Global Biosecurity 2010: safeguarding agriculture and the environment
Global Biosecurity 2010: safeguarding agriculture and the environment is being organised collaboratively between the CRC for National Plant Biosecurity, Plant Health Australia, Invasive Animals CRC and Australian Biosecurity CRC for Emerging and Infectious Diseases.
Biosecurity has become a major economic issue of concern to international governments and to agricultural and environmental industries. It has emerged as a relatively new field of concern for researchers across a range of disciplines, spanning both the traditional sciences (such as pathology) and the social sciences (including economics, risk analysis and risk communication), and carries a range of concerns that are unique to the area. Despite its wide impact and complexities, there have, to date, been limited opportunities for scientific exchange (amongst researchers, and with end-users) around the central theme of biosecurity.
As such, Global Biosecurity 2010 will focus on current research themes and policy initiatives in agricultural and environmental biosecurity. Its aim is to provide a forum for biosecurity researchers and stakeholders to:
- workshop, network and exchange knowledge on agricultural and environmental biosecurity
- facilitate engagement and cross-fertilisation of ideas between researchers and their end-users (industry, regulators and other end-users), and
- build cross-disciplinary networks across all biosecurity related disciplines.
Planning for the conference is underway and the program will be developed in the new year including a call for abstracts.
Global Biosecurity 2010 will be held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre from 28 February 2010 - 3 March 2010.
For further information email biosecurity@con-sol.com
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