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)