Agenda
- Wildlife health and climate change
- Human dimensions and wildlife health (including public perception of nature and influencing behavior change)
- Systems thinking and approaches to One Health and wildlife health
- Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of wildlife scientists in the response
- Zoonosis and wildlife
- Innovations in diagnostics and surveillance
- Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Special Session on Wildlife Disease Management/Monitoring/Evaluation
- Emerging and Legacy Contaminants and Wildlife Health
- American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians Special Session on the Use of Immunotherapeutics in Wildlife
Students also play a prominent role in the conference, with an entire day dedicated exclusively to student presentations. WDA encourages student participation, sponsoring several conference travel grants and student awards including two scholarships, a research recognition travel award, a best student presentation award and a best student poster award. In addition, we are planning the usual array of social events including an icebreaker on the University of Wisconsin campus, picnic at the International Crane Foundation, and an auction and banquet. More details will be forthcoming.
Conservation Conversation Corner
In keeping with the theme of this year’s conference, “Holistic Solutions for Wildlife Health,” and the mission of WDA to, in part, “promote healthy wildlife and ecosystems,” we will be featuring the Conservation Conversation Corner, where participants can share their own ideas about how to promote wildlife health; this includes what is meant by health, reorienting from disease to health, and considering challenges inherent in this reorientation. Throughout the week, we will be hosting a brainstorming exercise to gather the community’s thoughts on these topics, and will report results of the exercise at the conclusion of the conference. We welcome all into this conversation, which we hope can continue into the years ahead and will prove truly transformational as we engage the complex issues facing wildlife and our community.
Agenda
**Tentative – details subject to change**
Sunday, July 24
Time | Session | Location |
8:00am-5:00pm | Registration | 2nd Floor Atrium. Concourse Hotel |
8:30am-5:00pm |
ACZM Workshop *Registration Required |
Assembly & Caucus, Concourse Hotel |
8:30am-10:00am |
Student Workshop – Writing for Scientific Publications *Registration Required |
University Room, Concourse Hotel |
11:00am-1:00pm |
Student Workshop – Science Communications Workshop *Registration Required |
University Room, Concourse Hotel |
5:30pm-7:30pm | Icebreaker Picnic | University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus |
Monday, July 25
Time | Session | Location |
7:15am-8:00am | Yoga | Assembly Room |
7:30am-8:30am | Breakfast | Capitol Ballroom A |
7:30am-2:00pm | Registration | 2nd Floor Atrium |
8:30am-10:00am | Opening Session | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
8:30am | Opening Remarks from Conference Host | Jonathan Sleeman |
8:30am | Land Acknowledgement & Welcome from WDA President | Andrew Peters |
8:40am | Welcome from Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) | Preston Cole |
8:50am | Opening Remarks from the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies | Colin Gillin |
8:55am | Welcome from the Conference Student Hosts | Haley Lin & Keegan Lim |
9:00am | Opening Remarks from the Director General of the World Animal Health Organization | Monique Eliot |
9:10am | Holistic Solutions for Wildlife Health: What Does it Mean and What Can We Do? | Brett Elkin |
10:00am-10:30am | AM Break | Capitol Ballroom A |
10:30am-11:15am | Wildlife Disease Association Carlton M. Herman Founder’s Fund, Cutting-Edge Speaker | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
SARS-CoV-2 and White-Tailed Deer | Vivel Kapur | |
11:15am-12:00pm | American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians, Al Franzmann Speaker and Award | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
Wildlife Vaccination as a Disease Management Tool: Current State of the Art and Prospects for the Future | Tonie Rocke | |
12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch & Business Meeting | Capitol Ballroom A |
1:00pm-9:00pm | International Crane Foundation Tour & Dinner |
Tuesday, July 26
Day 3 | Tuesday, July 26th | |
7:00 AM – 8:30 AM | AAWV Business Meeting | University Room CD |
7:15 AM – 8:00 AM | Yoga | Parlor Room 629 |
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Breakfast | Capitol Ballroom A |
7:30 AM – 1:00 PM | Registration | 2nd Floor Atrium |
8:30 AM – 9:05 AM | Graduate Student Research Recognition Award Winner and Keynote Speaker | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
