Thursday, November 13,
2008
| 4:00-6:00 pm |
Registration
International Grains Program Executive Conference Center
1980 Kimball Avenue, Manhattan, KS |
| 6:00-9:00 pm |
Emerging Infections Symposium Opening
Chairs: Drs. Juergen Richt and Adolfo Garcia-Sastre |
| 6:00 pm |
How Plant Vaccines Came to Be
Dr. Hilary Koprowski, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 6:30 pm |
H5N1 Avian Influenza: Has the Threat Been Overblown?
Dr. Robert Webster, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA |
| 7:00 pm |
Reception Dinner |
| 7:50 pm |
One Medicine, One Health – A Clinician’s Perspective
Dr. Silvio Pitlik, Beilinson Hospital, Petah Tikva, Israel |
| 8:00 pm |
InVivo Disease Modeling of High Containment Pathogens
Heinz Feldmann, Rocky Mountain Laboratories (NIH), Hamilton, MT, USA |
| 8:30 pm |
Research on Respiratory Viruses
Dr. Albert Osterhaus, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 9:00 pm |
Adjourn for the Evening |
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Friday, November 14,
2008
| 7:00 am-noon |
Registration
Alumni Center Ballroom
17th and Denison Avenues
Manhattan, KS |
| 8:00 am |
Emerging Infections Symposium Welcome
Dr. Jon Wefald, President, Kansas State University
Dr. M. Duane Nellis, Provost, Kansas State University
Dr. Ralph Richardson, Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University
Dr. Tom Thornton, President, Kansas Bioscience Authority |
| 8:30 am |
One World, One Health: An OIE Perspective
Dr. Paul-Pierre Pastoret, OIE, Paris, France |
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WORKSHOP I: Research Models for Emerging Pathogens
Chairs: Drs. Heinz Feldmann and Richard Elliott |
| 8:45 am |
Animal Models of Infections Disease: Challenges in Biocontainment
Dr. Jim Swearengen, AAALAC International, Frederick, MD, USA |
| 9:00 am |
Can Systems Biology and the Computer Save the World from Deadly Pandemics?
Dr. Michael Katze, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| 9:15 am |
Inhibition of Type I IFN Responses by RNA Viruses
Dr. Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA |
| 9:30 am |
Process in the Development of VSV-Based Vaccines to Prevent and Treat Ebola and Marburg Hemmorhagic Fever
Dr. Tom Geisbert, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA |
| 9:45 am |
Molecular Determinants of Nipah Virus Pathogenicity
Chieko Kai, Institute of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan |
| 10:00 am |
Production of Recombinant Human Polyclonal Antibodies in Transchromosomic Cattle
Dr. Jim Robl, Hematech Inc, Sioux Falls, SD, USA |
| 10:15-10:45 am |
Coffee Break |
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WORKSHOP II: Prion Diseases
Chairs: Drs. Silvio Pitlik and Barbara Sherry
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| 10:45 am |
BSE and BASE: An Update
Dr. Cristina Casalone, IZSTO, Torino, Italy |
| 11:00 am |
Association of a Bovine Prion Gene Haplotype with Atypical BSE
Dr. Michael Clawson, MARC-ARS-USDA, Clay Center, NE, USA |
| 11:15 am |
Chronic Wating Disease (CWD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathies (BSE): Public Health Risk Assessment
Dr. Qingzhong Kong, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH, USA |
| 11:30 am |
Fixed and Migratory Leukocytes in the Pathogenesis of TSEs
Dr. Alan Young, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA |
| 11:45 am |
Divalent Metals Stabilize Cellular Prion Proteins and Alter the Rate of Proteinase-K Dependent Limited Proteolysis
Dr. Anumantha Kanthasamy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA |
| 12:00-1:15 pm |
Lunch Break |
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WORKSHOP III: Bunya – and Influenza Viruses
Chairs: Drs. Michael Katze and Cheiko Kai
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| 1:15 pm |
Engineering the Bunyavirus Genome
Dr. Richard Elliott, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland |
| 1:30 pm |
Hantavirus Reverse Genetics Challenges Replication Dogma
Dr. Ramon Flick, BioProtection Systems, Ames, IA, USA |
| 1:45 pm |
Rift Valley Fever Outbreak Dynamics and Reverse-Genetics Generated Vaccine
Dr. Stuart Nichol, Center for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA |
| 2:00 pm |
Influenza Pandemic Preparedness
Dr. Ruben Donis, Center for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA |
| 2:15 pm |
Experimental Infections of Pigs and Poultry with the Pandemic 1918 Influenza Virus
Dr. Hana Weingartl, CFIA, Winnipeg, Canada |
| 2:30 pm |
Evidence for Swine, Avian, and Equine Influenza Virus Infections in Man
Dr. Gregory Gray, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA |
| 2:45 pm |
Viral Glycoproteins Cleaved by Cellular Proteases
Dr. Wolfgang Garten, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany |
| 3:00-3:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
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WORKSHOP IV: Emerging/Reemerging Infections
Chairs: Drs. Thomas Geisbert and Cristina Casalone
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| 3:30 pm |
Borna Disease and Rabies, Two Old Reemerging Zoonotic Virus Infections
Dr. Bernhard Dietzschold, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 3:45 pm |
Experimental Borna Disease Virus Infection of Mice with Neuronal TNF Overexpression
Dr. Christiane Herden, University Giessen, Giessen, Germany |
| 4:00 pm |
A New Genetic Vaccine for West Nile Virus
Dr. Konstantin Kousoulas, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA |
| 4:15 pm |
The Cardiac Innate Response to Viral Infection
Dr. Barabara Sherry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA |
| 4:30 pm |
PCV2 and PRRSV as Paradigms for Emerging Viral Diseases of Swine
Dr. Bob Rowland, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA |
| 4:45 pm |
T-Cell/B-Cell Cooperation and Chronic Inflammatory CNS Diseases
Dr. Bernd Kitze, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany |
| 5:00 pm |
Emergence of a Lethal Herpesvirus Disease Caused by a Mutation of the DNA Polymerase
Dr. Klaus Osterrieder, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
5:15 pm
5:30 pm |
Closing Remarks
Adjourn Symposium |
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