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Aug 5-7, 2019 | 15th Annual MABioN Biosafety Symposium
5 August, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 7 August, 2019 @ 1:00 pm CDT
$50.00 – $155.002019 MABioN Biosafety Symposium
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August 5-7, 2019
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SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION
What is the MABioN 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
- Dinner Reception on Tuesday Night
- Monday morning pre-symposium workshop (additional fee applies)
Dietary Restrictions:Â When entering attendee information you can indicate any dietary restrictions/requirements you may have.
2019 MABioN Symposium draft agenda | ||
Aug 5, 2019 | Monday Pre-conference course | |
8:00-8:30 am | Pre-conference course registration | |
8:30-10:00 am | Viral Vector Risk Assessment –Kara Sarchet | |
10:00-10:30 am | Break | |
10:30-12:00 pm | Viral Vector Risk Assessment –Kara Sarchet | |
12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch and Social | |
 | Monday Symposium open | |
12:30-1:00 pm | Symposium Registration | |
1:00-1:30 pm | Â | Welcome from Symposium Host Institution, The Ohio State University Bridget Carruthers/Mark Conselyea |
1:30-2:00 pm | Michael Miles –A review of the International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry Biosafety Standards | |
2:00-3:00 pm | Kathryn Harris –Updates to the NIH Guidelines | |
3:00-3:30 pm | Break | |
3:30-4:30 pm | Karen Byers –Laboratory Acquired Infections -1979 Present | |
4:00-5:00 pm | Sivarchana Mareedu –Development & Implementation of a Safety Intervention Program at Academic Biological Laboratories | |
5:00-5:30 pm | MABioN Business Meeting | |
 6:00-7:00 pm | Evening reception @ Staybridge Suites | |
Aug 6, 2019 | Tuesday agenda | |
8:00-8:30 am | Kara Held –BSC Myth Busters | |
8:30-9:30 am | Sumit Ghosh –Developing an in-house BSC Certification Program at UND | |
 9:30-10:00 am | Kyle Winkler –Managing a Respiratory Protection Program | |
10:00-10:30 am | Â | Break |
10:30-11:00 am | John Henneman –Consequences of Deferring Routine Maintenance | |
11:00-12:00 pm | Ted Traum –Facility Aging –Retrofit or Replace | |
12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch | |
1:00-1:30 pm | Brian O’Shea –Decommissioning of an Aging BSL-3 Facility | |
1:30-2:00 pm | Dee Mazzetti and Eric Rouse –Hazard Communication in Open Labs | |
2:00-2:30 pm | Clarissa Cowan –Collaborative Risk Assessment Process for Shared Use BSL3/ABSL3 Facility | |
2:30-3:00 pm | Addie Moore –Lessons Learned from Select Agent Inactivation Validation Testing | |
3:00-3:30 pm | Break | |
3:30-4:30 pm | Juliette Hanson –PAAR on OSU OARDC campus | |
4:30-5:00 pm | Chad Rappleye –Histoplasma capsulatum | |
6:00 pm | Dinner reception at Gordon Biersch Columbus | |
Aug 7, 2019 | Wednesday agenda | |
8:00-8:30 am | Charles Murrieta –Post-Approval Monitoring at UNL | |
8:30-9:00 am | Hsiang-Ming (Anthony) Wang –The Curious Cases of DG shipping | |
9:00-10:00 am | Rick Maier –FBI’s Role in a Bioterrorism Event | |
10:00-10:30 am | Break | |
10:30-11:30 am | Meg Halcomb –How to Train for the Next Zoonotic Disease Outbreak | |
11:30-12:00 pm | Dee Zimmerman –ABSA update | |
12:00-12:30 pm | closing remarks | |
12:30 pm | Lunch | |
79 people are attending Aug 5-7, 2019 | 15th Annual MABioN Biosafety Symposium