8:30 AM | Emerging California Serogroup Viruses in Northern Canada Wildlife |
Kayla Buhler University of Saskatchewan |
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM | Student Presentations | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
9:15 AM | Viral Surveillance in Sanctuary Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Across Africa |
Emily Dunay University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Veterinary Medicine |
9:30 AM | “Healthy Children, Healthy Chimps”: Reducing Reverse Zoonotic Respiratory Virus Transmission from Humans to Chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda |
Taylor Weary University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Veterinary Medicine |
9:45 AM | Human Herpesvirus and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Complex in Confiscated and Rescued Neotropical Primates in Peru |
Fernando Javier Vilchez Delgado Tufts University |
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM |
Morning Break & Poster Session Poster Numbers 97-133 |
Buffet in Ballroom A & Posters in Ballroom B |
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM | Student Presentations Continued | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
10:45 AM | Diagnostic Assays to Detect Entomopathogenic Serratia spp. In the Critically Endangered Lord Howe Island Stick Insect (Dryococelus austrails) |
Nicholas Doidge University of Melbourne |
11:00 AM | Black-legged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) Harbor and Excrete Chronic Wasting Disease Prions from Infected Blood Meals |
Heather N’te Inzalaco University of Wisconsin-Madison |
11:15 AM | Laparoscopic Oviductal Artificial Insemination with Frozen Semen for Conservation Management of Endangered Ocelots in Southern Texas |
Ashley Reeves University of Tennessee |
11:30 AM | Cataloging Retinal Lesions in Asiatic Black Bears (Ursus thibetanus) |
Kylie McDaniel Tufts University |
11:45 AM | Immobilization of Helicopter-Captured Elk (Cervus canadensis) with Butorphanol-Asaperone-Medetomidine Versus Nalbuphine-Medetomidine-Azaperone |
Kathleen Williams University of Kentucky |
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch & Business Meeting | Capitol Ballroom A |
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Student Presentations Continued | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
1:30 PM | Multi-Strain Domestic Spillover of Mycoplasma Ovipneumoniae and Severe Epizootic Pneumonia Affecting Bighorn Sheep (Ovis Canadensis) in Badlands National Park, South Dakota |
Treana Mayer Colorado State University |
1:45 PM | Synanthropic Mesomammals and the Peridomestic Transmission Cycle of Trypanansoma cruzi in Florida |
Carson Torhorst University of Florida |
2:00 PM | Don’t poop here! Detection and genetic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii in feral cat feces near Southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) habitat |
Sophie Zhu University of California, Davis |
2:15 PM | Are Urban Rookeries Ecological Sources or Sinks? Trade-offs to Urban Nesting in a Wetland Bird |
Julia Silva Seixas University of Georgia |
2:30 PM | Effect of Food Addition and Helminth Removal on Spatial Overlap Networks in Wild Bank Voles (Myodes Glareolus) |
Janine Mistrick University of Minnesota |
2:45 PM | Hijacking Bat Keratinocytes: Mechanistic Insights into the Early Stages of White Nose Syndrome |
Marcos Isidoro-Ayza University of Wisconsin-Madison |
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM |
Afternoon Break & Poster Session Poster Number 97-133 |
Buffet in Ballroom A & Posters in Ballroom B |
3:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Student Presentations Continued | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
3:45 PM | Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: Clinical Presentation, Pathology, and Shedding Profiles in a Variety of Southeastern Birds |
Chloe Goodwin Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study |
4:00 PM | Comparison of Natural and Experimental West Nile Virus Infections in Free-Ranging Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa Umbellus) |
Melanie Kunkel Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, University of Georgia |
4:15 PM | House Sparrows and Culex Quinquefasciatus Mosquitos are Capable of Transmitting Usutu Virus |
Sarah Kuchinsky Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine |
4:30 PM | Nowhere to Fly: Ubiquitous Avian Malaria Transmission on Oʻahu |
John Neddermeyer Northern Arizona University |
4:45 PM | Avian Haemosporidian Infection and Cloacal Bacterial Diversity in Maine Waterfowl |
Olivia Choi University of Maine |
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM | Student-Mentor Mixer | Assembly Room |
