Thursday, 29 June 

8:00: Welcome 

9:00: PL-01 - Opening Ceremony: 
 

• Dr. Mireille BOSSY, Dean VetAgro Sup
• Dr. Barbara MARTIN, Executive Director, World Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians
• Dr Stéphan ZIENTARA, Chair of the scientific committee 
• Dr. Monique ELOIT, Director General of the World Organisation for Animal Health WOAH/OMSA 
  
   

9:45: PL-02 -  Plenary session - The « One Health » concept, part 1 :
 

• 9:45: Dr. JC MANUGERRA, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France 
  “Preparedness for Arbovirus and Zoonotic Infections with a One Health Approach: The Development and Implementation of Multisectoral Risk Assessment Exercises” - (25 min talk/5 min questions)

• 10:15: Dr. Alessio LORUSSO, ISZ Teramo, Italy:
  “Erasing the Invisible Line to Empower the Pandemic Response” - (25 min talk/5 min questions)

10:45: Coffee/Tea break - Sponsor Exhibition

11:15: PL-03 -  Plenary session - The « One Health » concept, part 2:
 

• 11:15: Dr. Nicole PAVIO, ANSES Maisons-Alfort, France:
  "The ambiguity of zoonotic hepatitis E virus: asymptomatic pigs but sick patients" - (25 min talk/5 min questions)

• 11:45: Dr. Mathieu PICARDEAU, Institut Pasteur, Biology of Spirochetes Unit, National Reference Center for Leptospirosis, Paris, France:
  "Leptospirosis: a neglected and worldwide emerging zoonosis" - (25 min talk/5 min questions)
• 12:15: Selected communication  - (10 min talk/2 min questions)

12:30: Lunch / Exhibition

14:00: OP-01 -  Parallel session - Global Health and Surveillance :​
 

• 14:00: Prof. Marcos PEREZ LOPEZ, Toxicology Unit, Faculty of Veterinary, University of Extremadura, Spain & Dr. Francesca CALONI, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Università degli studi di Milano, Milan, Italy:
  “Wildlife poisoning: an European overview” - (25 min talk/5 min questions) 
• 14:30: Pr. Philippe BERNY, VetAgro Sup, Université de Lyon, Marcy l’Etoile, France:
  “Potential eco toxicological impacts of veterinary drugs" - (25 min talk/5 min questions)
• 15:00: Selected communications -  (10 min talk/2 min questions)

14:00: OP-02 -  Parallel session - Feedback on the role of veterinary laboratories in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond:
 

• 14:00: Dr. Udeni BALASURIYA, Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory and Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, USA:
  “The Role of Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories in Disease Diagnosis and Surveillance in the US, an Application of One Health Initiative”
  - (25 min talk/5 min questions) 
• 14:30: Selected communications - (10 min talk/2 min questions)

16:30: Coffee/Tea break - Sponsor Exhibition

17:00 – 18:30 Poster Session - odd numbers


 

Friday, 30 June

08:30: Special Keynote Lecture - The history of a (very) successful diagnostic tool from the veterinary field: the ifn-γ test

• Keynote speaker : Pr. Paul WOOD, inventor of the gamma Interferon test for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (bovine and human), Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia - (25 min talk/5 min questions)

9:00: PL-05 -  Plenary session - Recent developments in animal health and food safety:
 

• 9:00: Dr. Sylvie PERELLE, Université Paris Est, ANSES, Laboratory for Food Safety, Maisons-Alfort, France:
  “Challenges and future direction for enteric viruses detection in food” - (25 min talk/5 min questions)
• 09:30: Pr. Jose-Manuel SANCHEZ-VIZCAINO, VISAVET, Health Surveillance Centre and Animal Health Department, Veterinary School, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain: 
  "Why African swine fever around?" - (25 min talk/5 min questions)
• 10:00: Dr. Kimberly DODD, Director, Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Lansing, USA:
  “Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories: Emerging Leaders in One Health” (25 min talk/5 min questions)
   

 

• 11:00: Mrs. Floriane PEZ & Mr. Valentin DEBELHOIR: “The role of digital PCR in veterinary and environmental diagnostic: one health concept”
• 11:15: Mrs. Valeriia KLUBKOVA & Mrs. Céline CASTERAN: “Bovine digital dermatitis: breakthrough in evaluation of herd status”

