13th EWDA Conference – 27 – 31 August 2018 Larissa, Thessaly, Greece

Venue

The Conference will take place at the premises of University of Thessaly in Larissa. In particular, the Auditorium Hippocrates, the…

Travel to Larissa

Larissa is in the center of Greece and is the capital of the region Thessaly. It counts about 150.000 people,…

Accommodation

The organizing committee has contacted some wonderful hotels in the city of Larissa and negotiated rates for the 13th European…

Conference Events

[Updated] – Auction

[Updated] – EWDA Wildlife Health Surveillance Network meeting

Post Conference Tour

EWDA Pre-Conference Student Event

ECZM Annual Meeting

Student-Mentor-Mixer

Conference banquet

Excursion to Meteora

Invited Speakers

Dr Herve Zeller

"Wildlife and Vector-borne diseases in Europe"

Dr. Ruth Cromie

"How do we get action for a healthier planet? The lead ammunition case study"

Dr. Laskarina-Maria Korou

“Current epidemiological data for Rabies in Greece. Steps to eradicate the disease”

Final Program - Timetable

Final Program

13:00-20:00 EWDA Wildlife Health Surveillance Network meeting

Amphitheater 1, Faculty of Medicine Building, 2^nd floor
13:00-14:00 Welcome Coffee
14:00-14:05	Welcome and introduction (Thijs Kuiken)
14:05-14:15	Overview of wildlife health surveillance in Europe as of 2009 (Thijs Kuiken)
14:15-14:30	Review of requirements of a wildlife health surveillance programme (Marie-Pierre Ryser)
14:30-15:30	Start-up and growth spurts of established wildlife health surveillance systems in a selected number of countries, part 1 (4 x 15 min; Paul Tavernier, Belgium; Antonio Lavazza, Italy; Jorge Lopez, Spain; Marie-Pierre Ryser, Switzerland)
15:30-16:00	Break and Poster Viewing
16:00-16:30	Start-up and growth spurts of established wildlife health surveillance programmes in a selected number of countries, part 2 (2 x 15 min; Jolianne Rijks, The Netherlands; Becki Lawson and Paul Duff, U.K.)
16:30-17:15	Panel discussion: what worked, what didn’t? (Panel: all speakers on start-up and growth spurts of established programmes. Chair: Thijs Kuiken)
17:15-17:45 Break and Poster Viewing
17:45-19:00	Situation reports of a selected number of countries who wish to start a wildlife health surveillance programme (5 x 15 min; Kastriot Korro, Albania; Daniel Mladenov, Bulgaria; Gudrun Wibbelt, Germany; Charalambos Billinis, Greece; Sara Sevic, Serbia)
19:00-19:45	Panel discussion: how to get started? (Panel: all speakers on countries wishing to start a programme . Chair: Thijs Kuiken)
19:45-20:00	Concluding remarks (Thijs Kuiken)

Available Soon
ECZM Annual Meeting
09:00 to 21:00
EWDA pre-conference Students Event…[click for Programme]…

All Day – 13th EWDA Conference Workshops

TIME	VENUE	WORKSHOPS
10:00-18:00	Dep. of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, Un. Thessaly, Volos & visit to the sea	Marine Priority Habitats and species: Applied biomonitoring in Marine Protected Areas and the special-case of Marine Mammals
09:00-17:00	Classroom 1, Faculty of Medicine Building -3^rd Floor	2nd EWDA Wildlife Histopathology Workshop
08:30-18:00	Computers Classroom, Library Building-1^st Floor & Visit to LAke Karla	Methods to investigate the association between wildlife and human cases in a zoonotic disease outbreak; the WNV example
10:00-14:00	Classroom 2, Faculty of Medicine Building-3rd Floor	Wildlife disease monitoring: techniques and Cost-benefit trade-offs analysis
09:00-13:00	Classroom 3, Faculty of Medicine Building-3rd Floor	Disease Risk Analysis for Translocations

