Schedule

ICOPHAI 2015 MAIN CONGRESS SCHEDULE

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Monday August 3, 2015 – Wednesday August 5, 2015
0830 - 1630	Check in at the Conference Center for All Delegates Pre-congress workshops

Thursday August 6, 2015 (Day 1 of ICOPHAI 2015)
0800 - 0900	Registration
0900 - 0915	ICOPHAI Introduction/Housekeeping Issues (Sec. General- P. Patchanee)
0915 - 0930	Welcome Address by ICOPHAI Local chair (Dean Khwanchai)
0930 - 0945	Opening Remarks by ICOPHAI chair (W. Gebreyes)
0945 - 1000	Opening Remarks and declaration- Opening of ICOPHAI 2015 (Assoc. Prof. Niwes Nantachit , MD, President of Chiang Mai University)
1000 – 1030	Refreshments and Networking Break
	*Ebola, MERS and other emerging viral diseases of zoonotic significance* Chairs: A. Hoet and T. Meeyam
1030 – 1115	Special Emphasis Presentation #1: First Imported Case of MERS-CoV Infection in Thailand Wacharapluesadee S.; WHO Collaborating Center for Viral Zoonoses, Chulalongkorn Univ., Bangkok, Thailand
1115 – 1130	Searching for Ebola: insights and implications from an analytical study of Google Trends-based query volumes Bragazzi N.L., Alicino C., Orsi A., Faccio V., Amicizia D., Panatto D., Gasparini R. & Icardi G.
1130 – 1145	Epidemiological Survey of Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Cattle in East Darfur State, Sudan Ibrahim A.
1145 – 1245	Lunch and Networking
	*Operationalizing One Health and Impact on Development* Chairs: S. Quessy and W. Gebreyes
1245 - 1330	Plenary Presentation Thiravat Hemachudha, Professor and Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Viral Zoonoses, Chulalongkorn Univ., Bangkok, Thailand “One Health: does it help? View from a different angle”
1330 - 1345	Setting priorities on zoonoses in developing and developed countries: key step to One Health policy making Cediel N., DeMeneghi D., Villamil L.C., Conte V., Tiberti D., Tomassone L., Romero J., Guiso P. & Renteria L.
1345 - 1400	Air Quality Assessment and Health: Kenya Country Levels, International Perspectives and Impact on Pollutants on Human and Animal Health Ogara E.
1400 - 1415	Soi Dog Foundation: Mitigating the Risks from Stray Dogs in Thailand by Promoting Animal Welfare and the One Health Concept Polak, Katherine
1415 – 1430	Scaling down One Health Approaches to District Local Governments and Communities through One Health Leadership Training in the Albertine Ecosystem in Uganda Mugisha L., Rwegog I., Manukose E., Bukenya J., Bazeyo W., Majalija S., Kiguli J., Kabagambe G., Kabasa J.D., Farnham M. & Pelican K.
1430 - 1445	Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practices of health practitioners and students towards rabies in Kirkos sub city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Nigatu S., Honelegn D., Mammo H. & Kassa T.
1445 - 1515	Refreshments and Networking Break / Poster Presentation
1515 - 1545	Special Emphasis Presentation #2 One Health Model Implementation – Global Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and Rabies Prevention and control Model systems Gebreyes W.
	*Foodborne and Waterborne Zoonoses* Chairs: C.B. Oliveira and D. Asrat
1545 - 1630	Plenary Session by Sylvain Quessy “Risk assessment of food producing establishments, a key component of a national food safety control system”
1630 – 1645	Genetic characterization of porcine group A rotaviruses in asymptomatic pigs in smallholder farms in East Africa: Detection of P[6] and P[8] genotypes resembling human strains Amimo J., Junga J., Djikeng A., Saif L., Okoth E. & Bishop R.
1645 - 1700	Outbreak of tuberculosis in a flock of sheep kept with a dairy farm in Ethiopia Gelalcha B.D., Zewude A. & Chimdi G.A.
1700 - 1730	Special Emphasis presentation #3: ICOPHAI Consortium Presentation (VPH-Biotech core leader)
1730	End of Scientific Session- Day 1
1830 1900 - 1945	Cultural Dinner and presentation (Introduction of speaker by Co-chair Prof. Pongruk, Vice President for Planning, Chiang Mai University) Ohio State: A Land-Grant University Engaging the World William I. Brustein, Vice Provost for Global Strategies and International Affairs

