Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) International Symposium and Workshop

Presenter Briefing Notes

Program

Click on the Presentation Title to View/Download Presentation

MONDAY 12 APRIL 2010
TIME	SESSION	SPEAKERS
0730- 0900	Registration
0900 - 0915	Welcome and Announcements	Wilna Vosloo
0915 - 0930	Official Opening	Minister Joe Helper
0930 - 0950	OIE - Towards Global Control	Ronello Abila
09:50 - 10:00	MLA's address - Platinum sponsor	David Palmer
1000 - 1030	State of Food and Agriculture:Livestock in the Balance and FMD	Keith Sumption
Plenary 1: Epidemiology and surveillance
1030 - 1100	Foot and Mouth Disease - The Global Situation	Jef Hammond
1100 - 1130	Morning Tea sponsored by
1130 - 1145	Foot and mouth disease in South-East Asia - current status and control strategies	Gideon Bruckner
1145 - 1200	A decade of industry involvement with FMD preparedness in Australia	Peter Milne
1200 - 1215	The role of epidemic spread models in planning response strategies for FMD incursions	Michael Ward
1215- 1230	Parameterization of the duration of infection stages of serotype O foot-and-mouth disease virus: an analytical review and meta-analysis with application to simulation models	Fernando Mardones
1230 - 1245	Herd-level risk factors for Foot and mouth disease in Bhutan	Kinzang Dukpa
1245 - 1300	Regional FMD Roadmaps and the FMD PCP: lessons learnt in promoting monitoring and risk based FMD management in endemic regions of Eurasia and Africa	Juan Lubroth
1300 - 1415	Lunch sponsored by
1355 - 1415	5 min Poster Oral Presentation - Plenary Hall (Ian Denney – Chair)
	The rapid identification of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) and its serotype by the indirect immunofluorescent antibody test using the monoclonal antibodies reacted with the multi- and single-serotype of FMDV	Katsuhiko Fukai
	Relative sensitivities of four FMD virus detection techniques	Shane Riddell
	Assessment of the Efficacy of FMD Vaccines by Serology	Yanmin Li
1415 - 1530	New Technologies for Data Analysis to Support Livestock Tracing and Surveillance during a FMD Outbreak	Hugh Millar
1430 -1445	A web-based system for near real time surveillance of foot-and-mouth disease	Michael Ward
1445 - 1500	A stochastic individual-based model to evaluate control strategies and freedom of infection for Foot and Mouth Disease	Jantien Backer
1500 -1515	How to realize a safe collection and processing of raw milk from FMD restricted areas?	Franziska Gierke
1515 - 1530	The economic impact of a delay in detecting an introduction of foot-and-mouth disease in the United States	Tim Carpenter
1530 - 1600	Afternoon Tea
Plenary 2 - Understanding viruses and host interactions
1600 - 1620	Hunting foot-and-mouth disease virus	Bryan Charleston
1620 - 1640	Foot-and-mouth disease virus early pathogenesis: novel findings to an old problem	Luis Rodriguez
1640 - 1655	A stochastic probability model to quantify the risk of transmission of foot and mouth disease virus at the wildlife/livestock interface of Kruger National park, South Africa.	Ferran Jori
1655 - 1710	Getting to the heart of FMDV pathogenesis	Ryan Waters
1710 - 1740	Plenary Discussion / Day 1 Close (Announcement)	Roger Paskin (Chair)
1745 - 1900	MLA's Welcome Reception at FMD 2010

TUESDAY 13 APRIL 2010
0900 - 0915	The dairy industry’s role in managing FMD outbreaks	Wes Judd
Plenary 3 - Diagnostics - advances and applications
0915 - 0945	Foot and mouth disease diagnostic ssays –the present and the future	Wilna Vosloo
0945 - 1000	Bio-Seeq Portable Veterinary Diagnostics System: Field-based PCR testing with automated sample preparation	Carmelo Volpe
1000 – 1015	Development and validation of a 3ABC FMD antibody ELISA	Axel Colling
1015 - 1030	Development of a one-Step ELISA for FMDV antibody detection based solely on recombinant reagents	Janine Muller
1030 - 1100	Morning Tea sponsored by
1100 - 1115	Genomic variation of foot and mouth disease virus in South East Asia	Wilai Linchongsubongkoch
1115 - 1130	Necessity drives Innovation: The impact of giving veterinarians a real-time experience of FMD	Keith Sumption
Plenary 4 - Vaccines and Their Applications
1130 - 1200	The role of FMD vaccines in the eradication programs: the experience of South America	Victor Saraiva
1200 – 1215	Decision Making Around Vaccination during a Response to a Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak	Brendan Pollard
1215 – 1230	Implementation of foot and mouth disease vaccination in Argentina	María Natalia Aznar
1230 – 1245	Novel molecular vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease	Luis Rodriguez
1245 - 1300	Marker vaccine potential of a partial VP1 deleted foot-and-mouth disease virus	John Bashiruddin
1300 - 1415	Lunch
1345 - 1415	5 min Poster Oral Presentation - Plenary Hall (Hugh Millar – Chair)
	IL-6 production following vaccination in pigs - an additional immune response parameter for assessing FMD vaccine efficacy	Sarah Cox
	Protective efficacy of FMDV subunit vaccine produced using a silkworm-baculovirus expression system against two Chinese type Asia I isolates in cattle	Zhiyong Li
	Recombinant Antibodies for Development of an FMDV Assay to Differentiate Infected from Vaccinated Animals	Hans Heine
1415 - 1530	Industry taking the initiative	Kathleen Plowman
1430 - 1445	Structurally designed foot-and-mouth disease vaccines: improved vaccines for regional control	Francoise Maree
1445 – 1500	Antigenic site determination to improve SAT2 foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccine strain selection	Pamela Opperman
1500 – 1515	Mapping the antigenic variation of foot and mouth disease virus serotype A	Yanmin Li
1515 - 1530	Adjuvant selection for FMD vaccines according to country epidemiologic status	Regis Vialle
1530 - 1600	Afternoon Tea sponsored by
1600 – 1615	FMD vaccine potency: 3 PD50 per dose or 75% protection is too low as a release criterium in endemic countries	Aldo Dekker
1615 – 1630	IFN-γ levels induced by in vitro re-stimulation of whole blood of vaccinated cattle correlate with in vivo FMD vaccine induced protection.	Satya Parida
1630 – 1645	A Scenario to use an antiviral agent in FMD control in the FMD free countries	Kenichi Sakamoto
1645 - 1730	Plenary Discussion / Announcement	Martyn Jeggo (Chair)
19:00 - 23:00	Symposium Dinner

WEDNESDAY 14 APRIL 2010 Lunch Sponsored by
0900 - 1730	Workshop - Interactive simulation exercises	Facilitator: Ross Cutler
	Symposium and Workshop Close	Wilna Vosloo

THURSDAY 15 APRIL 2010
TBC	AAHL tour and scientific program	Martyn Jeggo
	DPI Victoria tour	Hugh Millar

* Please note that this program is preliminary and subject to change.