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TENTATIVE TIMETABLE
Thursday, February 13, 2020
17:00 Registration opens at the Mariott at Metro Center
18:00 Meet & Greet
Friday, February 14, 2020
08:00 Registration, poster viewing and visit the exhibition
09:00 - 11:00 SESSION 1 - FLAVIVIRUSES INTERACTION
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
FRIEND OR FOE: ANTIBODY RESPONSES TO DENGUE AND ZIKA VIRUS INFECTIONS
Eva Harris, Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
THE CONTRIBUTION OF ZIKA EPIDEMIC TO FLAVIVIRUSES RESEARCH (IMPROVING DIAGNOSIS, NON-MOSQUITOES TRANSMISSION, VIRAL TERATOGENY)
TBA
PAPERS ACCEPTED FROM ABSTRACTS
TBA
11:00 Coffee, poster viewing and visit the exhibition
11:30 - 13:00 SESSION 2 - EPIDEMIOLOGY
AEDES TRANSMITTED DISEASES - BEYOND FLAVIVIRUSES
Duane J. Gubler, Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
THE CHANGING EPIDEMIOLOGY OF AEDES RELATED INFECTIONS
TBA
YELLOW FEVER IN SOUTH AMERICA
TBA
AEDES-BORNE INFECTIONS IN THE GULF COUNTRIES
Eskild Petersen, Tropical Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
& Department of Infectious Diseases, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Friday, February 14, 2020
11:30 - 13:00 SESSION 2 - EPIDEMIOLOGY CONT.
DEBATE:
SHOULD WE (CONTINUE) SCREENING FOR ZIKA IN PREGNANT WOMEN (LOCAL, TRAVELERS)
TBA
PAPERS ACCEPTED FROM ABSTRACTS
TBA
13:00 - 15:00 COMPANY SPONSORED LUNCH SYMPOSIUM
TBA
15:00 - 17:00 SESSION 3 - VACCINES
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
DENGUE VACCINES UPDATE
TBA
DENGUE VACCINE
TBA
ZIKA VACCINE
TBA
ZIKA HYPER IMMUNE GLOBULIN
TBA
ANTI-ZIKA VIRUS HYPER-IMMUNE IGGS IN MICE MODEL
Yuval Sagiv, Kamada, Israel
PAPERS ACCEPTED FROM ABSTRACTS
TBA
Saturday, February 15, 2020
09:00 - 11:00 SESSION 4 - AEDES ENTOMOLOGY AND CONTROL
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
PREDICTING THE FUTURE DISTRIBUTION OF AEDES MOSQUITOES AND RELATED VIRUSES
Moritz Kraemer, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
WOLBACHIA-INFECTED MOSQUITOES - WHERE WE ARE
TBA
THE SPECTRUM OF VIRUSES CAPABLE TO INFECT AEDES
TBA
THE INTERACTION OF THE VIRUS AND ITS HOST
TBA
NEW PESTICIDE FORMULATIONSAGAINST MOSQUITO LARVAE WITH LOWER TOXICITYAND WITHOUT REDUCTION OF EFFICACY
TBA
11:00 Coffee, poster viewing and visit the exhibition
11:30 - 13:00 SESSION 5 - CLINICAL ASPECTS
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
ZIKA-LONG TERM FOLLOW UP ON ZIKA-INFECTED INFANTS
TBA
ALPHAVIRUSES ARTHROPATHY
Lin Chen, Director, Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
DENV SEXUAL TRANSMISSION
Martin P. Grobusch, Chair, Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine; Head, Center for Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
DENGUE IN TRAVELERS, GEOSENTINEL DATA
TBA
DEBATE: DENGUE - ADE & THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SECOND INFECTION
Pro: TBA
Con: Eli Schwartz, The Center for Geographic Medicine and Tropical Diseases, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
13:00 - 15:00 COMPANY SPONSORED LUNCH SYMPOSIUM
TBA
15:00 - 17:00 SESSION 6 - DIAGNOSIS & LABORATORY ASPECTS
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
SEVERE DENGUE-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Scott Halstead, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
THE ANTIBODIES ENHANCEMENT PHENOMENA IN THE LAB
Tomer Hertz, Israel
DIAGNOSIS OF ZIKA VIRUS IN ISRAELI TRAVELERS – CAN WE SAFELY GET PREGNANT?
Yaniv Lustig, Israel
MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS AND SURVEILLANCE OF DENGUEVIRUSES
John WA Rossen, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
DENGUE RAPID TEST FOR POTENTIAL DENGUE VACCINE RECIPIENTS
TBA
PAPERS ACCEPTED FROM ABSTRACTS
TBA
Sunday, February 16, 2020
09:00 - 11:00 SESSION 7 - VIROLOGY - BASIC ASPECTS
YELLOW FEVER VACCINE-FRACTIONAL DOSE
Annelies Wilder Smith, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Consultant, WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research
YELLOW FEVER VACCINE-FRACTIONAL DOSE: FIELD EVALUATION
TBA
YELLOW FEVER IN BRAZIL – MOLECULAR ANALYSIS
TBA
WHY IS THERE NO YELLOW FEVER IN ASIA?
TBA
PAPERS ACCEPTED FROM ABSTRACTS
TBA
11:30 - 13:00 SESSION 8 - CONCLUSION: LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FARWARD
THE CONTRIBUTION OF ZIKA EPIDEMIC TO FLAVIVIRUSES RESEARCH (IMPROVING DIAGNOSIS, NON-MOSQUITOES TRANSMISSION, VIRAL TERATOGENY)
TBA