The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) will host the 2024 CBRN Defense Conference and Exhibition from 24-26 June 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. The goal of this conference is to gather stakeholders to promote education, awareness, and collaboration across the CBRN community and to foster innovation and rapid development of CBRN capabilities. Highlighted topics include: Medical
The the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology will be held 24-28 June 2024 in Columbus, Ohio. This event will bring together over 1,600 virologists from around the world. Highlighted sessions and topics include: Virus-Host Interactions: Structural Virology, Innate Antiviral Immunity, and More Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Computation in Virology
The NIH RADx Data Hub is one of the largest NIH COVID data collections available to researchers, allowing them to explore, access, and analyze COVID-related data developed from over 150 studies through NIH RADx Initiative programs. The NIH RADx Data Hub relaunched with an entirely new look and feel and exciting new analysis features. Join
The inaugural INTERPOL Global Biosecurity Conference will be held 2-4 July 2024 in Lyon, France. The conference will bring together law enforcement and partner agencies, biosecurity experts and academia from different regions and backgrounds to foster dialog, discuss current and future biological threats, good practices and challenges. The overarching goal is to to define a
The NASEM Forum in Microbial Threats will host a public workshop 22-23 July 2024 on Accelerating the Use of Pathogen Genomics and Metagenomics in Public Health. to examine cases where genomics technologies have been applied successfully to disease surveillance and response, highlight key characteristics of these technologies' impact, and identify potential opportunities for broader
An ad hoc committee appointed by the National Academies to explore heritable genetic modifications of food animals will meet from 23-24 July 2024 to discuss Oversight and Food Safety Concerns Posed by Heritable Genetic Modification in Food Animals. This committee will address methods for heritable genetic modifications and identify risks and health hazards to humans,
A National Academies committee will host a public information gathering session August 13-14, 2024 featuring panels discussing the benefits and biosecurity concerns of AI-enabled biological design tools and biological data. This is the first in-person meeting of the consensus study, Assessing and Navigating Biosecurity Concerns and Benefits of Artificial Intelligence Use in the Life Sciences.
New Approaches to Vaccine Communications will be held on online on Monday, August 26. Each fall and winter season, public health professionals help their communities make informed decisions about vaccines through compelling and timely messages. This webinar will introduce newly tested messages to encourage routine and recommended vaccinations for children and adults. Attendees will access
The 17th A-PBA Annual Biorisk Conference in conjunction with the BRAP 7th Annual Convention and 4th International Forum will be held 5-6 September in Quezon City, the Philippines. Pre-conference events will be held 3-4 September. Abstracts are currently being accepted until 30 May for poster entries. Themes include: Laboratory biosafety and biosecurity Best practices in
