67th Annual Biosafety and Biosecurity Hybrid Conference

Poster Presenters

Scientific Poster Award

Joram O. Siangla, Juwan Crittenden, Jessica Cowden, Janet Ambale, Nicholas Odhiambo, and Raphael Okoth, WRAIR-Africa/KEMRI, Kisumu, Kenya
NURTURING SAFETY CULTURE: A DECADE’S EXPERIENCE AT WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH-AFRICA (ID #6)

Informational Poster Award Winner

Nur Ain Shafiqah Mohd Said, Mohd Shafarin Shamsuddin, Nur Athirah Mohd Azhar, Syahrol Zamzuri, and Tuba Thabitah Abdullah Tahir, Makmal Veterinar Zon Tengah (Selangor), Sepang, Malaysia; Anne-Sophie Brocard, American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA
DEVELOPMENT OF SOP FOR SAFE HANDLING OF SHARPS & CARCASSES DURING NECROPSY (ID #48)

ASSESSMENT OF RISK AND DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH SWINE INFLUENZA VIRUS IN PIGS FROM BENUE STATE, NIGERIA (ID #1)
Sunday Idoko, Rachael Adetunji, Eugenia Ishak, and Andrew M. Adamu, University of Abuja, Gwagwalada, Nigeria

WATER SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM TO MONITOR STUDENT HEALTH (ID #3)
Filiberto Palacios, Michael A. Saldana, Jiayu Geng, Litao Shen, Angie Ghanem-Uzqueda, and Adam L. Smith, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF LASSA FEVER INFECTION PREVENTIVE MEASURES AMONG HEALTH WORKERS, IN SELECTED HEALTH FACILITIES IN ABUJA MUNICIPAL AREA COUNCIL, FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ABUJA (ID #4)
Chibuzor Juliet Joseph, and Inalegwu Ochai, Defence Reference Laboratory Abuja, Mogadishu Cantonment, Asokoro, Nigeria; Nathaniel Anelechi Okeji, Ministry of Defence Health Implementation Program, FCT, Nigeria; Gideon Okoroiwu, National Open University of Nigeria, Jabi, Nigeria

SIMULATION OF SPILLS, SPLASHES AND SPRAYS USING A BIOSAFETY CABINET FOR LABORATORY SAFETY (ID #5)
Kerestin Goodman, Nora Lirette, Christy Ottendorfer, and Lia Haynes Smith, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

ASSESSMENT OF BIOSAFETY CABINET CERTIFICATION, END-USER EXPERIENCES AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS: A CASE STUDY OF ETHIOPIA (ID #7)
Sakata Abera Mengesha, Beyan Ahmed Ademe, Alemayehu Assefa Wondimu, Solomon Assefa Kasa, and Rahel Beyene Shewa, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

GENOMICS & PHYLOGENY OF BACTERIA ISOLATES FROM SELECTED DUMP SITES IN PORT HARCOURT RIVERS STATE NIGERIA (ID #8)
Confidence Kinikanwo Wachukwu, Ollor Amba Ollor, and Chidimma Anthonia Azike, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

GAPS AND CHALLENGES TO IMPLEMENT BIOSECURITY MEASURES WITHIN VETERINARY, DIAGNOSTIC AND RESEARCH LABORATORIES IN PAKISTAN (ID #9)
Saima Mohsin, Association for Biorisk Management, Karachi, Pakistan; Javed Khan, Health Security Partners, Washington, DC; Shamsul Arfin Qasmi, Bahawalpur Medical & Dental College, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

CYBERBIOSECURITY CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVE: A STEPPING STONE FOR THE BEGINNING OF A CYBERBIOSECURITY ERA IN PAKISTAN (ID #10)
Zia Ashraf, Muhammad Hidayat Rasool, Pakistan Mohsin Khurshid, and Muhammad Aamer Mehmood Government College University—Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan; Muhammad Zaman Khalid, Virtual University of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan; Samreen Sarwar, Health Security Partners (HSP), Washington, DC

