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) |