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SUMMARY:Harvard Yale Biosafety Symposium 2026
DESCRIPTION:Pre-symposium courses on May 4\, 2026 will offer opportunities to gain further understanding of Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC)\, Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (PEPP)\, personnel reliability\, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) risks in biosafety and biosecurity. \nThe symposium on May 5\, 2026 will offer talks once again on prominent issues facing Biological Safety and EHS professionals. \nPresentations will cover AI\, risks of Mirror Life cells\, dangerous gain of function (GOF) pathogens and pending or updated regulations\, and guidance for management of everyday bio-risk outside of existing regulatory boundaries. \nAnother interactive session will present\, review\, and discuss mock high-risk protocols in the format of an Institutional Review Entity (IRE) meeting to help attendees address updated or new DURC and PEPP rules.
URL:https://absa.org/event/harvard-yale-biosafety-symposium-2026/
LOCATION:Yale West Campus Conference Center\, 800 West Campus Drive\, West Haven\, CT\, 06477
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SUMMARY:Harvard Yale Biosafety Symposium 2026: Pre-Symposium Courses
DESCRIPTION:8am-10am\, Monday\, May 4\, 2026\nFBI Academic Biosecurity Workshop\nSpeakers: Local and Federal WMD Agents \n8am-10am\, Monday\, May 4\, 2026 (concurrent)\nIntegrating AI into Biotechnology: A Biosecurity Risk Assessment Workshop: Embodied AI and Automation in Biorisk Management\nSpeaker: Leyma P. De Haro\, PhD\, RBP (ABSA)  \n1 – 5pm\, Monday\, May 4\, 2026\nDual-Use and DNA Synthesis Screening Workshop\nSpeakers: Piers Millet\, PhD\, David Gillum\, PhD
URL:https://absa.org/event/harvard-yale-biosafety-symposium-2026-pre-symposium-courses/
LOCATION:Yale West Campus Conference Center\, 800 West Campus Drive\, West Haven\, CT\, 06477
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SUMMARY:Harvard Yale IBC Symposium 2024
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Yale IBC Symposium (HYS) 2024\nIntroduction and Overview\nThe theme of the 2024 HYS symposium is high-risk research\, including dual use research of concern\, gain of function\, transfer of drug resistance that may not be acquired naturally\, altering the host range of pathogens\, or enhancing a potential pandemic pathogen.  The event will kick-off with presentations from leading policy makers who will provide an update on the current landscape in the United States on this topic and provide information on how existing policies must transition to keep up with the rapid advancements in science.  We are excited to introduce our keynote speaker\, Dr. Megan Palmer\, a leading expert in the field\, who will discuss the importance of building and utilizing an evidence base and incorporating adaptive risk management in national decision making. \nA roundtable on Occupational Health will also review essential elements for medical surveillance for researchers working with biohazards with ample opportunity to interact with the panelists and get guidance on any pressing occupational health program questions.  Addressing occupational exposures to high-risk biohazards will be featured and attendees will also be provided with a sample occupational health document for one high-risk pathogen experiment to use as a template for developing their own plans. \nA first of its kind interactive Mock IBC session will give all attendees an opportunity to participate in an IBC meeting where only high-risk research protocols will be presented\, reviewed and discussed\, and then voted upon.  Attendees will receive registration documents prior to the event\, will then be provided with brief presentations on the proposed research and hear from the assigned primary reviewers\, before weighing in on their own opinions regarding potential risks.  The protocols have been designed to be controversial and straddle the lines of regulatory boundaries. \nThe event will close with an updated survey on exactly where we are as individual institutions on how we establish our own guidelines for the review of high-risk research. \nWe look forward to sharing this unique learning opportunity this year with you. \nRebecca Caruso & Benjamin Fontes
URL:https://absa.org/event/harvard-yale-ibc-symposium-2024/
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SUMMARY:Harvard Yale IBC Symposium 2024 Pre-conference Courses
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Yale IBC Symposium (HYS) 2024\nIntroduction and Overview\nThe theme of the 2024 HYS symposium is high-risk research\, including dual use research of concern\, gain of function\, transfer of drug resistance that may not be acquired naturally\, altering the host range of pathogens\, or enhancing a potential pandemic pathogen.  The event will kick-off with presentations from leading policy makers who will provide an update on the current landscape in the United States on this topic and provide information on how existing policies must transition to keep up with the rapid advancements in science.  We are excited to introduce our keynote speaker\, Dr. Megan Palmer\, a leading expert in the field\, who will discuss the importance of building and utilizing an evidence base and incorporating adaptive risk management in national decision making. \nA roundtable on Occupational Health will also review essential elements for medical surveillance for researchers working with biohazards with ample opportunity to interact with the panelists and get guidance on any pressing occupational health program questions.  Addressing occupational exposures to high-risk biohazards will be featured and attendees will also be provided with a sample occupational health document for one high-risk pathogen experiment to use as a template for developing their own plans. \nA first of its kind interactive Mock IBC session will give all attendees an opportunity to participate in an IBC meeting where only high-risk research protocols will be presented\, reviewed and discussed\, and then voted upon.  Attendees will receive registration documents prior to the event\, will then be provided with brief presentations on the proposed research and hear from the assigned primary reviewers\, before weighing in on their own opinions regarding potential risks.  The protocols have been designed to be controversial and straddle the lines of regulatory boundaries. \nThe event will close with an updated survey on exactly where we are as individual institutions on how we establish our own guidelines for the review of high-risk research. \nWe look forward to sharing this unique learning opportunity this year with you. \nRebecca Caruso & Benjamin Fontes
URL:https://absa.org/event/harvard-yale-ibc-symposium-2024-pre-conference-courses/
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