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SPECIAL EVENT
VETERINARY VIROLOGY SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM
Veterinary/Zoonotic Viruses in their Non-human Hosts
Saturday, July 12, 2003
8:20 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. – Wright Hall
Convenor: Carol D. Blair
*Registration: Friday, July 11, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 12, 7:00 - 8:20 a.m
*Admittance will not be permitted without ASV meeting registration as displayed on nametags
MORNING SESSION – 8:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
8:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Carol D. Blair, Colorado State University
8:40 - 9:20 a.m.
Paul R. Kitching, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg
Foot-and-mouth disease virus – why all the fuss?
9:20 - 10:00 a.m.
Norbert Tautz, Justus Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany
Cellular sequences in pestiviral genomes – RNA recombination
triggers a lethal disease
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 - 11:10 a.m.
Kathryn M. Carbone, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Borna disease virus and human infection – fact or fiction
11:10 - 11:50 a.m.
Patrick J. Bosque, Denver Health Medical Center
Prion disease epizootics – assessing the threat to humans
11:50 - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch (University Club)
AFTERNOON SESSION – 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
1:00 - 1:40 p.m.
Aaron C. Brault, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Identification of virulence determinants of West Nile encephalitis
virus in American crows
1:40 - 2:20 p.m.
Ken E. Olson, Colorado State University
Arthropod-borne viruses and RNA interference in mosquitoes
2:20 - 3:00 p.m.
Stuart T. Nichol, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Rift Valley fever virus – from replication to ecology and implications
for U.S. agriculture