"Major Themes

Animal Production and Food Security

One world Health

Companion Animals – challenges for the future

Prophylactics and Therapeutics – new approaches

Sub-themes / Topics

Aquaculture and wild capture fisheries

Biosecurity

Buffaloes, camellids, goats and large ruminants in SE Asia

Cell biology and life cycles

Challenging dogma

Climate change

Conservation and wildlife parasitism

Diagnostics

Extension and education

Functional genomics

Future issues with food production in SE Asia

Integrated production systems

Zoonoses

Pigs and poultry

Performance animals

Polyparasitism

Resistance and drug discovery

Vaccines and immunology

Tropical veterinary parasitology

Vectors and vector-borne diseases

Special Sessions

A number of concurrent sessions have been reserved for symposia dedicated to specific topics, including:

* Parasite control and livestock production in South East Asia – highlighting projects developed and funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.

* GLOWORM – an EU-funded project to develop innovative and sustainable strategies to mitigate the impact of climate change on helminth infections in ruminants

* Parasite zoonoses and tropical medicine – to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the International Federation for Tropical Medicine

* Aquatic animal health– an industry-led symposium on parasite control in aquaculture." [Information des Anbieters.]