Available Soon
ECZM Annual Meeting
Available Soon
ECZM Dinner

Tuesday, August 28

08:00 – 19:00	Registration – submission of auction objects (Registration Desk, Foyer)
08:15 – 08:30	Welcome (Hippocrates Auditorium)
MORNING SESSION I: Wildlife Health, Management and Conservation \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Thomas Tully and Becki Lawson
08:30 – 09:15	Keynote: How do we get action for a healthier planet? The lead ammunition case study. Ruth Cromie
09:15 – 09:30	British Veterinary Zoological Society (BVZS) Good Practice Guidelines for Wildlife Rehabilitation Centres. Elizabeth Mullineaux
09:30 – 09:45	OIEparser: The data management tool for OIE-listed diseases. Katalin Maria Horvath
09:45 – 10:00	Reestablishment of a non-migratory flock of whooping cranes (Grus americana) in Louisiana, USA. Thomas N. Tully
10:00 – 10:15	The Great Tit Parus major pox disease in France: evidence of emergence and spatio-temporal distributions from citizen science-based data. Phillippe Gourlay
10:15 – 10:30	Spatio-temporal dynamics and aetiology of proliferative leg skin lesions in wild British finches. Becki Lawson
10:30 – 10:45	Investigation of mass mortality in Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea) at a breeding colony in Wales. Paul Holmes
10:45 – 11:00	Prevalence of avian influenza and Newcastle disease viruses in local populations of wild birds in contact with Houbara bustards conservation breeding programmes in the United Arab Emirates. Julien Hirschinger
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break(Foyer) \| Auction team meeting
MORNING SESSION II: Wildlife Health, Management and Conservation \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Erik Ågren and Miriam Maas
11:30 – 11:45	Disease and health implications of free living wildlife on a captive zoo population. Debbie Myers
11:45 – 12:00	Histopathological study of eye tissues from semi-domesticated reindeer with infectious keratoconjunctivitis caused by cervid herpesvirus 2 in an experimental setting. Javier Sánchez Romano
12:00 – 12:15	Spatiotemporal spread of sarcoptic mange in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and other wild carnivores in Switzerland. Simone R. R. Pisano
12:15 – 12:30	Epidemiological study of Dichelobacter nodosus in free ranging Alpine ibex (Capra ibex ibex) and other potential hosts: identifying maintenance hosts and risk factors for infection. Gaia Moore-Jones
12:30 – 12:45	Disease risk analysis for the western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville). Rebecca Vaughan-Higgins
12:45 – 13:00	Epidemiological analysis of Aujeszky disease in wild boar in Italy. Stefania Calο’
13:00 – 13:15	Plasticosis from intact and micronizing plastic in birds, reptiles and mammals, including humans. Branson W. Ritchie
13:15 –14:45	Lunch (Venue Restaurant)
AFTERNOON SESSION I: Genetics-Disease Association \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Marie-Pierre Ryser-Degiorgis & Zissis Mamuris
14:45 – 15:00	An update on the puzzling world of human and animal pathogenic treponemes. Sascha Knauf
15:00 – 15:15	Does stress impair healthy aging? Relationship between stress and telomere length in roe deer. Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont
15:15 – 15:30	MHC class II DQA locus variation in the species of European Brown hare: pathogen-driven genetic differentiation. Themistoklis Giannoulis
15:30 – 15:45	Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus (EEHV) infection in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) possible correlated hereditary coagulation disorder. Sónia Alexandra de Jesus Fontes
15:45 – 16:00	Genomic response to experimental infestation with Sarcoptes scabiei in Iberian ibex. Arián Ráez Bravo
16:00 – 16:15	High prevalence of heart anomalies of suspected genetic origin in a reintroduced Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) population, Switzerland. Marie-Pierre Ryser-Degiorgis
16:15 – 17:15	Coffee break and poster session (Foyer) See more…
AFTERNOON SESSION II: Health and conservation of neglected species (focus: bats) \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Lineke Begeman & Gudrun Wibbelt
17:15 – 17:30	Landscape immunology across the range of a widespread Neotropical bat species. Gábor Á. Czirják
17:30 – 17:45	Disease ecology of Lyssaviruses in the greater mouse-eared bat from South Tyrol (Italy). Stefania Leopardi
17:45 – 18:00	Vector-borne pathogens in tissues of bats from Central and Eastern Europe. Alexandra Corduneanu
18:00 – 18:15	Passive surveillance of bat lyssavirus infections in the Netherlands, a three decade overview. E.A. (Bart) Kooi
18:15 – 18:30	A passive surveillance for emerging viruses in bats in Italy- Implications for Public Health and biological conservation. Antonio Lavazza
18:30 – 18:45	Detection and characterisation of multiple herpesviruses in free-living Western European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus). Helle Bernstorf Hydeskov
18:45 – 19:00	Does bat diversity explain Ebola spillover? Julie Shapiro
19:00 – 19:15	Is stress caused by anthropogenic changes responsible for virus spillover from bats to other species? Vikram Misra

