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| A One Day Symposium to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Designation of the Pirbright Laboratory of the Institute for Animal Health as FAO World Reference Laboratory for FMD | |||
| Held at The Royal Society in London, 9:00 – 17:00 hrs on 9th May 2008 | |||
| Invitation | |||
| 09:00-09:10 | Wellcome | Prof Martin Shirley, IAH Director | |
| 09:10-09:30 | WRLFMD overview | Dr David Paton, Head of WRL | |
| 09:30-10:00 | Global diversity of FMDV | Mr Nick Knowles, IAH | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | FMD in Africa | Dr Wilna Vosloo, Ondestepoort | |
| 11:00-11:30 | FMD viral evolution | Dr Esteban Domingo, Madrid | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Tracing FMDV in UK outbreaks | Dr Eleanor Cottam, IAH | |
| 12:00-12:30 | FMD virus structure | Prof Dave Stuart, Oxford | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30-14:00 | Antigenic cartography | Dr Derek Smith, Cambridge | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Cross-protection between FMD strains | Dr Bernd Haas, Riems | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Virus detection methods | Dr Donald King, IAH | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | FMD virus transmission dynamics | Prof Mark Woolhouse, Edinburgh | |
| 16:00-16:20 | European collaboration on FMD | Dr Kris de Clercq, Brussels | |
| 16:20-16:40 | Future prospects for FMD control | Dr Keith Sumption, Rome | |
| 17:00 | Close | ||
| Missing presentations will be posted as soon as they are available | |||
| IAH Press Release | |||
| Pictures from the Meeting | |||