All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04:00)

All daytime events take place at Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries (map)

 

Monday, 18 November

8:00 AM
Arrive to the SCL – Light breakfast, coffee, tea, and juice will be available
Review of the agenda and welcoming remarks given by John Drake, CEID

8:30 AM
Erik Karlson: “The Cadence of Avian Influenza in Cambodia: Festivals, Markets, and Food Security”

9:00 AM
Colin Parrish:  “Emergence, evolution and spread of H3N8 and H3N2 influenza viruses in dogs and horses”

9:30 AM
Break – Light snacks, coffee, tea, and juice will be available

9:45 AM
Martha Nelson: When Pigs Fly: How Modern Livestock Production Drive the Evolution of Pandemic Influenza Viruses”

10:15 AM
Michelle Wille: “Ecology and evolution of avian influenza viruses, from LPAI to HPAI”

10:45 AM
Follow-up Discussions

11:15 AM
Lunch served in the SCL

12:30 PM
Ghazi Kayali:  “An update on zoonotic influenza circulation”

1:00 PM
Matt Biggerstaff & Philip Shirk: “How do predictive models inform public health practice in influenza now and how could they better inform public health practice in the future?”

1:30 PM
Break and Poster Session

2:30 PM
Jonathan Runstadler: “Influenza impacts on wildlife populations”

3:00 PM
Benjamin Cowling: “Control of influenza with pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical measures”

3:30 PM
Hui-Ling Yen: “Antibodies against influenza virus neuraminidase”

4:00 PM
Breakout Session

4:45 PM
Conclusion of talks and review of details for symposium dinner

6:00 -9:00 PM
Networking dinner held at the Rialto Club inside Hotel Indigo (map)


Tuesday, 19 November

8:00 AM
Arrive to the SCL – Light breakfast, coffee, tea, and juice will be available
Review of the agenda and introductory remarks given by John Drake, CEID

8:30 AM
Bernadeta Dadonaite: “Deep mutational scanning of H5 hemagglutinin to inform influenza virus surveillance”

9:00 AM
Andy Ramey: “Persistence of avian origin influenza A viruses in aquatic environments”

9:30 AM
Henry Wan: “Host determinants of influenza A virus spread: exploring receptors and beyond in diverse avian species”

10:00 AM
Mark Tompkins: “Animal models of influenza virus vaccination and infection: Applying established and novel approaches to understand infection, transmission, and prevention”

10:30 AM
Break – Light snacks, coffee, tea, and juice will be available

10:45 AM
Maciej Boni: “Seasonality of influenza and respiratory disease in tropical settings”

11:15 AM
Nídia Trovão: “Remapping Flu: The New Era of Influenza”

11:45 AM
Follow-up Discussions

12:00 PM
Working Lunch served in the SCL

1:15 PM
Derek Cummings: “The life course immunoepidemiology of influenza”

1:45 PM
Aubree Gordon: “Local Spread, Global Impact: Influenza Transmission in Homes and Communities”

2:15 PM
Katia Koelle: “Within-host ecology and evolution of influenza viruses and why it matters for influenza at the population-level”

2:45 PM
Break

3:00 PM
Charles Russell: “HA stability and interspecies adaptation of influenza viruses”

3:30 PM
Vijaykrishna Dhanasekaran: “Evolutionary dynamics of influenza B virus within the influenza virus ecosystem”

4:00 PM
Bryan Grenfell: “Epi-evolutionary dynamics of broad spectrum influenza vaccines”

4:30PM
Conclusion of symposium