MeRTEC Three I's Biosecurity and Research Integrity

THREE I'S BIOSECURITY AND RESEARCH INTEGRITY
Promoting the responsible conduct of research, partnership, ethics, best practices and the exploration of current trends

When: May 1 - 3, 2024
Where: Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel, New Hampshire
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For the past 25 years, MeRTEC, along with the MSMR, NCABR and the FBI WMD, have hosted the Three I's conference for promoting responsible conduct in ethics. This event is an outstanding educational, networking and training opportunity for compliance professionals.

In the field of ethics, collaboration is vital among the three I's committees: IACUCs, IBCs and IRBs. It can reduce redundancies and make it easier for the investigators to stay within compliance procedure. By establishing these procedures, professionals are able to conduct research – safely, responsibly, ethically and securely – while helping to identify and communicate compliance and security concerns.

Keynote:
Meg A. Younger, PhD (she/her)

Meg received a BS in Neural Science in 2004 from New York University. As an undergraduate, she worked with Justin Blau at New York University on circadian rhythms in Drosophila and with David Spray at Albert Einstein College of Medicine on mammalian gap junction channels. She then earned a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco in 2013, working with Graeme Davis, where she studied the homeostatic regulation of neurotransmitter release in Drosophila. She conducted her postdoctoral research with Leslie Vosshall at the Rockefeller University/HHMI where she focused on the neurobiology Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Her postdoctoral work combined genetic approaches, neuroanatomy, and two-photon calcium imaging to study the mosquito sensory neurobiology that underlies two reproductive behaviors, the search for a person to bite and the selection of a site to lay eggs. Meg joined the Boston University faculty in January of 2022. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology and an affiliate of Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Center for Systems Neuroscience, and the Neurophotonics Center. Her lab’s focus is on the neurobiology of olfaction in deadly insects.

Meg was awarded the Sherrington, Charles Barbeiri, and Phi Beta Kappa Research prizes for her undergraduate research and a Genentech Fellowship for her graduate work. She was a 2014 Grass Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She was awarded a Leon Levy Neuroscience Fellowship in 2015, a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2016, and a Kavli Neural Systems Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2018. In 2022 Meg was named a Searle Scholar and a recipient of a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience. In 2023 she received a Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research and she was recently named a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow.

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