Symposium Description

The Canadian Association for Biological Safety/L’Association Canadienne pour la Sécurité Biologique (CABS-ACSB) is happy to present the Canadian Biosafety Symposium! Join us in Edmonton from September 20-22, 2022 for Canada’s annual event for biosafety professionals and personnel involved in biosafety and/or biocontainment facilities.

The Canadian Biosafety Symposium will feature presentations on an array of biosafety topics, including emergency management for labs, building a biosafety culture, biosafety and public health, emerging and re-emerging diseases, laboratory acquired infections, ergonomics and safety, biowaste management and disinfection, regulations, airflow, ventilation, design and biosafety, animal issues, audits and inspections, occupational health and surveillance. It will be a unique opportunity for the biosafety community to learn and share knowledge with colleagues from across Canada and other countries.

Attendees may register for the in-person event or the virtual event

The Canadian Biosafety Symposium brings together participants working across the biosafety field in universities, government and the private sector, such as:

• Laboratory managers and administrators
• Academic and government laboratory researchers
• Government regulators
• Biocontainment professionals
• Equipment and facilities providers
• Containment facility design and operation specialists
• Risk assessment and safety specialists

The event will feature prominent containment and biosafety specialists, and will involve presentations by the Canadian and international biosafety community selected from abstracts and papers that are currently being welcomed from all sources. All topics related to biological safety are welcome.

For further information, contact: cabsacsb@gmail.com

Venue and Accommodations

The 2022 Canadian Biosafety Symposium will be held at the Delta Hotels by Marriott Edmonton South Conference Centre

Delta Hotels by Marriott Edmonton South Conference Centre
4404 Gateway Blvd NW Edmonton, AB T6H 5C2 Canada

CABS-ACSB has reserved a block of rooms for symposium attendees for a group rate.
Book your hotel and get the group rate for Canadian Association for Biological Safety (CABS)

Sponsorship Information

Please click on the link below if you are interested in becoming a sponsor for the 2022 Canadian Biosafety Symposium. 2022 Canadian Biosafety Symposium Sponsor Information.pdf

Registration

Pre-Conference Courses (Courses still being developed, and are not available for registration)

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Program

CABS-ACSB is currently accepting abstracts for this year's symposium. The DRAFT program will be posted once developed - stay tuned!

Call for Papers

CABS-ACSB is accepting presentations for the next Biosafety Symposium!

The symposium will consist of presentations related to advanced concepts in the areas of biosafety and biosecurity in Canadas. The theme of the symposium series will reflect current biosafety and biosecurity issues as well as regulatory initiatives.

The program committee is soliciting abstracts for presentations for this symposium, which are broadly based on the theme of Biosafety. Abstract submission for presentations is open to Canadian and international participants.

The following broad categories are the focus for the Canadian Biosafety Symposium, however, papers on other appropriate topics that relate to the goals of the symposium will be considered. Example of past topics include:

• Biosafety
• Biosecurity
• Regulatory initiatives impacting biosafety
• Containment facility design, commissioning, maintenance and operation
• Infectious diseases affecting humans and/or animals
• Containment/laboratory equipment
• Microbiological techniques (e.g. disinfection and decontamination)
• Biological risk assessment and communication
• Applied biosafety research
• Lab acquired infections, incidents, exposures, and lessons learned
• Other biosafety related subjects

All submissions must reflect original work and must adequately document any overlap with previously published or simultaneously submitted papers from any of the authors. If authors have any doubts regarding whether such overlap exists, they should contact CABS-ACSB prior to submission.

All submissions will be handled electronically through CABS-ACSB.

Abstracts must include the objective, methods, results and conclusion of the study.

CABS-ACSB will evaluate all submissions based on quality and relevance. All submissions are held in confidence prior to publication in the symposium proceedings.

Where employer, client, or government authorization is needed, it is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain such authorization prior to submitting the final materials.

Accepted presentations will be notified by CABS-ACSB and will be presented by their author(s), which will be published in the symposium program, along with Author Biographies.

Submissions of abstracts for oral or poster presentations can be submitted to: cabsacsb@gmail.com

Symposium Presentation 2019

• ABSA Update – Pat Condreay
• Developing and Sustaining Compliance Inspection Programs - Eoin O'Grady
• Development of BS Program in Microbiology Laboratories, City of Calgary - Theingi_Maw
• Differences in BSO Role in the Pharmaceutical Industry Versus Academic Laboratories - Becky McGirr
• High-Throughput drug discovery screening facility in BSL-3 laboratory in NIH - Tsang Pat
• IFBA Working Together Towards Global Health Security - B Anderson
• Listening to your BSC - David Philipps
• Managing Aerosols from an O&M Perspective - Tracey Thue
• Modern Miasmas - Samira Mubareka
• Overarching Risk Assessment - Lois Sowden Plunkett
• Overcoming the Challenges Faced in Implementing Requirements - Ingrid Abbott Permell
• Request, Redeem, Revive A BSO's Path to Validation - Steve Cole and Vanessa Pinto
• Strengthening the International Cooperation against Emergencies Between NA - Luis Ochoa Carrera and Nidia Arechiga-Ceballos
• The Blind Side in Biosecurity; An Assessment of Non-Traditional Aspects of Biosecurity - Gary Pitcher
• Viral vector biosafety - Alka Arora
• Cycle Development of VHP Decontamination under Negative Room Exhaust Conditions in CL3 Lab - Joanna Spinato
• Containment Level 3 Sanitary Drain Line Incident - Dan Dragon
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Symposium Presentation 2018

• Biosafety Change
• Biowaste Management & Disinfection
• Enhancing Biosafety and Biosecurity in the US
• Future Directions and Historical Development of NSF49
• How to Survive a PHAC Inspection
• Integrated Design Principles
• International Network of High Containment Laboratories
• Impairment in the workplace
• Technology for the Management of Biosafety
• Going Viral
• Integrated Overarching Risk Assessment
• From Compliance to Culture
• Incident Reporting