speakers
INVITED SPEAKERS   Affiliation   Topic
     
   
Professor Rod Chiodini       The history of paratuberculosis
         
Director Peter Andersen   Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen   Vaccination strategies against human tuberculosis
         
Professor Kingston Mills   Dept. of Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin   The role of regulatory T-cells in infectious diseases of the mucosal immune system
         
Professor Tom Ottenhoff   Leiden University Medical Center   T cell antigens and cytokines in host defence against mycobacterial infections in humans
         
Professor Dirk Pfeiffer   Royal Veterinary College, London   Use of Risk assessment in the control of bovine TB and MAP
         
         
         
R E V I E W   A N D  P E R S P E C T I V E   S P E A K E R S
Theme 2: Immunology, Pathology and Pathogenesis    
Dr. Karen Stevenson   Moredun Research Institute    

Dr. Ad Koets

  Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University    
Theme 3a: Prevention and Control - Herdlevel    
Dr. Scott Wells   College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota    

Dr. George Caldow

  Scottish Agricultural College    
Theme 3b: Implications for Public Health    
Dr. Ole Østergaard Thomsen   Herlev Hospital, Dept. of Gastroenterology C, University of Copenhagen   Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis - still no evidence of being a contributory factor in Crohn's disease?

Dr. Irene Grant

  Queen’s University of Belfast   Occurrence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in foods and the impact of milk processing on its survival
Theme 4: Molecular biology, Microbiology and Culture    
Dr. John Bannantine   USDA   Recent developments in the molecular biology of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis

Dr. Janet B. Payeur

  National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Ames, Iowa   Current culture methods for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis
Theme 5: Diagnosis    
Professor Michael T. Collins   School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin   Paratuberculosis diagnostics: the cost versus sensitivity trade-off

Dr. Kees Kalis

  Animal Health Services, The Netherlands   Paratuberculosis diagnostics: How they can be used to support preventive management
Theme 6: Epidemiology        
Dr. Alastair Greig   Jacobscroft, Innerlieth, Scotland   Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis: Its plans for survival

Dr. Evan Sergeant

  AusVet Animal Health Services, New South Wales   Epidemiology of Johne's disease: Recent developments
         
         
K E Y N O T E   S P E A K E R S    
To be appointed by the Scientific Committee before May 15, based on submitted Abstracts
         
         
         
S P E A K E R S  F O R  S H O R T   O R A L   P R E S E N T A T I O N S
To be appointed by the Scientific Committee before May 15, based on submitted Abstracts