PROGRAM

28th November

·         15:00-15:30: Registration

·         15:30-16:30: Opening ceremony:

o    Welcome speeches

o    Presentation of the Szentágothai Research Centre

o    Presentation of the National Laboratory of Virology

16:30: Free time / Visiting the laboratory of VNL

18:00-19:00: BAVBD general assembly

29th November

Session I

Mosquito-borne Pathogens and Diseases

08:30-08:50: Opening Plenary

Daniel Brooks (Institute of Evolution, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research)

Overcoming the Social Inertia of Paradigm Shifts During a Crisis

08:50-09:50: Lectures

08:50-09:00 Ana Klobučar (Andrija Štampar Teaching Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia, Department of Epidemiology, Vector and Pest Control Unit) An overview of mosquitoes, emerging arboviral infections and mosquito control in the Zagreb area, Croatia

09:00-09:10 Goran Vignjević (Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek) Mosquitoes as vectors in eastern Croatia

09:10-09:20 Perparim Kadriaj (Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania, Vector Control Unit) Surveillance of vectors of WNV in 2024 in Albania

09:20-09:30  Viktoria Cabanova (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Biomedical Research Center, Institute of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology) High-throughput environmental WNV/USUV surveillance for cost-effective public health use and an early warning system

09:30-09:40 Katarína Loziaková Peňazziová (The University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice) Species Diversity, Distribution, and West Nile Virus Prevalence in Slovakian Mosquito Populations

09:40-09:50 Anna Nagy (National Centre for Public Health and Pharmacy) What is new for West Nile virus and Usutu virus in Hungary? – Overview of the 2024 seasonal period

09:50-10:00: Discussion

10:00-10:30: Coffee break

Session II

Tick-borne Diseases/Climate change

10:30-10:50: Opening lecture

Pat Nuttall (Department of Biology, University of Oxford, UK)

Tick-borne infections in a warming climate

10:50-11:50: Lectures

10:50-11:00  Dejan Jakimovski (University Clinical Center Skopje, Clinic for Infectious diseases) Tick-Borne Diseases in North Macedonia: Emerging Pathogens and Clinical Case Insights

11:00-11:10 Alexandr Morozov (Institute of Zoology, State University of Moldova) Tick-borne Pathogens in the Urban Green Spaces of Chisinau (Republic of Moldova)

11:10-11:20 Tomáš Csank (The University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice) Retrospective and Current Knowledge About Zoonotic Tick-Borne Orbiviruses

11:20-11:30 Mariyana Stoycheva (Medical University Plovdiv, Department of infectious diseases, parasitology and tropical medicine) Current Epidemiological and Clinical Situation of Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever in Bulgaria

11:30-11:40  Anastasia Diakou (School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece) Are ticks just a seasonal threat? Understanding the need for year-round defense

11:40-11:50  Gábor Földvári (Institute of Evolution, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research) One step ahead of tick-borne disease emergence: DAMA protocol combined with citizen science

11:50-12:00: Discussion

12:00-13:00: Lunch break

Session III

Vector-borne Diseases and Innovative techniques

13:00-13:20: Opening lecture Daniel Ružek (Masaryk University)

Tick-borne encephalitis - still more questions than answers

13:20-13:40: Flash Talks

(Case reports, Preliminary research data)

13:40-14:50: Lectures

13:40-13:50 Eleftherios Meltis (Faculty of Public and One Health, University of Thessaly, Greece) Bayesian Modeling of Scutal and Coxal Indices for Lyme Borreliosis Risk-Exposure Assessment in Serbian Patients: Updated Insights from 2023 Data

13:50-14:00 Lidija Popović-Dragonjić (University Clinical Center Niš, Clinic for Infectious diseases) Vector-borne diseases in southeastern Serbia

14:00-14:10 Kostadin Poposki (University Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Febrile conditions, Skopje) Vector-borne diseases as a cause of fever of unknown origin

14:10-14:20 Morana Tomljenović (Head of the Epidemiology Service, Institute of Public Health Zadar) Vector-borne diseases (zoonoses) in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia

14:20-14:30 Iva Christova (National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria) Toscana virus circulation among residents of Bulgaria

14:30-14:40 Mattia Foti (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Malattie Infettive, Rome) Development and validation of an innovative approach to assess the age of Aedes albopictus adults

14:40-14:50 Dragomira Majhen (Institute Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb) Adenoviral vectors for gene transfer and vaccination

·     14:50-15:00: Discussion

·     15:00-15:30: Coffee break

Session IV

One Health - Research and Public Health aspects

15:30-15:50: Opening lecture

Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz (INRAE)

Bridging the gap between research and real-life implementation of One Health solutions

15:50-16:50: Lectures

15:50-16:00 Ognyan Mikov (National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria) The mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of Bulgaria: an update on their vector role and resistance to insecticides

16:00-16:10 Orsolya Nagy (National Centre for Public Health and Pharmacy) Tropical arbovirus infections imported into Hungary in 2024

16:10-16:20 Csongor Németh (University of Pécs, Medical School, Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Oncodermatology) Cutaneous Dirofilaria repens infections detected by dermatologists

16:20-16:30 Kornélia Kurucz (University of Pecs, National Laboratory of Virology) Circulation of mosquito-borne filarial nematodes in Pécs (Hungary) - investigating the background of human infections

16:30-16:40 Heliana Dundarova (Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Lyssavirus Detection within the Cave-Dwelling Bat Communities in Bulgaria

16:40-16:50 Pavle Banović (Pasteur Institute Novi Sad) Detection and description of emerging vector-borne pathogens in Balkans: the role of BAVBD

16:50 – 17:00: Discussion

Closure of the Scientific Program