6:30 PM – 10:00 PM | Reception, Auction, Blues Band and Drinks | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
Wednesday, July 27
Day 4 | Wednesday, July 27th | |
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM | Wildlife Veterinary Section Business Meeting | University Room |
7:15 AM – 8:00 AM | Yoga | Parlor Room 629 |
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Breakfast | Capitol Ballroom A |
7:30 AM – 1:00 PM | Registration | 2nd Floor Atrium |
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM |
Panel Session I: Can we Create Change in Wildlife Health? Moderator: LeAnn White Panelists: Thijs Kuiken, Purnamita Dasgupta & Hans Keune |
Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Morning Break & Poster Session Poster Numbers 134-220 |
Buffet in Ballroom A & Posters in Ballroom B |
Concurrent Sessions | ||
Session A 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM |
Wildlife and Environmental Zoonoeses Moderator: Ria Ghai |
Assembly Room |
10:30 AM | The Genome of Rocky Mountain Elk Offers Insights into their Immunologic Responses to Bucella Abortus |
Steven Olsen Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture |
10:45 AM | Uncovering the Role of Northern Elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) in Maintaining Leptospira in the Marine Ecosystem |
Katie Prager University of California, Los Angeles |
11:00 AM | Non-Invasive Saliva Collection for Evaluation of Peri-Urban Primate Exposure to Arboviruses of Public Health and Conservation Concern |
Tierra Smiley Evans University of California, Davis |
11:15 AM | Urban Host-Parasite Dynamics of Two Small Mammals |
Kimberly Fake Lincoln Park Zoo, Urban Wildlife Institute |
11:30 AM | The Wild Life of Ticks: Using Passive Surveillance to Determine the Distribution and Host Range of Ticks and the Exotic Haemaphysalis Longicornis, 2010-2021 |
Michael Yabsley University of Georgia |
11:45 AM | Assessing the Effects of Saxitoxin Ingestion by Common Murres |
Matthew Smith Alaska Science Center, United States Geological Survey |
Session B 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM |
Emerging and Legacy Contaminants and One Health Moderator: Thierry Work |
Senate Room |
10:30 AM | Impact of Lead Ammunition on Bald Eagle Dynamics in the Northeast United States |
Krysten Schuler Cornell Wildlife Health Lab |
10:45 AM | Assessing Neonicotinoids Exposure in Free-Ranging White-Tailed Deer in Minnesota |
Michelle Carstensen Minnesota Department of Natural Resources |
11:00 AM | Causes of Death and Disease Prevalence in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Stranding in Alabama Between 2015 and 2020, Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill |
Jennifer Bloodgood Dauphin Island Sea Lab |
11:15 AM | Investigating Levels of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Minnesota White-Tailed Deer |
Kelsie LaSharr Minnesota Department of Natural Resources |
11:30 AM | One Health for All: Advancing Wildlife, Human, and Ecosystem Health in Cities by Integrating an Environmental Justice Lens |
Jacqueline Buckley Lincoln Park Zoo |
11:45 AM | Wildlife Health as Part of a Transformative Change to Operattionalize One Health Governance in a Post-Pandemic World |
Carlos Das Neves Norwegian Veterinary Institute |
Session C 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM |
Systems Thinking and Approaches to One Health and Wildlife Health Moderator: LeAnn White |
University Room |
10:30 AM | Commodity-Based Trade of Beef: A Holistic Solution for the Future of KAZA’s People and Wildlife |
Steven A. Osofsky Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine |
10:45 AM | Widllife Health in Environmental Impact Assessments: Are We Missing a Key Metric? |
Oscar Alejandro Aleuy University of Notre Dame |
11:00 AM | Systems Thinking applied to Wildlife Health: Building a One Health Framework to Facilitate Adaptive Change within a State Wildlife Agency and Beyond |
Sherri Russell Missouri Department of Conservation |
11:15 AM | A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Hibernating Bat Energetics and Modeled Implications on White-Nose Syndrome Susceptibility |
Sarah Olson Wildlife Conservation Society |
11:30 AM | One Health and Wildlife Conservation: Insights from Wood Bison and Beyond |
Craig Stephen McEachran Institute |
11:45 AM | Landscape of Participatory Surveillance Systems in Wildlife Health |
Carrie McNeil One Health Specialist |
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Boxed Lunch | Capitol Ballroom A |
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM |
Lunchtime Session: What’s Happening with Wildlife Moderator: Tiggy Grillo, World Organization for Animal Health |
University Room |
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM |
