Past events & courses

Speakers: Kate Cole, Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH) and President-Elect of the AIOH and Dr Julia Norris, Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH), FRACGP, and Past-President of the AIOH.

Instructor: Julia CottonBiosafety professionals must be able to carry out biosafety and biosecurity audits and inspections, identify failures, non-conformities, corrective actions and areas for improvement and monitor progress.

Current status and way forwardOrganiser: Joint FAO/IAEA Centre Free online symposium. All information and registration are available online.Check out the program. For more information, please contact Ms Julie Zellinger at Conference.Contact-Point@iaea.org.

Instructor: Gideon Kersten The course gives insight in the exciting field of vaccinology. The relevance of vaccines does not need emphasis in these days. But how do they work? ...

Members only event

New Genomic Techniques – safely managing innovation in times of legal uncertainty The third of 5 online, member only, meetings in 2021In 2008 the European GMO competent authorities established a working group to determine if organisms modified by new techniques would be subject of the GMO legislation. Ten years later, after a bumpy procedural road, the European Court of Justice indicated that organisms obtained by mutagenesis are GMOs and that only those obtained by conventional mutagenesis techniques are exempted from the GMO legislation. This legal interpretation triggered a fierce debate with all parties agreeing that the definitions included the 90’ies GMO legislation were outdated.

Instructors Fred Wassenaar & Patrick Rüdelsheim Gene drives allow for a trait to be transmitted to subsequent generations in a ratio that deviates from the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Active in sexually-reproducing species, they are powerful tools to “drive” ... read all info and register here

The ISO 35001 standard on “Biorisk management for laboratories and other related organisations - is the first internationally recognized management standard to specifically address hazards associated with laboratories where biological materials are handled at all containment levels. 

The ongoing pandemic has highlighted the need for the rapid exchange of information on biosafety and biosecurity even while restricting many of the opportunities our community typically relies on to do so.