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            

 

 

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, Brad George & 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

Break,

 

 

 

Session Three

     11.40am

Professor Ian Godwin| Academic Centre Director,  

 

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

      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?”

Shane Riddell | CSIRO ACDP

“Pasteurisation of contaminated milk – is it effective?"

3.00pm

Break,

 

 

 

Session Five

3.00pm 

MindFit Presentation

 

" The Neuroscience of Biosafety"

 

 

     3.30pm

Afternoon tea, exhibition, 

     4.00pm

Session Six

Professor Angela Moles |School of Biological, Earth &

Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney

     5.00pm  

Break,

     5.00pm   

ABSANZ AGM

     5.30pm   

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

9.40am

Break

 

 

 

Session Eight

      9.40am

Regulatory Discussion Panel

 

 Allison CrookChief Veterinary Officer and General Manager,  Animal Biosecurity and Welfare, Biosecurity QLD

      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”

 

Laurelle Bird and Amelia Milne| Aurecon

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

 

Philippe Calland| Plasteurop

“CO2 impact & Decarbonated steel for cleanroom components, 3. Walk-on ceilings & trends in European cleanroom design.”

12.20pm

Lunch, exhibition,

 

 

 

Session Ten

1.20pm

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) 

 

 

2.20pm

Break

 

 

 

Session Eleven

2.30pm

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 | Merrick & Company

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

3.30pm

Afternoon Tea, Break,

 

 

 

Session Twelve

4.00pm

Emma Morris |MPI

 

“Safety Science - The excellent adventure"

4.30pm

Conclusion of Conference

5.00pm

Networking Event