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	Below is a list of confirmed conference faculty. Full programme will be posted on this page in the near future. Anticipated start is at 8.30am on 10th and close at 4.30pm on 11th September. Professor Robert Webster (Keynote Speaker) Rose Marie Thomas Chair, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA Title: Continuing evolution of avian influenza viruses: Is H5N1 beyond control? Professor Sir John Skehel (Keynote Speaker) National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK Title: TBA Professor John Oxford (Keynote Speaker) Retroscreen Virology Ltd and University of London, UK Title: Lessons from the Great Avian Flu Outbreak of H1N1 in 1918. Professor Howard Markel George E Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and Director, Center for the History of Medicine, The University of Michigan, USA Title: Nonpharmaceutical interventions implemented by US cities during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic Professor Albert D M E Osterhaus Head, Department of Virology, The University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands Title: The next influenza pandemic: will there be a vaccine? Dr John Wood Principal Scientist, Division of Virology, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), London, UK Title: Development of a vaccine against pandemic influenza Dr Ian Brown Head, Avian Virology Division, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Surrey, UK Title: EU surveillance for AI and associated implications for control and contingencies in the veterinary sector Dr Nigel Temperton Senior Research Scientist, MRC/UCL Centre for Medical Molecular Virology, University College London, London, UK Title: Influenza HA and NA-pseudotyped retroviral vectors: Applications to pandemic vaccine evaluation, sero-surveillance and antiviral drug screening Professor Denis Alexander OBE Veterinary Laboratories Agency, UK Title: The changing epidemiology of avian influenza Professor Neil M Ferguson OBE FMedSci Professor of Mathematical Biology, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College London, UK Title: Modelling pandemic control options: current conclusions and data gaps Dr Jan Gralton School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Title: Presentation of an infection and control algorithm for use in healtcare facilities, ambulatory and other emergency services in the event of pandemic influenza Professor Wendy Barclay Chair in Influenza Virology, Division of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK Title: TBA Dr Giovanni Cattoli Capua Laboratory, Virology Department at Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Italy Title: Molecular epidemiology and viral characteristics of H5N1 avian strains isolated in Africa and in the Middle East between 2006 and 2008 Professor Jimmy Kwang Animal Health Biotechnology, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore Title: Protective immunity against lethal H5N1 viral infection in mice by intranasal co-administration of Baculovirus surface-displayed hemagglutinin subunit and recombinant CTB as an adjuvant Dr Kin-Chow Chang Institute of Comparative Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK Title: Pig as a mammalian model of resistance to H5N1 infections: evaluation of host receptor distribution and innate resistance Professor Xiufan Liu Animal Infectious Disease Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, Peoples Republic of China Title:Molecular determinants of H5N1 avian influenza virus for high virulence to ducks Dr Munir Iqbal Senior Scientist, Avian Virology Group, Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Newbury, UK Title: Within-host evolution and adaptation of H7 avian influenza viruses in poultry Dr Nancy Gerloff Institute of Immunology, Laboratoire National de Santé, Luxembourg Title: The spread and evolution of highy-pathogenic avian influnza virus H5N1 in Africa Dr Laura Sironi Parco Technologico Padano, Lodi, Italy Title: The role of Mx polymorphism coding for amino acid position 631 in chicken lines infected with a highly-pathogenic H7N1 avian influenza virus Professor Hiroshi Kido Director, The Institute of Enzyme Research, University of Tokushima, Japan Title: Novel proteolytic activation proteases of highly-pathogenic avian influenza viruses covering diverse strains including non-susceptible strains to Furin and PC5/6 Dr Julia Chosy Research Epidemiologist, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, IL, USA Title: Zoos as disease sentinels: Piloting an avian influenza surveillance system in zoological institutions Dr Nazeer Kalhoro Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany Title: A single-cycle vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) vector vaccine protects chicken from highly-pathogenic avian influenza virus H7N1 Dr Stephen Dunham Institute of Comparative Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK Title: The relationship of influenza virus receptor distribution and susceptibility to infection in chicken and ducks Dr Astrid Gall Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Germany Title: A diagnostic microarray for detection, hemagglutinin subtyping and pathotyping of avian influenza viruses Dr Sasan Fereidouni Senior Scientist, Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Germany Title: Rapid pathotyping of H5 subtype avian influenza viruses by RT-PCR and restriction enzyme cleavage pattern	Introduction & Scope Programme Call for Speaker & Posters Call for Sponsors Registration & Fees Accommodation Getting to Oxford General Information Contacts
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