Zoonoses - from wildlife to warfare meeting and student prize
Tuesday 2 February 2010
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
The meeting will address the various micro-organisms that can cause zoonotic diseases (prions, viruses, bacteria, and parasites), the threat to the UK population from these, and the national processes in place to handle their emergence and control. A presentation on the history and rise of zoonoses will bring the meeting up to date with the current threats, and two presentations addressing the title of the meeting will outline the zoonotic disease threat from wild animals and how zoonotic organisms can be weaponised for use as "bioweapons".
Registration Details:
Fellow: £60
Non-Fellow: £85
Trainee - Fellow: £40
Student Members: £30
Student: £40
Trainee: £55
Allied Health Professional: £50
Meeting ref: PO-J10-4
CPD (Applied for): 4 credits
9.00 am |
Registration, tea and coffee |
| Chair: Dr James Kirkwood, Chief Executive and Scientific Director of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) and of the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) | |
9.30 am |
Zoonotic pathogens and biological weapons |
| Professor Richard Titball, Professor of molecular microbiology, Exeter University | |
10.00 am |
Assessing the threat to the UK population from emerging zoonoses |
| Dr Dilys Morgan, Head of Gastrointestinal, Emerging & Zoonotic Infections Department, Health Protection Agency | |
10.30 am |
Zoonotic disease threats from wildlife |
| Dr Andrew Cunningham, Head of wildlife epidemiology, Zoological Society of London | |
11.00 am |
Tea and coffee break |
11.30 am |
Sick swans, crazy canines and risky rodents: Integrating UK policy on zoonoses |
| Maggie Tomlinson, Lead for zoonotic and emerging zoonotic diseases, Department of Health | |
12.00 pm |
Rats, lice, mad cows and history |
| Professor Stephen Palmer, Mansel Talbot Professor of Epidemiology, Cardiff University | |
12.30 pm |
Lunch |
1.30 pm |
Viral zoonoses: a continuing threat to man |
| Professor Vince Emery, Professor of Virology, Royal Free Hospital | |
2.00 pm |
From foot and mouth to paw and claw - bacterial zoonoses |
| Dr Marina Morgan, Consultant in medical microbiology, Royal Devon & Exeter Foundation NHS Trust | |
2.30 pm |
Completion of evaluation forms |
2.35 pm |
Tea and coffee break |
3.00 pm |
Protozoan infections and emerging zoonoses |
| Professor Frank Cox, Senior research fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | |
3.30 pm |
Close of meeting |
