The International Veterinary Vaccinology Network (IVVN) Meeting scheduled for October 2017 will now take place on the 26 & 27 March 2018 at the Ole Sereni Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting aims to: bring together United Kingdom (UK) and low-and-middle income country (LMIC) partners to form collaborations; introduce other networks that IVVN members should be aware of and bring together academic with industrial and other non-academic partners. The meeting will be composed of 4 themes: Vaccines for Zoonotic Diseases, Veterinary Vaccine Production in Africa, Synthetic Biology in Vaccine Development and Livestock Vaccines Here & Now. Please contact IVVN@roslin.ed.ac.uk with any queries regarding the meeting. We look forward to seeing you in Nairobi.
Programme
Day 1 – 26th March 2018
0900 - 0930 Registration
0930 - 0945 Welcome & Introduction Dr Vish Nene (ILRI) & Dr Bryan Charleston (The Pirbright Institute)
0945 - 1000 The International Veterinary Vaccinology NetworkDr Tim Connelley (The Roslin Institute)
Theme 1: Vaccines for Zoonotic Diseases
Chair: Prof Fiona Tomley
1000 - 1045 Unravelling the pathogenesis of visceral leishmaniasis: a one-health, interdisciplinary research agendaProf Paul Kaye (The University of York)
1045 - 1130 Rift Valley Fever Dr George Warimwe (KEMRI – Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya)
1130 - 1200 Tea & Coffee
1200 - 1220 Brucellosis and the BactiVac Network Dr John McGiven (Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA))
1220 - 1240 RSV Dr Patrick Munywoki (KEMRI – Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya)
1240 - 1300 Vaccine needs for zoonotic diseases in humans and animals Dr Baptiste Dungu (MCI Sante Animale)
1300 - 1400 Lunch
Theme 2: Veterinary Vaccine Production in Africa
Chair: Prof Brian Perry
1400 - 1445 The current economic burdens of livestock infectious diseases in tropical regions/LMICs/Africa Prof Jonathon Rushton (University of Liverpool)
1445 - 1515 Veterinary vaccine production in Africa – capacity and limitations AU PANVAC
1515 - 1545 Afrigen
1545 - 1615 Tea & Coffee
1615 - 1630 Kenya Veterinary Vaccines Production Institute (KEVEVAPI) Dr Jane Wachira (KEVEVAPI)
1630 - 1645 Botswana Vaccine Institute (BVI) Dr Matlho (Botswana Vaccine Institute)
1645 - 1730 TBC
1730 - 1900 Wine & Poster Session
1900 Dinner at the Ole Sereni Hotel
Day 2 – 27th March 2018
0900 - 0930 Tea & Coffee
Theme 3: Synthetic Biology in Vaccine Development
Chair: Dr Pip Beard
0930 - 1015 TBC
1015 - 1100 Development of synthetic self-replicating mRNA platforms for vaccines and therapeutics
Dr Nathanial Wang (Synthetic Genomics Institute)
1100 - 1130 Tea & Coffee
1130 - 1200 SpyTag – Vaccine Delivery
Prof Sumi Biswas (The Jenner Institute)
1200 - 1230 VLP for delivery of vaccines for East Coast Fever
Dr Anna Lacasta-Marin (ILRI)
1230 - 1330 Lunch
Theme 4: Livestock Vaccines Here & Now
Chair: Prof Sandra Adams
1330 - 1400 The Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) – facilitating capacity development Dr Tom Kariuki (AESA)
1400 - 1420 TBC
1420 - 1440 Livestock Vaccine Innovation Fund
1440 - 1510 The efforts to eradicate peste des petits ruminants (PPR) Dr Bouna Diop (FAO)
1510 - 1530 Brucellosis Vaccine Prize Prof Brian Perry (Afrique One Aspire)
1530 - 1600 Tea & Coffee
1600 - 1700 Livestock vaccination as a driver to achieve the Sustainability Development Goals Prof Guy Palmer (Washington State University)
1700 - 1715 Concluding comments Dr George Warimwe (KEMRI – Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya)
