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Constella Presents Five Posters at 2007 Association of Public Health Laboratories
Meeting
Constella was pleased to have five employees presenting posters at this
year’s Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Meeting, held
June 3-5 at the Hyatt Regency Riverfront Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida.
APHL is a non-profit organization that works to strengthen
public health laboratories in the US and around the world by advancing
laboratory systems and practices, and promoting policies that support
healthy communities. For more information about APHL and the organization’s
annual conference, visit APHL’s
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The annual APHL meeting attracts US, state, city and county public health
directors, environmental and agricultural lab directors, senior lab staff,
government and private lab personnel, and others interested in learning about
the latest issues related to laboratory sciences.
Topic areas for this year’s meeting included environmental issues,
emergency preparedness, informatics to food safety, and newborn screening and
global health. Constella’s posters, which were directly related to these
areas, included the following: (click on the links to see the posters)
- "Coordination
of Efforts for Developing Interdisciplinary Teams to Create Effective Guidelines
for Emergency Response Planning for the Laboratory" (PDF, 994
KB) — Co-authored and presented by Angela Mosley, Scientific/Technical
Manager
- " Recommendations
for Establishing an Effective Emergency Response Plan for Entities Possessing,
Using & Transferring Select Agents or Toxins " (PDF, 1.77
MB) — Co-authored and presented by Sabrina Frank-DeBose, Senior Laboratory
Scientist
- "Environmental
Sources of Salmonella" (PDF, 862 KB) — authored and presented
by Dr. Timothy Ravita, Scientific/Technical Manager
- "Biofilms:
Clinical and Industrial Issues" (PDF, 1.67 MB) — also authored
and presented by Dr. Timothy Ravita
- "Airborne
Monitoring of Bacteria and Fungi in the Indoor Air of Residential Homes" (PDF,
1.6 MB) — coauthored and presented by Dr. Ejem Ahanotu, Senior Laboratory
Scientist
All of the above authors/presenters work in the Laboratory
Sciences Division of Constella's Health Sciences business unit. Dr.
Ed Gaunt, who leads the Laboratory Sciences Division, also contributed to two
of the posters.
Learn more
about Constella's work in Laboratory Science.
