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[email protected]'s Biocontainment Care Unit team serves as the HHS Region 6 RESPTC. At this year’s Annual Workshop, hosted by the UTMB SPECTRE program, Julie Stefanick and Melissa Massey led an interactive session focused on teamwork, communication, and readiness.
BCU team members collaborate during the Annual BCU Workshop hosted by the SPECTRE program at UTMB. Jennifer Lirette MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, NC-BC, Clinical Educator for UTMB's Biocontainment Care Unit, leads her table in mapping workflows and identifying opportunities to strengthen communication. UTMB's Biocontainment Care Unit team engaged in collaborative breakout sessions during the Annual BCU Workshop. Carlos Dostal, MD, PhD leads discussion during a breakout session at the Annual BCU Workshop.
November 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
cindyermus.bsky.social
Today my Hist of Epidemics class got to take advantage of being an hour away from one of the world's foremost centers for biocontainment & high-level infectious disease care, with historical artifacts & books from the last 200+ years of medical & public health history! Thank you, @unmc.bsky.social!
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
castltrastondrs.bsky.social
@science.org
Unlike RFK and his bandwagon, CFIA strictly followed protocol to protect 🇨🇦 #publichealth “The disposal followed all biosecurity and biocontainment protocols to mitigate the risk of spreading HPAI.”

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Canadian government kills ostriches afflicted by H5N1 despite appeal from RFK Jr.
Culling proceeds after Canada’s Supreme Court ends heated 11-month battle over the fate of more than 300 birds
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
emoryscdp.bsky.social
On Oct. 17, SCDP hosted the Board of Visitors for a tour of the Biocontainment Unit. Dr. Aneesh Mehta, Dr. Colleen Kraft & Jill Morgan shared insights on outbreak response, partnerships & preparedness efforts. #SCDP #EmoryHealth #InfectiousDiseases
October 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
myrmeleo.bsky.social
This seems like a good point to stop and ask "should I be here right now?" like how many dead bodies with their chests carved and/or exploded open do you need before leaving the area and calling in a biocontainment team because you are severely underequipped for a potential alien pathogen situation
October 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
xavierabadmdg.bsky.social
A book in which we have participated explaining what we best know about #biosafety and #biocontainment in experimental facilities with small laboratory animals in combination with dangerous pathogens. In a question and answer format. Bastant clar i molt català. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Practical Management of Research Animal Care and Use Programs
This book guides through all the aspects to consider during planning, and managing sustainable research animal care and use programs.
link.springer.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
ravirockks.bsky.social
‘Timothy Gray from Concord Hospital's Infectious Diseases Department described the patient's symptoms and travel history to paramedics and staff at the NSW Biocontainment Unit at Westmead Hospital.
October 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Update on Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s ongoing custody of ostriches and biocontainment practices at Edgewood, British Columbia
Update on Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s ongoing custody of ostriches and biocontainment practices at Edgewood, British Columbia
October 4, 2025 – As ordered by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) continues to have custody of the birds at the British Columbia ostrich farm. Compliance with the stay issued by the Supreme Court of Canada stay order The CFIA has respected and will continue to respect all...
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October 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
shrikrishnans.bsky.social
Meeting with this community is always so delightful and inspiring!
I enjoyed presenting our project, ContainELMs, on a novel biocontainment systems in engineered living materials, along with my PhD student, Victoria Pinto, and our collaborators from KIT, Meike Koenig & Robin Wilhelm!

#academicsky
September 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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🌟 Celebrating #WomenInMedicine Month! 🌟

Meet Jocelyn Herstein, PhD, MPH — Director of International Partnerships & Programs at NETEC (UNMC College of Public Health/UNMC Global Center for Health Security)

For 10+ years, she’s advanced global training & research to strengthen biocontainment care. 🌍
September 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
microgem.bsky.social
✅ Kill switches for biocontainment of industrial strains (important industrial tool)

✅ Phage engineering, CRISPR style (staphylococcal diagnostics and therapeutics)

✅ The unexpected impacts of tillage legacy on soil microbiomes (surprising impact of tillage history on carbon-cycling communities)
September 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
edmhill.bsky.social
3/ Specific areas continued

2️⃣ Address knowledge gaps: design and conduct experiments and environmental sampling.

3️⃣ Conduct experiments to address specific, important biocontainment questions raised by HCID clinical specialists.
2. Addressing knowledge gaps: design and conduct experiments and environmental sampling The next step will be to perform experiments and sampling to address the knowledge gaps identified. Given HCID incidents are rare, the DPhil student will develop and use a panel of surrogate markers (e.g. non-pathogenic organisms, fluorochromes and other chemical indicators) in experimental models of HCID exposure-hazard generation. Additionally, because avian influenza is currently the most significant Airborne HCID threat in the UK, the student will aim to perform air and surface sampling around patients with seasonal influenza A virus infections (subject to necessary approvals being obtained). If patients with confirmed Airborne or Contact HCIDs are identified during the DPhil, environmental sampling will be performed by the student, as part of the existing ISARIC Clinical Characterisation Protocol Study that is already supported by the HPRU, with an opportunity for the DPhil student to be involved in and develop and refine the environmental sampling methods used in this study. 3. Conduct experiments to address specific, important biocontainment questions raised by HCID clinical specialists The DPhil student will also develop and perform appropriate experiments and sampling methods to address specific, unanswered IPC questions raised by those caring for patients with HCIDs (NHS England’s HCID Networks). This includes determining whether removal of contaminated PPE in the anteroom of an isolation room with a positive pressure ventilated lobby (PPVL) risks spreading pathogen to clean areas elsewhere within the facility, demonstrating that biocontainment is achieved as intended for newly designed isolation facilities (including new patient isolators), and assessing whether perceived aerosol transmission risks actually exist for specific medical interventions, such as high frequency oscillatory ventilation that is used in paediatric and neonatal intensive care. With the support of their supervisors, the DPhil student will also offer environmental sampling, using surrogate markers that they have developed, to supplement and improve observations of perceived pathogen exposure risks during HCID and emerging infection training exercises.
September 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
edmhill.bsky.social
2/ 🧪 Scientific overview: Develop evidence base to inform appropriate infection prevention control & biocontainment measures for high consequence infectious diseases.