19:15 – 19:25	WDA looks to the future. Richard Kock
19:25–19:30	EWDA Student Chapter. Anna Hillegonda Baauw
19:30 – 19:45	Opening Address (Hippocrates Auditorium)
19:45 – 20:45	EWDA AGM (Hippocrates Auditorium)
21:00	Welcome dinner (Venue Restaurant)

Wednesday, August 29

08:00-15:30	Scheduled excursion to Meteora (lunch included)
	Meeting point: Larissa Central Square, Kyprou & Filellinon str.
AFTERNOON SESSION I: Aquatic animals and ecosystems \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Aleksija Neimanis and Anastasia Komnenou
16:00 – 16:15	Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) predation on marine mammals in German waters. Stephanie Gross
16:15 – 16:30	Antibiotic resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae causing illness in juvenile common seals (Phoca vitulina) on the East coast of England. J Paul Duff
16:30 – 16:45	Genome-wide screening and functional MHC components reveals susceptibility to lungworms in female striped dolphins. Georgios A. Gkafas
16:45 – 17:00	So why do they strand? What we know from 25 years of marine mammal surveillance in the UK. Andrew Brownlow
17:00 – 17:15	Toxoplasmosis in free-ranging Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) from Switzerland. Samoa Zürcher-Giovannini
17:15 – 17:30	Surprisingly Long Lungworms from Common Seals of the Dutch North Sea. Jocelyn Elson-Riggins
17:30 – 18:15	Coffee break and poster session (Foyer)See more…
AFTERNOON SESSION II: Aquatic animals and ecosystems \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Aleksija Neimanis and Athanasios Exadactylos
18:15 – 18:30	Clinical Significance of Uncinaria spp in Orphan Mediterranean Monk Seal Pups in Greece. Komnenou Anastasia
18:30 – 18:45	Vomiting in seals indication of bycatch? Jooske IJzer
18:45 – 19:00	Changing ecosystem dynamics: Increasing evidence of direct lethal, indirect lethal and non-lethal interactions between grey seals and harbour porpoises. Lonneke L. IJsseldijk
19:00 – 19:15	Dead useful; Separating the Signal from the Noise through Marine Mammal Strandings Surveillance. Mariel ten Doeschate
19:15 – 19:30	Marine debris and plastic pollution – an emerging non-infectious threat to aquatic wildlife and human health. Anja Reckendorf

21:00	Student-Mentor-Mixer (“Klimax”, Ifaistou & Eleftheriou Venizelou, Larissa)

