5th
Annual Biosafety and Biosecurity Training Course
BIOSAFETY and BIOSECURITY TRAINING COURSE - 2008
The Fifth Annual Biosafety and Biosecurity Training
Course will be held July 9-16, at the Hilton Hotel, Fort Collins, Colorado.
The Course is directed by Dr.
Robert P. Ellis (Casual Dress)
Sponsored by the Elizabeth R. Griffin Foundation - "SAFE Research Saves Lives"
Topics will include biosafety and biosecurity in veterinary clinics, animal research, and plant research and diagnostics.
Animal Session: July 9 and 10 will be animal oriented. Topics to be covered include large animal ABSL-2 and -3 facilities design, containment and management; small animal ABSL-2 and -3 facilities design, containment and management; veterinary hospital, clinic, and farm and ranch Biosecurity [infection control]; Non-Human Primate Biosafety.
General Session: July 11, 12 and the morning of the 14 will be general Biosafety and Biosecurity. Topics to be covered include BMBL, rDNA Guidelines, Biosafety committees, other administration aspects, risk assessment, Select Agent regulations and administration, HEPA filters and biosafety cabinet certification; Introductory BSL-3/cGMP. July 12 is Hawaiian shirt day, so bring your favorite Hawaiian shirt to wear on Saturday.
Optional for all attendees: Sunday, July 13, will be open for your enjoyment of the Fort Collins and Rocky Mountain National Park areas. We will have an optional tour of new BSL-3 facilities at 4 PM Sunday, with dinner at the Hilton at 6:30 PM.
Plant Session: July 14 afternoon, 15, and 16 will be plant oriented (greenhouse design and management, containment of recombinant plants, infectious disease research with plants, biopharm, regulations, plant disease diagnostic lab network, diseases of crops). We will finish with lunch at noon the 16 th.
Course Instructors - Animal Session - General Session - Plant Session
2008 Program - Full Program
Animal Session - July 9 - 10, 2008:
July 9 - Morning and Afternoon - Large Animal Facilities and Containment, ABSL-2 and -3
Scott Rusk, Biosecurity Research Institute, Kansas State University
July 9 - Afternoon - Veterinary Hospital and Clinic Biosecurity
(infection control) and Agricultural Premises Biosecurity
Paul Morley, Colorado State University
July 10 - Morning - Non-human Primate Biosafety
Melissa de la Garza, ABSL-3 manager, Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) at Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR), San Antonio, TX
July 10 - Morning and Afternoon - Lab Animal ABSL-2 and -3 Containment and Mgmt.
David Neil, Former Director, Laboratory Animal Resources, Colorado
State University
General Biosafety and Biosecurity Session
- July 11, 12 and 14, 2008:
July 11 - Morning - Introductory Remarks - Reasons for Biosafety Programs
Bob Ellis, Course Director and Colorado State University Director
of Biosafety
July 11 - Morning - Packaging and Shipping
Claudia Gentry-Weeks, Associate Biosafety Officer, Colorado State University
July 11 - Afternoon - Regulations and Permit Procedures for Infectious Agents, and Plants, Plant Pests and Pathogens, Including Transgenics and Soils
Steven Ziegenfuss , Biological Safety Specialist, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
July 11 - Afternoon -
HEPA Filters and Biosafety Cabinet Certification
Ed Canfield, Technical Safety Services, Littleton, CO
July 12 - Hawaiian Shirt Day
July 12 - Morning - A Biosafety Management Program
Joe Kozlovac, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland
July 12 - Morning - Managing a Large Biosafety Program
Bob Ellis, Colorado State University Director of Biosafety
July 12 - Morning - rDNA Guidelines
Claudia Gentry-Weeks, Associate Biosafety Officer, Colorado State University
July 12 - Afternoon -
The Select Agent Program; Biosafety
Committee Structure and Function
Bob Ellis, Colorado State University Director of Biosafety
July 12 - Afternoon - Introductory BSL-3/cGMP Training
Becky L. Rivoire, Director, Product Development and Manufacturing (PDM) Core, Rocky Mountain Regional Center of Excellence (RMRCE), Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology, Colorado State University
July 14 - Morning - Jim Welch, Elizabeth R. Griffin
Foundation
July 14 - Morning - Risk Communication and Risk Assessment
Sean Kaufman, Director of Programs at the Center for Public Health Preparedness
and Research, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*July 13 - Sunday - This day will be open for your enjoyment of the Fort Collins and Rocky Mountain National Park areas. We will have an optional tour (for all attendees) of new BSL-3 facilities at 4 PM Sunday, with dinner at the Hilton at 6:30 PM.
Plant Session - July 14, 15 and 16, 2008:
July 14 - Afternoon - Crop Security and Disease
Howard Schwartz, Colorado State University
July 14 - Afternoon - Overview of the National Plant
Diagnostic Network
Ned Tisserat, Colorado State University
July 15 - Morning - Containment Greenhouse Design, Construction,
and Management
Dann Adair, Controlled Environments, Inc.
July 15 - Afternoon -
Containment Greenhouse Tour
Dann Adair, Controlled Environments, Inc.
July 15 - Afternoon - HEPA Filters and Biosafety Cabinet
Certification
Ed Canfield, Technical Safety Services, Littleton, CO
July 16 - Morning - Transgenic Plants in the Laboratory,
the Greenhouse and in the Field
June Medford, Colorado State University
June 16 - Morning - Scientific Societies Comment on
Regulations for Movement of Plant Pests and Pathogens
Jan Leach, Colorado State University
2008 Registration and Payment Information
The cost for the course is as follows:
Animal and general sessions; $1300
Plant and general sessions; $1300
Complete training course, July 9- 16, 2008; $1600
Registration includes a reception July 9, dinners July 10 (Animal and Complete Course registrants) and/or July 15 (Plant and Complete Course registrants), a reception July 14, lunches, and breaks, and all course material. A class photo and certificate will be given to all who complete the course. We anticipate full enrollment, so make your course and hotel reservations early.
We anticipate full enrollment, so make your course and hotel reservations
early.
Payment by check or Payment by credit card
information is found on the registration
form.
Please complete the registration form.
2008 Hotel Reservations
The Hilton Fort Collins room rates are $95 for single or double and $115 for a suite. The cutoff date for hotel reservations is June 25, 2008. The hotel phone number is 970-482-2626. Call the hotel to reserve your special group room rate under the block name of "Biosafety and Biosecurity," or use the custom Biosafety & Biosecurity Training Course sleeping room reservation form, which is available on-line at the following link: custom sleeping room reservation link
It is a 1 ½ to 2 hour drive from Denver International Airport, and is almost all interstate. Here is map information from DIA to Fort Collins and the Hilton Fort Collins. Take Hwy 470 North to I-25. Take I-25 North to the Fort Collins area and take the Prospect Rd. exit. Go West 4.5 miles on Prospect to the intersection of Prospect and Centre Avenue.
Shuttle bus transportation between DIA and Fort Collins: Shamrock Airport Express and schedule
CONTACT US: Please direct questions to me at Robert.ellis@colostate.edu or 970-491-6729.