66th Annual Biosafety and Biosecurity Hybrid Conference

Poster Presenters

Scientific Poster Award

Armine Andryan, Ruben Danielyan, and Lilya Khachatryan, National Center Disease Control and Prevention, Gyumri, Armenia; Gayane Melik-Andreasyan, National Center Disease Control and Prevention, Yerevan, Armenia
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND RISK DISTRIBUTION OF BRUCELLOSIS IN SHIRAK REGION, ARMENIA IN 2016-2022 (ID #31)

Informational Poster Award Winner

Wendy P. Kilthau, Bobby Parchuri, Rachel Smith, Megan Murray, Edward Krisiunas, and Fahim Manzur, ASRC Federal Field Services, Orient Point, NY
VALIDATION PROCESS FOR AUTOCLAVE DECONTAMINATION OF ASBESTOS ABATEMENT WASTE LEAVING A HIGH CONTAINMENT LABORATORY (ID #20)

FORMATION OF A DEPARTMENT-SPECIFIC EMPLOYEE SAFETY TEAM AND ITS IMPACT ON INJURIES IN AN ANIMAL FACILITY (#1)
Samantha Parsons, Joshua Cano, Sumit Ghosh Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus,  OH

IS WHO BIOSAFETY CRITERIA AND OPERATIONAL MODALITIES DIFFERENT FROM BMBL? (#2)
Kalpana Rengarajan, Maureen Thompson, Scott Thomaston, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

AN INDUSTRY PROPOSAL FOR A CELL AND GENE THERAPY SAFETY DATA SHEET (#4)
Sarah K. White, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Alachua, FL; Erin Dunn, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, College Station, TX; Shana Elkind, Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cranbury, NJ; Francine Preston, Janssen, Spring House, PA; Michael Wachala, 2seventy bio, Cambridge, MA; Dirk Windhorst, Sanofi Aventis Deutschland GmBH, Frankfurt, Germany

THE FIRST SUIT-TYPE MAXIMUM CONTAINMENT LABORATORY IN JAPAN (#5)
Yohei Kurosaki, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan; Shintaro Shichinohe, Osaka University, Suita, Japan; Katsuaki Shinohara, Shinsyu University, Matsumoto, Japan; Misako Yajima, Kensuke Nakajima Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

DOING THE UNTHINKABLE, REMOVING LIVE NON-HUMAN PRIMATE FROM AN ABSL-3 FACILITY (#6)
Kalpana Patel, Maureen Thompson, Emory National Research Primate Center, Atlanta, GA

EHS BIOSAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT FOR A THEORETICAL MODEL OF A GENE THERAPY PROCESS TRANSFER FROM R&D TO LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING (#7)
Alexa Balbo, Ultragenyx, Novato, CA

METHODS OF INCREASING ENGAGEMENT IN LABORATORY TRAINING POWERPOINTS (#8)
Devin A. Boyles, Jay L. Bickell, Scott G. Shearrer, Jane S. Alam, Sharon E. Altmann, MRIGlobal, Gaithersburg, MD; Devyn L. Worthley, MRIGlobal, Kansas City, MO

NAVIGATING THE WITHDRAWAL PROCESS FROM THE FEDERAL SELECT AGENT PROGRAM (#9)
Kristin King, Scott Patlovich, Robert Emery, UT Health Houston, Houston, TX

SOCIO-CULTURAL APPROACH TO REDUCING LABORATORY BIOSECURITY RISK: THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES EXPERIENCE (#10)
Franco Teves, MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, Iligan City, Philippines

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY MONTH CAMPAIGNS (#11)
Stephanie G. Kutz, Andrea Ladd, Kathy Krasny, Karen Demick, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, WI

O&M AND BIOSAFETY INTEGRATION – KEY TO SUCCESS FOR HIGH-CONTAINMENT LABORATORIES (#12)
Art Wyatt, Fahim Manzur, Gilles Tremblay, Merrick & Company, Greenwood Village, CO

ADOPTING PRINCIPLES OF BEHAVIORAL THREAT ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT (BTAM) TO STRENGTHEN PERSONNEL RELIABILITY PROGRAMS (#13)
Drew C. Fayram, Merrick & Company, Arlington, VA

