2024 Conference Program

Tuesday 5 November 2024

     4.30pm

Registrations Open

     5.00pm

Welcome - Welcome Drinks - Exhibition Room

Wednesday 6 November 2024

      8.00am

Registrations Open

               8.30am   

Welcome

Dr Richard Spence, ABSANZ President

     9.00am

Session One: Tony Della-Porta Oration

Professor Stuart Blacksell |Professor of Tropical Microbiology, 

Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) Biorisk and Zoonosis group leader,

Head of MORU Health & Safety            

"Towards a Biosafety Democracy: Risk-Based and Inclusive Approaches to Global Biosafety and Biosecurity Challenges"

     10.00am

Morning tea, exhibition,

Session Two

     10.30am 

Bernadette Bradley| Curtain University

" Use of macroorganisms as primary containment facilities for microorganisms"

Sam Tung| Wood

" Containment Laboratories in Multi-Tenanted Urban High-Rise Buildings – Risks and Opportunities"

Paul Martell|  CSL Seqirus, & Conor Dorman | Wood   

“Clean Contained Facilities for Biological Manufacturing - HVAC and Building Fabric Issues. A Case Study: CSL Seqirus Products of National Significance (PNS) Facility”

     11.30am

End of session

Session Three

     11.40am

Professor Ian Godwin| Academic Centre Director,  

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

“GM cereals in the field: Or how I came to properly understand the art of Edvard Munch"

     12.40pm

Platinum Sponsor Address

     12.50pm

Lunch, exhibition,

Session Four

      1.50pm

Brett Cole |Biosafety International

“Crypto Currency – The cost of a Cryptosporidium outbreak on local communities and public swimming pools”

Emma Ludwig| Hassell

“More than a 'Facility" The CSIRO National Collection Building”

Andrew Hill |CSIRO ACDP

“Specified Bathogen Free?”

     2.45pm

End of session

Session Five

  2.50pm 

Scott Carlon-Tozer |Global GM, MindFit at work

" The Neuroscience of Biosafety"

    3.20pm

Afternoon tea, exhibition, 

     3.50pm

Session Six

Professor Angela Moles |School of Biological, Earth &

Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney

     4.50pm  

End of session

     4.50pm   

ABSANZ AGM

     5.20pm   

Conclusion

     7.00pm

Conference Dinner| Rydges, South Brisbane

 Thursday 7 November 2024

     8.00am

Registrations Open

Session Seven

     8.40am

Professor Phill Cassey | The University of Adelaide,

Level E ARC Industry Laureate, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

"The cost of invasive species: paying the price of weak environmental biosecurity"

     9.40am

End of session

Session Eight

      9.40am

 Discussion Panel

 DR Allison Crook| Chief Veterinary Officer and General Manager, Animal Biosecurity and Welfare, Biosecurity QLD

 Dr Heidi Mitchel | Director - Containment Dealings Evaluation Section, Office of Gene Technology Regulator, Australian Government Department of Health

 Caroline Gibson | Principal Director - Approved Arrangements, Compliance and Enforcement Division, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

 Dr Francesca Casu | Hazard and Containment Manager at The University of Auckland

     10.40am

Morning tea, exhibition,

     11.10am

Session Nine

Saleta Perez| CSIRO

“Upgrading the 40-year-old Black Mountain Containment Facility”

Alfred Chung| BECA

“Moving Towards Greener Containment Facilities”

Philippe Calland| Plasteurop

“CO2 impact & Decarbonated steel for cleanroom components"

Laurelle Bird and Amelia Milne| Aurecon

“Operational to Embodied Carbon: Targeting net Zero in new Laboratory Design.”

     12.20pm

Lunch, exhibition,

Session Ten

     1.00pm

Dr Emily Nelson | Senior Scientist, Virology Department

Outbreak Preparedness and Response, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg  

Operations Manager, European Mobile Laboratory (EML) 

"Rapid Response Mobile Labs: Field Biosafety Solutions for Outbreak Response"

     2.00pm

End of session

Session Eleven

     2.00pm

Paul Mallaurino |Wood

“Enhanced Commissioning & Verification: Compliant “Designed” Facility – absolutely - but will it remain compliant?”

Liz Collins| University of South Australia

“Thinking Outside of The Facility – Innovative approaches to remediating incidents and breaches.”

J T Paulley | CSIRO ACDP

“Development of the framework for review and approval for gain-of-function research at ACDP”

Gilles Tremblay | Pond & Company

“Vintage large scale, containment facility decontamination, decant, decommissioning and demolish (The 4-D's)”

     3.10pm

Afternoon Tea, Break, exhibition 

     3.30pm

Session Twelve

Ray Kayaga | 2024 Neil Walls Scholarship

“Protecting Researchers in the field against infectious zoonotic rodent diseases"

     3.50pm

Emma Morris | MPI

“Safety Science - The excellent adventure"

     4.30pm

Conclusion of Conference