In Parma at the Congress Center, will take place the 12th World Conference on Paratuberculosis, organized by the National Reference Centre for Paratuberculosis (IZSLER), under the patronage of the Ministry of Health of the International Association for Paratuberculosis (IAP).

The World Conference on Paratuberculosis is an highly awaited event for  members of the IAP as well as for researchers, industry representatives, veterinarians and public health authorities that are interested on this topic and related problems.

The scientific program, entirely in English, is articulated in different sessions introduced by an invited speaker and concluded by a review&perspective speaker:

Diagnostics and detection:

• Invited speaker: Douwe Bakker (Department of Bacteriology and Central Veterinary Institute, Lelystad, The Netherlands)
• Review and Perspective speaker: Iva Slana (Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic)

Host response and immunology:

• Invited speaker: Eiichi Momotani (Tohto College of Health Sciences, 4-2-11 Kami-shiba-machi, Fukaya city, Saitama, Japan)
• Review and Perspective speaker: Judith Stabel (Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University and National Animal Disease Centre, Ames, Iowa, USA)

Control programs:

• Invited speaker: Herman Barkema (Department of Production, Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada)
• Review and Perspective speaker: Christine Fourichon (INRA, ONIRIS, UMR1300 Bioagression, Epidémiologie et Analyse de Risque, Nantes, France)

Pathogenomics and Map biology:

• Invited speaker: Philip Griebel (Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization and School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada)
• Review and Perspective speaker: AP Koets (Department of Infectious Disease and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands) 

Genotyping and Map diversity:

• Invited speaker: Adel Taalat (The Laboratory of Bacterial Genomics, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA and Department of Food Hygiene, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt)
• Review and Perspective speaker: Srinand Sreevatsan (Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)

Epidemiology:

• Invited speaker: Naveet Dhand (Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Camden, Australia)
• Review and Perspective speaker: Polychronis Kostoulas (Laboratory of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Animal Health
• Economics, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece)

Public health and Map in the environment:

• Invited speaker: Ingrid Olsen (Centre for Immune Regulation and Department of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet and Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Section for Immunology, Oslo, Norway)
• Review and Perspective speaker: Tim Bull (St, George's University of London Medical School, London, UK)

Remember  that the early registration with reduced fee will be closed on 3.31.2014.

 

Also remember that June 24 will be a parallel session on control plans with an Italian translation intended for veterinary and public corporation.

 

The deadline for registration is 30.04.2014

 

 

 

For any other information, refer to ICP site

www.icp2014.eu