Epidemiolgy, Diagnosis, Control
and Prevention
PROGRAMME
Monday 1st December 2008
Check in from 3pm
17:00 onwards - Registration
18.00 Welcome - Nigel Minton – Cavendish Room
18.30 Drinks Reception
19.30 Private dinner in the Devonshire Room
Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Devonshire Room
Genomics & genetics
09.00 Genetic tools - Julian Rood
09.40 Comparative genomic hybridization analysis suggests different epidemiology of chromosomal and plasmid-borne cpe-carrying Clostridium perfringens type A strains - Päivi Lahti
10.00 Distribution of putative spore germination genes in clostridium species – Yinghua Xiao
10.20 Generation of single-copy transposon insertions in Clostridium perfringens by electroporation of phage mu DNA transposition complexes - Anouk Lanckriet
10.40 Coffee
Enterotoxaemias of animals
11.00 Pathogenesis of disease - Francisco Uzal
11.40 Molecular basis of toxicity of Epsilon Toxin - Michel Popoff
12.20 Clostridium perfringens beta-toxin targets endothelial cells in necrotizing enteritis in piglets - Horst Posthaus
12.40 Toxin typing and antibiotic resistance profiles of Clostridium perfringens isolates associated with cases of sudden death and enterotoxaemia in veal calves in belgium - Adeline Muylaert
13.00 Lunch
Human Disease
14.00 Gas gangrene - Rick Titball
14.40 Food poisoning - Bruce McClane
15.20 Epidemiology of food poisoning – Kathie Grant
16.00 Tea
16.20 Preliminary identification of claudin residues involved in C.perfringens enterotoxin binding and action - Susan Robertson
16.40 Recombinant Clostridium acetobutylicum expressing C. perfringens enterotoxin (cpe) for treatment of pancreatic cancer - Sandra Koenig
17.00 Close
19.30 Conference Dinner in the Devonshire Room
Wednesday 3rd December 2008
09.00 Poster session and breakout discussion groups
10.00 Coffee
Necrotic enteritis of fowl
10.40 Pathogenesis of disease - Magne Kaldhusal
11.20 Molecular pathogenesis of disease - Filip van Immerseel
12.00 Intra-species growth-inhibition is an additional virulence trait of Clostridium perfringens in broiler necrotic enteritis- Leen Timbermont
12.20 Ecological and functional genomic studies for control of Clostridium perfringens infection in broiler chickens - Joshua Gong
12.40 Presence of the necrotic enteritis toxin B, netB, gene in Clostridium perfringens strains originating from healthy and diseased chickens - Lone Abildgaard
13.00 Lunch
Vaccines
14.00 Animal Vaccines - Keith Redhead
14.40 Necrotic enteritis vaccines – John Prescott
15.20 Bacillus subtilis spore vaccines: use of glutathione S transferase - Li Li
15.40 Tea
Diagnostics
16.00 New diagnostics methodologies - Joachim Frey
16.40 Close
19.15 Depart for Kent's Cavern
19.30 Cave Tour
20.30 Carvery Dinner at Kent's Cavern
23.00 Depart Kents's Cavern for hotel
Thursday 4th December 2008
Breakfast and check out by 11am.
Speakers
Julian Rood
Francisco Uzal
Michel Popoff
Rick Titball
Bruce McClane
Kathie Grant
Magne Kaldhusal
Filip van Immerseel
Keith Redhead
John Prescott
Joachim Frey
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