Session Topics 2011

Wednesday, 26th Oct 2011
A - Opening Session
B - Risk Assessment,Surveillance,Epidemiological Investigation
C - Molecular Typing of Yersinia pestis and New Insights into the Evolutionary History of Plague
D - Emerging Infections
E - Various Countermeasures
F - Deployable Labs and Outbreak Investigations
G - Tularemia

Thursday, 27th Oct 2011
H - Biodefense Strategies
I - The Pipeline of New Drugs and New Vaccines
J - Satellite Symposium of the German Society for Military Medicine and Pharmacy - PlexID: Recent Data on Non-Selective Molecular Species Identification
K - Intracellular Agents
L - Novel Assays for Medical Diagnostics and Detection
M - Vector-Borne Agents as Biothreats

Friday, 28th Oct 2011
N - Medical Countermeasures: New Options, New Targets for Anti-Infective Substances
O - Implementation of Quality Assurance in Medical Biodefense Diagnostics
P - Novel Detection Technologies
 

Key Speakers 2011

M. Achtman - University College Cork, Engineering and Food Science, Cork, Ireland
B. Budowle - UNTHSC, Institute of Applied Genetics, Fort Worth, TX, USA
E. Carniel - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
P. Formenty - World Health Organization, Global Alert and Response Department, Geneva,Switzerland
A. Kelle - University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
S. Kiliç - Refik Saydam National Public Health Agency, Communicable Diseases Research, Ankara, Turkey
A. Lahuerta-Marin - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
R. Massung - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Atlanta, GA, USA
A. Osterhaus - Erasmus MC University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
N.V. Pavlovich - Antiplague Research Institute, Lab. of Tularemia, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
M. Santic - Medical faculty, University of Rijeka, Microbiology and Parasitology, Rijeka, Croatia
D.M. Wagner - Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics,Flagstaff, AZ, USA
A. Weber - Department of Defense, Washington, DC, USA
E. Wimmer - Stony Brook University, New York, NY, USA