Health and Environmental Hygiene

Registration

Welcome notes

• Prof. Dr. A. Troge, President of the Federal Environment Agency (DE)
• MBA J. Küllmer, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (DE)
• Dr. J. Strobel, Federal Ministry of Health (DE)

Vector-borne diseases and influencing factors

Vector-borne diseases and their control: An introduction

• J. Klasen, B. Habedank (Federal Environment Agency, Berlin, DE)

Climate modelling: Global and regional scenarios

• D. Jacob (Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, DE)

Postglacial formations and fluctuations of the biodiversity of Central Europe in the light of climate change

• H. Aspöck (Medical University of Vienna, AT)

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

Influence of climate change on mosquito development and mosquito-borne diseases in Europe

• N. Becker and B. Pluskota (KABS, Waldsee, DE)

Mosquito-borne viruses in Europe

• Z. Hubalek (Academy of Sciences, Brno, CZ)

Yellow fever to Chikungunya - the globalization of vectors and vector-borne diseases

• P. Reiter (Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR)

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. S., Shopenskaya T.A., Platonova O.V., Zhuravlev V.I. (Central Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, RU)

Circulation of West Nile Virus in Germany ?

• S. Linke, M. Niedrig and G. Pauli (Robert-Koch-Institute, Berlin, DE)

Modelling of temperature-dependent Malaria risk in Lower Saxony, Germany

• W. Schröder and G. Schmidt (University of Vechta, DE)

Sand flies and transmitted diseases

Sand flies and leishmaniasis in Germany

• T. Naucke (University Hohenheim / Parasitus Ex e.V. Niederkassel, DE)

Biting midges and transmitted diseases

Bluetongue: Vectors, epidemiology and climate change

• P.S. Mellor, A. Wilson (Institute for Animal Health, Surrey, GB)

Biting midges as vectors of blue tongue virus inGermany

• H. Mehlhorn (University Düsseldorf, DE)

Evening program

Guided tour through the “Large Glass House” of the Botanic Garden

Rodent-borne diseases

Rodent-borne diseases in a changing European environment

• H.Henttonen (Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa, FI)

Network „Rodent-borne pathogens“ in Germany: Longitudinal studies on the geographical distribution and prevalence of hantavirus infections

• R.G. Ulrich¹, J. Schmidt-Chanasit, M. Schlegel, M. Wenk, M. Mertens, J. Jacob, H.-J. Pelz, T. Büchner, D. Masur, K. Sevke, S. Mikolajczak, H.W. Gerstengarbe, M. Pfeffer, R. Oehme, U. Hartelt, S. Pluta, W. Wegener, G. Heckel, S. Brockmann, S.S. Essbauer and members of the Network „Rodent-borne pathogens“
  ¹(Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Riems, DE)

Emergence of Hantavirus in Germany: Rodents, climate and human infections

• I. Piechotowski ¹, S.O. Brockmann, C.H. Winter, C. Schwarz, U. Ranft, E. Göhring-Zwacka, G. Pfaf
  ¹ (Landesgesundheitsamt Baden-Würtenberg, DE)

Vectors of vector-borne diseases II:

Ticks and tick borne diseases

Tick ecology and climate: Mechanisms regulating the distribution and life cycle of I. ricinus

• J.-L. Perret (Novartis AG / University Neuchatel, CH)

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)

Modelling and prediction of habitat suitability for ticks

• A. Estrada-Pena (University of Zaragoza, ES)

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)

Ticks and tick-borne diseases in Southern Germany

• P. Kimmig, K. Hartelt and R. Oehme (Landesgesundheitsamt BW, Stuttgart, DE)

Lyme borreliosis in Germany: Data and Trends

• G. Poggensee (Robert-Koch-Institute, Berlin, DE)

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

The EDEN – project (Emerging Diseases in a changing European Environment)

• P.G. de Mendonca (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, DE)

Climate change and adaptation needs

• P. Mahrenholz (Federal Environment Agency, Berlin, DE)

Climatic extremes and mosquito occurrence in the Czech Republic

• F. Rettich (Prague, CZ)

