Veterinary Virology Conference

A Festschrift to recognise the lifetime achievements of Professor Michael Studdert

27th to 29th September 2006

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Wednesday 27th September Veterinary Research Institute Building (next to Bio 21)
3.00pm	Registration and Welcome Reception
5.00pm to 6.00pm	Keynote Address: Associate Professor Andrew Lew Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical research Posting antigens to the right address for enhancing immune responses
Thursday 28th September Bio 21 Institute
Time	Chair	Theme	Speaker	Title
9:00 AM	Dr Joanne Meers	Diagnostic 1	Spradbrow	The way we were
9:30 AM		Diagnostic 2	Meehan	Genotyping versus pathotyping for the characterisation of PCV2 isolates
9:45 AM		Diagnostic 3	Muller	Antigenicity studies and development of serological tests for foot and mouth disease virus
10:00 AM		Diagnostic 4	Meehan	In vivo quantification analyses of PCV2 DNAs:  Correlation of virus load with disease reproduction
10:30 AM	Morning Tea
11:00 AM	Dr Steven Holloway	Diagnostic 5	Kann	Quantification of the viral load of feline immunodefefiency virus infected cats as an indicator of disease stage and prognosis
11:15 AM		Diagnostic 6	Horwood	Detection of Bovine  Respiratory Disease Viruses by Multiplex Real Time PCR
11:30 AM		Surveillance 1	Hartley	Improving methods for the detection of equine rhintis A virus (ERAV) infection to understand its significance as an equine respiratory pathogen
11:45 AM		Surveillance 2	Gibson	Virological research to support import risk analysis: Transmission of very virulent and variant strains of infectious bursal disease virus in chicken meat
12:00 PM		Surveillance 3	Pharo	Important risk analsis - PRRS in pig meat
12:30 PM	Lunch Poster Session
		Poster	Snelling	Analysis of N-glycans on structual proteins of Nipah and Hendra Virus
		Poster	Gubala	Genomic sequencing and characterisation of an unknown australian rhabdovirus
		Poster	Newberry	A neuralization test for the detection of antibody to Australian bat lyssavirus
1:30 PM	Dr Carol Hartley	Surveillance 4	Warner	Targeted surveillance of avian influenza virus in wild birds in Victoria
1:45 PM		Surveillance 5	Horner	A Review of herpesvirus infections of farmed red deer(Cervus elaphus) in New Zealand
2:00 PM		Surveillance 7	Cowled	Characterisation of Novel Livestock Viruses by Genetic Sequencing
2:15 PM		Surveillance 8	Desport	Is Jembrana disease virus an atypical lentivirus?
2:30 PM			Simmons	Koala retrovirus and investigation of disease associations
2:45 PM	Afternoon Tea
3:15 PM	Dr Timothy Mahony	Evolution 1	Black	The formerly unclassified acid stable equine picornavirus is an equine rhinitis B virus in genus Erbovirus.
3:30 PM		Evolution 2	Meers	Genetic analysis of canine parvovirus in Australia dogs
3:45 PM		Evolution 3	Holloway	Phylogenetic Analysis of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus obtained from Melbourne Cats
4:00 PM		Evolution 4	Hayward	Kiwi Cat FIV
4:15 PM		Evolution 5	Job	FCV/FHV1
4:45 PM		CLOSE
7.00 PM		Conference Dinner University House  Tin Alley The University of Melbourne
Friday 29th September Bio 21 Institute
Time	Chair		Speaker	Title
9:00 AM	Professor Glenn Browning		Devlin	The Role of Glycoprotein G in the Immune Response to Infectious Laryngotracheitis Virus (ILTV)
9:30 AM		Pathogenesis 2	Fenton	Constructing Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes (BAC’s) to study ILTV
9:45 AM		Pathogenesis 3	Mahmoudian	ILTV Gene transcription Patterns
10:00 AM		Pathogenesis 4	Dynon	Transient expression of equine herpesvirus 2 (EHV2) glycoprotein B (gB) in mammalian cells
10:15 AM		Pathogenesis 5	Mitter	Viruses and microRNAs - it is a small world after all
10:30 AM	Morning Tea
11:00 AM	Dr Jin-an Huang	Pathogenesis 6	Hinton	Chicken anaemia virus replication is suppressed by shRNA targeting VP2 in MDCC-MSB1 cells
11:15 AM		Pathogenesis 7	Kaffashi	Viral protein 2 of chicken anaemia virus can induce apoptosis
11:30 AM		Pathogenesis 8	Scanlan	Elucidating the Role of Glycoprotein G in Equine Herpesvirus-1 Pathogenesis
11:45 AM		Pathogenesis 9	Robinson	The Identification of the Essential and Nonessential Genes of BoHV-1 strain V155
12:00 PM			McCracken	An Outbreak of Varicella-like disease in great apes at Melbourne Zoo
12:15 PM		Vaccines 1	Elkington	Veterinary vaccines of the future - through the looking glass
12:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Professor Colin Wilks	Vaccines 2	Spradbrow	Newcastle Disease Vaccines for Village Chickens.  Barefoot Virology
1:45 PM		Vaccines 3	Browning	Safety and Efficacy of Chicken Anaemia Virus Vaccine Candidates
2:00 PM		Vaccines 4	Symes	Delivery of Equine Rhinitis A Virus Antigens using a Glycoprotein G Deletion Mutant of Equine Herpesvirus-1.
2:15 PM		Vaccines 5	Butler	Use of E. coli as a delivery vector for prophylactic proteins targeted against infectious bursal disease virus in the chicken
2:30 PM		Vaccines 6	Mahony	Bovine Respiratory Disease
2:45 PM	CLOSING REMARKS
3:00PM	CLOSE