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August 14, 2019
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Please join your Connecticut Biosafety Alliance for a day with all your fellow CT Biosafety Colleagues (and others) as we network, learn and grow.
8:30 – 12:00 Morning Sessions
- Welcome and Introductions (CT Biosafety Alliance Founding Members)
- Whyndam Abrams, MS, CHMM – Yale University
- “Development of a Campus Water Management Program for Legionella Control”
- Dr. Maren Schniederberend, Yale University EHS
- Biosafety Training for Small Groups (one, two or more)
- Break – Coffee and refreshments, vendors
- Wesley Bridges, Yale University Environmental Affairs Office
- Strategies for Handling mixed wastes (Bio/Chem, Chem/Rad, Bio/Rad)
- Roundtable Q&A on handling mixed waste in the laboratory setting (UCONN and Yale experts)
12:00- 1:00 Lunch (provided with registration), Vendors
1:00 – 5:00 Afternoon Sessions
- Dr. Ronald Wallace, RBP UCONN Farmington
- Considerations for use of Biological and Other Hazards in Rodents in and out of the Animal Facility
- Roundtable Q&A Period on the review of the use of hazardous materials in research animals (UCONN and Yale experts), Alison Pohl, MS, MT(ASCP), rLATg, CPIA, Dan Sasso, MS, David Dicks, CIH
- Deborah Ferry, CBSP Yale University
- State of Connecticut Department of Public Health Human Pathogen Registration Program at Yale University
- Break and vendors
- Danielle Scavone, MS, RBP Yale University EHS
- Tick Tock: Timely precautions for field workers in tick-prone areas
- Geoff Lyon, MPH Yale University and Dr. Evan Jellison, Assistant Professor, Immunology UCONN Health
- Biosafety in Flow Cytometry
- Closing Remarks (CT BioSafety Alliance)
Cost $25.00 per attendee
If interested, please RSVP to Bill Galdenzi (bill.galdenzi@boehringer-ingelheim.com) by Friday August 2, 2019.
Location
Registration Exley Science Center, 265 Church Street Middletown, CT
Symposium Shanklin 107 (Kerr Lecture Hall) 237 Church St, Middletown, CT (Parking on Local Streets)