Membership
The minimum number of members required for an IBC.
What is no fewer than 5 members?
These emergency plans cover accidental spills and personnel contamination resulting from recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecule research.
What are spill response plans?
The program that handles enrollment in occupational health, provides pre-exposure vaccinations as available,and post-exposure prophylaxis at UGA.
What is the Research Occupational Health and Safety Program?
This section of the NIH Guidelines classifies human etiologic agents on the basis of hazard.
What is Appendix B?
IBC meetings are scheduled on this day each month.
What is the fourth Thursday of every month?
The number of plant containment experts required to be on the IBC if the institution is engaged in research involving recombinantly modified plants or plant pathogens.
What is one Plant Containment Expert?
This is how the IBC notifies the principal investigator of the results of the IBC's review and approval.
What is issuing an authorization letter?
ABSO is an acronym for this...
What is Associate Biosafety Officer?
This section is entitled "Experiments Covered by the NIH Guidelines".
What is Section III?
This person is the Chair of the IBC.
Who is Eric Lafontaine?
The number of IBC members that must be appointed if the institution engages in research involving the use of transgenic animals or animals injected with recombinant DNA or rDNA modified organisms.
What is one animal containment expert?
Reviewing recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid research conducted at or sponsored by the institution for compliance with the NIH Guidelines.
What is the primary role of the Institutional Biosafety Committee?
This office oversees use of biohazardous materials that may harm humans, animals, plants or the environment, manages the compliance activities of the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), and administers the Select Agent and Toxin Program (SAP) for UGA’s main campus facilities.
What is the Office of Biosafety?
This specific section of the NIH Guidelines permits IBCs to lower containment for certain experiments.
What is Section III-D-2-a?
These members are unaffiliated community members of the committee.
Who are Jack King and Dan Hope?
The minimum number of IBC members that must be unaffiliated with the institution, apart from their membership on the IBC, and who represent the interests of the surrounding community with respect to health and protection of the environment.
What is two community members?
Under the NIH Guidelines, this is one of the responsibilities of the institution.
What is establish an Institutional Biosafety Committee?
ORIS is an acronym for this ...
What is the Office of Research Integrity and Safety?
This section of the guidelines describes containment practices for recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid research involving plants in the greenhouse setting.
What is Appendix P?
DURC is an acronym for ...
What is dual use research of concern?
The activities conducted at an institution that require the appointment of a Biosafety Officer to the IBC.
What is large scale recombinant , BSL-3 or BSL-4 work?
Under the NIH Guidelines, this is one of the responsibilities of the IBC.
What is setting containment levels as specified in Section III-D-4-b, Experiments Involving Whole Animals, and Section III-D-5, Experiments Involving Whole Plants?
This section of the NIH Guidelines describes for physical containment for large scale uses of organisms containing recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules.
What is Appendix K?
This person is your favorite IBC Coordinator.
Who is Nancy Mead?