Friday August 7, 2015 (Day 2 of ICOPHAI 2015)
0900 - 0915	ICOPHAI Recap/Housekeeping Issues
	*Antimicrobial Resistance, Alternatives and New Antimicrobial Agents* Chairs: P. Patchanee and T. Alter
0900 - 0930	Special Emphasis Presentation #3: Future Considerations on the Veterinary Antibiotic Pipeline Thomas Shryock, Consultant on Antimcirobials, Greenfield, IN, USA
0930 - 0945	Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in abattoir workers and livestock from Busia County, Kenya Obanda B., Cook A., Fevre E., Wang S., Bebora L., Ngetich R., Mwituria J., Ogara W., Thaiyah A., Kariuki S. & Gebreyes W.
0945 – 1000	Prevalence and molecular mechanisms of resistance to quinolone and b-lactam antimicrobial agents in non-typhoidal Salmonella isolates from humans and animals in central Ethiopia Eguale T., Birungi J., Niahira M., Gebreyes W., Asrat D., Gunn J., Engidawork E. & Djikeng A.
1000 - 1015	Antimicrobial and genetic profiles of Escherichia coli of strains recovered from humans, animals and environmental specimen from two rural homesteads in Kenya Kariuki S., Butaye P., Goddeeris B. & Kiiru J.
1015 - 1030	Veterinary pharmaceuticals in South African environment: Status of investigation Molefe S.M., McCrindle C., Botha C. & Naidoo V.
1030 - 1100	Refreshments and Networking Break
	*Vector-borne Zoonoses, Environment and Role of Wildlife* Chairs: S. Boonmar and R. Kazwala
1100 – 1145	Plenary Presentation Jonna Mazet, Director USAID-PREDICT, UC Davis, CA “Proof of Concept – Building capacity to detect viruses of pandemic concern at the animal-human interface”
1145 – 1200	Wildlife surveillance for emerging infectious diseases of high zoonotic risk in Uganda: Strengthening Epidemic Preparedness and Response Ssebide B.J., Cranfield M., Gilardi K. & Mazet J.
1200 - 1215	Drinking water quality in rural Far North, Cameroon: analysis of contamination sources, hygiene behaviors, and health outcomes Gorham T., Yoo J., Garabed R. & Lee J.
1215 – 1230	Ecology and Epidemiology of Environmental MRSA in Human and Animal Healthcare Settings: The Spillover Scenario van Balen J., Nava-Hoet R., Wittum T., Dyce J., Kohn J., Stevenson K., Wang S. & Hoet A.
1230 - 1245	Enzoonotic Chikungunya virus circulating in urban-restricted non-human primates: Possible sources of human outbreaks in Kenya Jeneby M., Villinger J., Lekolool I., Masiga D. & Sang R.
1245 - 1300	Serological study of pig associated viral zoonotic pathogens in Bhutan Monger V., Stegeman A., Koop G., Vanderpoel W., Hazke R. & Loeffen W.
1300 - 1430	Lunch and Networking
	*Genomics, Pathogen Detection Systems and Geographic Medicine* Session Chairs: A. Djikeng and K. Lim
1430 - 1515	Plenary Presentation Lee Riley, Profession and Chair, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA “Pandemic dissemination of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli lineages--how?”
1515 – 1530	Metagenomic analysis demonstrates the diversity of fecal virome in asymptomatic pigs in East Africa Amimo J., Okoth E., Bishop R., Vlasoba A., Saif L. & Apollinaire D.
1530 – 1545	Quantitative Method for Detecting Vibrio Species Using Bio-Theta DOX^TM System Tanno S., Fukui N., Utaka Y., Ohkawa S., Morita Y. & Boonmar S.
1545 - 1630	Refreshments and Networking Break / Poster Presentation 15:45-16:05- Sponsor presentation- Public Health Preparedness for Infectious Diseases (PHPID) Dr. Kathleen Marriott, PHPID, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
1630 – 1645	Prevalence, antimicrobial resistance and risk factors for thermophilic Campylobacter infections in symptomatic and asymptomatic humans in Tanzania Komba E., Mdegela R., Msoffe P., Nielsen L. & Ingmer H.
1645 – 1700	Development of a high-throughput sequencing method to identify Anisakidae species in fish Seesao Y., Audebert, C., Gay M., Thébault A., Verrez-Bagnis V., Cos I., Bourgau O., Dupouy-Camet J., Viscogliosi E. & Aliouat-Denis C.
1700 - 1715	Special Emphasis presentation #4: ICOPHAI Consortium Presentation (VPH-Biotech core leader)
1715	End of Scientific Session- Day 2

Saturday August 8, 2015 (Day 2 of ICOPHAI 2015)
0900 - 0915	ICOPHAI Recap/Housekeeping Issues
	*Immunology and Vaccine Development* Chairs: S. Kariuki and T. Shryock
0915 - 1000	Plenary Session by Abhay Satoskar, Vice Chair, Dept. of Pathology, “Vaccines for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs): Current status and future”
1000 - 1015	Vaccine Development against Visceral Leishmaniasis in Non-Human Primate Model: Use of High Potential Adjuvants Mutiso J., Gicheru M., Taracha E. & Macharia J.
1015 - 1030	Anti-Leishmania donovani antibodies enhance promastigotes internalization into host macrophage Sharief A.
1030 - 1100	Coffee/ tea break and networking
1100 - 1130	Special Presentation #5: ICOPHAI Consortium Presentation (VPH-Biotech core leader)
1130 - 1200	Closing Remarks- S. Boonmar, Co-chair, Int’l Organizing committee Prof. Pongruk Sribanditmongkol, Honorary Co-Chair of ICOPHAI 2015

1200 - 1230	ICOPHAI 2017 Bidding and Closing Ceremony
12:30 - 1400	Lunch and networking

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