MOLECULAR DETECTION OF MULTIDRUG-RESITANT ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII FROM CLINICAL SAMPLES (ID #11)
Gloria O.U. Michael and Manga M. Mohammed, Federal Teaching Hospital Gombe, Gombe, Nigeria; Garba Lawal and Adamu M. Tukur, Gombe State University, Gombe, Nigeria

TOXIN RISK ASSESSMENT TO SUPPORT BIOSAFETY REGULATORY DECISION-MAKING (ID #12)
Corinne Krentz, Jad Hajj, and Jennifer Whitteker, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

VALIDATION OF EGG WASTE DECONTAMINATION AND PCD (ID #13)
Julie Conyer, Richard Gaisser, Nicole Kushner, Paul Jennette, and Joshua Turse, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

DEVELOPING A PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICE POLICY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY SPACES WITH EMPLOYEE INPUT AND ASSESSMENT (ID #14)
Hannah Gander, Nate Simon, Rebecca Fahney, Steve Strebel, and Errin Rider, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, Madison, WI

MINORS IN LABORATORIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON (ID #15)
Stephanie Kutz, Louise Meske, and Andrea Ladd, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, WI

GREEN, ADA AND ERGONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION (ID #16)
Drew C. Fayram, Merrick & Company, Greenwood Village, CO; Robert L. Glaser, Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health, Albany, NY; Crystal R. Fortune, Montana Laboratory Services Bureau, Helena, MO; Michael Marsico, Association of Public Health Laboratories, Bethesda, MD; Shoolah H. Escott, Biosafety, Biosecurity, and Bioterrorism Preparedness, Lexington, MA, ABSA International Public Health Shared Interest Group

WHEN BIOSAFETY MEETS TOXICOLOGY: BIOTOXINS AND ANTIBODY DRUG CONJUGATES FOR ADVANCED THERAPEUTICS (ID #17)
Michelle Frondelli, Johnson and Johnson, Raritan, NJ; Elizabeth Cunningham and Francine Preston, Johnson and Johnson, Malvern, PA

INNOVATIVE TRAINING METHODS FOR HEALTHCARE: STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE SPECIAL PATHOGENS PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT (ID #18)
Corrie Ntiforo, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

BIOSAFETY CONSIDERATIONS FOR CELL AND GENE THERAPIES IN PRECLINICAL STUDIES (ID #19)
Amanda Haley, Katelyn Dunigan-Russell, Roy Barnewall, and Tory Blotter, AmplifyBio, West Jefferson, OH

STRENGTHENING THE BIOSECURITY FRAMEWORK OF A RESEARCH LABORATORY IN MÉXICO (ID #20)
Carolina Becerril Esquivel, Laura Adiene González Escalante, and Katia Peñuelas Urquides, Northeastern Biomedical Research Center of the Mexican Institute for Social Security, Monterrey, Mexico; Luis Alberto Ochoa Carrera, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

IMPLEMENTATION AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF BIOSECURITY TRAINING IN LABORATORY DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES AT THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA (ID #21)
Ruzanna Harutyunyan, National Center for Infectious Disease, Yerevan, Armenia

WHEN SMALL MEETS LARGE: A LOOK AT THE PRACTICAL SAFETY CONTROLS FOR INTEGRATING BOTH PHARMACEUTICAL WORLDS FOR ANTIBODY DRUG CONJUGATE RESEARCH (ID #22)
Elizabeth Cunningham and Francine Preston, Johnson and Johnson, Malvern, PA; Michelle Frondelli, Johnson and Johnson, Raritan, NJ

SHIFTING PARADIGMS IN BIO-DECONTAMINATION: SEEKING A VERSATILE SOLUTION (ID #23)
Elizabeth Massoth, CURIS System, Oviedo, FL

STANDNG UP A BSL-2 LABORATORY INSPECTION PROGRAM (ID #24)
Greg Peterson, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Manhattan, KS

HVAC SYSTEM CHALLENGERS IN BRAZILIAN HIGH-CONTAINMENT BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES (ID #25)
Claudio Mafra, Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil; André O. Mendonça, Federal Laboratory for Agriculture Defense—Ministry of Agriculture, Campinas, Brazil; Kurt Zuelke, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

