Monday 30 October 2023

8.00am

Registrations Open

Workshop 1

9.00am

Quality Management System for Biorisk Management: ISO 35001:2019

Presenter:

Dr Stefan Wagener | DG (Director General, retired) for the GOC (Government of Canada)

4.00pm

Conclusion

Workshop 2

9.00am

PC3 Facilities Workshop

Presenters: 

Nathan Woods | MPI

Andrew Hill and Joshua Magor | ACDP

Gilles Tremblay | Merrick & Company

4.00pm

Conclusion

Workshop 3

9.00am

Plant Biosecurity

Presenter: 

Anthony Young | University of Queensland

12.15pm

Conclusion

Workshop 4

1.00pm

Understanding and Verifying Thermal Treatment Systems

Presenters: 

Gary W. Schmidt | PRI Bio, USA

Brett Cole | Biosafety Ltd

Neil Slater | CSIRO ACDP 

4.15pm

Conclusion

Tuesday 31 October 2023

8.00am

Registrations Open

Workshop 5

9.00am

Quality Management System for Biorisk Management: ISO 35001:2019

Presenter:

Dr Stefan Wagener | DG (Director General, retired) for the GOC (Government of Canada)

4.00pm

Conclusion

Workshop 6

9.00am

Auditing Biorisk Management Programs - What you need to know

Presenters:

June Freeland  | Chair ABSANZ Education and Training Committee

Lisa van Duin | The University of Melbourne

4.00pm

Conclusion

Workshop 7

9.00am

Inspiring Preparedness Measures for Turbulent Times  (Tools to effect change)

Presenters:

Liz Collins | IBC Executive Officer/ Biosafety Officer (University of South Australia)  

12.15pm

Conclusion

Workshop 8

1.00pm

Basic Laboratory design for non-designers

Presenters: 

Stephen Coulter | Coulter Advisory 

Richard Sale | Sale Laboratory Architecture Consultancy

4.15pm

Conclusion

5.00pm

Welcome Drinks - Exhibition Room

Wednesday 1 November 2023

8.00am

Registrations Open

9.00am

Welcome - WanaHaka Maori Culture

9.20am

Presidential Welcome and setting the scene

Michelle McConnell | ABSANZ President

"Biosafety and Biosecurity -  past, present and future"

Brett Cole | Platinum Sponsor Address

10.30am

Morning tea, exhibition hall

10.50am

Session One

2023 Tony Della-Porta Oration

Jemma Geoghegan |Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Otago

Royal Society Te Aparangi Rutherford Discovery Fellow

"Exploring Aotearoa’s virosphere"

11.50am

Mark Sistrom | Northern Australia Biosecurity Sequencing Network

"NABSeq; Bringing high throughput sequencing to biosecurity in Northern Australia "

Hannah Andrews | Northern Australia Biosecurity Sequencing Network

"Using Wildlife as an Approach to Animal Disease Surveillance"

Andrew Hill | CSIRO-ACDP 

"Never say Never: Facilitating the import of LSDV into an Australian laboratory"

12.45pm

Lunch

Session Two 

1.30pm

The long-awaited AS/NZS 2243.3: 2022 revision - an information update for operators, builders, designers and regulators

Neil Walls | Neil Walls Consulting

"Summary of changes in the new revised standard "

Discussion Panel AS/NZS 2243.3: 2022 revision

Neil Walls | Neil Walls Consulting

Michelle McConnell | ABSANZ President

Lisa van Duin | University of Melbourne

2.30pm 

Break

2.45pm

Session Three

Saima Mohsin  | University of Karachi-75270, Pakistan

"Virtual Dual Use Research of Concern Training in Pakistan’s Scientific Community"

Ida Susanti   | Health Policy Agency, MoH of Indonesia

"Follow up actions after pandemic on biorisk challenges in time of shortcoming supplies of biosafety equipment and bsl-2 facilities in Indonesia."

Tracey Nelson   | Lincoln University

"Recovery and lessons learnt from a Mycoplasma bovis response"

Greer Meehan  | CSIRO

"Down the rabbit hole we go - Navigating the unknown"

3.45pm

Afternoon Tea, exhibition

Session Four

4.00pm

Ann Cornish | VIDRL

"Implementation of ISO35001: One approach"

Hanh Thi Minh Bui  |Hanoi Medical University

"Intergrating ISO 35001:2019 into Continuous Medical Education (CME) courses to enhance the capacity of Public Health Laboratory System (PHLS) in Vietnam: Oppotunities and Challenges"

Michael Marsico | Association of Public Health Laboratories

"Piloting the iso 35001 standard: cruising towards biorisk management "

4.50pm

Break

5.00pm

ABSANZ AGM

5.30pm

Networking Event Clancy Room Bar

Thursday 2 November 2023

8.30am

Registrations Open

Session Five

8.45am

Dr Joseph O’Keefe |Manager, Animal Health Laboratory at Ministry for Primary Industries Manatu Ahu Matua based in Wellington.

 "Containment Laboratory Solutions for Biosecurity Emergencies; A New Zealand Perspective" 

9.45am

Break

Session Six

9.50am 

Peter Lutkic | Price Holyoake (NZ) Limited

"Critical Space Room Pressure Control "

Colin Sakinofsky and David Fletcher   | L2D

"Creating a PC2 compliant refurbishment with exposed services that is PC2 ready"

10.45am

Morning tea, exhibition,

Session Seven

11.00am

Regulatory Discussion Panel "The Role of Regulators in Turbulent Times"

Caroline Gibson |Principal Director, Approved Arrangements| Compliance & Enforcement Division

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Heidi Mitchell | Director - Contained Dealings Evaluation Section

Office of the Gene Technology Regulator Australian Government Department of Health

Richard Spence| Manager Assurance, Biosafety and Containment

Ministry for Primary Industries, New Zealand

Manatu Ahu Matua

Shai Joseph| Food Standards Australia New Zealand 

Te Mana Kounga Kai

Tim Strabala| Environmental Protection Authority 

Te Mana Rauhi Taiao

12.00pm

Lunch

Session Eight

1.15pm

Dr Stefan Wagener |DG (Director General, retired) for the GOC (Government of Canada)

“Gain of Function Research and the Implications to Biorisk Management – The case for Bioethics Review”

2.15pm

Afternoon Tea, exhibition

Session Nine

2.35pm 

Graeme Spencer, Rod Howard,Simone Benvenuti | CSIRO & HDR

"Part life refit of the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) in Geelong"

Amy Papas |HDR

"Under the Microscope: Solving Complex Challenges with Game-Changing Laboratory Design"

Ben Henson | BECA

Complex "Designing Sustainable High-Rise Laboratories in the Tropics" 

 3.45pm

 End of Session

7.00pm

Conference Dinner

 Friday 3 November 2023

8.00am

Registrations Open

Session Ten

9.00am

Professor Kirstin Ross | Flinders University

"Teaching risk assessment to science (and nonscience) students using a Zombie Apocalypse scenario"

10.00am

Morning tea

Session Eleven

10.20am

Joshua Magor  | CSIRO

"Directional Airflow Versus Differential Pressures – A cautionary tale of misdirection"

Richard Swainsbury  | MPI

"Emergency egress from PC3 – decontaminating staff in a medical emergency"

Brad George | Wood

"Containment Requirements for Glasshouses "

Emma Morris  | MPI

"Body Modification and the Laboratory Environment – a korero about safety and bodily autonomy "

11.30am

Conference Closing Ceremony