Lunchtime Session: Ending Pandemics Moderator: Carrie McNeil, One Health Specialist |
Conference Room III |
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Meeting | Conference Room V |
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM |
Lunchtime Session: Student Roundtable – Development of a North American Student Section Moderator: Marianthis Ioannidis, Utrecht University |
Senate A&B |
1:00 PM | Free Afternoon/Dinner on Own | |
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Appreciation Event Sponsored by Jacobson & Schmitt Advisors | The Edgewater Hotel Sky Bar |
7:00 PM | Concerts on the Square | Capitol Lawn |
Thursday, July 28
Time | Session | Location |
7:15am-8:00am | Yoga | Assembly Room |
7:30am-8:30am | Breakfast | Capitol Ballroom A |
7:30am-7:00pm | Registration | 2nd Floor Atrium |
8:30am-10:00am | The Power of Collaborations for One Health Outcomes | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
10:00am-10:45am | AM Break & Posters | Capitol Ballrooms A&B |
10:45am |
Concurrent Session A Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Speical Session on Wildlife Disease/Management/Monitoring/Evaluation |
Assembly Room |
10:45am | Invasive Corallimorpharians at Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge are No Match for Lye and Heat | Theirry Work |
11:00am | Epidemiology of Pathogens in Endangered Peninsular Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) | Jessica N. Sanchez |
11:15am | Cause of Death, Pathology, and Chronic Wasting Disease Status of White-Tailed Deer Mortalities in Wisconsin | Marie Gilbertson |
11:30am | Behavioral Scrapes as a Route of Transmission and Potential Environmental Sentinel for Chronic Wasting Disease | Miranda Huang |
11:45am | Relatedness of White-Tailed Deer from Culling Efforts Within a Disease Management Zone in Minnesota | Alberto Fameli |
10:45am |
Concurrent Session B Disease Outbreaks and Investigations |
Senate Room |
10:45am | Monitoring and Surveillance of Unprecedented Wildlife Mortality Due to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Infections 2020-2022 | Paul James Duff |
11:00am | Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is Maintained by Conspecific Scavenging in Black Vultures (Coragyps atratus) in Florida | Mark Cunningham |
11:15am | Feline Leukomyelopathy in Florida Panthers and Bobcats | Hollis Ann Stewart |
11:30am | Retroviral Infections Affect Survival and Reproduction of Female Wild Turkeys | Stephanie Shea |
11:45am | A Sarcoptic Mange Outbreak Devastates Wild Camelid Populations in a Protected Area in Argentina | Marcella Uhart |
10:45am |
Concurrent Session C American Association of Wildlife Veternarians Special Session on Innovations |
University Room |
10:45am | Spatiotemporal Bayesian Model of Pseudogymnoascus Destructans Spread | Juan Francisco |
11:00am | The Importance of Case Definitions in Wildlife Health | E. Jane Parmley |
11:15am | A Field-Deployable Diagnostic Assay for the Visual Detection of Chronic Wasting Disease Prions | Peter Christenson |
11:30am | Histopathology and Genomic Analysis Suggest White-Nose Syndrome / Pseudogymnoascus Destructans Evolved From and Maintains Invasion Strategies of Plant Fungal Pathogens | Carol Meteyer |
11:45am | WildHealthNet: A One Health Approach to Sustainable Wildlife Health Surveillance | Mathieu Pruvot |
12:00pm-1:30pm | Lunch & Business Meeting | Capitol Ballroom A |
1:30pm-3:00pm | The Future of Training Wildlife Health Professionals | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
3:00pm-3:45pm | PM Break & Posters | Capitol Ballroom A&B |
3:45pm |
Concurrent Session A Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Special Session on Wildlife Disease |
Assembly Room |
3:45pm | Widespread Detection of Batrochochytrium Dendrobaditis on Urodele and Anuran Species is Driven by Temperature and Fine-Scale Taxonomy in the United States | Daniel Grear |
4:00pm | Using Mosquito Surveillance to Inform Risk of West Nile Virus Exposure to Ruffed Grouse Populations in Pennsylvania | Kristin Bondo |
4:15pm | Demographic Risk Factor Variation in an Initial Outbreak of Chronic Wasting Disease in West Virginia | Brian Dugovich |
4:30pm | Associations of White-Tailed Deer With and Without Chronic Wasting Disease | W. David Walter |
4:45pm | Predicted Probability of Chronic Wasting Disease Infection Among Cervids in Kansas Using a Generalized Additive Model | Zoe Koestel |
3:45pm |
Concurrent Session B Disease Outbreaks and Investigations Continued |
Senate Room |
3:45pm | Sharp Decline in Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Nesting Success Associated with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreak | Mark Ruder |
