Program
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There will be a number of round table discussions and workshops in the scientific programme of the conference.
If you need guidance on the best strategies for use of experimental and/or field studies to obtain estimates of diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, and tips for analyzing these data this workshop is for you. There will be approximately 4 hours of lecture/discussion and the remaining 3.5 hours will be problem-based with use of Medcalc (and TAGS) software to analyze data assuming a perfect (imperfect) reference standard. Examples will be based on OIE-listed diseases of finfish, mollusks and crustaceans and participants are encouraged to bring their own data or provide relevant examples for discussion.
The workshop is limited to a maximum of 25 participants. Estimated costs for the day are expected to be no more than 50 € for students and 75 € for professionals.
For further updates on this workshop please e-mail the lead instructor:
Ian Gardner - iagardner@upei.ca or download the workshop leaflet with the program: click here.
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It is the intention of the EAFP to encourage more dialogue and "brainstorming" between scientists and industry stakeholders and we feel that 2015 Conference will present a good opportunity to start such new initiatives. Therefore, depending on the interest, we are suggesting roundtable debates on different topics: organic aquaculture, use of pre- and probiotics, reuse of fisheries by-product into pharmaceutical industry. Please add "roundtable" in the registration form and the topic(s) you are particularly interested in.
TargetFish Industry Forum
The first TargetFish ‘Industry Forum’ was held at the 16th International Conference of the European Association of Fish Pathologists (EAFP) held inTampere, Finland in September 2013. This ‘Industry Forum’ was well-attended by representatives both the aquaculture and the aquatic animal health industries and provided networking opportunities between academic researchers and those working in the commercial sector.
The first TargetFish ‘Industry Forum ‘ was held only a short while after the commencement of the TargetFish project and, therefore, performed the function of informing industry of the presence of the project and to provide more-detailed information on the structure and membership of the Consortium and details of the various WorkPackages under the ‘umbrella’ of the Project.
The second Industry Forum which will be held on the 10th September as a Workshop at the 17th International Conference of the EAFP will be three years into the five year project and at a time when a number significant findings, crucial to the development of new vaccines and vaccine delivery systems, have been made It is envisaged that the Industry Forum will encourage engagement between the academic researchers in the TargetFish project and Industry in the hope that the ‘batten’ can be passed-on to industry by means of a Technology Licencing Agreement, thus creating a smooth passage between the ‘research bench’ and a commercial product and speeding-up the bringing of a new product to market and the improvement of existing products, thus giving the TargetFish project considerable ‘impact’. Such an approach should help to make EU-funded projects more-efficient in their outcomes and encourage industry engagement.
The industry co-ordinator for the TagetFish project is Tethys Aquaculture Ltd , an Impact Consultancy headed by Professor Patrick Smith
More information the TargetFish 2nd Industry Forum can be obtained from Patrick Smith (patrick.tethysaquaculture@gmail.com) and details of the EAFP’s 17th International Conference which will be held in Gran Canaria between the 6th and the 11th September can be found on the EAFP Website at www.eafp.org.
This open workshop will be organized by Olga Haenen (from CVI, the Netherlands), Keith Way (from CEFAS, UK) and Thomas Waltzek (from the University of Florida, USA); it will last approximately 1.45 hours. The program will consist of an introduction (Olga Haenen), on various new cyprinid viruses (Thomas Waltzek), Carp Edema Virus (CEV) (Keith Way), and CyHV-2 (Takafumi Ito). There is room for 4 other lectures of each 6 min, and a discussion. Suggestions of further virus topics are welcome. Please email olga.haenen@wur.nl if you like to present a paper. Abstracts submission for this workshop have a deadline fixed for 1st of July 2015. Participants will receive a handout for the workshop. One expected outcome from the workshop is the writing of a joint publication for the EAFP Bulletin about the topics covered on novel viral infections of cyprinid fish. This workshop will help to inform fish pathologists and others in a useful way on novel cyprinid viruses, including CEV.
