PRESENTATIONS
37th Annual Virtual Biosafety Symposium: June 19, 2025
- Ana M. Gamero - Biosafety Protocols in Cancer Research: Best Practices and Applications
- Ilker Sariyer - Cutting Out HIV: CRISPR’s Promise in the Fight Against HIV
- Paul Coyne and Colin Fricker - Sustainable Regulated Medical Waste
- Brian Petuch - srRNA: Potent Compound or Biosafety Program Management?
- Tucker Piergallini - Considerations for downgrading SARS-CoV-2 at the University of Pennsylvania
Dinner Meeting: September 16, 2023
35th Annual Biosafety Symposium: June 15, 2023
- Sean Fitzgerald - CDC Import Permits: A Retrospective
- Andrew Maksymowych - Do They Know Who We Are?
- LoAnn Burnett - Building a Competency Framework for Biorisk Management Professionals
- Ana Gamero - Application of Biosafety Protocols for the Study of Can
- Karen Byers - LAIs that Impacted Biosafety Practice
- Paul Meechan- Competency Ladders for Biosafety Professional Track Roundtable
34th Annual Biosafety Symposium: June 16, 2022
- Sean Fitzgerald - Translating Biosafety in the Clinical Realm
- Marie-Luise Faber - Dangerous Goods Shipping at Academic Institutions
- Brian Petuch - Large Scale Viral Production - Engineering Control vs Respiratory Protection
- Tom Leonard - Strategies to Optimize IBC and Biosafety Partnerships
- Dianne Langford - Genes Out Virus In
- James Occi - A Brief Tour of Vector Borne Diseases Past, Present and Future
Dinner Meeting: March 17, 2022
33rd Annual Biosafety Symposium: November 10 and 17, 2021
- LouAnn Burnett - ABSA Update
- Donald Schaffner - A Food Microbiologist's Perspective on Handwashing and Hand Sanitizers
- Brian Petuch - Animal Vaccine Risks to Veterinarians
- Kevin Fulmer - Remote Auditing of Pharma Biorisk - One Approach and Lessons Learned
- Justin Baker - COVID-19 - OSHA Guidance and Resources Available
32nd Annual Biosafety Symposium: September 17, September 24, October 1 and October 8, 2020
- David Gillum - ABSA Update
- Paul Meechan - What's Changed with BMBL 6
- Brian Petuch - Disinfectant Exposure Monitoring and COVID-19: When Worlds Collide
- Elliot Rank - A Case Study on Brucella
- Aderemi Dosunmu - Biosafety Considerations at Columbia University When Establishing Biosafety Level -3 Laboratories for SARS-CoV-2 Research and a Biosafety Level 2 COVID-19 Biorepository
- Kim Joho - Biosafety Assessment and Mitigation with SARS-CoV-2 Testing in the Clinical Laboratory
- Donald Schaffner - A Food Microbiologist Thinks About COVID
- Marta Figueroa - N95 Respirator Decon: Administrative Challenges and Validation Protocols
- Anthony Gresko, Dr. Riccardo Russo & Courtney Grady - Decontaminating N95 Respirators During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Simple and Practical Approaches to Increase Decontamination Capacity, Speed and Lessons Learned
29th Annual Biosafety Symposium: June 9, 2016
- Eric Weren - Investigation, Remediation and Control of Facility Associated Legionella
- Christopher Aston - Managing Legionella risk at a large urban biomedical university
- Jessica Tucker - Streamlining RAC Review under the NIH Guidelines
- Scott Crans - Mosquito and Vector Surveillance Programs in New Jersey
- Susan Mikorski - "Ebola" Biosafety Initiative
- Marcia Pindling-Watkins - Biosafety at NJ Department of Health
- Karen Worthington - http://www.nj.gov/health/cd/zika/index.shtml
- Partha Krishnan - Gene Editing: Biosafety Risk Assessment Becomes CRISPR
- Brian Karolewski - PPE in the Animal Facility: Cost, Laboratory Animal Infections and Allergens
Dinner Meeting: September 29, 2015
28th Annual Biosafety Symposium: June 11, 2015
- Paul Meechan - Keynote: CDC-2014, Lessons Learned
- Tom Boyle - Chemical Agent and Distribution Method Comparison During A Mock Decontamination Event
- Elijah Paintsil - Blood-borne Viral Pathogens Live On: Implications for Biosafety and Infection Control
- Daniel Kadouri - Predatory Bacteria
- Dianne Langford - Genes Out and Virus In: Making Designer Mice
- Richard Sutton - Viral Vectors, Associated Safety Issues and New Technologies
- Brian Petuch - Risk Assessment of Gene Engineer Technologies including CRISPR
- Chris Aston - Establishing a Dual Use Research of Concern Review Program at Columbia University
Dinner Meeting: November 7, 2013
- Kathleen Crowley (Columbia University, Associate Vice President for Environmental Health and Safety) - Strategies for Flu Vaccine Enrollment in the Workplace
- Stephen Morse (Columbia University, IBC Chair, Global Co-Director, USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats - PREDICT Program and Professor of Epidemiology) - Global Public Health Initiatives in Infectious Disease
26th Annual Biosafety Symposium: June 20, 2013
- Richard Rebar (ABSA Council) - 2013 ABSA History and Update
- Robert Phillips (Rutgers University, Export Compliance Officer) - Implementation of a Deemed Export Program
- Brian Petuch (Merck, Corporate Biosafety Officer) - Biosafety Concerns with Single Use Bioprocess Technology
Joint meeting of ASSE, AIHA and MABSA: March 21, 2013