Thursday, August 30

08:00 – 13:00	Registration – submission of auction objects (Registration Desk, Foyer)
MORNING SESSION I: Vector Borne Diseases \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Nikos Papadopoulos and Károly Erdélyi
08:30 – 09:15 Keynote: Wildlife and Vector-borne diseases in Europe. Herve Zeller
09:15 – 09:30	National-wide survey for vector-borne pathogens in wild and domestic canines and associated ticks and fleas in Chile. Javier Millán
09:30 – 09:45	A survey of tick-borne pathogens in ixodid ticks and their wild boar hosts in the Barcelona metropolitan area. Raquel Castillo-Contreras
09:45 – 10:00	Landscape and invasive species effects on infection dynamics of Bartonella in indigenous rodents from southern Africa. Luiza Hatyoka
10:00 – 10:15	Understanding wildlife disease requires good host data: wild boar and ASF risk. Graham Smith
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee break (Foyer)
MORNING SESSION II: Vector Borne Diseases \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Nikos Papadopoulos and Károly Erdélyi
10:45 – 11:00	Pathogenic potential of Bagaza virus in tree Phasianid species: red-legged partridge, grey partridge and common pheasant. Elisa Pérez-Ramírez
11:00 – 11:15	Past and current features of Usutu virus circulation in Hungary and Austria. Károly Erdélyi
11:15 – 11:30	Seasonal longevity of the West Nile virus vector mosquito Culex pipiens. Nikos Papadopoulos
11:30 – 11:45	Magpies and West Nile Virus: Reservoir or Sentinel? Ursula Höfle
11:45 – 12:00	First report of massive deaths in wild birds with neurological signs due to West Nile Virus infection during an epizootic outbreak in Peloponnesus, Greece, 2017. George Valiakos
MORNING SESSION III: Wildlife tuberculosis: epidemiology and control \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Christian Gortázar Schmidt and Richard Delahay
12:00 – 12:15	Combining long-term testing and ecological data to improve the accuracy of disease diagnosis: An example from a long-term study of tuberculosis in wild badgers in the UK. Julian Drewe
12:15 – 12:30	Temporal and spatial distribution of antibodies against Mycobacterium bovis in wild boar (Sus scrofa) in the Basque Country (Northern Spain). Lucía Varela Castro
12:30 – 12:45	Assessment of BCG and inactivated Mycobacterium bovis vaccines in an experimental tuberculosis infection model in European badger (Meles meles). Ana Balseiro
12:45 – 13:00	TB maintenance community: investigation on the role of red foxes. Céline Richomme
13:00 – 13:15	The big bad wolf helping Spanish farmers – a tale on predation and tuberculosis. Christian Gortazar
13:15 – 14:45	Lunch (Venue Restaurant)
AFTERNOON SESSION I: Wildlife tuberculosis: epidemiology and control \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Christian Gortázar Schmidt and Richard Delahay
14:45 – 15:00	Host heterogeneity and TB dynamics in badgers. Richard (Dez) Delahay
15:00 – 15:15	A compartmental dynamic model for Mycobacterium bovis transmission between badger and cattle in south-western France. Malika Bouchez-Zacria
15:15 – 15:30	Surveillance of wildlife tuberculosis in Catalonia (Spain), a low prevalent area of bovine tuberculosis, 2012-2018. Bernat Pérez de Val
15:30 – 15:45	Quantitative characterization of the community of tuberculosis-infected hosts in the Iberian Peninsula. Nuno Santos
15:45 – 16:00	Progress towards the development of an oral vaccine against TB in badgers. Sandrine Lesellier
AFTERNOON SESSION II: Emerging and re-emerging diseases \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Morten Tryland and Efthimia Petinaki
16:00 – 16:15	Mongolian khulan (Equus hemionus hemionus) are exposed to multiple influenza A strains. Sanatana Eirini Soilemetzidou
16:15 – 16:30	Bufonid Herpesvirus 1 – Associated proliferative dermatitis in free-ranging common toads (Bufo bufo). Francesco C. Origgi
16:30 – 16:45	Serological survey of hepatitis E virus in hunted wild boar (Sus scrofa) in Gipuzkoa (Northern Spain). Miriam Martinez de Egidua
16:45 – 17:00	Lagovirus europaeus GI.2 (Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2) in an isolated population of mountain hares (Lepus timidus) expands the host range of GI.2. Aleksija Neimanis
17:00– 18:00	Coffee break and poster session (Foyer)See more…
AFTERNOON SESSION III: Emerging and re-emerging diseases \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Morten Tryland and Efthimia Petinaki
18:00 -18:15	The occurrence of the moose nasal bot fly (Cephenemyia ulrichii) in Norway—an emerging disease? Andrea L Miller
18:15 – 18:30	Serological screening for viral pathogens among semi-domesticated Eurasian tundra reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) from eight reindeer herding districts in Norway. Morten Tryland
18:30 – 18:45	Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) as a great threat to wild ungulates in the Asian Continent. Sasan Fereidouni
18:45 – 19:00	Chronic Wasting Disease in Norway: an update on surveillance, research and disease development. Jørn Våge
19:00 – 19:15	The background for the management of CWD in Norway – scientific reasoning with high degree of uncertainty. Bjørnar Ytrehus
16:00-19:00	Silent Auction (Conference Room, Faculty of Medicine Building-2nd Floor)
19:30	Auction (Foyer)

