These presentations comprise results of own results only and are selected to represent the remainder of a theme not addressed by the keynote speakers. The presentations have a length of 10 minutes including discussion.

Program
Scientific/Technical Program The Programme will include Invited Speakers, Keynote Speakers, Short Oral Presentations, Topic Reviews with lines for the future, Poster display and finally a number of Parallel Workshops dedicated to special topics.
Seven Themes have been selected for the 8ICP: 1. Prevention and Control – National level (National control programmes) 2. Immunology, pathology and pathogenesis 3a. Prevention and control – Herd level 3b. Implications for public health 4. Molecular biology, Microbiology and Culture 5. Diagnosis 6. Epidemiology Definitions (See the programme): Invited speaker The presentation should preferably deal with topics which are related to but not a part of, classic research usually encountered in research on paratuberculosis. The presentation will be 45 minutes. 3-4 presentations are scheduled. Keynote speaker Two keynote presentations are appointed for each theme. The presentation is selected among the best submissions of the theme. The two keynote speakers appointed should usually represent different topics, e.g. Immunology as one presentation and Pathogenesis as another in Theme 2. The presentation should in general only contain own results, but they could be from multiple studies. The length of a presentation is 25 minutes. Short oral presentation These presentations comprise results of own results only and are selected to represent the remainder of a theme not addressed by the keynote speakers. The presentations have a length of 10 minutes including discussion. Review and Perspective presentations (R&P presentations) For each theme except Theme 1 (Prevention and Control – National level) two R&P presentations are made. These presenters should review the newest results (last 5 years) including abstracts submitted to the 8ICP. Besides the review, perspectives of the findings should be included. Overlapping between presentations should be avoided. R&P presenters are people expected to join the conference regardless of being appointed as for the job. The speaker pays travel expenses. Registration fee is paid by ICP The presentations are 25 minutes each. Parallel sessions Two themes, 3a and 3b, are run as parallel sessions, but with a similar frame to the remainder of the themes. Posters Presentations not offered an oral presentation should be offered a poster presentation and all presenters are encouraged to present their results as a poster, including presentations that have been presented orally. No poster will be turned down for poster presentation except if the message is not clearly presented. All posters are present during the entire colloquium. However, on specific days specific themes are accentuated, primarily by requiring the authors to be present during part of the poster viewing session. Lunch bags are offered in the Marble Hall next to the poster viewing area.