Scientific Program

Please find below the provisional program for ALIVE 2, 2024

Thursday 18th April, 2024

  Arrival in the afternoon
19:30 - 22:30 Welcome Cocktail at the Rooftop of the Radisson Blu

Friday 19th April, 2024

  Clinical Stream Research Stream
08:00 - 08:45 Informal Get Together (young scientists and clinicians breakfast with LeishVet group)
09:00 - 09:15 Opening Ceremony
09:15 - 10:00 Plenary Session | Jorge Alvar
Control of visceral leishmaniasis: successes, risks and expectations


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10:00 - 10:45 Oral Communications Keynote Speaker - Marta Leiva
Top three ophthalmic challenges in the management of animal leishmaniosis

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10:45 - 11:30 Coffee-Break | Poster Session | Commercial Exhibition
11:30 - 12:15 Keynote Speaker - Carla Maia
Phlebotomine sand flies – small vectors causing major problems in public and animal health

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Oral Communications
12:15 - 12:30 Oral Communications Oral Communications
12:30 - 13:15 Round Table Round Table
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:00 Oral Communications Keynote Speaker - Alessandra Fondati
"Expect the unexpected" is the lesson of leishmaniosis

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15:00 - 15:15 Oral Communications Oral Communications
15:15 - 16:00 Keynote Speaker - Christopher Fernandez-Prada
Extracellular vesicles and canine leishmaniosis: friends or foes?

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Oral Communications
16:00 - 16:45 Coffee-Break | Poster Session | Commercial Exhibition
16:45 - 17:15 Oral Communications Oral Communications
17:15 - 18:15 Round Table Round Table
19:15 Bus departure for Gala Dinner at the Chagall Museum

Saturday 20th April, 2024

  Clinical Stream Research Stream
08:00 - 08:45 Informal Get Together (young scientists and clinicians breakfast with LeishVet group)
09:00 - 09:45 Oral Communications Keynote Speaker - Manolis Saridomichelakis
When should clinicians suspect feline leishmaniosis?

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09:45 - 10:00 Oral Communications Oral Communications
10:00 - 10:45 Keynote Speaker - Christine Petersen
Dogma, ecology, and potential reservoirs for Leishmania donovani in Bihar, India

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Oral Communications
10:45 - 11:30 Coffee-Break | Poster Session | Commercial Exhibition
11:30 - 12:15 Oral Communications Oral Communications
12:15 - 13:00 Round Table Round Table
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Oral Communications Keynote Speaker - Lluís Ferrer
The conundrum of clinical relapses in canine leishmaniosis

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14:45 - 15:00 Oral Communications Oral Communications
15:00 - 15:45 Keynote Speaker - Filipe Dantas-Torres
Other Leishmania species infecting in dogs: zoonotic and clinical significance

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Oral Communications
15:45 - 16:30 Coffee-Break | Poster Session | Commercial Exhibition
16:30 - 17:30 Round Table Round Table
17:30 - 18:00 Closing Ceremony