SAFETY TRAINING DEVELOPMENT, ALIGNMENT, AND MANAGEMENT PROCESS (#15)
Marisa Newcomer, Segaran Pillai, Tanya Pittas, Jeffrey DeGrasse, Thomas Maudru, Cristina Rodriguez, FDA, Silver Spring, MD

INTEGRATING BIOSECURITY INTO BIORISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: UNIQUE CONSIDERATIONS (#16)
Samantha Dittrich, Merrick & Company, Arlington, VA

IDENTIFYING AND RESOLVING BIORISKS IN THE REFERENCE LABORATORY FOR ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS PATHOGENS (RLEDP) IN THE CONTEXT OF ISO 35001:2019 CERTIFICATION (#17)
Pertsh Tumanyan, Hrant Danelyan, Aramayis Khachatryan, Reference Laboratory of Especially Dangerous Pathogens, Yerevan, Armenia

NEW APPLICATIONS FOR VHP INTEGRATION INTO BSL FACILITIES (#21)
Mary Van Gaasbeck, STERIS Life Sciences, Mentor, OH

DEVELOPMENT OF A PILOT BIOLOGICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR ALL THE LABORATORIES AT THE NIGERIAN INSTITUTE FOR TRYPANOSOMIASIS RESEARCH USING LOCALLY AVAILABLE RESOURCES (#22)
Muhammad Askirama Abdullahi, Aminu Abubakar, Hauwa M. Sabo, Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research, Kaduna, Nigeri; Sarah N. Kase, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria

EVALUATING THE EFFICACY OF DISINFECTION PROCEDURES IN OSTEOPATHIC FAMILY MEDICINE CLINIC (#23)
Riley Phyu, Harrison A. Patrizio, Thomas Boyle, Todd Schachter, Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine, Lindenwold, NJ

AN HEALTH AND SAFETY INFORMATION SYSTEM A TOOL A WEAPON OR WHITE ELEPHANT? (#24)
David G. Jones, Graham Chin, Kerry Wilson, National Institute for Occupational Health a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY CAPACITY BUILDING THROUGH ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REGIONAL DIAGNOSTIC DEMONSTRATION CENTRE, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (#25)
Anastasia Natasha Trataris-Rebisz, Zibusiso M. Masuku, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

BIOMEDICAL CYBERBIOPROTECTION TRAINING AT BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITIES (#26)
Alexandre R. Bello, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Gustavo Mozart, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

BUILDING SAFETY CULTURE INTO THE WORKPLACE:  HOW A SAFETY MASCOT WAS USED TO IMPROVE AND UNIFY SAFETY CULTURE (#27)
Dionna Thomas, Jeffrey Bybee, Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics International, Madison, WI; Amanda Shea, Madison, WI

PERCEPTION & MANAGEMENT OF RISKS IN LABORATORIES (#28)
Dalia Seger, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

VALIDATION AND DECONTAMINATION OF A CLASS II BC DURING LAB. FUMIGATION (#29)
Mohammed Hussien Fagir, Dalia K. El Dein, Mahmoud AlTigani, Mohamed B. Yousif, Inaya Medical Colleges, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DISINFECTION PROTOCOLS IN MEDICAL SCHOOL OMM LABS (#30)
Harrison A. Patrizio, Riley Phyu, Thomas Boyle, Todd Schachter, Rowan School of Medicine, Stratford, NJ

EVALUATION OF THE BIOSAFETY MEASURES ASSOCIATED WITH HOSPITAL WASTES & CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ORGANISMS IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA (#33)
Confidence Kinikanwo Wachukwu, Kalanne D. Banigo, Chidimma A. Azike, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

COVID-19 BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY WASTE MANAGEMENT2020-2022. PUBLIC HEALTH REFERENCE LABORATORY, LIBYA (#36)
Abdulaziz Zorgani, Omar Elahmer, Abdalla Bashien, NCDC, Tripoli, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

IMPLEMENTATION OF WASTE MANAGEMENT PROCESS FOR THE CORPES OF SMALL ANIMALS (#37)
Assia Bencharif, Mehdi Abdelli, Abderrahmane Boubguira, Fella Iguer-Mesbah, Fawzi Derrar, Pasteur Institute of Algeria, Algiers, Algeria; Julie Wilder, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM