Symposium Agenda Topics and Speakers:

— Biosafety and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa Nathan Yozwiak, Ph.D. , Broad Institute

— Herpes B Exposure Incident Sarah Elizabeth Turbett, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital

— Biosecurity From A Rodent’s Point Of View
Kate Pritchett-Corning, DVM, DACLAM, Harvard Medical School

— From Bugs to Drugs Mining the Microbiota for Medicine
Henry Haiser, Ph.D., Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

— Tracing Connections Among Neurons Using VSV
Constance Cepko, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute &Harvard Medical School

— “Are You Kidding Me?!”: Outrage And Outcomes From The CDC Anthrax Laboratory Incident  Sean Kaufman, Behavioral-Based Improvement Solutions, LLC

— Integrating Industry Guidance and Protocol Specific Risk Assessment into the Yale Cell Sorting Biosafety Program
Ben Fontes MPH, CBSP and Geoff Lyon, Yale University

— Biological and Biomedical Research with Nanomaterials
Dhimiter Bello, Sc.D., MSc, Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell

— Epigenetic Therapeutics: Mechanisms, Modalities and Outcomes for Human Health Marc A.T. Muskavitch, Ph.D., Senior Director, Epigenetics, Biogen Idec