"Vector-Borne Diseases: Impact of Climate Change on Vectors and Rodent Reservoirs"

 

Programme

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Thursday, 27 September

8:15 h Registration

9:00 h Welcome notes
Prof. Dr. A. Troge, President of the Federal Environment Agency
MBA J. Küllmer, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Dr. J. Strobel, Federal Ministry of Health

 

Vector-borne diseases and influencing factors

9:40 h Vector-borne diseases and vector and disease control
J. Klasen, B. Habedank (Federal Environment Agency, Berlin, DE)

10:00 h Climate modelling: Global and regional scenarios
D. Jacob (Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, DE)

10:30 h Coffee break

11:00 h Postglacial formations and fluctuations of the biodiversity of Central Europe in the light of climate change
H. Aspöck (Medical University of Vienna, AT)

11:30 h Epidemiology of vector- borne diseases in Germany
K. Stark (Robert-Koch-Institute, Berlin, DE)

 

Vectors of vector-borne diseases I: Mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases

12:00 h Influence of climatic change on mosquito development and mosquito-borne diseases in Europe
N. Becker and B. Pluskota (KABS Waldsee, DE)

12:30 h Mosquito-borne viruses in Europe
Z. Hubalek (Academy of Sciences, Brno, CZ)

13:00 h Lunch break

14:00 h Yellow Fever to Chikungunya - the globalization of vectors and vector-borne diseases
P. Reiter (Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR)

14:30 h Epidemiology of West Nile infection in Volgograd, Russia, in relation to climate change and mosquito bionomics
A.E. Platonov, Fedorova M.V., Karan L.S et al. (Central Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, RU)

15:00 h Circulation of West Nile Virus inGermany?
S. Linke, M. Niedrig and G. Pauli (Robert-Koch-Institute, Berlin, DE)

15:30 h Modelling of temperature-dependent Malaria risk in Lower Saxony, Germany
W. Schröder and G. Schmidt (Hochschule Vechta, DE)

16:00 h Coffee break

Sand flies and transmitted diseases

16:30 h Climate change and leishmaniasis in Europe
C. Davies (London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, GB)

17:00 h Sand flies and leishmaniasis inGermany
T. Naucke (University Hohenheim / Parasitus Ex e.V.
Niederkassel, DE)

Biting midges and transmitted diseases

17:20 h Bluetongue: Vectors and climate change in Europe
P.S. Mellor (Institute for Animal Health, Surrey, GB)

17:50 h Biting midges as vectors of blue tongue virus in
Germany
H. Mehlhorn (University Düsseldorf, DE)

 

Friday, 28 September

Rodent-borne diseases

9:00 h Rodent-borne diseases in a changing European
environment
H.Henttonen (Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa, FI)

9:30 h Emergence of Hantavirus in Germany: Rodents, climate and human infections
R. Ulrich (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Riems, DE),
I. Piechotowski, S.O. Brockmann (Landesgesundheitsamt Baden-Würtenberg, DE) et al.

 

Vectors of vector-borne diseases II: Ticks and tick borne diseases

9:50 h Tick ecology and climate: Mechanisms regulating the distribution and life cycle of I. ricinus
J.-L. Perret (Novartis AG / University Neuchatel, CH)

10:20 h What makes ticks tick? Climate changes, ticks and tick borne diseases
J. Süss (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute Jena, DE) and F.-W. Gerstengarbe (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, DE)

10:50 h Coffee break

11:20 h Modelling and prediction of habitat suitability for ticks
A. Estrada-Pena (University of Zaragoza, ES)

11:50 h Influence of meteorological conditions on the occurrence of ticks and TBD in the Czech Republic
B. Križ, V. Danielova and M. Daniel (National Institute of Public Health, Prague, CZ)

12:20 h Ticks and tick-borne diseases in Southern Germany
P. Kimmig, K. Hartelt and R. Oehme (Landesgesundheitsamt BW, Stuttgart, DE)
12:50 h Surveillance of Lyme borreliosis in Germany: Data and Trends
G. Poggensee (Robert-Koch-Institute, Berlin, DE)

13:10 h Lunch break

 

Surveillance of vectors and vector-borne diseases: Programs, Concerted Actions, Networks

14:10 h Climate change and adaptation needs
P. Mahrenholz (Federal Environment Agency, Berlin, DE)

14:30 h WHO Europe: cChash-Projekt (Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies for human health), ECDC: Surveillance of vector-borne diseases in several countries
B. Menne (WHO Europe, Rom, IT)

15:00 h The EDEN – project (Emerging Diseases in a changing European Environment)
P.G. de Mendonca (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, DE)

15:20 h Closing discussion and conclusions

16:00 h End of the Conference