Thursday, October 1, 2015
1.00 pm – 1.30 pm Welcome address
Jörg Hacker (Halle/Saale, Germany)
President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Thomas C. Mettenleiter (Insel Riems, Germany)
President of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut,
Federal Research Institute for Animal Health
Richard Lucius (Berlin, Germany)
Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Session I: Taxonomy goes OMICs: molecular versus morphological methods in taxonomic research
Chairpersons: Egbert Tannich (Hamburg, Germany)
Michael Ohl (Berlin, Germany)
1.30 pm – 2.00 pm
Approaches to infer local vectorial capacity: from rapid assays to population genomics and transcriptomics, a review
Dina M. Fonseca (New Brunswick, NJ, USA)
2.00 pm – 2.30 pm
Can Next-Generation-Sequencing help with overcoming the taxonomic impediment in arthropod systematics?
Rudolf Meier (Singapore)
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm
The Making of Vectors: Lessons from the Simuliidae
Peter H. Adler (Clemson, USA)
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Coffee Break
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm
Towards high-throughput identification of arthropod vectors by mass spectrometry
Alexander Mathis (Zürich, Switzerland)
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm
The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum – a novel model for pest insects
Gregor Bucher (Göttingen, Germany)
4.30 pm – 5.00 pm
Tungiasis – a neglected tropical zoonosis with many facets
Hermann Feldmeier (Berlin, Germany)
Plenary Lecture
6.00 pm - 7.00 pm
at the Tieranatomisches Theater
Welcome address
Klaus Osterrieder (Berlin, Germany)
Introduction
Theodor Hiepe (Berlin, Germany)
Die Vielfalt der Arthropoden - eine molekularbiologische Sicht (in German language)
Bernhard Misof (Bonn, Germany)
7.00 pm
Welcome Reception at the Tieranatomisches Theater
Friday, October 2, 2015
Session II: Vector control as “One health” approach? Arthropod-borne diseases in veterinary and public health
Chairpersons: Richard Lucius (Berlin, Germany)
Martin Groschup (Insel Riems, Germany)
9.00 am – 9.30 am
Modeling of arthropod-borne diseases
Franz Rubel (Vienna, Austria)
Mosquitoes
9.30 am – 10.00 am
Mosquito monitoring in Germany
Helge Kampen (Insel Riems, Germany)
10.00 am – 10.30 am
The German Mobovirus Surveillance Program, 2009 – 2015
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit (Hamburg, Germany)
10.30 am – 11.00 am
Dirofilariasis – a new emerging vector-borne zoonosis in Central Europe
Egbert Tannich (Hamburg, Germany)
11.00 am – 11.30 am
Coffee break
11.30 am – 12.00 pm
Genetic structure of Aedes albopictus population and Chikungunya emergence
Anna-Bella Failloux (Paris, France)
12.00 pm – 12.30 pm
The impact of biotic and abiotic factors on vectorial capacity of Culex mosquitoes for West Nile virus
Laura D. Kramer (Albany, NY, USA)
12.30 pm – 1.00 pm
Evolutionary and ecological insights into the emergence of arthropod-borne viruses
Sandra Junglen (Bonn, Germany)
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Lunch Break
Chairpersons: Hartwig Bostedt (Gießen, Germany)
Martin Beer (Insel Riems, Germany)
Biting midges
2.00 pm – 2.30 pm
Culicoides biting midges and their relevance as vectors: a European perspective.
Claudio de Liberato (Rome, Italy)
Sandflies
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm
Targeting phlebotomine vectors for the integrated control of leishmaniasis
Paul Ready (London, UK)
Ticks
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Infections with Spotted-Fever Group Rickettsiae in man and animals
Martin Pfeffer (Leipzig, Germany)
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm
Tick-borne viruses
Gerhard Dobler (Munich, Germany)
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm
Coffee break
Chairpersons: Kai Matuschewski (Berlin, Germany)
Franz J. Conraths (Insel Riems, Germany)
Prevention and Control
4.30 pm – 5.00 pm
Novel malaria vector control based on proven historical concepts
Bart Knols (Wageningen, Netherlands)
5.00 pm – 5.30 pm
The potential use of Wolbachia-based mosquito biocontrol strategies for Japanese encephalitis
Thomas Walker (London, UK)
5.30 pm – 6.00 pm
Analysis of insecticide resistance in major mosquito vectors: from molecular mechanisms to management.
John Vontas (Crete, Athens, Greece)
Genetic Models for Vector-borne Diseases
6.00 pm – 6.30 pm
Insect Biotechnology used for eco-friendly pest control
Marc F. Schetelig (Giessen, Germany)
6.30 pm – 7.00 pm
Drosophila as models for Arbovirus Infection
Stefanie Becker (Hannover, Germany)