Thursday, February 13, 2020

 

17:00  Registration opens at the Mariott at Metro Center

18:00  Meet & Greet

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Friday, February 14, 2020

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08:00  Registration, poster viewing and visit the exhibition

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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

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THE CONTRIBUTION OF ZIKA EPIDEMIC TO FLAVIVIRUSES RESEARCH (IMPROVING DIAGNOSIS, NON-MOSQUITOES TRANSMISSION, VIRAL TERATOGENY)

TBA

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PAPERS ACCEPTED FROM ABSTRACTS

TBA

 

11:00 Coffee, poster viewing and visit the exhibition    

 

11:30 - 13:00  SESSION 2  - EPIDEMIOLOGY

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AEDES TRANSMITTED DISEASES - BEYOND FLAVIVIRUSES

Duane J. Gubler, Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

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THE CHANGING EPIDEMIOLOGY OF AEDES RELATED INFECTIONS

TBA

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YELLOW FEVER IN SOUTH AMERICA

TBA

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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

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Friday, February 14, 2020

 

11:30 - 13:00 SESSION 2  - EPIDEMIOLOGY CONT.

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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

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KEYNOTE LECTURE:

DENGUE VACCINES UPDATE

TBA

 

DENGUE VACCINE

TBA

 

ZIKA VACCINE

TBA

                

ZIKA HYPER IMMUNE GLOBULIN

TBA

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ANTI-ZIKA VIRUS HYPER-IMMUNE IGGS IN MICE MODEL

Yuval Sagiv, Kamada, Israel

 

PAPERS ACCEPTED FROM ABSTRACTS

TBA

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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DENGUE RAPID TEST FOR POTENTIAL DENGUE VACCINE RECIPIENTS

TBA

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PAPERS ACCEPTED FROM ABSTRACTS

TBA

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Sunday, February 16, 2020

 

09:00 - 11:00  SESSION 7 - VIROLOGY - BASIC ASPECTS

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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

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11:30 - 13:00  SESSION 8 -  CONCLUSION: LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FARWARD

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THE CONTRIBUTION OF ZIKA EPIDEMIC TO FLAVIVIRUSES RESEARCH (IMPROVING DIAGNOSIS, NON-MOSQUITOES TRANSMISSION, VIRAL TERATOGENY)

TBA