Thursday, 30th July 64th International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association 2015
Opening remarks
8:00AM - 8:30AM
Thursday, 30th July
Mudjimba Rooms 1, 2 & 3
Wildlife disease ecology driving evolution (Part II)
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Thursday, 30th July
Mudjimba Rooms 1, 2 & 3
Chair: Joanna Griffith
- Evolution of resistance to chytridiomycosis is associated with a robust early immune response in a wild amphibian - Laura F Grogan
- The evolution of Trichomonas and the pigeons and doves: a unique story in Australasia - Andrew Peters
- Have pathogens influenced the evolution of non-carotenoid colouration in dragon lizards? - Jessica Hacking
- Cockatoo Hindlimb Paralysis Syndrome (CHiPS): journey towards a diagnosis - Simone Vitali
- Experimental inoculation of Egyptian rousette bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) with five different ebolaviruses, and comparison with Marburg virus - Megan EB Jones
- Ticks, birds and tick-borne diseases: the terrestrial cycle - Dieter Heylen
- Someone's been sleeping in my bed....the external parasites found in nest boxes provided for brushtail possums in the Strathbogie Ranges, Victoria - Jasmin Hufschmid
- A one health problem: Dissemination of antibiotic resistance determinants to wildlife populations - Michelle Power
Morning tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Thursday, 30th July
Mudjimba Verandah
One Health and PREDICT (Part II)
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Thursday, 30th July
Mudjimba Rooms 1, 2 & 3
Chair: Andrea Reiss
- Methods to mitigate Trypanosoma cruzi transmission while encouraging wildlife presence - Lisa A Shender
- Evidence for inter-epidemic infections of Rift Valley fever virus in wildlife and livestock in the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania - Julius D. Keyyu
- Australia’s national wildlife disease surveillance system - Keren Cox-Witton
- Australia’s wildlife health system: Recent developments - Rupert Woods
- Geoscape: A new technique to track potential zoonotic disease sources in wild birds - Charles van Riper III
- The globalization of parrot viruses as the result of the trade in wild caught parrots and its potential conservation implications - David Phalen
- Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza A virus infection associated with respiratory signs in sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) - Nancy Chase Boedeker
- Wild bird avian influenza in Australia: What have we learnt since 2006? - Tiggy Grillo
Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Thursday, 30th July
Nouveau Restaurant
STREAM 1 - One Health/Disease surveillance and Disease impacting (Part I)
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Thursday, 30th July
Mudjimba Rooms 1, 2 & 3
Chair: Ian Beveridge
Sponsored by:
- Australian bat coronaviruses - Craig S Smith
- Polymerase chain reaction as a diagnostic tool for identification and speciation of avian mycobacteriosis – replacing standard culture with molecular diagnostics - Kimberly Vinette Herrin
- Unexpected outcomes following the experimental infection of a phylogroup 2 rabies virus into its natural reservoir host - Andrew A. Cunningham
- Disease and mortality factors in American Crows in Ontario, Canada 2000-2008 - Ian K. Barker
- A tale of two colonies: Marburgvirus resurgence in bats in a Ugandan mine following extermination attempts - Brian R. Amman
- Macacine Herpesvirus 1 (B virus) in Wild-caught Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) Following Capture and Transport in Malaysia - Jonathan H Epstein
STREAM 2 - Marine and Engaging the Community (Part I)
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Thursday, 30th July
Lilly's on the Lagoon
Chair: Brett Gartrell
- Emergence of avian influenza A (H10N7) in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Sweden associated with a mass mortality event - Aleksija S. Neimanis
- Taxonomy and genetic population structure of hookworms in the endangered Australian sea lion - Rachael Gray
- Systemic coccidiosis in green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Australia: An emerging infectious disease - Silvia Ban de Gouvea Pedroso
- Conservation - a decisive Public Health campaign of the 21st century? - Ro McFarlane
- Toxoplasma in the New Zealand marine environment - Wendi D Roe
- Diphtheritic stomatitis in yellow-eyed penguins: an epidemiological analysis of 15 years of field data on an idiopathic disease in endangered New Zealand penguins - Kelly Buckle
- Human development and land cover predict Toxoplasma gondii exposure in California sea otters - Tristan Burgess
- Young citizen scientists monitor a deadly disease threatening regional amphibian communities in Humboldt County, CA - Richard G Botzler
Afternoon tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Thursday, 30th July
Mudjimba Verandah
Poster Session 2
4:00PM - 4:30PM
Thursday, 30th July
