Marie graduated at the University of Eastern Philippines, Magna Cum Laude with Bachelor's degree in Biology. She first entered NIMBB as Project Development Officer in 2007 and was also involved in the NIH Enteric Disease Study Group under the Institute.
She is currently working on the project "Low-Cost and Low-Technology Diagnostics for Dengue Virus Infections in the Philippines (The Biotek-M Project)" funded by the Philippine Council on Health Research Development, as a Science Research Specialist.
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Kristine Marie Flores-Destura
The UPM - IBBC is organizing a Training Program for Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity Officers to commence in the second quarter of 2016. The main objective of the program is to develop a pool of local trainers who will undertake advocacy and continuing education on laboratory biosafety and biosecurity. At the end of the training, the trainers are expected to be competent in the following areas:
*Biosafety and biosecurity risk assessment *Laboratory vivarium Biosafety and Biosecurity *Biocontainment practices and procedures *Biocontainment facilities *Use of safety equipment *Incident response procedures *Infectious substance transport *Biosafety program management *Management of transgenic materials *Regulatory framework of transgenic materials
The training will entail at least ten modules, each of which with duration of two weeks, scheduled on July 18-29, 2016; September 18- October 1, 2016; and November 20- December 3, 2016.
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