MEETINGS

• 13:00 – 15:30 ICT QA Meeting
• 16:00 – 17:30 1st ICT Executive Committee Meeting

• 16:30 – 17:00 2nd ICT Executive Committee Meeting

MONDAY,1st August

• 08:00 – 22:00 Registration
• 13:00 – 15:30 ICT QA Meeting
  Chair: Ray Gamble, Alvin Gajadhar
• 16:00 – 17:30 1st ICT Executive Committee Meeting
  Chair: Ray Gamble
• 18:00 Welcome Reception

TUESDAY, 2nd August

• 08:30 – 09:00 Presidential Address
• 09:00 – 11:40 Session Legislation and Food Safety
  Chair: Ray Gamble, Alvin Gajadhar
• 09:00 – 09:25 Plenary Lecture
  Ray Gamble and Alvin Gajadhar
  Harmonizing processes for control of Trichinella to facilitate global pork trade
• 09:25 – 09:40 Brad Scandrett
  Retrospective analysis of proficiency testing results of analysts in laboratories performing Trichinella digestion assay
• 09:40 – 09:55 Edoardo Pozio
  Towards a standardised surveillance for Trichinella in the European Union
• 09:55 – 10:10 Marleen Claes
  The Trichinella Reference method – interactive CD-rom
• 10:10 – 10:25 Coffee Break
• 10:25 – 10:40 Katharina Riehn
  Trichinella detection: Identification and statistical evaluation of sources of error in the official reference method
• 10:40 – 10:55 Joke van der Giessen
  How safe is the meat inspection system using the artificial digestion of pooled samples: a scenario in a Trichinella non endemic region in Europe.
• 10:55 – 11:10 Karsten Nöckler
  Study on the suitability of inactivated Trichinella spiralis for proficiency samples
• 11:10 – 11:25 Davor Balić
  Working team for trichinellosis – a way of systematic prevention, control and eradication of trichinellosis in the Republic of Croatia
• 11:25 – 11:40 Radu Blaga
  Differences in the prevalence of Trichinella sp. in domesticated and wild boar influence the public-health consequences of insensitivity of diagnosis by trichinelloscopy: a census survey in an endemic region of Romania
• 11:40 – 12:00 Poster Exhibition
• 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
• 13:30 – 15:25 Session Trichinella in animals
  Chair: Edoardo Pozio, Christian Kapel
• 13:30 – 13:55 Plenary Lecture
  Edoardo Pozio
  The opportunistic nature of Trichinella - exploitation of new geographies and habitats
• 13:55 – 14:10 Antti Sukura
  Rat’s defence against T. nativa is multifactorial
• 14:10 – 14:25 Miriam Mabel Ribicich
  Experimental infection with Trichinella T12 in domestic cats
• 14:25 – 14:40 Cui Jing
  High prevalence and low level of Trichinella infection in domestic pigs of northern and eastern Henan, China
• 14:40 – 14:55 Janez Posedi
  Trichinella infection in fox (Vulpes vulpes) in Slovenia
• 14:55 – 15:10 Călin M. Gherman
  Trichinella infection in MustelidAE (MAMMALIA: CARNIVORA) from Romania: new host-parasite associations in a highly endemic country
• 15:10 – 15:25 Antti Oksanen
  Trichinella infection in herbivores, do we wish to know more?
• 15:25 – 15:40 Coffee Break
• 15:40 – 17:05 Session Genomics and Proteomics
  Chair: Pascal Boireau, Dolores E. Hill
• 15:40 – 16:05 Plenary Lecture
  Magdalena Dabrowska
  Inflammatory phenotype of Trichinella spiralis nurse cell inferred from transcriptome analysis
• 16:05 – 16:20 Liu Xiaolei
  Transcriptome of small regulatory RNAs in the development of the zoonotic parasite Trichinella spiralis
• 16:20 – 16:35 Fu Baoquan
  Molecular cloning and identification of a cystatin gene TsCystatin1 from Trichinella spiralis
• 16:35 – 16:50 Maria Angeles Gómez Morales
  Is possible to define the pattern of Trichinella spp. infection for human and pig sera by western blot?
• 16:50 – 17:05 Wang Lei
  Protein changes of Trichinella spiralis infective larvae and intestinal epithelial cells after co-culture in vitro
• 17:05 – 17:15 ICOPA 13 Introduction
• 17:15 – 17:35 Poster Exhibition
• 17:30 Dinner