11:00: OP-04 -  Sponsored session - BioMérieux:
 

• 11:00: Mrs. Valérie MONNIN: "New database of the VITEK® MS PRIME and its applications in Veterinary Microbiology. "

11:30: OP-05 - Surveillance and control of emerging diseases part 1
 

• 11:30: Selected communications - (10 min talk/2 min questions)
   

11:30: OP-06 - Animal Health

• 11:30: Selected communications - (10 min talk/2 min questions)
   

12:30: Lunch / Exhibition

14:00: OP-07 - Omics and big data, metagenomics: Open ended diagnosis
 

• 14:00: Dr. Joan K LUNNEY, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, USA:
  “Impact of Omics approaches for developing alternate control mechanisms for pig viral diseases” - (25 min talk/5 min questions)
• 14:30: Selected communications - (10 min talk/2 min questions)

14:00 - OP-08 - Surveillance and control of emerging diseases part 2
 

• 14:00: Dr. Pranv PANDIT, One Health Institute & Karen C. DRAYER Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, USA: 
  “Finding a needle in a haystack – Discovery of Bombali ebolavirus and the role of bats in filovirus ecology” - (25 min talk/5 min questions) 
• 14:30: Pr. Taras TSARENKO & Pr. Oksana HITSKHA, Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University, Bila Tserkva, Ukraine:
  “Surveillance and control of emerging diseases in Ukraine” - (25 min talk/5 min questions)
• 15:00: Selected communications - (10 min talk/2 min questions)

16:30: Coffee/Tea break - Sponsor Exhibition

17:00 – 18:30 Poster Session - even numbers

17:00 - WOAH Fireside Chat session: Global Veterinary Laboratory Equipment Management and Sustainability Survey​

• Jennifer LASLEY (WOAH), Stuart Blacksell (University of Oxford), Jean-Luc TROCH (Diagnostics for Animals), Jean-Louis Hunault (Diagnostics for Animals)

 

Saturday, 1 July

 

• 9:00: Dr. Martin BEER, Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald - Insel Riems, Germany:
  "High throughput sequencing-based diagnostics - what is possible today?" - (25 min talk/5 min questions)
• 9:30: Prof. Achariya SAILASUTA, Center of Excellence on Companion Animal Cancer, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand:
  “Innovation on Microfluidics-based device for Biomedical study on Single Cell Analysis and diagnosis” - (25 min talk/5 min questions)
• 10:00: Prof. Delphine SERGENTET, National Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli, VetAgro Sup, Université de Lyon, Marcy l’Etoile, France:
  “Control of Shiga Toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in the food industry” - (25 min talk/5 min questions) 

 

• Coordinator: Dr. Frederick ARNAUD, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRAe), École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, UMR 754, Infections Virales et Pathologie Comparée (IVPC), Paris Sciences Lettres (PSL) Research University, France (abstract: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32272808/).
• 11:00: Best poster presentation
• 11:15: Selected communications - (10 min talk/2 min questions)

 

• Coordinator: Prof./Dr. Achariya SAILASUTA (WAVLD), Center of Excellence on Companion Animal Cancer, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 
• Committee: Dr. Barbara Martin, Prof. Craig Carter 
• 11:00: Best poster presentation
• 11:15: Selected communications - (10 min talk/2 min questions)
   

 

• 14:00: Dr. Jean-Yves MADEC, ANSES Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France :
  “AMR in a One Health perspective : which relevant issues for diagnostic and surveillance ?” - (25 min talk/5 min questions)
• 14:30: Dr. Frédéric LAURENT, French National Reference Centre for staphylococci, Institute for Infectious Agents, Hospices Civils de Lyon, University of Lyon, Lyon, France:
  “Global spread of staphylococci lineages: from animal to human … and vice versa !” - (25 min talk/5 min questions)
• 15:00: Selected communications  - (10 min talk/2 min questions) 
   

15:45 - PL-08 - Conclusion ISWAVLD 2023 & Introduction ISWAVLD 2025:
 

• Organisation and scientific committee: Prof. Zorée DJELOUADJI (VetAgro Sup, Marcy l’Etoile, France) and Pr. Agnès LEBLOND (VetAgro Sup, Marcy l’Etoile, France)
• Grégory Doucet, Mayor of Lyon city
• ADILVA representative 
• Dr. Barbara MARTIN, Executive Director, World Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians