | |
6:00 pm | Dinner reception at the Flint Hills Discovery Center (https://www.flinthillsdiscovery.org/) | |
Aug 8, 2018 | Wednesday agenda | |
8:00-8:30 am | Anthony (Hsiang-Ming) Wang, IBC Subcommittee for Genome Editing: A Collaborative Approach for Reviewing Emerging Technologies | |
8:30-9:00 am | Anne Dombroski‐Brokman, Containment without Borders: Plant Pest Containment and Permitting in Open Floor Plan Labs | |
9:00-10:00 am | Jim Stack, Emerging Crop Diseases and Food Security | |
10:00-10:30 am | Break | |
10:30-10:45 am | So Lee Park, Arbovirus Pathogenicity Correlation with Heat Resistance | |
10:45-11:30 am | Greg Peterson, Biocontainment of Variola Virus: Past, Present, and Future | |
11:30-12:00 pm | Optional facility tour: BRI Visitor Training | |
12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch | |
1:00-2:30 pm | Optional BRI Tour* ‐ Mechanical Spaces (advance registration required) | |
2:30-4:00 PM | Optional BRI Tour* ‐ Containment Spaces (advance registration required) | |
*optional tour of the BRI facility Tour participants have the option of touring BRI mechanical spaces, containment areas, or both. For containment spaces, participants must take a short visitor training, and change completely out of street clothing into scrubs. For mechanical spaces no clothing change is required. Please reserve your tour spot(s) as part of your conference registration. |
Speaker: Dr. Brynn Welch, University of Alabama Birmingham
https://www.uab.edu/cas/philosophy/people/faculty-directory/brynn-welch