{"id":13246,"date":"2018-05-16T09:13:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=13246"},"modified":"2018-05-16T09:13:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:13:11","slug":"mokan-nama-and-the-national-bio-and-agro-defense-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=13246","title":{"rendered":"MoKan NAMA and the National Bio and Agro-defense Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKan-5-9-18-IMG_3213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKan-5-9-18-IMG_3213-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-5-9-18-IMG_3213-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-5-9-18-IMG_3213-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-5-9-18-IMG_3213-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKan-5-9-18-IMG_3215.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKan-5-9-18-IMG_3215-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-5-9-18-IMG_3215-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-5-9-18-IMG_3215-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKan-5-9-18-IMG_3215-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKn-5-9-18-IMG_3207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/MoKn-5-9-18-IMG_3207-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKn-5-9-18-IMG_3207-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKn-5-9-18-IMG_3207-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/MoKn-5-9-18-IMG_3207-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On May 9, 2018 the MoKan NAMA chapter hosted four representatives from Kansas State University for a panel discussion about the National Bio and Agro-defense Facility, or NBAF, that is currently under construction in Manhattan, KS.<\/p>\n<p>NBAF is the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foremost animal disease research facility and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0on Kansas State University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Manhattan campus, placing it within the Kansas City Animal Health Corridor.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a state-of-the-art, biocontainment laboratory for the study of diseases that threaten both America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s animal agricultural industry and public health. The NBAF will strengthen our nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to conduct research, develop vaccines, diagnose emerging diseases and train veterinarians.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ksu.edu\/nbaf\">www.ksu.edu\/nbaf<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>or contact R.W. Trewyn, Ph.D, National Bio\u00c2\u00a0and Agro-defense Facility Liaison, Kansas State University, at <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"mailto:trewyn@ksu.edu\"><strong>trewyn@ksu.edu<\/strong><\/a><\/span><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 9, 2018 the MoKan NAMA chapter hosted four representatives from Kansas State University for a panel discussion about the National Bio and Agro-defense Facility, or NBAF, that is currently under construction in Manhattan, KS. NBAF is the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foremost animal disease research facility and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0on Kansas State University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Manhattan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13251,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions\/13251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}