WednesdayFocus SessionHRoom 9, 16:00 — 18:00Inside Ticks and CellsChairs: R. Toman (SVK) and D. Frangoulidis (DEU)16:00HO 0116:30HO 0216:45HO 0317:00HO 0417:15HO 0517:30HO 06Increasing Tick-borne Diseases of Humans in the USA and Identificationof Novel Rickettsial and Viral AgentsRF MassungCenters for Disease Control & Prevention, Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Atlanta,GA, USARickettsiae in Ticks from RomaniaL Chitimia 1 , S Speck 2 , S Nicolae 1 , SS Essbauer 3 , M Pfeffer 2 , S Wölfel 3 , and G Dobler 31 - Institute of Diagnosis and Animal Health, Department of Parasitology,Bucharest, ROU; 2 - Institute of Animal Hygiene and Public Veterinary Medicine,Leipzig, DEU; 3 - Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, DEUDevelopment of a Rickettsia helvetica Specific Real-Time PolymeraseChain Reaction AssayS Wölfel 1 , SR Schaper 1 , G Dobler 1 , S Speck 2 , and R Wölfel 11 - Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Virology & Rickettsiology, Munich , DEU;2 - University of Leipzig, Institute of animal hygiene and veterinary public health,Leipzig, DEUZoonotic Tick-borne Pathogens in Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) andWild Boar (Sus scrofa), in Questing Ticks (Ixodes ricinus), and in TicksInfesting These Animals in a Forest in Bavaria, GermanyC Silaghi 1 , K Pfister 1 , I Herb 2 , M Mahling 2 , and E Overzier 11 - Comparative Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, DEU; 2 - Statistical Consulting Unit, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, DEUSearch for Unique Structural Motifs in the Lipopolysaccharide ofCoxiella burnetii with Potential Applications in Diagnostics andProphylaxis of Q FeverR Toman 1 and D Frangoulidis 21 - Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dept. of Rickettsiology,Bratislava, SVK; 2 - Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, DEUThe Challenging Epidemiology of Q Fever in French GuianaJL Marié 1 , V Pommier de Santi 2 , D Schlienger 3 , C Ilcinkas 2 , D Raoult 4 ,and B Davoust 1,41 - French Forces <strong>Medical</strong> Service, Working Group on Animal Epidemiology,Toulon, FRA; 2 - French Forces <strong>Medical</strong> Service, Cayenne, GUF; 3 - French Forces<strong>Medical</strong> Service, Saint-Jean du Maroni, GUF; 4 - Research Unit on EmergingInfectious and Tropical Diseases (URMITE), National Reference Center for Coxiella,Marseille, FRA14 <strong>Medical</strong> <strong>Biodefense</strong> Conference <strong>2013</strong>
Wednesday | Thursday17:45HO 07The Art of (Coxiella) Genome SequencingMC Walter 1,2 , and D Frangoulidis 31 - Helmholtz Center Munich, Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology,Neuherberg, DEU; 2 - Technical University Munich, Department of Genome-Oriented Bioinformatics, Freising, DEU; 3 - Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology,Munich, DEUFocus SessionIAudimax, 08:30 — 10:15Strategies and PoliciesChairs: R. Burger (DEU) and S. Bankoul (CHE)08:30IO 0108:50IO 0209:10IO 0309:30IO 0409:45IO 0510:00IO 06Dual Use Research of Concern in Life Sciences - Time for anInternational EndeavourL SchaadeRobert Koch Institute, Berlin, DEUSyria’s Biological Weapon Complex, Hezbollah & the Threat to EuropeJ Bellamy van AalstCEO Warfare Technology Analytics, BELUK’s Strategic Approach to Deal with a Biological Threat IncidentN GentEmergency Response Department, Public Health England, Salisbury, GBRBiological Casualty Estimation within the NATO CBRN CasualtyEstimation Methodology [AMedP-8(C)]SM Oxford, AC Kelley, CA Curling, and JK BurrInstitute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA, USAOverview on <strong>Biodefense</strong> Activities of the French Armed ForcesBiomedical Research InstituteD Garin and I Leparc-GoffartArmed Forces Biomedical Research Institute, Bretigny-sur-Orge, FRAImproving the Biosafety and Biosecurity in Georgia within theInternational CooperationA Gamkrelidze, K Zaridze, A Kasradze, and P ImnadzeNational Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), GEOOral Presentations15