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PROGRAMME

 

MONDAY 11 APRIL 2016

08.30 - 09.00 Emanuele Montomoli (University of Siena, Italy) and John Wood (National Institute for Biological Standards and Control,   Hertfordshire, UK - retired) Welcome to Siena and Introduction

Lance Jennings (University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand) & Jackie Katz (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA)

isirv Introduction


VIROLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

9.00 - 10.00 Wendy Barclay (Imperial College, London, UK)
Virus structure and replication

10.00 – 11.00 Wendy Barclay (Imperial College, London, UK)
Virus pathogenesis and transmissibility

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee & Networking

11.30 – 13.00 Jackie Katz (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA)
The immune response to influenza infection

13.00 – 14.00 Light lunch


EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF INFLUENZA VIRUSES

14.00 – 15.00 Olav Hungnes (Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway)

Methods for influenza detection: actual and future perspectives

15.00 – 16.00 Isabella Monne (Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Padova, Italy)

Animal influenza

16.00 – 16.30 Tea & Networking

16.30 – 17.30 Jackie Katz (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA)

Emerging influenza strains in humans

17.30 – 18.00 Isabella Monne (Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Padova, Italy)

GISAID sequence analysis (methods and databases)



TUESDAY 12 APRIL 2016


EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF INFLUENZA VIRUSES


09.00 – 10.0009.00 – 10.00 Jonathan Van Tam (University of Nottingham, UK)

Medical and social impact of pandemics from 1918-2009

10.00 – 11.00 Jonathan Van Tam (University of Nottingham, UK)

Human influenza, burden of disease

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee & Networking

11.00 - 13.00 Students' Presentations

13.00 – 14.00 Light lunch


PREVENTION AND CONTROL

14.00 – 15.00 Emanuele Montomoli (University of Siena, Italy)

Immune correlates of protection against influenza

15.00 – 16.00 John Wood (National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Hertfordshire, UK - retired)

Vaccine virus selection process

16.00 – 16.30 Tea & Networking

16.30 – 17.30 Lance Jennings (University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand) 
Vaccines and strategy implementation

17.30 - 18.00 Students' Presentations


WEDNESDAY 13 APRIL 2016

VACCINES

09.00 – 10.0009.00 – 10.00 Otfried Kistner (Senior Consultant & Independent Vaccine Expert, Austria)

Inactivated seasonal influenza vaccines

10.00 – 11.00 Rebecca Cox (University of Bergen, Norway)

Pandemic influenza vaccines

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee & Networking

11.30 – 13.00 Rebecca Cox (University of Bergen, Norway)

Live influenza vaccines

13.00 – 14.00 Light lunch

14.00 – 15.00 Alicia Fry (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA)                                                                              Effectiveness of influenza vaccines

15.00 – 16.00 Jerry Weir (Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, USA)

Regulatory challenges for influenza vaccines

16.00 – 16.30 Tea & Networking

16.30 – 17.30 Ralf Wagner (Paul-Ehrlich-Institute, Langen, Germany)
The role of Neuraminidase

17.30 - 18.00 Students' Presentations


THURSDAY 14 APRIL 2016

NOVEL THERAPEUTICS STRATEGIES

09.00 – 10.0009.00 – 10.00 Alicia Fry (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA)

Effectiveness of licensed antivirals

10.00 – 11.00 Aeron Hurt (WHO Influenza Collaborating Centre, Melbourne, Australia)

Mechanism of action and resistance

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee & Networking

11.30 – 13.00 Davide Corti (Humabs BioMed SA, Bellinzona, Switzerland)

Monoclonal antibodies

13.00 – 14.00 Light lunch

 

PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS

14.00 – 15.00 Chloe Sellwood (National Health Service, London, UK)

Pandemic preparedness

15.00 – 16.00 Chloe Sellwood (National Health Service, London, UK)

Pandemic preparedness workshop  

16.00 – 16.30 Tea & Networking


EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF INFLUENZA VIRUSES

16.30 – 18.00 Mark Miller (National Institutes of Health, USA)

Epidemiological influenza surveillance



FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016
GUEST LECTURES
09.00 – 10.0009.00 – 10.00 Nigel Temperton (The University of Kent at Medway, UK)

Immunogenicity testing using viral pseudo-types

10.00 – 11.00 Albert Osterhaus (University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany)

Universal flu vaccines

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee & Networking

11.30 – 13.00 Maria Zambon (Public Health England, London, UK)

Influenza in the past, present and future

13.00 – 14.00 Light lunch

14.00 - 15.00 Closing remarks & DIPLOMAS