About Workshop

ACCELERATE VIGYAN-SERB sponsored

KARYASHALA: HIGH-END WORKSHOP

Biosecurity, Biosafety, Capacity and Capability Building: Working with Infectious Agents (BBCCB-2023)

About Workshop: Studying potentially dangerous microbes in animal models require extra safety considerations. Researchers must perform their work under careful restrictions of different biosafety level laboratories. For research on viruses like SARS-COV2 and bacteria like M. tuberculosis require Biosafety Level (BSL)-3 and Animal BSL (ABSL)-3 laboratory capacity. However, in India, there are limited labs with BSL/ABSL-3 lab capacities. This limitation has contributed to delays and bottlenecks in preclinical COVID-19 research. The extraordinary demand for COVID-19 preclinical research warrants the need to set up ABSL3 labs in various parts of the country. Since, there are very few biosecurity labs in India, particularly, we have shortage of trained/specialized manpower for working in such facilities.

Objective:

The workshop is planned to provide specialized training to individuals and staff working with infectious agents in Biosafety Level-II/III and Animal Biosafety Level-II/III labs on concepts and practices of the biosafety and biosecurity.