Monday, 27th July 64th International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association 2015
Opening remarks
8:00AM - 8:30AM
Monday, 27th July
Mudjimba Rooms 1, 2 & 3
Wildlife disease ecology driving evolution (Part I)
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 27th July
Mudjimba Rooms 1, 2 & 3
Chair: Charles van Riper III
Sponsored by:
- Spillover: dynamics of cross-species transmission - Raina Plowright
- The ecology of parasite transmission in wildlife populations: Lessons from lizards - Michael Bull
- Host population density driving, and driven by, parasites - Robert Poulin
- Devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) immunisation trial on Tasmanian devils to be released in initial phase of rewilding programme - Ruth Pye
Morning tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Monday, 27th July
Mudjimba Verandah
One Health and PREDICT (Part I)
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Monday, 27th July
Mudjimba Rooms 1, 2 & 3
Chair: Hume Field
- Predict: Preventing emerging infectious diseases at wildlife-human-domestic animal interfaces - Jonna Mazet
- Mapping the risk and modeling the costs of emerging zoonoses - Peter Daszak
- Determining the role of fruit bat population dynamics in the emergence of Hendra virus in Australia - John R Giles
- Routes of Hendra virus excretion in naturally-infected flying-foxes; implications for viral transmission and risk of spillover to horses - Dan Edson
- Hendra virus infection of Black flying-foxes (Pteropus alecto): Assessment of nutritional and physiological drivers - Lee A McMichael
Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Monday, 27th July
Nouveau Restaurant
STREAM 1 - Disease ecology/evolution and Disease impacting (Part I)
2:00PM - 3:15PM
Monday, 27th July
Mudjimba Rooms 1, 2 & 3
Chair: David Jessup
- Avian bornavirus in free-ranging waterfowl in North America and Europe - Dale A Smith
- Avian migrants facilitate invasions of Neotropical ticks and tick-borne pathogens into the United States - Sarah Hamer
- Lesions associated with natural Wellfleet Bay virus infection in the common eider (Somateria mollissima) from Cape Cod, Massachusetts and available diagnostic tools - Heather M.A. Fenton
- Psittacine beak and feather disease in forest red-tailed black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus banksii naso) in Western Australia - Alisa Wallace
- Bettongs and blood parasites: what's driving declines in the woylie (Bettongia penicillata)? - Stephanie Godfrey
STREAM 2 - Disease/Conservation management (Part I)
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 27th July
Lilly's on the Lagoon
Chair: Susan Hemsley
- The effects of intensive conservation management on host-parasite interactions in threatened New Zealand wildlife - Brett D Gartrell
- Baseline health parameter changes in eastern bettongs (Bettongia gaimardi) following reintroduction - Timothy Portas
- Challenges in wildlife health management: a case study of avian malaria in kiwi (Apteryx spp) - Catherine K McInnes
- Genomic solutions for major biodiversity diseases chytridiomycosis and white nose syndrome threatening conservation of species - Lee F Skerratt
- Immunization against Chlamydia pecorum in wild-caught koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) is associated with a reduced chlamydial burden and less progression to pathology - Courtney A Waugh
- Conservation implications of coccidian and vector-borne parasites in the endangered whooping crane (Grus americana) - Gabriel Hamer
Afternoon tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 27th July
Mudjimba Verandah
Student Poster Session
4:00PM - 4:30PM
Monday, 27th July
Main entrance Foyer
- Investigations into Pathogens of Potential Public Health and Biosecurity Significance in Australian Wild Birds - Jemima Amery-Gale
- Disease risk analysis and disease risk management for avian reintroduction projects - Katie M Beckmann
- Enemy release and novel weapons: the role of avian malaria parasites in the spread of the invasive common myna (Acridotheres tristis) in Australia - Nicholas J Clark
- Influenza A exposure in feral swine of South Australia. - Antonia E Dalziel
- Disease investigation during a bird washing experiment - Serena T Finlayson
- Forced Moult in Sub-Antarctic Yellow Eyed Penguins (Megadyptes antipodes). - Anna-Karina Gonzalez Argandona
- Mortality of passerines and relatives submitted to a wildlife diagnostic laboratory (Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, USA): a 36-year retrospective analysis - Viviana Gonzalez-Astudillo
- Genetic characterization of two bacterial species isolated from wild goose eggs on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska - Cristina Hansen
- Physiological stress and parasite infection in a critically endangered marsupial, the woylie (Bettongia penicillata) - Stephanie Hing
- A comparison of diets used during a colony translocation of New Zealand Grey-faced petrel chicks, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi. - Micah A Jensen
- Humoral immune responses in koalas and its impact on vaccine development - Shahneaz Khan
- “As long as we’ve had bats, we’ve had Hendra” – Horse owners’ knowledge and risk perception of flying foxes in regards to Hendra virus - Eliza McDonald
- Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in mainland and sub-Antarctic New Zealand sea lion populations - Sarah Michael
- Investigating avian malaria transmission dynamics: the New Zealand situation - Chris Niebuhr
- To treat or not to treat? Investigating the impact of polyparasitism in translocated woylies (Bettongia penicillata), and the effect of anti-parasite treatment on host fitness and survivability - Amy S. Northover
- Spatial and temporal variation in trace element and heavy metal concentrations in the Australian fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferous) - Alex Pan
- Habitat suitability analysis of elephant (Elephas maximus) in Palamau Tiger Reserve, Jharkhand using geospatial technology - Ranjan Pandey
- Avian Malaria in an avian community in Torres Strait, Australia - Lee Peacock
- Human Tiger Conflict in Chitwan National Park, Nepal - Abishek Poudel
- Differential infection dynamics and susceptibility to Baylisascaris procyonis in Peromyscus species. - Sarah G.H. Sapp
- Investigation into the presence of anthroponotic Cryptosporidium sp. in wild and captive Australian grey-headed flying foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) - Sabine Schiller
- Do avian ticks (Ixodes hirsti) influence host phenotype: greater tail asymmetry in tick-infested birds - Patrick L Taggart
- Impacts of toxicants in the marine ecosystem on the health of Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) - Shannon Taylor
- The first full length genome sequence analysis of a marsupial herpesvirus: macropodid herpesvirus 1. - Paola K Vaz
- Host-parasite interactions and dermal mycoflora of New Zealand reptiles - Rebecca Webster
- TRAIL to death: Is TNF related apoptosis inducing ligand (TRAIL) a common antiviral mechanism employed by reservoir species? - Patrick Mileto
- Histological assessment of captive Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) for evidence of mycobacteriosis - Tara O'Loughlin
STREAM 1 - Disease ecology/evolution and Disease impacting (Part II)
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 27th July
Mudjimba Rooms 1, 2 & 3
Chair: David Phalen
- Declining populations of small mammals in Australia’s north: is disease the smoking gun? - Andrea Reiss
- Mass mortality of Eastern Grey Kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) associated with hepatogenous photosensitisation - Chloe A Steventon
- Chytridiomycosis-induced shift in amphibian life-history - Ben C Scheele
- Culture-independent genome sequencing provides new insight into the relationships between Chlamydia pecorum infections of koalas and Australian livestock - Adam Polkinghorne
STREAM 2 - Disease/Conservation management (Part II)
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 27th July
Lilly's on the Lagoon
Chair: Aleksija Neimanis
Student Poster Session (continued)
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Monday, 27th July
Main entrance Foyer
Student Mixer
6:30PM - 7:30PM
Monday, 27th July
Mudjimba Rooms 1, 2 & 3
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