The workshop will focus on the socio-economic impact of infectious diseases (including viral, bacterial and parasitic) for bass and bream production in the Mediterranean basin. The expected output of the workshop will be an agreed document working as baseline for future initiative focusing on relevant diseases in the area.
The organizing committee consists of Niccoló Vendramin (niven@vet.dtu.dk ) from EURL-European Union Reference laboratory for Fish Diseases, Dr. Dražen Oraić (oraic@irb.hr) and Dr. Snježana Zrnčić (zrncic@irb.hr) CVI-Croatian Veterinary Institute in Zagreb and prof. Francesc Padròs (francesc.padros@uab.cat) from UAB-University of Barcelona.
This session, organised by European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) of the Council of Europe, is designed to enable participants to expand their knowledge and familiarise themselves with the work and procedures of the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) with a special focus on fish vaccines. Following the presentations, there will be a Round-Table Debate on topics such as:
• how to promote a move towards in vitro methods for the potency testing of fish vaccines as stipulated in the Ph. Eur., and
• the demonstration of, for example, safety with regard to water temperature, the intra-peritoneal injection site reaction, existing potency tests and their suitability.
More info available in the leaflet draft, please click here.
Should you be interested in a particular topic, please add "round-table" in the registration form and the topic(s) you are particularly interested in.
Mendeley software is the most powerful addition to your research workflow ! Particularly targeted to senior scientists and students this short workshop will provide basic teaching on how facilitate your everyday writing activity. You will learn about how this desktop application and web-based software can easily organize your paper collection, quickly add references in the text, creating bibliographies and syncing your account between multiple computers. During the workshop, sponsored by Mendeley, will be launched the official EAFP Bulletin citation style. The workshop attendance is free upon registration. Logistic details will be provided upon finalization of the conference programme; for more info please contact the organiser Dr Bartolomeo Gorgoglione (webmaster@eafp.org or B.Gorgoglione@vetmeduni.ac.at).
Nutrient balance in diets and feeding regimes play critical roles in intensive aquaculture and the development of nutritional strategies that positively influence immunity and disease resistance of cultured organisms has special importance to reduce disease-related economic losses. The availability of specific nutrients in terms of deficiencies can compromise the immunocompetence of culture fish, as well as the unbalanced ratios among different nutrients, whereas dietary supplementation of some nutrients has been shown to significantly enhance immune responses and disease resistance. It is of special importance to understand the mechanisms involved in the roles of dietary nutrients in modulation of pathogenesis and infection in fish. This is of special importance under changes of dietary regimes such as long-term feeding with alternative feeds replacing fish meal and fish oil in diets for fish.
Chairman: Dr. Daniel Montero Vítores
We are pleased to announce that the next EAFP Histopathology workshop will be on ‘Gill pathology’ and take place on the 12 September 2015, immediately after the main conference. Hamish Rodger will be our keynote speaker followed by interesting cases with time for discussion and comment. This year it is likely that the presentations will be made available through the EAFP web site rather than the CDs we have traditionally published.
Places are initially offered to EAFP members and limited to 30. You must have a place booked before registering with the conference through the online payment system. There are no registration fees associated with the meeting but a charge of 30 Euros will be made to cover coffee, lunch, room cleaning, technicians time and transport.
The workshop is currently full but you could ask to be included in the waiting list, please enquiry David Bruno (david.bruno@scotland.gsi.gov.uk).
