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A meeting report on Gene Drives Held by the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences and the Federal Office for the Environment may be downloaded under the following link.

There is also an anmated movie illustrating the process. Link.

An article has been published on how to create horsepox virus from chemically synthesised DNA. Below are two links you may find interesting:

Article

Commentary

EBSA is looking for nominations for council and workgroup members. Please see text below:

Dear Colleagues and friends,
You are cordially invited to participate in the 2018 nomination for:

3 positions on the EBSA council

• President Elect
• Treasurer
• Regular Council member
• 1 position on the Nomination Committee
• 1position as Financial Auditor

Send in your nominations before February 12, 2018.
 
The nomination committee will review the candidates and the online ballot will be open February 19 - March 2 2018.
The newly elected members will be contacted by the president and officially introduced at the Annual General Meeting held during the Conference in Copenhagen.

If you know somebody who could make a difference to the activities of EBSA or you are willing to contribute, please submit your candidature or nominate one of your colleagues here.
 
Any questions please feel free to contact the secretariat.
 
EBSA Administration Office
Tel.: +32 (0) 9- 233 48 66
E-Mail: ebsa-office@ebsaweb.eu
Web: www.ebsaweb.eu

The Swiss Society for Microbiology will be holding its annual congress on August 28th to 30th 2018 in Lausanne. Please see link for more details. 

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a report on high-containment laboratories and Select Agent Program oversight. Key among the findings is the realisation that the focus of the program should shift to risk assessment to identify high-risk activities which are more likely to be of biosafety rather than biosecurity concern. For more details please see the report here. Furthermore, Reuters also published an article on the subject which may be accessed here.

Herbert Manser of riskcare published an article on the 11th Applied Biosafety Meeting as well as an interview with our former President Kathrin Summermatter in iza. Both documents may be downloaded here (German only):

article / interview 

The following article is available for download:

“Fostering an International Culture of Biosafety, Biosecurity, and Responsible Conduct in the Life Sciences” 

Link

The above mentioned course takes place  in Langen, Germany, on November 15th 2017. More information may be obtained under this link.

Health Canada has provided Pathogen Safety Data Sheets (PSDS) via Apps for Android and Apple devices. Please see the following links for further details:

Android

Apple 

Talking about antibiotic resistance – this is the aim of the International Antibiotic Awareness Week, which will be held  from 13 – 19 November 2017 in many different countries. Switzerland is also taking part in 2017. 

Please see the following link for further details.