Friday, August 31

08:30 – 10:00	Registration (Registration Desk, Foyer)
MORNING SESSION I: Wildlife and Public Health \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Thijs Kuiken and Riccardo Orusa
08:45 – 09:30	Keynote: Current epidemiological data for Rabies in Greece. Steps to eradicate the disease. Laskarina-Maria Korou
09:30 – 09:45	“Working in Silo” & “Path Dependence”: Relevance for a global Management of Wildlife and Health. Marc Artois
09:45 – 10:00	Antimicrobial resistance in wildlife species: the potential for sentinel surveillance in a ONE HEALTH perspective. Carlos G. das Neves
10:00 – 10:15	New tools to face old problems: Whole genome sequencing for a better insight into an outbreak of Salmonella serovar Choleraesuis var. Kunzedorf. Carlo Vittorio Citterio
10:15 – 10:30	Invasive species as a risk for public health: raccoon dogs and raccoons in the Netherlands. Miriam Maas
10:30 – 10:45	Non-invasive blood sampling methods in zoo animals with use of medicine leeches (Hirudo Medicinalis). Pavel Kvapil
10:45 – 11:15	Coffee break (Foyer)
MORNING SESSION II: Wildlife and Public Health \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Marc Artois and James Paul Duff
11:15 – 11:30	Pathogen screening of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus). Rainer G. Ulrich
11:30 – 11:45	Chlamydiaceae in wild, feral and domesticated pigeons in Switzerland. Prisca Mattmann
11:45 – 12:00	Measuring the distribution of tick-borne encephalitis virus circulation in low endemic areas using serological screening of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus). Jolianne M. Rijks
12:00 – 12:15	Jackals’ rabies outbreak, Israel 2017-18: Has the ORV failed? Roni King
12:15 – 12:30	Oral Vaccination of Wildlife against Rabies in Europe; Past, present and future. Ferenc Kovacs
12:30 – 13:45	Lunch(Venue Restaurant)
AFTERNOON SESSION I: Wildlife Health, Management and Conservation \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Jolianne M. Rijks and Ursula Höfle
14:00 – 14:15	Invasive turtles as a threat for environment and source and vector of animal and human pathogens. Dariusz Wasyl
14:15 – 14:30	Comparison of three methods to characterize bushpig visits into crop fields in an African swine fever endemic area of Uganda. Ariane Payne
14:30 – 14:45	Radiographic Evaluation of Thoracic Girdle Fractures in Wild Passerine Cadavers after Presumptive Window Collisions. João Brandão
14:45 – 15:00	Pregnancy diagnosis of Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in high arctic conditions. Eva Greunz
15:00 – 15:15	Defining animal welfare standards for hunting based on body mass and flight distance. Bjørnar Ytrehus
15:15 – 15:30	Unraveling the potential causes of secondary hyperparathyroidism in free-living nestling white storks (Ciconia ciconia) from Central Spain. Ursula Höfle
15:30 – 16:15	Coffee break and poster session(Foyer)See more…
AFTERNOON SESSION II: Evidence of direct infection between species at the human-free-ranging wildlife-livestock interface in Europe \| Hippocrates Auditorium
Chairs: Richard Kock and Sophie Rossi
16:15 – 16:30	Cattle Egret as a potential reservoir of avian pathogens in South-West France. Guillaume Le Loc’h
16:30 – 16:45	Comparison of Rev.1 live vaccine innocuousness between Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) and domestic goats (Capra hircus): an unexpected strong species effect. Sophie Rossi
16:45 – 17:00	Few wild birds – many domestic outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N8 during the 2016-2017 epizootic: the French paradox. Anne Van de Wiele
17:00 – 17:15	Virulence and excretion dynamics of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of the Goose/Guangdong lineage in experimentally infected wild ducks. Thijs Kuiken
17:15 – 17:30	Closing address (Hippocrates Auditorium)

19:00	Travel to Volos (Meeting point: Larissa Central Square, Kyprou & Filellinon str.)
20:00	Conference Banquet (“Rivaz”, Volos)