Bangladesh Biosafety and Biosecurity Society (BBBS) is planning to organize the 2024 Annual Biorisk Conference virtually on 29 - 30 November, under the gudance of the Director, Disease Control and Line Director, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services; however, the society will collect the registration fees as the in-person conference to donate the collection from the conference for disaster management, like the recent flood and management of the affected localities, in the country. Academics, Scientists, Researchers, Policymakers, and other relevant scholars are invited to participate in the BBBS annual conference and submit abstracts* until 15th Nov. 2024, focusing on prevention, control and eradication of infectious diseases. All the accepted abstracts selected for oral presentation should be in any of the areas mentioned above, or on other infectious diseases or related issues, as a potential threat to Bangladesh and its neighboring countries.

Day 1: Friday, November 29, 2024

Opening Ceremony (10:01 – 11:00) 

Address by President BBBS, Keynote, Address by Special Guests, Address by Chief Guests , Vote of Thanks by General Secretary, BBBS

Technical Sessions

Technical Session 1 (11:11 – 12:45) Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Disease in Humans  

COVID-19, Influenza and HPAI, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Whooping Cough, Tuberculosis, Hantavirus, Legionnaires’, Valley Fever, Dengue, Malaria, Chikungunya  Pneumonia, Mpox, Measles, Listeriosis, Salmonella, Cholera, Gastroenteritis, E. coli, Norovirus, various Waterborne Illnesses,  and other diseases are circulating in the world with a potential to cause devastating outbreak, epidemic, and pandemic.

Technical Session 2 (14:31 – 16:00) Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Disease in Animals

Most of the human infectious diseases are zoonotic. Major animal diseases like: Bluetongue, Avian Influenza, African Swine Fever, Peste des petits ruminants, Canine Influenza, Canine distemper, Chronic Wasting Disease, and Anthrax are circulating in the world.

Technical Session 3 (16:01 – 17:30)  Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Disease in Plants

Public awareness is necessary to deal with more serious issues connected to the threat posed by emerging and reemerging phytopathogens to food crops, forest trees, and other ecosystem services provided by the environment. Pathogen distribution and climate interactions, relationships between pathogenic virulence and climate, and the effect of climate on emerging pathogens are  highly welcome to be discussed. Recent development in the field of GMO and LMO in the country and worldwide can also be highlighted.

Day 2: Saturday, November 30, 2024

Technical Session 4 (09:01 – 11:30) Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance 

Infectious diseases were the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Antimicrobials have been hugely successful in improving health outcomes. The annual mortality rate due to infectious diseases was rapidly decreasing, by 8.2% per year, and this decline corresponded to the introduction into clinical practice of antimicrobial agents since 1935. The positive impact of antibiotics on health, however, is threatened by increasing levels of AMR worldwide and hampered by the lack of access to essential antibiotics in many low-income and middle-income countries. Abstracts are invited to discuss policies, procedures, strategies, and research and recent development towards the containment of AMR.

Technical Session 5 (11:31 – 13:00) Interdisciplinary and Institutional Regulatory Framework 

Establishing interdisciplinary and Regulatory Framework require inter-organizational collaboration to work together avoiding duplication of efforts following national and international guidelines and standards. In this session, it is expected that Academics, Scientists, Administrators, and Policymakers will discuss on the current guidelines and standards and the implementation plan of respective Ministries and Departments. Academics and researchers are also expected to discuss institutional strategies for implementation of biorisk management programs with the aim of developing preparedness for a future pandemics.   

Technical Session 6 (14:01 – 16:00) Current Challenges in the Control and Eradication of Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Biorisk Management Perspectives

Control and eradication of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases depends on biological, environmental, and physical control measures. Availability of vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, and vaccine efficacy are the important factors to discuss under the biological control measures. Strategies, policies, procedures and guidelines are also expected to be discussed during the session on controlling the environmental spread of the diseases. Biorisk management program for laboratories dealing with biohazardous materials, and overall biorisk management in clinical care would be most expected topics to be discussed in this session. 

16:01 – 16:30  Closing Session

Conference Registration || Bangladesh Biosafety and Biosecurity Society (bd-biosafetysecurity.org)

*Submitted abstracts accepted but not selected for oral presentation will be published in the E-book to be available online on the BBBS webpage.

Guidelines for Submission of Abstract

Each registrant may submit one abstract of his or her presentation during the conference. Please take note that all abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific committee. They will decide on the final acceptance for presentation for each abstract. All registrants will be advised accordingly by 17th November 2024. Selected abstracts will ONLY be accepted upon receipt of registration and payment for the conference fee.

Abstracts

1.   All abstracts must be in ENGLISH, the combined length of the abstract title, list of authors, and body should not exceed 300 words. Please be sure to carefully check your abstract for content errors, spelling, names, etc. before submitting. BBBS does not proofread for correct spelling, typographical, grammatical, or scientific errors, nor can changes be made once the abstract is submitted.

2.   Title should be brief, in bold capital letters at the top of the abstract.

3.   Author(s) should be listed by surname (underline) and initials, with the presenting author’s name underlined. The designation and organization should immediately follow the authors’ names. (Organization/Institute, department, city, state, country of author).

4.   Text must be typed single-spaced, font 12 Arial with only the left margin justified.

5.   Leave one line between the title/author/institution and the body of the abstract.

6.   Each abstract should contain: (a) an introductory sentence indicating the objective of the abstract (b) main content, including methods and results if relevant and (c) conclusions. It is expected that the abstract will include the summary of the original presentation.

7.   Graphs, tables and illustration cannot be included in the abstract.

8.   The abstract document MUST BE in PDF/WORD.doc format. Any other file type WILL NOT be accepted.

9.   Abstracts must be submitted by abstract submission portal as Microsoft Word attachment.

Annual Conference 2024 of the Society is going to be organized on 29 - 30 November. Participants from all over Bagladesh and other countries working in the following disciplines are invited to participate in this conference.

• Agriculturalist, Biochemist, Biotechnologists, Botanists, Clinical Biochemists, Clinical Microbiologists, Clinical Pathologists, Environmentalists, Medical Doctors, Medical Microbiologists, Medical Technologists, Microbiologists, Molecular Biologists, Veterinarians, and Zoologists including all the disciplines of Biological Sciences
• Biosafety Professionals and Practitioners
• Biosafety Managers
• Consultants in relevant areas
• Engineers and Architects working for designing hospitals, laboratories, or related facilities
• Professionals interested in the updates on Biosafety and Biosecurity
• Scientists, Researchers and Laboratory Workers