WEDNESDAY, 3rd August

• 08:30 – 09:55 Session Epidemiology and Control
  Chair: Joke van der Giessen, Albert Marinculić
• 08:30 – 08:55 Plenary Lecture
  Albert Marinculić
  Current state and control of trichinellosis in endemic countries
• 08:55 – 09:10 Ljiljana Sofronic - Milosavljevic
  Current status of trichinellosis in Serbia
• 09:10 – 09:25 Golinar Oven Irena
  Towards a surveillance for Trichinella in Slovenia
• 09:25 – 09:40 Cristina Elena Dobrescu
  Characteristics of the Epidemiological Process in the Development of Human Trichinellosis in Brasov County - Romania during 1983 - 2007
• 09:40 – 09:55 Edoardo Pozio
  An updating on the Trichinella britovi focus of the Sardinia island, Italy
• 09:55 – 10:10 Coffee Break
• 10:10 – 15:15 Session Diagnostics
  Chair: Karsten Nöckler, Maria Angeles Gomez Morales,
             Patrizia Rossi
• 10:10 – 10:35 Plenary Lecture
  K. Nöckler
  The EU perspective on risk management for trichinellosis
• 10:35 – 10:55 Gilles Nespoulous
  A novel method for the detection of Trichinella in swine meat: Trichin-L
• 10:55 – 11:10 P.Buholzer
  New artificial digestion assay – An alternative to the current pepsin digestion
• 11:10 – 11:20 Christian Kapel
  Multispectral direct detection of Trichinella larvae on nylon filters.
• 11:20 – 11:40 Patrizia Rossi
  International standardization of Trichinella detection methods
• 11:40 – 12:00 Poster Exhibition
• 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
• 13:30 – 13:45 Gianluca Marucci
  Validation of a latex agglutination test for the detection of Trichinella infections in pigs
• 13:45 – 14:00 Gertie Bokken
  Evaluation of a novel bead – based assay for simultaneous determination of specific antibody responses against Trichinella spiralis and Toxoplasma gondii in porcine serum
• 14:00 – 14:15 Wang Zhongquan
  Detection of Trichinella spiralis circulating antigens in serum of experimentally infected mice by an IgY-mAb sandwich ELISA
• 14:15 – 14:30 Song Mingxin
  Establishment and initial Application of Real-Time PCR Detection Kit for Trichinella isolates in muscles
• 14:30 – 14:45 Břetislav Koudela
  Excretory/secretory biomolecules from Trichinella spiralis/T. britovi L1 larvae as potential diagnostic markers
• 14:45 – 15:00 Yang Yurong
  Characterization of DAF – 21/HSP90, an antigen protein from parasitic nematode Trichinella spiralis
• 15:00 – 15:15 K. Nöckler
  Production and characterization of monoclonal antibodies against a serine protease from newborn stage of Trichinella Spiralis
• 15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break
• 15:30 – 17:40 Session Trichinella biology
  Chair: Jean Dupouy-Camet, Takahashi Y.
• 15:30 – 15:55 Plenary Lecture
  Wu Zhiliang
  Trichinella: What’s going on during nurse cell formation
• 15:55 – 16:10 Lilián Yépez Mulia
  Analysis of the effect of the new benzimidazole derivate GNV14, on Trichinella spiralis muscle larvae
• 16:10 – 16:25 Francisco Bolas-Fernandez
  A new formulation of mebendazole in low- substituted hydroxypropylcellulose (L-HPC): improved efficacy against experimental trichinellosis
• 16:25 – 16:40 Bernadette Connolly
  TGF-beta and hedgehog signalling pathways in Trichinella spiralis
• 16:40 – 16:55 Wu Xiuping
  Antigen genes display of Trichinella psudospiralis at different development stages
• 16:55 – 17:10 Magdalena Dabrowska
  Trichinella spiralis and Caenorhabditis elegans display a parallel pattern of thymidylate synthase localization.
• 17:10 – 17:25 Sandrine A. Lacour
  Freezing resistance of Trichinella muscle larvae in wild boars experimentally infected
• 17:25 – 17:40 Yu Jianli
  Serine proteinase inhabitor (Serpin)-A potential good diagnosis target for Trichinella late infection
• 17:40 – 18:00 Poster Exhibition
• 18:00 Dinner

