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Carrie A Smith

Carrie Smith is the Biological Safety Officer at the National Wildlife Health Center. She helps support research and diagnostics with problematic and emerging wildlife pathogens and biological toxins.

Professional Experience

  • 2017-present, USGS National Wildlife Health Center, Biological Safety Officer

  • 2012-2017, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biological Safety Professional

  • 2009-2012, Oklahoma State University, Biological Safety Officer

Education and Certifications

  • Ph.D. Genetics, North Carolina State University, 2007

  • B.S. Biology, University of Delaware, 2002

Affiliations and Memberships*

  • American Biological Safety Association, International

Science and Products

Outside the box: Working with wildlife in biocontainment

Research with captive wildlife in Animal Biosafety Level 2 (ABSL2) and 3 (ABSL3) facilities is becoming increasingly necessary as emerging and re-emerging diseases involving wildlife have increasing impacts on human, animal, and environmental health. Utilizing wildlife species in a research facility often requires outside the box thinking with specialized knowledge, practices, facilities, and equi
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Ecosystems, National Wildlife Health Center

Inactivation of viable surrogates for the select agents virulent Newcastle disease virus and highly pathogenic avian influenza virus using either commercial lysis buffer or heat

Introduction:Federal Select Agent Program regulations require laboratories to document a validated procedure for inactivating select agents prior to movement outside registered space. Avian influenza viruses and virulent Newcastle disease virus (vNDV) are cultured in chicken amnio-allantoic fluid (AAF), but the efficacy of commercial lysis buffers to inactivate viruses in protein-rich media has no
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Ecosystems, National Wildlife Health Center

Science and Products

*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government