CAPACITY-BUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT OF BIORISK MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES FOR RAPID RESPONSE MOBILE LABORATORIES (RRMLS) IN ASIAN REGION (ID #26)
Ronaldo Esguerra Puno, Miguel Martin Noble Moreno II, and Ariel Angelo Aquino, BioRisk Association of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines

BRIDGING BIOSAFETY GAPS THROUGH INTERACTIVE SKILL-FOCUSED TRAINING—A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH (ID #27)
Clarence Ching Huat Ko, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Edgar Sevilla-Reyes, Mexican Biosafety Association, Ciudad de México, Mexico, Malaysia One Health University Network, Malaysian Biosafety and Biosecurity Association

IMPLEMENTATION OF A BIOWASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AT THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES OF THE FACULTY OF SCIENCES OF BIZERTE, TUNISIA (ID #28)
Hatem Fakhfakh and Faten Gorsane, Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte, Bizerte, Tunisia; Jihene Hellal, Tunisian Veterinary Research Institute, Tunis, Tunisia

VAPORIZED H₂O₂ DECON OF LAB EQUIPMENT USING CONTAINMENT ENCLOSURES (ID #29)
Nora Lirette, Taylour Butler, Galina Zemtsova, Rountree Larry, Mark Verduin, and Shelley Brown, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

ADDRESSING A KNOWLEDGE GAP: BODY PIERCING SAFETY GUIDANCE IN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES (ID #30)
Devin A. Boyles, Jay Bickell, and Sharon Altmann, MRIGlobal, Gaithersburg, MD

STRENGTHENING BIOSAFETY ENGAGEMENT THROUGH TRAINING AND EDUCATION WITH ENGINEERING FACULTY AT THE UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS, MALAYSIA (ID #31)
Farrah Dahalan, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Perlis, Malaysia; Ericka Pearce, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

IMPLEMENTING A SAFETY GLASSES REQUIREMENT FOR ENTRY TO ALL LABORATORIES (ID #32)
Christy Myrick, William Beeson, Nora Lirette, Galina Zemtsova, Shelley Brown, and Daisy Lee, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

IDENTIFYING COMPLIANCE WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA (UM) POLICY AND PROCEDURE ON LABORATORY BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY AMONG LABORATORIES AT THE UM (ID #33)
Faizatul Lela Jafar, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Heather Blair, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

BUILDING CAPACITY TO IMPROVE BIOSECURITY AND BIOSAFETY PRACTICES IN DIAGNOSTIC AND RESEARCH LABORATORIES THAT WORK WITH HIGH CONSEQUENCE PATHOGENS (ID #34)
Mayra Ameneiros, Health Security Partners, Washington, DC

ELEVATING PROFICIENCIES: THE IMPACT OF IFBA CERTIFICATION FOR BIORISK MANAGEMENT ON BIOSAFETY PROFESSIONALS AND ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES (ID #35)
Miguel Martin II N. Moreno, Ariel Angelo B. Aquino, and Ronaldo E. Puno, BioRisk Association of the Philippines 2015, Inc., Quezon City, Philippines; Jose Jr. M. Obedencio, Central Mindanao University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Maramag, Bukidnon, Philippines; Maureen Ellis, International Federation of Biosafety Associations, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Socorro P. Lupisan, Department of Health, Manila, Philippines

WASTE DISPOSAL PATTERN OF SOME HIGHLY PATRONISED NON-GOVERNMENT OWNED HOSPITAL LABORATORIES IN KADUNA METROPOLIS, KADUNA STATE NORTHWEST NIGERIA (ID #36)
Muhammad Askirama Abdullahi and Maryam I. Lawal, Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research, Kaduna, Nigeria; Sarah N. Kase, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria

A CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM TO DEVELOP A BIORISK MANUAL FOR A POINT OF NEED MOBILE BIOCONTAINMENT LABORATORY (ID #37)
Zyne Baybay, Abbie Codia, and Wreahlen Cariaso, BioAssets Corporation, Santo Tomas City Batangas, Philippines; Rodel Jonathan Vitor II, University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines; Reu Caesar James Bautista and Ampie Magdalene Sua, Central Mindanao University, Maramag, Bukidnon, Philippines

CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR THE POLIOVIRUS LABORATORY AT THE INSTITUT PASTEUR DE TUNIS (ID #38)
Sana Masmoudi Masmoudi, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, ETIQUETTE, AND PRACTICAL WORK ON BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY AMONG SPECIALISTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES IN THE SHIRAK REGION OF ARMENIA (ID #39)
Armine Andryan, NCDC, Gyumri, Armenia

INNOVATIVE N95 RESPIRATOR MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR SAFER WORKPLACES (ID #40)
Anna Potgieter and Michelle Morgan, National Institute for Occupational Health, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa; Anastasia N. Trataris-Rebisz, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY CHALLENGES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN TUNISIA (ID #41)
Anissa Chouikha, Sana Masmoudi, and Henda Triki, Pasteur Institute, Tunis, Tunisia; Hazar Belli, PAM, Tunis, Tunisia

IMPLEMENTATION OF A TRAINING PROGRAM ON HIGHLY INFECTIOUS PATHOGENS AT YEREVAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY: AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH FOR TRAINING SUSTAINABILITY (ID #42)
Lusine Harutyunyan, Melanya Shmavonyan, and Vigen Asoyan, Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi, Yerevan, Armenia

CREATING A BIORISK MANAGEMENT NETWORK TO FOSTER SUSTAINABLE BIOSECURITY AND BIOSAFETY SOLUTIONS IN THE MENA REGION (ID # 43)
Hazar Belli Abdelkefi, Tunisian Biosafety Association and Environmental Education, Ariana, Tunisia

WHY THE CONCEPT OF “LOW RISK” FACILITIES NEED TO BE CHANGED FROM A BIOSECURITY PESPECTIVE (ID #44)
Franco Teves, MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, Iligan City, Philippines

CDC ECHO BIOSAFETY PROGRAM: REFLECTIONS ON YEAR 1 AND INNOVATIONS FOR YEAR 2 (ID #45)
Aufra C. Araujo, Sabrina DeBose, Alicia Violette, George Xiang, Ashley Marshall, and Ashley Wrushen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

BIO-HAZARDOUS DRUGS (ID #46)
Patrick Conley, Merrick & Company, Keller, TX

CHESAPEAKE AREA BIOLOGICAL SAFETY ASSOCIATION’S NEW ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP (ID #47)
Paul Landon, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD; David Harbourt, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD; Kerstin Haskell and Tracey A. Brown, World BioHazTec, Inc., Frederick, MD; Angela Ragan, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, MD

UVC AND VHP DISINFECTION EXPERIENCE IN A RESEARCH HOSPITAL IN MEXICO CITY (ID #50)
Edgar Sevilla-Reyes, Juan Francisco Nava-Aguirre, María Teresa Pérez-López, and Ana Bertha Pimentel-Aguilar, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, CDMX, Mexico; Martha Refugio Ortiz-Posadas, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, CDMX, Mexico

SO YOU WANT TO BUILD A HIGH-CONTAINMENT LABORATORY… (ID #51)
Laurie Wallis and Susan Caskey, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

MY BOOKLET “A BROAD INTRODUCTION TO THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF BIOSAFETY LABORATORIES IN LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS” AND HOW IT CAME TO BE (ID #52)
Mark Wheatley, Environment & Services Ltd., Cornwall, United Kingdom

IMPACTS ON EDS FROM LABORATORY DISPOSAL PROCEDURES (ID #53)
Cory Dean Ziegler, Merrick & Company, Greenwood Village, CO

LARGE-SCALE, VINTAGE, HIGH-CONTAINMENT FACILITY DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING: PLANNING AND EXECUTION (ID #54)
Fahim Manzur, Merrick & Company, Mystic, CT; John M. Searing and Michael Santillo, Department of Homeland Security, Orient Point, NY