Specific areas:

1️⃣ Describe what is known & not known about high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) pathogen exposure hazards.
Theme overview: High consequence infectious diseases are rare, transmissible infections that can cause serious illness and death. Examples include Ebola disease, Lassa fever, avian influenza, and Nipah virus infection. Infection prevention and control (IPC) measures for patients with HCIDs are often highly precautionary, including the use of specific biocontainment facilities and enhanced personal protective equipment (PPE). HCID pathogen exposure hazards are often difficult to quantify, and they may vary according to specific circumstances and clinical contexts. While epidemiological data on exposure incidents and nosocomial transmission events may help inform estimates of risk, HCID incidents tend to be rare, limiting the opportunities to collect data and have a sufficient sample size. Furthermore, epidemiological data alone cannot inform risk assessments of exposure and transmission. However, the detection, quantitation, and characterisation of HCID contagion in the clinical environment, including the use of surrogate markers where appropriate, also help to inform risk estimates and mitigations. Similar environmental monitoring methods and experiments can be used to assess the likely effectiveness of existing and proposed biocontainment and IPC measures for HCIDs. This University of Oxford DPhil opportunity is funded by the National Institute for Health and Social Care Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections (EZI). The successful candidate will therefore join the NIHR HPRU-EZI, in addition to being a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford.The supervisors are recognised experts in emerging and high consequence infectious diseases and have significant experience in evaluating environmental contamination, mechanisms of transmission, and methods to prevent transmission, for a variety of emerging and high consequence infectious diseases Areas to be explored: 1. Describing what is known and not known about HCID pathogen exposure hazards The project will begin by identifying and describing the pathogen exposure hazards that are likely to be encountered when providing care to patients with HCIDs, and the characteristics of hazards that could result in secondary transmission e.g. exposure to different types of infectious respiratory particles versus fomite contamination. This will be achieved through a systematic review of the available, existing literature.
September 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
xavierabadmdg.bsky.social
Brief discussion on #biosafety and #biocontainment around the kick off of construction of a #BSL3 building by @irta-cresa.bsky.social on @uab.cat. An expansion of capabilities that will allow us to work with all we work with ( #HPAI, #WNV, #ASFV, #CSFV, #MTC) and more. 7ciencies.cat/recerquem/bi...
Biocontenció i bioseguretat a Catalunya - 7Ciències
Fa uns mesos es publicava una notícia a diferents mitjans sobre l’ampliació dels laboratoris de Bioseguretat i biocontenció de l'IRTA-CReSA. Quan treballem
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September 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
drrachaelf.bsky.social
Alien: Earth - this is why you don’t treat children like adults.

AND STILL NO BIOCONTAINMENT.
September 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
au-nb.bsky.social
Biocontainment Lab Turns 40 at Australia’s Disease Frontline

https://www.newsbeep.com/au/148483/

As CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) marks its 40th year of protecting Australia, its experts say…
Biocontainment Lab Turns 40 at Australia's Disease Frontline - Australia News Beep
As CSIRO's Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) marks its 40th year of protecting Australia, its experts say that with infectious diseases
www.newsbeep.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
drrachaelf.bsky.social
No, sorry. The people dying horribly in Alien properties just requires me to believe that billionaires wouldn’t invest in decent biocontainment in their Earthside facilities, either.

1) Lots of separate rooms.
2) Emergency escape protocols.
3) FRACKING ABILITY TO CALL FOR HELP, even.
September 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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🌟 Women in Medicine Month 🌟

Meet Shelly Schwedhelm, MSN, RN, NEA-BC — Executive Director of National Special Pathogen System. She led Ebola biocontainment in 2014 & early COVID-19 repatriation.
💬 “Developing a new national system for HCID preparedness has been a career highlight.”
#WomenInMedicine
September 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
oborkowski.bsky.social
Genetic Entanglement Enables Ultrastable Biocontainment in the Mammalian Gut
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
September 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
drrachaelf.bsky.social
Part of the problem with Alien: Earth (and Prometheus before it) is that it depends on people being REALLY bad at their jobs.

Like, WHY ARE YOU EATING/DRINKING in the lab? With the parasites?

Why do they insist on glass containment?

Why are they so bad at biocontainment?
September 3, 2025 at 3:38 AM
impactt-microbiome.bsky.social
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August 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Spotlighting Dr. Vikramjit Mukherjee, Chief of Critical Care @bellevuehosp.bsky.social & NETEC co-PI, in @accpchest.bsky.social on EMCC-based critical care prep for #WorldCup2026. Bellevue is Region 2’s Level 1 RESPTC & NYC’s only biocontainment hospital.
August 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
biorxiv-synthbio.bsky.social
Genetic entanglement enables ultra-stable biocontainment in the mammalian gut https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.13.670093v1
August 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
Genetic entanglement enables ultra-stable biocontainment in the mammalian gut https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.13.670093v1
August 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
stephdagostino.bsky.social
Biocontainment mechanisms are essential for safe use of microbes in industrial settings. In #AppEnvMicro, Natalie A. Lamb & team share a platform for high-resolution analysis of a transactivated "kill switch" in laboratory & industrial yeast strains. @asm.org
Read: tinyurl.com/bd2nyxc7
August 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM