Workshop: Veterinary Mycology in Practice

Pre-Congress Course ISHAM2025
Workshop:
Veterinary Mycology in Practice
Date: Tuesday, 20th May
Time: 13:30 – 18:30 hrs.
Location: Bourbon Cataratas Convention Center, Iguaçu Falls-Brazil
Maximum number of participants: 100

Link to working group website

What can you expect?

This half-day lecture based scientific and educational workshop is intended for ~50-100 participants including PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, veterinarians, veterinary/medical mycologists/microbiologists, veterinary pathologists, or scientists from academia (or companies) who work or want to work in the field of “Veterinary Mycology” and are looking to improve their knowledge and understanding in this area.

Course Objectives: To provide a comprehensive, and detail`-oriented primer or refresher on the currently available approaches, challenges and solutions in diagnosis and treatment of fungal infections in animals. The antifungal susceptibility and resistance testing will be also discussed. In addition, we will provide scientific evidence on the epidemiology of mycosis in domestic and wild animals and on importance of fungal disease laboratory screening and infection prevention from a one health prospective.

Programme

1:00-1:30 PM  Arrival and Registration

1:30-1:45 PM    Opening of the course, welcome, introduction
Melissa Xavier, Jacques Guillot, Amir Seyedmousavi

Session 1. Chair:  Jacques Guillot (France) , Eduardo Bagagli (Italy

1:45-2:05 PM  Lecture 1. Amir Seyedmousavi (USA)
Diagnostic mycology in practice, taxonomy and classification of Kingdom Fungi, identification (barcoding, proteomics), biosafety classification

2:05-2:25 PM  Lecture 2. Jacques Guillot (France)
Overview of fungal infections in animals. Classification of mycoses, relative importance, clinical manifestations

2:25-2:45 PM  Lecture 3. Melissa Xavier (Brazil)
Aspergillosis in birds and mammals

2:45-3:05 PM  Lecture 4. Hein van der Lee (Netherlands), Giorgia Matteucci (Italy)
Laboratory identification of yeasts and moulds

3:05-3:25 PM  Lecture 5Mihai Mares (Romania), Ankita Kumari (India)
Antifungal susceptibility testing of yeasts and moulds

3:25-3:35 PM  Q&A

3:35-3:50 PM Comfort Break

Session 2. Chairs: Patrizia Danesi (Italy) , Vania Vicente (Brazil)

3:50-4:10 PM  Lecture 6. Andrea Peano (Italy)
Dermatophytoses in animals

4:10-4:30 PM Lecture 7. Patrizia Danesi (Italy)
Cryptococcosis and Pneumocystosis in animals

4:30-4:50 PM  Lecture 8. Eduardo Bagagli (Brazil)
Endemic Dimorphs, and Paracoccidioidomycosis ceti in animals

4:50-5:10 PM  Lecture 9. Isabela Gremião (Brazil)
Feline sporotrichosis

5:10-5:30 PM  Lecture 10. Bridget Barker (USA)
Coccidioidomycoses in animals

5:30-5:50 PM  Lecture 11. Vanessa Barrs (Hong-Kong)
Fungal-like infections in animals

5:50-6:00 PM Q&A

General Assembly Meeting
Session 3. Chairs: Amir Seyedmousavi (USA), Jacques Guillot (France)
6:00-6:30: General Assembly Meeting of Veterinary Mycology and One Health Working Group and Selection of Board Members for 2025-2028