Chikungunya fever – a threat for Europeans

• R. Eitrem and S. Vene (Karlskrona, Stockholm, SE)

Quest for novel viruses in mosquitoes collected in the area of the Taї National Park, Côte d’Ivoire

• S. Junglen, A. Kurth, F. Leendertz, A. Nitsche, G. Pauli and H. Ellerbrok (Berlin, DE)

IRM in a Multi-Resistant Malaria Vector Scenario Mexico Trial

• IRAC

Insecticides Mode of Action Classification: A Key to Effective Insecticide Resistance Management in Mosquitoes

• IRAC

Entomological and epidemiological surveys for monitoring bluetongue disease

• S. Bartsch, A. Stephan, P. Hoffmann-Köhler, B. Bauer, E. Schein, P.-H. Clausen, G. Liebisch, A. Liebisch, E. Kiel, D. Werner, C. Bauer, M. Geier, G. A. Schaub, F.J. Conraths, H.-J. Bätza and H. Mehlhorn (Berlin, Burgwedel, Oldenburg, Giessen, Regensburg, Bochum, Jena, Bonn, Düsseldorf, DE)

Monitoring of Ceratopogonidae in the German federal states Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland

• B. Vorsprach and G.A. Schaub (Bochum, DE)

Potential impacts of climate change on stable flies, investigated along an altitudinal gradient

• J. Gilles, J.-F. David, E. Tilard, G. Duvallet, K. Pfister (Munich, DE)

A study of the sylvatic rodent reservoir for Bartonella spp. in NE Poland: prevalence and the diversity of infection

• Renata Welc-Falęciak, Anna Paziewska, Anna Bajer, Edward Siński (Warsaw, PL)

RatMap: a digital geodata supported monitoring project of urban rat populations in Hamburg, Germany

• A. Plenge-Bönig, K. Baumgardt, F. Ukena and A. Sammann (Hamburg, DE)

Winter acitivy of Ixodes ricinus in a Berlin forest area

• H. Dautel, C. Dippel, D. Kämmer, A. Werkhaus and O. Kahl (Berlin, DE)

Seasonality of Ixodes ricinus in Germany: Preliminary results from the EDEN project

• A. Kupča, J. Raczynski, P. G. de Mendonça, M. Rinder and K. Pfister (Munich, DE)

Seasonal and geographic variation in the epidemiology of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Rickettsia spp. in the hard tick Ixodes ricinus in Bavaria

• C. Silaghi, J. Gilles and K. Pfister K. (Munich, DE)

Ticks, rodents and tick-born diseases in Lithuania and Norway

• A. Paulauskas, D. Ambrasiene, J.Radzijevskaja, O. Rosef, J. Turcinaviciene (Kaunas, Vilnius, LT; Telemark, NO)

Genetic heterogenity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the Kemerovo region (West Siberia) of Russia based on restriction fragment length polymorphism and sequence analysis

• M. Filipenko, O.Yatsenko, E.Khrapov, E.Voronina, A.Shabaldin, T. Poponnikova, L. Galaganova (Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, RU)

Climate Change: More vector transmitted plant pests?

• H. Kehlenbeck, G. Schrader and J.-G. Unger (Kleinmachnow, Braunschweig, DE)

Incidence and epidemiology of gramineous viruses transmitted by insects and eriophyid mites in Germany

• F. Rabenstein, F. Ehrig, J. Schubert, A. Habekuß, E. Schliephake, W. Huth, R. Götz (Quedlinburg, Braunschweig, DE)

Impact of climate change on insect vector populations and the occurrence and prevalence of insect-transmitted plant viruses in major crop plants of Germany

• K. R. Richert-Pöggeler, R. Götz, K. Lindner, V. Zahn, H.-J. Vetten, S. Busche, U. Heimbach and G. Deml (Braunschweig, Hannover, DE)

Climate change as a potential cause of the occurrence of potato stolbur in Germany

• K. Lindner, M. Maixner and M. Roman (Braunschweig, Bernkastel-Kues, DE; Timisoara, RO)