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 5. Mihai 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