Viruses in May 2016 Scientific Program
Thursday 5 – Saturday 7 May 2016 | The Carrington Hotel, Katoomba NSW
Time
Thursday 5 May
Principles and Practice of
Diagnostic Virology Hepatitis
Time
Chair: Monica Lahra, Bill Rawlinson,
Rowena Bull
Friday 6 May
Diagnostics, Health Care Worker
Infections
Time
Chair: Kate Clezy, Stella Pendle, Rowena
Bull
Saturday 7 May
Viruses in Extremes and
Travellers
Chair: Mike Catton, Bill Rawlinson
8:30am9:15am
Registration
including welcome tea and coffee
9:00am9:30am
Vaccination policy in Australia and best
practice
A/Prof Kristine Macartney
9:00am9:30am
Arboviral infections, vaccination
and travellers
Dr Joe Torresi
9:15am9:45am
Welcome and Opening
Prof Monica Lahra
9:30am10:00pm
Vaccination of Health Care Workers
and the new influenza vaccines
A/Prof David Smith
9:30am10:00am
Virology of HTLV1
Prof Damian Purcell
Pathology, virology and the future
Ms Tracey McCosker
9:45am10:30am
Principles of Virology – The Basics
Prof Bill Rawlinson
10:00pm10:30pm
New prospects for vaccination – from
polio to dengue and flu
Prof Paul Young
10:00am10:30am
HTLV1 in northern Australia and
Aboriginal Australians
Prof Rob Baird
10:30am11:00am
Viral recombination in RNA viruses
Dr Rowena Bull
10:30pm11:00pm
BBV infection in Health Care Workers
Dr Jeremy McAnulty
10:30am11:00am
Flaviviruses spread in Australia
A/Prof David Smith
11:00am-11:30am
MORNING TEA
11:30am12:00pm
Hepatitis C in Australia –
Epidemiology and Clinical
presentation
Dr Mark Douglas
11:30pm12:00pm
New developments in PoCT for Blood
Borne Viruses
Mr Philip Cunningham
11:30am12:00pm
Testing for emerging threats and
BSL4 in Australia
Dr Michael Catton
12:00pm12:30pm
Hepatitis C – New therapies
Prof Jacob George
12:00pm12:30pm
Point of care testing for assessment of
respiratory virus infections
Dr Jen Kok
12:00pm12:30pm
Meeting Summation - virologist or
traveller
Prof Bill Rawlinson
12:30pm - 1:30pm
LUNCH
1:30pm2:00pm
Hepatitis B, D, E and the others
Prof Stephen Riordan
1:30pm2:00pm
Next generation sequencing, next
generation thinking in diagnosis
Prof Ben Howden
2:00pm2:30pm
Hepatitis viruses and HIV in organ
and tissue donors
A/Prof Nick Shackel
2:00pm2:30pm
HIV RNA PCR, proviral DNA and
emerging technologies for infant
diagnosis
Dr Brendan McMullan
2:30pm3:00pm
Global strategies are required to
cure and eliminate HBV
A/Prof Peter Revill
2:30pm3:00pm
When NAT diagnostics go wrong
A/Prof David Whiley
3:00pm - 3:30pm
3:15pm5:30pm
Leura Scenic Bus Tour
Bus departs at 3.15pm sharp.
Transfer from Katoomba Street
(directly in front of the Carrington
Hotel) to Leura. Delegates will
have 1 hour to walk around Leura
shops and purchase afternoon tea,
followed by a 1 hour scenic drive
including Echo Point stop and Cliff
drive and return to the Carrington
Hotel, Katoomba
6:00pm8:00pm
Welcome Buffet Dinner & Trivia
Quiz followed by a Movie
AFTERNOON TEA
3:30pm4:00pm
NGS and WGS in RNA virus
pathogenesis
Dr Ki Wook Kim
4:00pm4:30pm
Biosecurity and bioterrorism policy and
response – Defence Export Controls
Ms Joanna Gray
4:30pm5:00pm
Testing for and assessment of agents
of bioterrorism
Dr John Bates
5:00pm5:30pm
Quiz and spot diagnosis – The David
Smith X Factor
Prof Bill Rawlinson/Dr Mike Catton
6:30pm
7:00pm
Pre Dinner Drinks and Canapés
Conference Dinner
2:00pm
Meeting closed
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