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ISNTD Bites 2015
ISNTD BITES 2015
London Zoo
March 19th 2015
9.00am - 5.30pm
- plenary presentations
- interactive Q&A / panel discussions
- call for abstracts
- poster displays
- product demonstrations / exhibitions
- networking receptions
- and more!
LINK TO DETAILED PROGRAMME
Vectors, reservoirs and zoonoses: an NTD perspective
Human, livestock and vector data: integrated surveillance for global health
Olfaction in vector-host interaction: repellents & traps
Technology / solutions focus for vector-control & global health
Salient themes for this year's conference include:
Animal Health & Veterinary Approaches (including treatment of bovine populations in HAT and impact to human disease burden, vaccines, netting, surveillance etc.)
Repellents (issues covering the hard science - genetic mechanisms of olfactory pathways that can be exploited, spatial repellents, trap technology, bringing repellents into a fully integrated vector control programme etc.)
Surveillance identifying gaps in disease, vector and policy coverage and addressing the technologies available. Enhanced collaboration between global health and veterinary structures.
Novel Insecticides / Larvicides (what are the novel mechanisms of action in research, targets, novel technologies that can assist this R&D, screening, modelling, chemistry libraries etc.)
Netting (synergies between Malaria and Lymphatic Filariasis vector control, new textiles that can incorporate new wave of polymer enhanced insecticides, in-field distribution issues how to overcome these by bringing together NGOs and distribution networks through education and supply chain efficiencies)
Water management for vector-control (what are some of the latest concepts and products assisting in treating water for mosquito- or other vector control; how can we best impact community behaviour and uptake)
Please check this page as well as our Twitter feed @ISNTD_Press for regular updates!
Programme
Vector control, zoonoses and NTDs: emergent frontiers in global public health
Pr. David Molyneux
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Guinea Worm Eradication: the final challenges
Pr. Joanne Webster
Royal Veterinary College
Zoonotic schistosomiasis: observations from West Africa
Dr. Nick Hamon
IVCC
Managing Insecticide Resistance and the Challenges of Bringing Life-Saving Vector Control Tools to Market
Dr. Kun Hu
IBM: Public Health Research, Almaden Research Centre
The effect of antibody-dependent enhancement, cross immunity, and vector population on the dynamics of dengue fever
Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar
National Institute of Health Pakistan
Directorate of Malaria Control
Mosquito control in Pakistan: focus on dengue
Dr. Raffaele Mattioli
FAO
The Programme against African Trypanosomosis – An institutional international entente
Dr. Givemore Munhenga
University of the Witwatersrand
Novel malaria vector tools under investigation in South Africa
Pr. Matthew Baylis
University of Liverpool
Chair of Veterinary Epidemiology
Japanese encephalitis in Asia
Dr. Nicola Wardrop
University of Southampton
Integrating human, livestock and vector data in a unified epidemiological framework (sleeping sickness)
Pr. Willem Takken
Wageningen University
Odour-mediated strategies for population management of malaria vectors
Dr. Ana Clara Silva
Ministry of Health Madeira
Following the dengue outbreak in the island of Madeira – further developments
Key speakers
Pr. Ken Norris
Director of Science
Zoological Society London
Dr. Kounbobr Roch Dabire
IRSS/Centre Muraz, Burkina Faso
First Detection of Leishmania infantum in Domestic Dogs from Burkina Faso (West Africa)
Mr. Justin McBeath
Bayer Vector Control
Dr. Patricia Salgueiro
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal
Population genetics of Aedes aegypti, a tool for dengue surveillance and control
Ms. Amanda Read
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS)
Dr. Jeremy Bouyer
CIRAD
New insights on the use of the Sterile Insect Technique against vectors
Mr. Hadyn Parry
Oxitec
Advanced genetics and molecular biology for the control of the Chikungunya vector
Dr. Guy Hendrickx
Avia- GIS
Dr. Spyros E. Zographos
National Hellenic Research Foundation
OBP-structure-aided repellent discovery: An emerging approach towards identification of novel repellents
Dr. James Logan
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Identification and development of novel repellents from human odours
Dr. Ryan Young
University of South Florida
Identification of Human Semiochemicals Attractive to the Major Vectors of Onchocerciasis
