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