Call For Papers Canadian Biosafety Symposium
The Annual Canadian Biosafety Symposium will be held June 4 - June 7, 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The goal of the symposium is to provide a venue for the communication and education of advanced and current concepts and issues in the field of human and animal biosafety and biosecurity. This event will also provide networking opportunities among biosafety professionals nationally and internationally. The focus of the meeting will be topics that are relevant to the Canadian biosafety field but that also reflect current international biosafety issues.
The program committee is soliciting abstracts for presentations for this symposium, which are broadly based on the theme of "Research Innovation and Ethics". This theme aims to examine the fine balance between innovation through emerging technology and the biosafety, biosecurity and bioethical considerations that sometimes arise in the face of novel developments in research.
All submissions must reflect original work and must adequately document any overlap with previously published or simultaneously submitted papers from any of the authors. If authors have any doubts regarding whether such overlap exists, they should contact the program chairs prior to submission.
Timeslots are available in three lengths:
- 25 minutes, with 5 minutes question time
- 15 minutes - This session of the symposium will be set aside for those people interested in presenting short case studies or biosafety “lessons learned”. Please select this option if you would prefer to participate in this session.
Topics:
The following broad categories are the focus for the Canadian Biosafety Symposium, however, papers on other appropriate topics that relate to the goals of the symposium will be considered. If you have other topics that you would like to submit for consideration, please send an email message to biorisk@icid.com
- Biosafety
- Biosecurity
- Regulatory initiatives impacting biosafety
- Containment facility design, commissioning, maintenance and operation
- Infectious diseases affecting humans and/or animals
- Containment/laboratory equipment
- Microbiological techniques (e.g. disinfection and decontamination; laboratory-acquired infections)
- Biological risk assessment and communication
- Applied biosafety research
Poster Guidelines
Abstract Submission
Please click here to submit your abstracts
Process of Selection
All submissions will be handled electronically through the International Centre for Infectious Diseases (ICID).
Abstracts must include the objective, methods, results and conclusion of the study.
The program committee will evaluate all submissions based on quality and relevance. All submissions are held in confidence prior to publication in the symposium proceedings.
Submissions received after the deadline (see “Important Dates” below) will not be considered if a high volume of submissions have been received prior to the deadline. Please submit your abstract to: biorisk@icid.com.
Where employer, client, or government authorization is needed, it is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain such authorization prior to submitting the final materials.
Accepted papers will be presented by their author(s) and will be published in the symposium program, along with Author Biographies and photographs.
Copyright
ICID requires a non-exclusive copyright license for all the papers presented at the conference and for the presentation materials. This includes distribution on the Symposium website after the event has taken place.
Important Dates
Final Submission – February 15th, 2012.
Notification of Acceptance - March 10th, 2012.
Final Accepted Presentation Material Submission - May 18th, 2012.
Members of the program committee
CABS; CFIA; ICID and PHAC
