Programme

Professor Gary Wobeser, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, will be giving the keynote address.

Confirmed speakers for the plenary sessions include:

Professor Marc Artois, National Veterinary School of Lyon, France
Professor Richard Bennett, University of Reading, UK
Mr Fred Landeg, Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer, DEFRA, UK
Professor Dirk Pfeiffer, University of London, UK.
Dr Rosie Woodroffe, University of California, USA
Dr Tony Sainsbury, Institute of Zoology, UK

Conference Timetable

Day	Time		talk type	Theme	Speaker	Title
Monday 12th November
	17:00 - 19:00 Evening Registration & Drinks Reception at the Novotel, Fishergate, York, YO10 4FD
Tuesday 13th November
	09:30		Opening		Mike Roberts
	09:35		Keynote		Gary Wobeser
	10:35		coffee
	11:00		plenary	Field evidence and experiments	Rosie Woodroffe
	11:30		open	Field evidence and experiments	Fiona Rogers / Mark Chambers	Towards licensing BCG for use in wildlife: A Field Trial.
	11:55		open	Field evidence and experiments	Monika Bohm	Using data-logging devices to determine contact patterns among badgers and cattle.
	12:20		open	Field evidence and experiments	Emily Goodman	Contact rates revealed between Eurasian badgers Meles meles in a high-density population: evidence from using proximity data loggers.
	12:45		lunch
	13:45		open	Field evidence and experiments	Alex Tomlinson	The challenges of field diagnosis in an imperfect world.
	14:10		open	Field evidence and experiments	Are Berentsen	Evaluating risks associated with the transmission of bovine tuberculosis from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) to cattle in Michigan, USA: work in progress.
	14:35		open	Field evidence and experiments	Julian Drewe	Establishing the role of intra-specific social interactions and social networks in the transmission of tuberculosis within a wild animal population.
	15:00		coffee
	15:30		open	Field evidence and experiments	Sophie Rossi	CSF transmission and vaccination efficacy in wild boar piglets.
	15:55		plenary	Socio-economics	Richard Bennett
	16:25		open	Socio-economics	David Wilkinson	Cost-benefit analysis model of badger (Meles meles) culling to reduce cattle-herd TB breakdowns in Britain - with particular reference to badger perturbation.
	16:50	17:15	open	Socio-economics	Esther Kasamba	Economic analysis of terrestrial wildlife rabies control management options.
Wednesday 14th November
	09:15		plenary	Epidemiology	Dirk Pfeiffer
	09:45		open	Epidemiology	Jean Hars	Bovine tuberculosis in free-living wild ungulates in France.
	10:10		open	Epidemiology	Nuno Santos	Epidemiology of tuberculosis in wild boar (Sus scrofa) from Portugal.
	10:35		open	Epidemiology	Dan Forman	Toxoplasma gondii and wildlife: painting a global picture of a persistent parasite.
	11:00		coffee
	11:30		open	Epidemiology	Christian Gortazar	Class II major histocompatibility complex polymorphism in red deer has relevance for individual infection resistance and life history traits.
	11:55		open	Epidemiology	Mark Fox	Observations on the epidemiology of warble fly in wild red deer in Scotland.
	12:20		open	Epidemiology	Alexander Singer	Rabies disease in a vector community of foxes and raccoon dogs.
	12:45		lunch
	13:45	17:00	Workshops			For more information, click here.
	Evening Banquet at St Williams College
Thursday 15th November
	09:15		plenary	Management and control	Fred Landeg
	09:45		open	Management and control	Matt Hartley	Development of the UK Wildlife Health Strategy.
	10:10		open	Management and control	Alain Frantz	Genetics, wild boar (Sus scrofa) and classical swine fever: Defining management units.
	10:35		open	Management and control	Mike Taylor	Forensic Parasitology and the Enemy Release Hypothesis for Invasive Wildlife Species.
	11:00		coffee and poster viewing
	11:30		open	Management and control	Steve Carter	A review of the evidence for culling-induced social perturbation and disease transmission in badger (Meles meles) populations.
	11:55		open	Management and control	James O'Keefe	Republic of Ireland's BTB control strategy: badger removal and the absence of negative effects attributable to social perturbation.
	12:20		open	Management and control	Leigh Corner	BCG Vaccine for control of TB in badgers.
	12:45		lunch
	13:45		plenary	Conservation	Tony Sainsbury
	14:15		open	Conservation	Amanda Duffus	Ranavirus Ecology: A Canadian Example for the U.K.
	14:40		open	Conservation	Rosemary Barraclough	Avian blood parasite research in New Zealand: integrating advancing knowledge into species management.
	15:05		open	Conservation	Ursula Hofle	Pathogens in the endangered Spanish Imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti): Implications for management of captive and free-living populations.
	15:30		coffee and poster viewing
	16:00		open	Conservation	Dolores Gavier Widen	Diseases and causes of death in European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in Sweden.
	16:25		open	Conservation	Vanessa Alzaga	Individual, population and environmental host factors influencing European brown hare parasitism in Spain.
	16:50	17:15	open	Conservation	Meggan Craft	Predicting CDV Dynamics in African Lion Populations.
Friday 16th November
	09:15		plenary	Surveillance, Risk & Prediction	Marc Artois
	09:45		open	Surveillance	Sarah Harris	European bat lyssaviruses (EBLVs).
	10:10		open	Surveillance	Hans-Hermann Thulke	Situation-based surveillance and doing what we really want.
	10:35		open	Risk assessments	Rob Robinson	Avian influenza and migratory birds in the UK.
	11:00		coffee
	11:30		open	Surveillance	Elisa Perez-Ramirez	Temporal and species variation of Influenza A virus prevalence in a continental wetland in central Spain.
	11:55		open	Surveillance	Eric Morgan	Distribution of the heartworm Angiostrongylus vasorum in foxes in the UK: implications for future spread and for canine and vulpine health.
	12:20		open	Surveillance	Tom Pennycott	Regional variation in salmonellosis in garden birds in Scotland.
	12:45		lunch
	13:50		open	Surveillance	Francisco Ruiz-Fons	Serosurvey of bluetongue virus in Iberian red deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus) in Spain.
	14:15		open	Risk assessments	Alastair Ward	The role of wild deer in perpetuating bovine tuberculosis in cattle in the UK: a quantitative risk assessment.
	14:40		open	Risk assessments	Hans-Hermann Thulke	Cost-efficient disease management or how to adapt targets rather than approved methods.
	15:05		open	Risk assessments	Selene Huntley	Mammalian Wildlife of Great Britain as potential reservoirs of Plague.
	15:30		coffee
	16:00		open	Climatic effects	Bjornar Ytrehus	Epidemic fatal pneumonia in a small population of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) - are extreme weather events the initiating factor?
	16:25		open	Climatic effects	Knut Madslien	Alopecia in moose infested with deer keds (Lipoptena cervi) - does high population density and climate change cause a new disease problem?
	16:50	17:15	open	Climatic effects	Lucy Gilbert	Environmental determinants of ticks in Scotland.
	17:15		Summing up - Richard Delahay / Graham Smith
Saturday 17th November - Possible trips depending on interest						For more information, click here.

Accompanying Guests

A specific programme for accompanying guests will not be available. However, the local tourist information office will be happy to advise (see http://www.york-tourism.co.uk/).