The final agenda may be downloaded as a pdf file by clicking here.

The complete abstracts book (~10 Mb) may be downloaded as a pdf file by clicking here. The agenda and abstracts book will also be distributed to registrants at the meeting.

Program

The Scientific Committee is planning a program that will cover a wide variety of subjects in feline retrovirology and include keynote lectures as well as contributed papers and posters. The symposium will include the following topics:

• Diagnosis & Therapy
• Emerging Diseases
• Epidemiology
• Feline Immunodeficiency Virus
• Feline Leukemia Virus
• Feline Models of Disease
• Immunology
• New Technologies
• Non-domestic Cats
• Pathogenesis
• Vaccines
• Viral Vectors & Gene Therapy
• Virology

The symposium will also include talks on sequencing of the feline genome, on the history of feline retrovirus research, and on current topics in non-retroviral infectious diseases in felids.

Confirmed Speakers

• Mauro Bendinelli, Therapies for FIV and applications for HIV disease
• Edward Breitschwerdt, Bartonellosis in the cat
• Meredith Brown, Genetic characterization of FeLV in Florida panthers
• John Elder, Molecular mechanisms of FIV infection
• James G. Fox, Helicobactor infection in the cat
• William Hardy, To be announced
• Regina Hoffmann-Lehmann, Molecular biology of FeLV infection and vaccination
• Edward A. Hoover, Susceptibility of dendritic cells to FIV infection
• Oswald Jarrett, To be announced
• Laura Levy, Advances in understanding molecular determinants in FeLV pathology
• Hans Lutz, Diagnosis of Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) Infection
• Takayuki Miyazawa, To be announced
• Stephen J O'Brien, The cat genome project: human & veterinary biomedical implications
• Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus, The cat as a vector/model for influenza research
• Craig Packer, Emerging diseases in free-ranging African lions
• Colin Parrish, Parvoviral disease in Felidae
• Jill Pecon-Slattery, Retroviral evolution in the Felidae
• Mauro Pistello, FIV accessory genes vaccination
• Eric M. Poeschla, FIV as a lentiviral vector
• Joan Pontius, Annotation of the feline genome
• Mary Poss, FIV disease in free-ranging cougars
• Alfred L. Roca, Endogenous feline retroviruses
• Melody Roelke, Disease in Florida panthers
• Peter J. M. Rottier, Molecular determinants in FIP infection
• Mary B. Tompkins, Immune dysfunction and dysregulation in FIV Disease
• Jennifer Troyer, FIV transmission; an evolutionary prospective
• Susan VandeWoude, Mechanisms of feline lentivirus interference and control
• Brian J. Willett, FIV receptor correlates with disease progression
• Christiaan Winterbach, Studies of lions in the Botswana ecosystem
• Janet K. Yamamoto, Advances in FIV vaccine technology
• Naoya Yuhki, MHC genomics of the cat

All speakers listed have confirmed their attendance.

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