1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Trainee Workshop: The Mission, the Message and the Medium: Science and risk Communication in a complex world In this session, we will explore ways to communicate about risk effectively. Through collaborative and interactive activites, participants will:
- gain a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between risk and non-risk communications
- identify and prioritze target audiences
- develop messages to mobilize knowledge
- select and utilize an appropriate medium
Offered by Drs. Kaylee Byers and Chelsea Himsworth
Kaylee and Chelsea are scientists for whom communication is a vital component of their research, teaching and practice. They have developed and delivered workshops, courses, and written a textbook on science and risk communication. They believe that scientists can and should be great communicators! |
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Trainee - Mentor Networking Event Are you a trainee wanting to learn about potential career trajectories, triumphs, and troubles?
Are you a scientist willing to share your professional journey and the wisdoms you have learned along the way? If you answered ‘yes’ to either of these questions, please join us for this structured networking session!
During registration, you will be asked to submit a photo, brief biography, and area of focus for research. This information will be collated into a dossier and printed for distribution to all participants at the start of the event. The dossier will help participants to remember and connect with those they met and those they would still like to meet. |
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Registration |
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Welcome remarks |
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | Session 1: Global Reports on Avian Influenza
- Global reports on avian influenza: North America
- Mia Kim Torchetti, National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA, Ames, IA, 50010, USA
- Global reports on avian influenza: South America
- Marcela Uhart, Wildlife Health Center, One Health Institute, University of California - Davis
- Global reports on avian influenza: Europe
- Ian Brown, Pirbright Institute, United Kingdom
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10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Coffee Break & Table Tops |
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Session 2: Global Reports on Avian Influenza
- Global reports on avian influenza: Asia
- Erik Karlsson, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Cambodia
- Global reports on avian influenza: Africa
- Celia Abolnik, Department of Production Animal Studies and Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Research, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
- Global reports on avian influenza: Australia
- Frank Wong, CSIRO, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness
- Global reports on avian influenza: Antarctica
- Meagan Dewar, Future Regions Research Centre, Federation University Australia
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch |
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Session 3: Diagnostics, vaccination, or other mitigation strategies for poultry and wildlife
Invited Speaker: Erica Spackman, Exotic & Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research
Acting Research Leader, USDA
Oral Abstracts:
- An HVT-based vaccination strategy to achieve long-lasting protection from 2.3.4.4b clade H5N1 viruses in fattening turkeys
- Lucrezia Vianello, European Union Reference Laboratory (EURL) for Avian Influenza (AI) and Newcastle Disease (ND)
- A Simulation Model for Evaluating Optimal Strategies for Vaccination and Surveillance of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Poultry
- Sandra Carapeto, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
- Environmental sampling for detection of HPAIV in duck farms and its potential application in surveillance plans
- Jean-Luc Guérin, National Veterinary School of Toulouse (ENVT) and INRAE
- Gradual Antigenic Drift of Avian Influenza H7N1 Virus in Poultry Flocks
- Juliane Lang, Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health
- High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza H5N1 Outbreak in a Layer Flock Vaccinated with Multiple H5 Vaccines
- Ahmed H. Salaheldin, Department of Poultry Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Coffee Break |
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Session 4: Diagnostics, vaccination, or other mitigation strategies for poultry and wildlife
Invited Speaker: Timm Harder, Laboratory Head, Institute of Infection Medicine at Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
Oral Abstracts:
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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | One-Minute Poster Pitches |
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Welcome Reception & Posters |
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Session 5: Notabable outbreaks, field and molecular epidemiology, and surveillance in poultry
Invited Speaker: Alice Fusaro, European Union Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe)
Oral Abstracts:
- HPAI H7 outbreaks in Australia in 2024/Avian influenza at the wild bird and poultry interface in Australia,
- Andrew Breed, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, NSW Government
- Frank Wong, CSIRO, Australian Center for Disease Preparedness
- Epidemiological Investigation of H9N2 Avian Influenza A Virus in Poultry Production in Ghana
- Guérin Jean-Luc, Veterinary school of Toulouse
- Genetic and Biological Characterization of H3N2 and H10N3 Avian Influenza Viruses Isolated in China
- Huihui Kong, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Genetic characteristics and pathogenesis of clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 high pathogenicity avian influenza virus in South Korea during 2022-2023
- Ra Mi Cha, Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Republic of Korea
| Session 6: Notabable outbreaks, field and molecular epidemiology, and surveillance in wild birds
Invited Speaker: Anne Pohlmann, Friedrich Loeffler Institute, FLI · Institute of Diagnostic Virology
Oral Abstracts:
- Avian influenza wildlife surveillance in Ukraine – a bridge between Europe and Asia
- Denys Muzyka, National Scientific Center Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Epidemiology of avian influenza viruses in southwest Alaska before, concurrent with, and after introductions of HPAI
- Christina Ahlstrom, USGS Alaska Science Center, US Geological Survey
- Genetic Patterns of Siberian Avian Influenza Viruses: Uncovering a Global Hub in Northern Asia
- Kirill Sharshov, Institute of Virology, Federal Research Center of Fundamental and Translational Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) outbreaks at the wild-domestic bird interface in Cambodia and Vietnam, 2021-2024
- Emily Denstedt, Wildlife Conservation Society, Greater Mekong and South Asia Regional Programs
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10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Coffee Break & Posters |
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Session 7: Notable outbreaks, field and molecular epidemiology, and surveillance for poultry
Invited Speaker: David Suarez, Exotic & Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research, Laboratory Director, USDA
Oral Abstracts:
| Session 8: Notable outbreaks, field and molecular epidemiology, and surveillance for wild birds
Invited Speaker: Michelle Wille, Senior Research Fellow/Dr, University of Melbourne
Oral Abstracts:
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch |
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Session 9: Biosecurity, mitigation, control, and post-epidemic considerations in poultry | Session 10: Mortality estimation, impacts to harvest, other conservation considerations, and potential mitigation strategies in wild birds
Invited Speaker: Ruth Cromie, CMS FAO Scientific Task Force on Avian Influenza and Wildlife
Oral Abstracts:
- Decades to recovery: present and future impacts of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza outbreaks on the NorthEast Atlantic gannet metapopulation
- Jana Wibke Elisabeth Jeglinski, School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK/ Department of EcoScience, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Differences in surveillance and reporting among countries may distort our understanding of the impacts of HPAI on wildlife in the Americas
- Ralph Vanstreels, University of California - Davis
- Geographic, ecological, and temporal patterns of seabird mortality during the 2022 HPAI H5N1 outbreak on the island of Newfoundland
- Gretchen McPhail, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Biology
- No glory for prevention? The value of Joint Risk Assessment used as a participatory tool to rapidly identify management priorities for HPAI outbreaks in wildlife populations
- Anja Globig, Institute of International Animal Health/One Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI)
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2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Coffee Break & Posters |
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM | Session 11: Biosecurity, mitigation, control, and post-epidemic considerations in poultry | Session 12: Mortality estimation, impacts to harvest, other conservation considerations, and potential mitigation strategies in wild birds
Invited Speaker: Stephanie Avery-Gomm, Wildlife and Landscape Science Directorate Science and Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Oral Abstracts:
- Telltale signs of a multispecies epizootic: Spatial epidemiology of HPAI during the 2022 seabird outbreak
- Jason Matthiopoulos, University of Glasgow
- Understanding the factors influencing mortality from HPAI in UK seabird colonies: integrating mortality data and an individual-based modelling approach
- Susannah Gold, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, United Kingdom
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4:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Optional Tours - Sign Up Required View and register for tour options HERE. |
7:30 AM - 8:15 AM | Breakfast |
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM | Conference Dedication Presentation - Dr. David Stallknecht |
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Session 13: Avian influenza in mammals, pandemic preparedness, and One Health
Invited Speaker: Yoshishiro Kawaoka, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Oral Abstracts:
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10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Break & Poster Viewing |
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Session 14: Avian influenza in mammals, pandemic preparedness, and One Health
Invited Speaker: Kiril Dimitrov, Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
Oral Abstracts:
- Farm Gate to Microplate: Investigating H5N1 in Dairy Cattle in the Field and Laboratory
- Andrew Bowman, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University
- Experimental infection and viral pathogenesis of H5N1 influenza A virus in Jersey cattle
- Daniel Perez, Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia
- How unique an event might the bovine incursion of H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b B3.13 genotype virus be?
- Paul Digard, The Roslin Institute - The University of Edinburgh
- Multi-species outbreak of H5N1 in cattle and poultry in Minnesota
- Martha Nelson, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch |
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Session 15: Transmission pathways, pathobiology, immune responses, and late breaking topics Invited Speakers:
- Kateri Bertran, IRTA Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology
- Tamiru Alkie, Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
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2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Coffee Break |
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Session 16: Transmission pathways, pathobiology, immune responses, and late breaking topics |
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Closing Banquet Sponsored by:
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