EVENT
Basic Bioscience for Community Reps
A training for Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) community representatives & others interested in the IBC process

View Community Reps Needed for Biotech Safety Committees (news release)

Date & Time
Thursday, October 2, 2008
4:30 p.m.-9 p.m.

Location
Macht Building Auditorium (next to The Cambridge Hospital)
1493 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Agenda
Workshop agenda (PDF)
Workshop brochure (PDF)

Registration
To register, call the Eagleson Institute at 207-490-1076.
Registration closes September 26, 2008

Directions & Parking
The Macht Building is located on Camelia Avenue on the grounds of The Cambridge Hospital. Parking is available at The Cambridge Hospital garage. Parking vouchers will be provided.
Directions to The Cambridge Hospital
Map

About the Workshop
"Basic Bioscience for Community Reps" is a workshop designed for current and prospective Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) community representatives, community officials, internal IBC members, and biosafety staff. This training will provide an overview of basic molecular biology, infectious risk, recombinant DNA technologies, and an orientation to the IBC process itself.

The goal of the workshop is to help Community Representatives become more comfortable discussing project registrations as a member of the IBC (Institutional Biosafety Committee) and to enable scientists to appreciate the special role and perspective of the Community Representative.

The training has been organized by two experienced biological safety training firms, Safety Partners and the Eagleson Institute, and the Cambridge Public Health Department.

Topics

• Why serve as a Community Rep?
• Roles and responsibilities of each IBC member
• NIH (National Institutes of Health) perspective
• Basic science and vocabulary of molecular biology and rDNA
• Risks associated with this research
• Case Study: IBC research review of project registration

Speakers

• Betsy Gilman Duane, MS RBP SM(NRM) CBSP, Biosafety Officer, Wyeth Research
• Kathryn Harris, PhD, RBP, Senior Outreach and Education Specialist, NIH
• Stefanos N. Kales, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM, Medical Director, Employee & Industrial Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School & Director, Occupational & Environmental Medicine Residency, Harvard School of Public Health
• Kerry Kelleher, MS, MSCIS, Principal Research Scientist Protein Expression, Wyeth Research
• Sam Lipson, Director of Environmental Health, Cambridge Public Health Department & Cambridge Biosafety Committee
• Linda Wolfe, BS RBP CBSP, Biosafety Officer, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
• Terry Kwan, a current Community Rep on the Harvard IBC

Registration Fees

• $150 for biotech firms and academic institutions. This fee covers two community representatives. An additional fee of $50 will be added for each staff member attending the training.
• $50 for individuals. This fee will be waived for participants interested in serving as a community IBC representative for a Cambridge-based company.