IBC 101/Best Practice Meeting is a five-hour training opportunity for both new and seasoned Biosafety committee members, program compliance coordinators, and other individuals who contribute to the institution’s biosafety compliance program.

During the training, both didactic and interactive sessions will be used to provide an overview of the institutional responsibilities, charge of the IBC, and the relevant governing standards.  The meeting also provides individuals the opportunity to identify, share and discuss best practices that are used to satisfying compliance responsibilities associated with organizations’ biosafety programs.  In addition, the training will assist attendees in identifying the regulatory and informational resources needed to understand, develop, and oversee an institution’s Biosafety Oversight Program.  The training will also use a variety of scenarios that will challenge attendees to consider, deliberate, and develop action plans for a variety of situations with the goal of identifying community best practices.

During the session, attendees will collectively discuss the topic by, for example, posing questions to the speakers and other attendees, offering their own effective ideas, and ultimately identify compliant processes for producing and overseeing the use of transgenic animals.

Meeting Topics (subject to modification)

• Biosafety program demographics, and a summary of governing documents, Evolution of IBCs and oversight 
• An overview of the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules and Requirement for Institutional Biosafety Committees
• An overview of the Biosafety Committee’s role and responsibilities
• Understanding Viral Vector Systems and CRISPR CAS 9
• Harmonizing IBC, IRB and IACUC Activities
• Safety Training and Documentation

The meeting times are Eastern Standard Time