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Day 1

Biosafety and Biosecurity: An Experience From the South on Capacity Building
Leila Oda (AnBIO, Brazil)

Biosafety and Biosecurity - A Growing Concern
Jennifer Gaudioso (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

Evolution of Colombian National Laboratories Network 1979-2008: Biosafety and Legal issues Propelled Changes in Public Health Laboratories Performance
Danik Valera Antequera (Instituto Naciaonal de Salud, Colombia)

Monitoring of H5N1 avian influenza virus in migratory birds from the Northwest of Mexico
Jesús Hernández (Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C. Mexico)

Biosafety and Biosecurity at the Diagnostic Center of Animal Diseases in Senasa, Peru
Roberto A. Acosta Gálvez (Laboratorio de Sanidad Animal Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria, Peru)

Risk Assessment
Lisa Astuto-Gribble (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

Day 2

The WHO Global Biosafety and Laboratory Biosecurity Programme
Nicoletta Previsani (WHO, Geneva)

Multi purpose BSL3 ABSL3 for Infectious Diseases of the Human at ANLIS, Argentina
Sergio Miguel (ANLIS, Argentina)

Facility Requirements and Safety Procedures for working with exotic and/or zoonotic BSL3 Agents- the need and availability of a Training and Facility Assessment Program
Anne-Sophie Brocard and Miguel A. Grimaldo (UT Galveston, USA)

Commissioning of Laboratory Facilities
Miguel A. Grimaldo (UT Galveston, USA)

Biosafety and Biosecurity in Foot-and-Mouth Disease Laboratories in South America
Gilfredo Darsie (PANAFTOSA, Brazil)

Remodelación del Laboratorio de Bioseguridad Nivel 3 de la C.P.A.
Marco Antonio Rico Gaytán (Comision Mexico-Estados Unidos para la Prevencion de la Fiebre Aftosa y otras Enfermedades Exoticas de los Animales, Mexico)

Biosafety in the Veterinary Laboratory
Alvaro Núñez Alesandre (Division Laboratorios Veterinarios DILAVE, Uruguay)

Day 3

PAHO Strategies for Biosafety in Latin America
Jean-Marc Gabastou (PAHO, Ecuador)

Biosafety and Biosecurity: The Reality of Guatemala, Achievements and Challenges
Ismael Mancilla (National Health Laboratory, Guatemala)

Institutional Biosafety Program
Karina Chávez (Centro Nacional de Enfermedades Tropicales, Bolivia)

Development of Biosafety regulations in Argentina
Susana Fink (CONICET, Argentina)

Panel Discussions
Susana Fink and Leila Oda


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