All talks will be held at The Jacqueline du Pré Music Building (JdP).

09 September 2008

4pm-7pm: Registration Opens, JdP Foyer

6pm-7pm: Speakers' Drinks Reception, St Hilda’s Senior Common Room

7pm–8.30pm: Dinner, Dinning Hall (By prior booking only)

10 September 2008

7.30am-8.15am: Registration (JdP Foyer)

Session I: Chair Dr John McCauley

8.30am: Welcome by Dr M Sohail

8.35am: Opening remarks by Dr John McCauley

8.45am: Dr Dennis Alexander OBE
The changing epidemiology of avian influenza

9.15am: Professor John Oxford (Keynote Speaker)
Lessons from the Great Avian Flu Outbreak of H1N1 in 1918.

10.05 am: Refreshments, Posters and Exhibitions

10.30am: Professor Albert D M E Osterhaus
The next influenza pandemic: Will there be a vaccine?

11.00am: Dr Giovanni Cattoli
An overview of molecular epidemiology and viral characteristics of H5N1 avian strains isolated in Africa and in the Middle East between 2006 and 2008

11.30am: Professor Hiroshi Kido
Novel proteolytic activation proteases of highly-pathogenic avian influenza viruses covering diverse strains including non-susceptible strains to Furin and PC5/6

12.00am: Professor Xiufan Liu
Molecular determinants of H5N1 avian influenza virus for high virulence in ducks

12.30pm: Lunch, Posters and Exhibitions

Session 2: Chair Dr Ian Brown

2.30pm: Professor Howard Markel
Nonpharmaceutical interventions implemented by US cities during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic

3.00pm: Dr Munir Iqbal
Within-host evolution and adaptation of H7 avian influenza viruses in poultry

3.30pm: Dr John Wood
Development of a vaccine against pandemic influenza

4.00pm: Refreshments, Posters and Exhibitions

4.30pm: Professor Sir John Skehel FRS FMedSci (Keynote Speaker)
Influenza virus glycoproteins as drug targets

5.20pm: Dr Nigel Temperton
Influenza HA and NA-pseudotyped retroviral vectors: Applications to pandemic vaccine evaluation, sero-surveillance and antiviral drug screening

5.35pm: Dr Sasan Fereidouni
Rapid pathotyping of H5 subtype avian influenza viruses by RT-PCR and restriction enzyme cleavage pattern

6.00pm-7.00pm: Drinks Reception (All delegates invited)

7.00pm-9.00pm: Dinner (By prior booking only)

9.00pm-10.00pm: Poster Viewing

11 September 2008

Session 3: Chair Professor John Oxford

8.55am: Welcome by Dr Munir Iqbal

9.00am: Dr Ian Brown
EU surveillance for AI and associated implications for control and contingencies in the veterinary sector

9.30am: Professor Neil M Ferguson OBE FMedSci
Modelling pandemic control options: current conclusions and data gaps

10.00am: Miss Jan Gralton
Presentation of an infection and control algorithm for use in healtcare facilities, ambulatory and other emergency services in the event of pandemic influenza

10.15am: Dr Julia Chosy
Zoos as disease sentinels: Piloting an avian influenza surveillance system in zoological institutions

10.30am: Refreshments, Posters and Exhibitions

Session 4: Chair Dr Dennis Alexander OBE

11.00am : Professor Wendy Barclay
The barriers to transmission of avian influenza viruses between humans

11.30am: Professor Robert Webster FRS (Keynote Speaker)
Continuing evolution of avian influenza viruses: Is H5N1 beyond control?

12.20pm: Dr Nancy Gerloff
The spread and evolution of highly-pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 in Africa

12.35pm: Dr Kin-Chow Chang
Pig as a mammalian model of resistance to H5N1 infections: evaluation of host receptor distribution and innate resistance

1.00pm: Lunch, Posters and Exhibitions

Session 5: Chair Professor Wendy Barclay (to confirm)

2.30pm: Dr Sarah Gilbert
Clinical Trials of a Flu Vaccine Designed to Induce Cross-Subtype Immunity

2.45pm: Professor Jimmy Kwang
Protective immunity against lethal H5N1 viral infection in mice by intranasal co-administration of Baculovirus surface-displayed hemagglutinin subunit and recombinant CTB as an adjuvant

3.15pm: Dr Stephen Dunham
The relationship of influenza virus receptor distribution and susceptibility to infection in chickens and ducks

3.30pm: Dr Laura Sironi
The role of Mx polymorphism coding for amino acid position 631 in chicken lines infected with a highly-pathogenic H7N1 avian influenza virus

3.45pm: Dr Nazeer Kalhoro
A single-cycle vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) vector vaccine protects chicken from highly-pathogenic avian influenza virus H7N1

4.00pm: Dr Astrid Gall
A diagnostic microarray for detection, hemagglutinin subtyping and pathotyping of avian influenza viruses

4.15pm: Closing remarks by Dr John McCauley

4.30pm: Coffee and Departure

5.00pm: Close of Conference

 

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