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Welcome to SCASM

Since 1936, the Southern California Branch of the American Society for Microbiology (SCASM) has promoted microbiology education and research in Southern California through meetings, discussions, newsletters, and publications. Our members represent the many diverse areas of microbiology including clinical, public health, environmental, basic research, education, industrial, food safety, veterinary, and more.

CURRENT EVENTS
  • Stay tuned for upcoming information regarding the 74th Annual SCASM meeting in La Jolla, California November 4-6, 2010.  Highlights of the event will include awards of 10 paid registrations - including hotel expenses, 2 days of EXPO with great prizes, and a President's Reception at the Scripps Aquarium.
     
  • Check out the SCASM January 2010 Newsletter for the latest news, events, and information.
     
  • Please welcome our newly elected SCASM Officers and wish them all the best in their new term of office:
President: Diane Citron, M (ASCP)
President Elect: Margie Morgan, Ph.D.
Treasurer: Maurice Exner, Ph.D.
Secretary: Sally Field, B.S.
Term of Office: July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2011

Free Seminar offering 6.0 contact hours of Continuing Education:

In this era of natural and human-made biological emergencies, from terrorism to pandemic influenza, it is
essential that laboratories be safe and secure. The biosafety sessions of this program will identify key concerns of
laboratory biosafety, focusing on biosafety level 3 (BSL3) practices in a BSL2 environment, proper use of personal
protection equipment (PPE), biological safety cabinets (BSCs), and conducting risk assessments. The biosecurity
session will present laboratory security principles described in the 5th edition of Biosafety in Microbiological and
Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL). You will also learn how to conduct vulnerability assessments and develop a good
biosecurity plan. Finally, through the use of case studies and activities, you will be able to apply these principles and
concepts to the clinical laboratory.

Continuing Education
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in
the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program. Participants who successfully complete this
program will be awarded 6.0 contact hours.

For additional information regarding registration for one of these educational seminars, please click HERE to download an a program brochure.

 

 

THANK YOU!

Many thanks to our sustaining members and annual meeting contributors! To join SCASM, contribute as a sustaining member, or renew your current membership, visit our Become a Member page.

 

A special thank you to Susan Novak-Weekly and Mickey Amos for their many hours of hard work to make this year's Annual Meeting another big success!!

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