Main entrance Foyer
- Evaluating common storage methods of wildlife corn to reduce aflatoxin production - Alan M. Fedynich
- Transmission dynamics of Borrelia bacteria in a bird tick community - Dieter Heylen
- Detection of Chlamydia psittaci and psittacine beak and feather disease virus in sympatric passerines and an invasive psittacine species - Anne Justice-Allen
- Multidisciplinary investigation of Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) - Lesanna Lahner
- Electrical Shock Injury in a Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) - Patricia Latas
- Assessing viral diversity within non-human primates of Peninsular and Bornean Malaysia - Mei Ho Lee
- Discoveries and Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Sampling Wild Birds for Mycoplasma gallisepticum - David H Ley
- Developing immune reagents and assays to define Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) immune responses to disease and vaccination - Chandan Mangar
- Clinical findings in free-ranging elk (Cervus elaphus) affected with treponeme-associated hoof disease (TAHD) in southwest Washington state, USA - Kristin Mansfield
- Horse behaviour, paddock structure and frequency of contact with Hendra virus - Gerardo Martin
- Investigating regent parrot declines in South Australia – biomedical survey and telemetry studies. - David J McLelland
- Recreational fishing debris: sinking our coastal wildlife? - Phoebe Meagher
- SAVEM at the Sampson Flat bushfire: data gathered during the Veterinary Response. - Claire ER Moore
- Paramyxoviruses in Australian flying-foxes: each to their own? - Alison J Peel
- Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease in endangered Australian parrots - Andrew Peters
- Host - parasite interactions: a tool for determining human impacts to endangered wildlife - Michelle Power
- Investigating the history of the conflict between kea (Nestor notabilis), an endangered parrot, and high country sheep farmers in New Zealand. - Clio Reid
- Epidemiological and evolutionary implications of seasonal birth pulses in wild mammals - Olivier Restif
- Interclass transmission of avian-origin influenza A virus through common resources - Jeff Root
- Tick Diversity in Wild Lowland Tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) in the Atlantic Forest and Pantanal Biomes, Brazil - Renata Carolina Fernandes Santos
- Intensive health screening of moose at the edge of their range - Krysten Schuler
- Live genome resource banking to aid koala conservation in South-east Queensland - Bridie Schultz
- Thelazia callipaeda in wild animals in the Russian Far East - Vladimir Shaitanov
- Clinical investigation into urolithiasis in yellow-footed rock wallabies (Petrogale xanthopus) - Cora Singleton
- Bat flies (genus Cyclopodia): an unlikely vector for the transmission of Hendra virus. - Craig S Smith
- Twenty years of Hendra virus in Queensland (1994-2014): laboratory submission trends and risk factors for infection in horses. - Craig S Smith
- Current status of tularemia in the Netherlands, an example of an integrated human-veterinary one health approach in practice - Peter P van Tulden
- Disease risk analysis for the captive management of the critically endangered Western Ground Parrot (Pezoporus flaviventris) - Simone Vitali
- Strontium plesiotherapy as an adjunct treatment for squamous cell carcinoma in a Pygmy Bearded Dragon (Pogona henrylawsoni) - Jayne Weller
- A Two-Tier Ebola Virus Vaccination Strategy for Wild African Apes - Christopher Whittier
- Scoping the wildlife-livestock interface – diseases, species, regions, and trends - Anke Wiethoelter
- Preliminary investigations into neonate health and cause-specific calf mortality in a declining moose population in northeastern Minnesota - Tiffany M Wolf
- A descriptive epidemiological study of recent Australian strandings of Risso’s Dolphins (Grampus griseus) - Jessica GM Wong
- Can oral examinations and diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminthes be combined? - Katalina Z. Brenes
STREAM 1 - One Health/Disease surveillance and Disease impacting (Part II)
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Thursday, 30th July
Mudjimba Rooms 1, 2 & 3
Chair: Derek Spielman
- Colonization dynamics of a new endogenous retrovirus in mule deer from chronic wasting disease- free and endemic regions - Mary Poss
- Anaemia in neonatal pinnipeds: Distinguishing between correlation and causation by haematophagous parasites of the Australian sea lion - Alan D. Marcus
- An outbreak of colonic amoebiasis in wild cane toads (Rhinella marinum) in northern Australia - Cathy M Shilton
- Rats about town: Parasites and pathogens carried by rats in Vancouver, Canada - Kaylee Byers
WDA-Australasian Section Annual General Meeting
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Thursday, 30th July
Conference Dinner
7:00PM - 10:30PM
Thursday, 30th July
The Lawn
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