Southern BSO Regional Group meeting

The next Southern BSO regional group meeting will be held on Tues 19 March 2024 at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambs., with the theme ‘Managing combined risks in biocontainment laboratories’.
Thanks to Richard Allen, Samantha McGuigan and the team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute for being the local hosts and providing the meeting theme and presenters.
The meeting will be ‘in person’ only and 60 attendees maximum, due to venue capacity and is aimed at BSOs and those with biosafety roles in London, the South-east and Southern regions of England.
An Eventbrite meeting site for bookings (and with further details) has opened here (or search for ‘Southern BSO’ at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/).


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Our partner organisation, the European Biosafety Association are holding their annual conference in May 2024 in the beautiful city of Antwerp.  See the EBSA website for more information.

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