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• 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

• 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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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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Invited Speaker: Timm Harder, Laboratory Head, Institute of Infection Medicine at Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel

Oral Abstracts: 

• Mass vaccination with reassortment-impaired live H9N2 avian influenza virus vaccine
  • Daniel Perez, University of Georgia
• Preventive vaccination against highly pathogenic avian influenza in duck farms in France: assessment and recommendations
  • Beatrice Grasland, Anses Laboratory of Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES)
• Surveillance of avian influenza in the wild: can passive samplers be an option?
  • Valentina Panzarin, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie
• The boons and banes of vaccination in mitigating effects of HPAI threats to poultry and wildlife: lessons from Bangladesh
  • Marcel Klaassen, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
• Vaccination of captive pelicans against highly pathogenic avian influenza: safety and immunogenicity evaluation of a self-amplifying RNA-H5 vaccine
  • Fiona Ingrao, Avian Virology and Immunology, Sciensano

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• The changing face of clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 - a focus to Europe
  • 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

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• Between East and West: Molecular surveillance of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses in wild birds in Germany
  • 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

Invited Speaker: David Suarez, Exotic & Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research, Laboratory Director, USDA

Oral Abstracts:

• Leveraging Continuous Phylogeographic Analysis to Uncover Environmental and Ecological Drivers of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Italy
  • Diletta Fornasiero, Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of the Veneto
• Live Bird Market: The melting hotpot of H5 and H9 circulation and maintenance in Bangladesh
  • Ariful Islam, Charles Sturt University
• Modelling spillover risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza from wild birds to poultry in Denmark
  • Yangfan Liu, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Copenhagen
• Multi-scale epidemiological dynamics of avian influenza in Bangladesh’s live poultry trading networks
  • Sarah Hill, Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College

Invited Speaker: Michelle Wille, Senior Research Fellow/Dr, University of Melbourne

Oral Abstracts:

• Novel insight into antibody immune responses of seabirds to H5Nx HP AI with implications for disease ecology and conservation,
  • Thierry Boulinier, CNRS Univ Montpellier
• Phylodynamics and genomic analyses of the A(H5N1) avian influenza outbreak in North America
  • Anthony Signore, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
• The International HPAI Australis Expedition 2024: searching for high pathogenicity avian influenza virus in Antarctica
  • Antonio Alcami, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa CSIC
• Wintering Waterfowl Behavior and Movement Patterns: Implications for HPAI Transmission Dynamics
  • Bradley Cohen, Tennessee Tech University

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Oral Abstracts:

• Assessing biosecurity and biocontainment practices for determining the risk of continuity of business movement off an HPAI-infected premises
  • Rosemary Marusak, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota
• Biosecurity practices and farm level risk factors for highly pathogenic avian influenza in Sweden
  • Malin Grant, Swedish Veterinary Agency and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Estimating risk factors for outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry farms in Denmark
  • Helene Jensen, University of Copenhagen
• Evaluation of transmission metrics in a slow spreading highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak in a commercial upland game bird system
  • Amos Sematimba, Secure Food Systems Team, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota
• HPAI Outbreaks in Denmark: A Migratory Bird Hotspot
  • Anette Ella Boklund, University of Copenhagen

Invited Speaker: 

• Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in wildlife: the conservation consequences and urgent response needs
  • Ruth Cromie, CMS FAO Co-convenor of Scientific Task Force on Avian Influenza and Wildlife, UK

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)

Oral Abstracts:

• Keeping up with an ever-evolving Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus
  • Mickey Leonard, University of Minnesota
• Persistence of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in a pheasant farm environment during the post-depopulation fallow period
  • Jarra Jagne, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
• To effectively prevent and control high pathogenicity avian influenza in family poultry, we need to engage locally to understand and value key production systems and producer perspectives
  • Robyn Alders, Development Policy Centre, Australian National University

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• HPAI H5N1 in Eastern Canadian Wild Birds: Mortality, Population Impacts, and Advances in Mortality Assessment
  • 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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Invited Speaker: Yoshishiro Kawaoka, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Oral Abstracts: 

• Assessment of the Haemagglutinin Genes of Clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5Nx) High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus
  • Jiayun Yang, The Pirbright Institute
• A vaccine antigen central in influenza A(H5) virus antigenic space confers subtype-wide immunity in ferrets
  • Ron Fouchier, Department Viroscience, Erasmus MC
• Counteracting zoonotic influenza A viruses by synergistically targeting viral and host factors to inhibit viral replication
  • David Scheibner, Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
• Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 and H5N5 in Red Foxes in Norway 2022-2024
  • Malin Rokseth Reiten, Norwegian Veterinary Institute

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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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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

Oral Abstracts:

• The CSIC-UNESPA Antarctic Expedition 2025: monitoring highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in the Antarctic Peninsula
  • Antonio Alcami, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC
• Unprecedented Circumpolar Spread of Avian Influenza H5N1
  • Thierry Boulinier, CEFE CNRS Université Montpellier
• Transmission study testing HVT-H5 vaccines against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus (clade 2.3.4.4b), 24-weeks post vaccination
  • Kim Bouwman, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research
• HPAI Surveillance in Peridomestic Wildlife on Infected Farms Following an Outbreak of HPAI in Dairy Cattle in the United States, April 2024 – March 2025
  • Krista Dilione, USDA-APHIS National Wildlife Disease Program

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