Barbara Nowak, Diane Elliott, Patricia Noguera, Stephen Feist, David Bruno
To facilitate interaction and collaborative networking, a session of the EAFP2015 international conference will be dedicated to Cephalopods (September 10th). This scientific event and a satellite meeting (September 11th) are part of the activities of the FA1301 CephsInAction COST Action Working Group 2 "Stress and diseases” EAFP2015
B. Nowak and H. Rodger
University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia;
Vet-Aqua International. Oranmore, Ireland
Amoebic gill disease (AGD) is a condition affecting some species of farm-reared marine fish caused by Neoparamoeba perurans. AGD was initially reported only in Australia and USA but by now it has a significant impact on salmon production in Australia, Scotland, Norway and Ireland. Main treatments used commercially include fresh water and hydrogen peroxide. A range of other treatments are in experimental trials. Other management strategies such as use of vaccines and immunostimulants are being explored. AGD has been observed in a range of fish species farmed or held in the marine environment including wrasse and lumpsucker, which are used as cleaner fish to control sealice on Atlantic salmon. There is limited knowledge about the causative agent Neoparamoeba perurans. Reservoir populations of the amoeba and the mechanism of transmission to farmed fish have not been elucidated. While it is present in water it is only at a very low concentration, even on the affected salmon farms. Preliminary investigation showed negative results for sediments and biofouling organisms in AGD affected area in the USA. However N. perurans DNA was detected in alcoholic washings of salmon lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis collected from salmon from an affected farm in the USA. It has also been detected in biofouling organisms and L. salmonis in Ireland. Furthermore cross-infection with another species of sea lice Caligus rogercresseyi was reported during an AGD outbreak in Chile, however it was not clear if there was any synergistic effect and if the mortalities were due to AGD or the sea lice infection.. This suggests that epidemiology of this disease may depend on the geographical locations. The effect of the disease on host at gene and protein level as well as AGD pathology will be discussed. This workshop will review and summarise our current knowledge of this disease and discuss research priorities.
Barbara Nowak1 and Sarah Poynton2
1University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia; 2Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Communicating results of scientific research through publications is an essential part of academic life. Quality and quantity of published papers is one of the way academics are evaluated for jobs, promotions and research funding. Most people start their academic career by publishing scientific papers in international journals, yet have little prior experience of scientific writing, limited knowledge of the publication process, and may not have much support. While most journals now provide important information on their websites there are still some aspects of publishing which are important from the point of view of the author, but not fully explained. This workshop will focus on what happens after a paper is submitted, potential outcomes, and how to deal with rejection. Retractions and errata will also be covered. Ideas for how to improve publication rate will be discussed. The workshop will consider the responsibility and authority of the reviewers, associate editor and editor. The workshop is for MSc and PhD students, and early career researchers, who want to learn more about how to be successful with publishing papers. The delivery is through presentation and discussion. The workshop leader, Dr. Barbara Nowak, is Associate Editor of Journal of Fish Diseases and a member of editorial boards for a number of other journals. Dr. Sarah Poynton is a reviewer for a diversity of aquatic animal health journals, teaches scientific and biomedical writing, and is a freelance editor.
Organisers: Prof. Niels Jørgen Olesen (njol@vet.dtu.dk) from the EURL for Fish Diseases, DTU Vet. Denmark, Dr. Britt Bang Jensen (britt-bang.jensen@vetinst.no) from NVI, Norway, and Dr. Jean-Christophe Avarre, IRD, France
This workshop will focus on new findings and tools for molecular tracing of viral diseases in aquaculture. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring colleagues involved in molecular biology, bioinformatics and epidemiology together in order to discuss improved methods for risk analysis and prevention of spread of serious diseases in aquaculture. The workshop will last 1.45 hours
Preliminary program: 1) Molecular tracing of viral pathogens in aquaculture- a review; 2) B. B. Jensen, NVI: Scenario simulation models for control options; 3) A. B. Kristoffersen, NVI: Use of sequence data in epidemiological analysis. 4) V. Panzerin; IZSVe, Evolution for VHSV and IHNV in Italy. 5) N.J. Olesen, DTU facilitator: Round table discussions.
There is room for 2-4 more presentations of each 10 min. Please email organisers if you like to present a paper. Abstracts submission for this workshop have a deadline of 1st of July 2015.
