Invited Speakers: 

• Pathobiology and transmission pathways of clade 2.3.4.4b in birds and mammals
  • Kateri Bertran, IRTA Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology
• Tamiru Alkie, Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Oral Abstracts: 

• A Novel Biobanking Platform for Rapid Phenotyping of Avian Influenza Virus in Diverse Avian Tissues
  • Alessandra Napolitan, Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua
• Antigenic characterisation of H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b highly pathogenic avian influenza virus under immunological pressure
  • Jasmina Luczo, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
• Comparative tissue tropism and pathology of clade 2.3.4.4b highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza A virus across North American avian species
  • Tori Andreasen, Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, University of Georgia
• Exploring the impacts of highly pathogenic avian influenza on wild birds and the implications for transmission at multiple interfaces
  • Diann Prosser, USGS, Eastern Ecological Science Center