4:00pm | Metagenomic Sequencing to Identify the Etiologic Agent Responsible for Pneumonia-Related Mortality in Wisconsin White-Tailed Deer | Melanie Prentice |
4:15pm | 2021 Songbird Mortality Event – A Summary of Fndings and Ongoing Investigations | Sabrina Greening |
4:30pm | A 20+ Year Retrospective of Amphibian and Reptile Disease Events in the United States | Megan Winzeler |
4:45pm | A Mortality Event of Double-Crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) in Florida Caused by a Novel Eimeria Species | Lisa Shender |
3:45pm |
Concurrent Session C American Association of Wildlife Veternarians Speical Session on Innovations |
University Room |
3:45pm | Hoiho & Malaria: A Real-Time Avian Malaria Warning System to Aid Yellow-Eyed Penguin Conservation Efforts in New Zealand | Chris Niebuhr |
4:00pm | Geographic Risk Assessment of Batrachochytrium Salamandrivorans Invasion in Costa Rica | Henry Adams |
4:15pm | Maps, Math, and Models: Data-Driven Decisions to Inform Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance | Corey Mitchell |
4:30pm | Data Collection and Management Tools for Wildlife Health Surveillance | Diego Montecine-Latorre |
4:45pm | What’s All the Noise about WHISPers? An overview of Initial Successes and Future Improvements for the USGS NWHC Wildlife Health Sharing Partnership – Event Reporting System | Katherin Richgels |
5:00pm-6:00pm | WDA Annual Business Meeting | Senate Room |
6:30pm | Cocktail Hour | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
7:30pm-11:00pm | Closing Banquet, Awards Ceremony, and Dancing | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
Friday, July 29
Time | Session | Location |
8:00am-1:00pm | Registration | 2nd Floor Atrium |
8:00am-9:00am | Breakfast | Capitol Ballroom A |
9:00am |
Concurrent Session A Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Special Session on Wildlife Disease Management/Monitoring/Evaluation Continued |
Assembly Room |
9:00am | Two Years of Hemorrhagic Disease in North Dakota | Charlie Bahnson |
9:15am | Climate Influenced Disease Expansion of Hemorrhagic Disease | Sonja Christensen |
9:30am | Using Surveillance to Inform Wildlife Disease Management: Mandatory Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Sampling in Missouri as a Case Study | Jasmine Batten |
9:45am | Environmental Transmission of Treponeme-Associated Hoof Disease in Captive Elk | Margaret Wild |
10:00am | Host Immune Responses to Enzootic and Invasive Pathogen Lineages vary in Magnitude, timing, and Efficacy | Coby Mcdonald |
10:15am | Epizootic of quail bronchitis virus in captive Northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) and masked bobwhite (C. virginianus ridgwayi) reveals apparent species difference in susceptibility | Anne Justice-Allen |
9:00am |
Concurrent Session B Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemics and the Role of Wildlife Scientists in the Response |
Senate Room |
9:00am | SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance of White-Tailed Deer in the United States | Jeffery Chandler |
9:15am | Experimental Infection of Wild Canids with SARS-CoV-2 | Stephanie Porter |
9:30am | Mobilizing Multiple Sectors, Disciplines and Communities at Varying Levels for Pandemic Primary Prevention: The International Alliance against Health Risks in Wildlife Trade | Hannah Emde |
9:45am | Using a One Health Approach to Structure Federal Coordination on SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Wildlife | Ria Ghai |
10:00am | Structural Biology of Zoonotic Diseases: GM/CA@APS, and a PREVENT Proposal | Michael Becker |
10:15am | Experimental infection of Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) with SARS-CoV-2 | Jeffery Hall |
9:00am |
Concurrent Session C Human Dimensions and Wildlife Health |
University Room |
9:00am | Using Population Genetics to Trace the Origins of Ophidiomyces Ophidiicola, the Causative Agent of Snake Fungal Disease, in North America | Jeff Lorch |
9:15am | Wildlife Disease Surveillance – Just the Tip of the Iceberg | Anne Ballmann |
9:30am | Knowledge Basis for the Management of Chronic Wasting disease in Norway and Current Status; Will We Mange to Eradicate the Disease | Bjørnar Ytrehus |
9:45am | Supplementary Salt Licks as Transmission Hot-Spots Between Wild and Domestic Ruminants | Kjersti Selstad Utaaker |
10:00am | Chronic Wasting Disease Show and Tell: Gauging Hunters Willingness to Adopt Management Practices | Sonja Christensen |
10:15am | Broader Participation in Wildlife Health Research Endeavours: Why Do We Need It, Who Do We Need and What Could it Look Like? | Andrew Peters |
10:30am-11:00am | AM Break & Posters | Capitol Ballroom A&B |
11:00am-12:00pm | Panel Sessions Re-Cap and Wrap Up | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |
12:00pm-12:30pm | Closing Remarks | Madison/Wisconsin Ballroom |