THURSDAY, 4th August

• 08:30 – 10:10 Session Phylogeny
  Chair: Dante Zarlenga, Benjamin Rosentha
• 08:30 – 08:55 Plenary Lecture
  Dante S. Zarlenga
  Sequencing the genome of Trichinella spiralis: learning from the past
• 08:55 – 09:10 Gao Fei
  Shared and disparate patterns of developmentally regulated gene expression in two agents of human trichinellosis.
• 09:10 – 09:25 Gianluca Marucci
  Molecular identification of nematode larvae different from those of the Trichinella genus detected by muscle digestion
• 09:25 – 09:40 M. Zivojinovic
  Trichinella spp. infections in different host species of an endemic district of Serbia
• 09:40 – 09:55 Edoardo Pozio
  Cross-breedings between Trichinella T12 and the other encapsulated Trichinella species suggest its reproductive isolation
• 09:55 – 10:10 Benjamin Rosenthal
  Inferring the history of Trichinella diversification and dissemination from analyses of genetic variability: Recent achievements, future potential, and practical limitations
• 10:10 – 10:25 Coffee Break
• 10:25 – 11:35 Session Human Trichinellosis
  Chair: Judith Appleton, Wu Zhiliang
• 10:25 – 10:50 Plenary Lecture
  Jean Dupouy-Camet
  Travel: a new driver for trichinellosis
• 10:50 – 11:05 Edoardo Pozio
  The Worldwide Occurrence and Impact of Human Trichinellosis, 1986 - 2009
• 11:05 – 11:20 Zamfir M. Carmen Anita
  Clinical Manifestations in Human Trichinellosis – Retrospective Epidemiological Study
• 11:20 – 11:35 Jean Dupouy-Camet
  Seroprevalence of Trichinella antibodies in blood donors, France
• 11:35 – 11:55 Poster Exhibition
• 11:55 – 13:30 Lunch Break
• 13:30 – 16:20 Session Immunology
  Chair: Lilián Yépez Mulia, Fabrizo Bruschi
• 13:30 – 13:55 Plenary Lecture
  Judith A. Appleton
  Eosinophils regulate local immunity during Trichinella spiralis infection
• 13:55 – 14:20 Plenary Lecture
  Ljiljana Sofronic - Milosavljevic
  “Let's seal the deal and fight autoimmunity” says Trichinella to dendritic cells
• 14:20 – 14:35 Guadalupe Ortega-Pierres
  Evaluation of different immunization protocols to induce protective immunity to Trichinella spiralis using TSL1 antigens in a murine experimental model
• 14:35 – 14:50 Fabrizio Bruschi
  Effects of Helicobacter pylori neutrophil-activating protein on the protective role of IgE, eosinophils and on myositis in experimental trichinellosis.
• 14:50 – 15:05 Dolores E. Hill
  Exposure of pigs to encapsulated sylvatic isolates of Trichinella protects against a challenge infection with T. spiralis.
• 15:05 – 15:20 Pascal Boireau
  Vaccination against Trichinella spiralis in pigs : a high protection induced by a combination of recombinant proteins
• 15:20 – 15:35 Miruna OLTEAN
  Some aspects of humoral and cellular immune responses in swine experimental Trichinella spiralis infection
• 15:35 – 15:50 Wang Xuelin
  Effect on apoptosis associated protein expression of H7402 cells co-incubated with polypide protein of Trichinella spiralis
• 15:50 – 16:05 Yang Yaping
  Antigen – specific T cell immune response by co-immunization with the Ts87 DNA vaccine and recombinant Ts87
• 16:05 – 16:20 Nicolas Versillé
  In vitro analysis of cellular activation of mouse mast cells stimulated by Trichinella antigens
• 16:20 – 16:40 Poster Exhibition
• 16:40 – 18:00 ICT Business Meeting
• 18:00 Dinner

FRIDAY, 5th August

• 08:30 – 16:30 Exploring Changchun
• 16:30 – 17:00 2nd ICT Executive Committee Meeting
  Chair: Ray Gamble
• 17:00 – 17:45 Students Award
  Chair: Chiristian Kapel
• 17:45 – 18:15 Highlights and Conclusion
  Chair: Ray Gamble, Liu Mingyuan
• 18:15 Gala dinner and Performance

SATURDAY, 6th August

• BEIJING TOUR DAY (click here for more details)

Accompanying Persons Program

All registered accompanying persons are invited to attend the Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception, the Gala Dinner and Performance, the Afternoon Excursions.

MONDAY,1st August

• 18:00 Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception

TUESDAY, 2nd August

• go shopping
• 17:30 DInner

WEDNESDAY, 3rd August

• go shopping
• 17:30 Dinner

THURSDAY, 4th August

• go shopping
• 17:30 Dinner

FRIDAY, 5th August

• 08:30 – 16:30 Exploring Changchun
• 18:00 Gala dinner and Performance

SATURDAY, 6th August

• BEIJING TOUR DAY (click here for more details)