3. Conference on Biosafety and Laboratory

Counting 13 speakers and about 80 participants, the 3. Conference on Biosafety and Laboratory became a great success. In this regard, the city of Neumarkt i.d.OPf. and the Museum für historische Maybachfahrzeuge offered the perfect setting: beginning with a trip to the Museum Lothar Fischer, continuing with mulled vine and music before dinner, visiting the exhibition at the Museum für historische Maybachfahrzeuge – with an event-friendly dry weather of about 0° Celsius, the Oberpfalz in Bavaria showed its best.

In terms of our subject, this year’s conference did profit, above all, from connecting unique experiences in planning and operating high- security laboratories with innovative approaches. In this sense, Markus Eickmann jumped right into our topic – learning from 12 years of high-security laboratory in Marburg. His talk was followed by many others, who covered topics encompassing normative as well as technical fields and solutions for the laboratories of the future.

We would be glad to welcome you again in 2020!

Rajka Fritsch / Reinhold Göttgens: Welcome Address

Udo Weber: Introduction

Markus Eickmann: 12 years high-security laboratory in Marburg

Steffen Schmidt: Pressure control in gas-tight rooms

Thomas Kleinschroth: Construction in vivo facility – innovative and flexible technologies

Denys Bilko: Integrated design of biotechnology laboratories: Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) vs. biosafety principles

Guillaume Ribot: Isolation wards for highly infectious diseases

Evelien Kampert: Validation of high containment facilities to prove biosafety

Claus Schweinheim: Construction and commissioning of BSL-3 laboratories

Chris Kiley: Testing and certification of electronic devices for H2O2 fumigation

Walter Ritz: Testing and certification of electronic devices for H2O2 fumigation

Martin Stener Breinholt / Kiril Georgiev Naydenov: “Fast track” design and planning of a new veterinary biosafety reference laboratory building

Felix Gmünder: State of safety technology for BSL-3 laboratories in terms of availability and reliability of systems