Presentations

2017

Stephen Higgs delivered a presentation at the CBEP Ukraine Regional One Health Research Symposium and Peer Review Session in Kiev, Ukraine, while serving as a subject matter expert for the Science Writing Mentorship Program (SWMP), 4/28/17.

"Ag Large Animal BSL-2 Research." Julie Johnson. Presymposium course at the USDA ARS 4th International Biosafety & Biocontainment Symposium: Global Biorisk Challenges - Agriculture and Beyond, Baltimore, MD, 2/6-2/9/17.

"Biological Hazard Safety and Security." Erin Smith. Midwestern Higher Education Compact. 19th Annual Loss Control Workshop for the Master Property Program, St. Louis, MO.

"Facility Operational Biosafety." John Henneman. Presymposium course at the USDA ARS 4th International Biosafety & Biocontainment Symposium: Global Biorisk Challenges - Agriculture and Beyond, Baltimore, MD, 2/6-2/9/17.

"Large Animal Facilities and Containment. Erin Smith. Biosafety and Biosecurity Training Course, Fort Collins, CO.

"Overview of the K-State Biosecurity Research Institute's Laboratory Safety Survey Program and Process for Corrective Actions." Julie Johnson. Roundtable presentation, Midwest Biosafety Network 13th Annual Symposium, Iowa City, Iowa, 8/09/2017.

2016

"Determining the susceptibility of Amercan Culex mosquitoes to Japanese encephalitis virus." Dana Vanlandingham. American Mosquito Control Association 82nd Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, USA.

"Japanese encephalitis virus in North American Culex pipiens." Yan-Jang S. Huang. The ASV 35th Annual Meeting, Blacksburg, VA, USA.

2015

"Chinkungunya in the Americas: the Recent Spread from Africa and Asia to the Americas." Dana Vanlandingham. Animal Research Symposium, Kansas City, MO, USA.

"Chikungunya virus: a mosquito-borne virus new to the Americas." Stephen Higgs. Vanderbilt University Department of Biological Sciences, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

"Disease on the 21st Century Map." Stephen Higgs. Ghost Mapping: A Public Lecture Series, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.

"How to Fit a Square Peg into a Round Hole: Complying with regulatory requirements in a BSL-3Ag facility." Erin Smith. ABSA Conference, Providence, RI.

"The Emergence of Chikungunya in the Americas." Stephen Higgs. Singapore's 2nd One Health Symposium, Singapore.

"The Role of Aedes albopictus in chikungunya virus transmission." Stephen Higgs. Entomological Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

2014

"Kansas State University's Biosecurity Research Institute." Stephen Higgs. South China Agricultural University of Veterinary Medicine, Guangzhou, China and Qinghua University, Beijing, China.

"Summary of current chikungunya epidemiology/research and perspectives for future activity." Stephen Higgs. Symposium 76: Detection of chikungunya in the Western hemisphere-current situation and prospects for the future, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 63rd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.

2013

"Chikungunya virus." Stephen Higgs. Scientific Advisory Panel Meeting, Environmental Health Institute, Singapore.

"Holy Beef Combos Batman." Erin Smith. ABSA Conference, Kansas City, MO.

"Implementing the New Tier 1 Regulations at Kansas State University's Biosecurity Research Institute. Erin Smith. ABSA Conference, Kansas City, MO.

"Phenotypic characterization of yellow fever virus containing two point mutations in the envelope protein domain I and domain II." Yan-Jang S. Huang. The ASTMH 62 Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA.

2012

"Evaluation of point mutations in the attenuation of yellow fever virus." Yan-Jang S. Huang. the ASTMH 61st Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA.

"Got Gas? Chlorine Dioxide or Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide: Which one is right for you?" Megan Sawyer, Joy Pierzynski, and Megan Trapp. American Biological Safety Association.

"KSU's Operating Assurance Model for Safety and Research Quality"(pdf). Scott Rusk.TRADELINE 2012 International Conference on Biocontainment Facilities Download abstract.

"Virus-Vector-Vertebrate Interactions." Stephen Higgs. Society for General Microbiology Spring Conference, Dublin Ireland.