Canadian Biosafety Symposium 2009


Join us in Halifax, from May 31st - June 2nd, 2009 for Canada’s annual event for biosafety professionals and personnel involved in biosafety and/or biocontainment facilities.

The Canadian Biosafety Symposium will feature presentations and posters on an array of biosafety topics, including containment facilities design, maintenance and equipment; laboratory management and operations; animal containment; biosecurity; and, infectious diseases affecting human and animals. It will be a unique opportunity for the biosafety community to learn and share knowledge with colleagues from across Canada and other countries.

The 2008 Symposium brought together a number of participants working across the biosafety field in universities, government and the private sector, such as:

  • Laboratory managers and administrators
  • Academic and government laboratory researchers
  • Government regulators
  • Biocontainment professionals
  • Equipment and facilities providers
  • Containment facility design and operation specialists
  • Risk assessment and safety specialists

The event will feature prominent containment and biosafety specialists, and will involve presentations by the Canadian and international biosafety community selected from abstracts and papers that are currently being welcomed from all sources. Please in include: All topics related to biological safety are welcome, however this year we would like to solicit presentations with a particular emphasis on applied biosafety in the workplace, i.e. presentations that have a “lessons learned” or case study focus. For example:

  • Interesting challenges, scenarios or problems that you had to deal with
  • What worked really well for your institution, what didn't work so well
  • A biosafety incident and its responses & resolution
  • Development of effective tools or training programs to achieve biosafety compliance in your facility
  • Risk assessments conducted that you would like to share

 

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Abstracts

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