PROGRAM

Session Program
 „PIGEONS HEALTH CARE IN EU – WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE WANT TO BE!” 

 

07.06.2018 THURSDAY

1000 – 1030 Opening Ceremony – Speech by President PAPB Jan Kawaler, President of Warsaw Chamber of Veterinary Medicine Marek Mastalerek, CEO Biowet Puławy Mirosław Grzęda

1030 – 1100 David Barros Madeira – Health requirements in breeding racing pigeons from the point of view of FCI

Session chairman Dr Marek Mastalerek

Inaugural Lecture

1100 – 1130 Piotr Szeleszczuk – Selected facts from the history of Polish columbopathology

Special guest

Session chairman Prof. Maria Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns

1130 – 1215 Colin Walker – Rota Virus in Pigeons. The Australian experience pt I

1215 – 1230 Coffee Brake

1230 – 1300 Colin Walker – Rota Virus in Pigeons. The Australian experience pt II

1300 – 1400 Dennis Rubbenstroth – A novel clade of group A rotaviruses associated with fatal disease in domestic pigeons in Germany

1400 – 1500 Lunch

Session chairman Dr. Dennis Rubbenstroth

1500 – 1520 Huang Jian & Ren Po – YPDS in Chinese OLR.

1520 – 1650 Tomasz Stenzel – Epidemiology, molecular characteristics and clinical pathology of circovirus infections in pigeons – current situation

1650 – 1720 Elisabeth Peus – Current health problems in racing pigeons in Germany 2017/2018

Mini session of young columbopathologists

Session chairman Dr. Elisbeth Peus

1720 – 1730 Daria Dziewulska – The impact of selected plant extracts on PPMV-1 infection and cell-mediated immunity in pigeons

1730 – 1740 Krzysztof Adamczyk – Preliminary investigations on PiCV occurrence in cloacal swabs and feathers samples in healthy racing pigeons (Columba livia var. Domestica)

1740 – 1840 Round table discussion to establish the Organizing Committee of an organization associating veterinarians treating pigeons – International Veterinary Pigeon Association

2000 Gala Diner

08.06.2018 FRIDAY

Session chairman Prof. Tomasz Stenzel

900 – 945 Krzysztof Śmietanka – Avian paramyxovirus type I infection in pigeons in the light of epidemiological molecular research – practical aspects

945 – 1015 Aleksandra Ledwoń – Mycobacteriosis in pigeons

1015 – 1045 Pascal Lanneau – The recommendations of International Society for Animal Genetics on parentage and identification panel for the domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica) – Practical application

Special session – HPAI and pigeons

Session chairman Dr. Pascal Lanneau

1045 – 1115 Krzysztof Śmietanka – The role of pigeons in the epidemiology of infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus

1115 – 1155 Agnieszka Dobrzyńska – Controling highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) – administrative proceedings and legal ground for all husbandry birds including racing pigeons

1155 – 1215 Li Bo – Viral metagenome of racing pigeon and in vivo tracking of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections in a Pigeon (Columba livia) model

1215 – 1245 Brunch

Session chairman Dr. Aleksandra Ledwoń

1245 – 1400 Maria Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns Diagnostic non-invasive imaging techniques in the pigeons diseases

1400 – 1600 Henk de Weerd – Pathology of pigeons according to Henk de Weerd

1600 Summary and discussion

1630 Lunch