Looking for biosecurity intro slides & workshop formats

By Erik Jentzen @ 2026-08-11T11:45 (+2)

We're building a biosecurity talent pipeline in Switzerland, anchored mainly at ETH Zurich. The plan for the fall/winter semester is a series of four to six sessions, 60–90 minutes each, introductory level. Each session stands on its own, no prior knowledge and no dependency on earlier sessions. In our experience a format like this is a good way to find people who are genuinely interested and can then move on to fellowships or in-depth paper reading groups.

Current shortlist:

• Engineered pandemics & deliberate misuse
• AI × Bio (uplift, evals, safeguards)
• Nucleic acid synthesis screening
• Mirror bacteria
• Transmission suppression (PPE, clean air, far-UVC)
• Defence in depth (cG framework)

Still open to other GCBR topics.

Before we build decks from scratch: does anyone have slides, session outlines or workshop formats they'd be willing to share? It doesn't need to be a pure presentation,  workshops and interactive formats are just as welcome.

If a recording exists alongside the slides, that would be amazing. Slides on their own often don't make the intended storyline clear, and a recording makes the material far easier to reuse well.

Happy to credit sources and share back anything we improve. Reach me at erik@effectivealtruism.ch.