World BioHazTec Corp. presents Fundamentals of Biocontainment Engineering. This two-day course is an overview of biocontainment engineering, providing insights into the evolution and reasoning behind guidelines and design requirements for a high containment lab. If you are contemplating or are in the process of building a new biocontainment facility or renovating existing space, or have Read More »
Calendar of Events
March 14, 2011
Synthetic and Systems Biology
Institute of Medicine The Forum on Microbial Threats “On March 14 – 15, 2011, the IOM’s Forum on Microbial Threats will convene a public workshop to explore the scientific and policy dimensions of recent developments in genetic engineering and their applications to emerging infectious diseases. Through invited presentations and discussions, this workshop will explore how Read More »
March 7, 2011
Designer Organisms: The promise and perils of synthetic biology
A citizen’s deliberation project with high school students and culminating in a mock hearing before an interagency panel. Space is limited. Please RSVP by March 3 to: cspodc@asu.edu A Project of the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University, in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and ECAST – Read More »
2nd AfBSA Biosafety Conference
The African Biological Safety Association (AfBSA), is a professional association that aims to congregate practitioners of biological safety, promote biosafety and biosecurity as a discipline through awareness and to facilitate the sharing of biosafety and biosecurity information in the African region. The association though three year old has membership of over 165 registered members drawn Read More »
March 3, 2011
Symposium – A Day on Deadly Killers
7th Minisymposium Forum of the Helmholtz Graduate School for Infection Research (HZI) Speakers: Les Baillie (Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University) Bacillus anthracis – A bug with attitude or has it simply been misunderstood? Elisabeth Carniel (Institut Pasteur) From the enteropathogen Y. pseudotuberculosis to the plague bacillus Henry F. Chambers (General Hospital, San Francisco) MRSA Read More »
