Name: 7th International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology (ECVM)
Start: 2025-09-10T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-12T17:15:00+02:00
Location: Kaiserin-Friedrich-Stiftung, Berlin

Monday 8 September 2025
Tuesday 9 September 2025
Wednesday 10 September 2025

13:00

13:00 - 14:00
Room: Kaiserin-Friedrich-Stiftung

14:00

14:00 - 16:00
Room: Lecture Hall

16:00

16:00 - 18:00

18:00

18:00 - 20:00
Thursday 11 September 2025

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Foyer (ground floor)

09:00

09:00 - 09:30
Room: Lecture Hall
09:30 Martin Beer
Martin Beer
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:30 Viral Zoonoses in Germany: What Lurks in the Reservoirs? - Martin Beer (Institut für Virusdiagnostik, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Suedufer 10, 17493 Greifsald-Insel Riems)
10:15 Coffee
Coffee
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Ilse Jacobsen
Ilse Jacobsen
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:45 The commensal to pathogen transition of Candida albicans - Ilse D. Jacobsen (Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology)
Kristin Heenemann
Kristin Heenemann
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

10:45 Paramyxovirus infections in small animals and rodents: an update - Kristin Heenemann (University of Leipzig, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Virology)
11:15
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

11:15 Highly variable Receptor Binding Proteins in Tequatrovirus phages targeting Escherichia coli contribute to their host specificity - Jacob Diderich (University of Liège)

11:30 Capsular polysaccharide promotes a stealth-like immunological state towards Mycoplasma mycoides - Joerg Jores (University of Bern)

11:45 The role of the RGD motif of the streptococcal protein IdeC - Saoirse Walsh (FU Berlin)

12:00 The global epidemiology of Streptococcus canis identifies genomic features of host adaptation, virulence and antimicrobial resistance - Muriel Dresen (Institut für Mikrobiologie und Tierseuchen, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

12:15 Investigation of the clade-specific pathogenic potential of Campylobacter coli - Sarah Beyer (Institute of Food Safety and Food Hygiene, Freie Universität Berlin)

12:30 Efficiency test of a live, attenuated Mycoplasma hyorhinis vaccine candidate strain - Eszter Zsofia Nagy (HUN-REN Veterinary Medical Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary)
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

11:15 A case report of equine infectious anemia in the Netherlands - Heather Graham (Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Wageningen University and Research, Lelystad, The Netherlands)

11:30 First outbreak of emerging ha-MYXV-associated myxomatosis in European hare (Lepus europaeus) in Austria - Angelika Auer (Department of Biological Sciences and Pathobiology, Infectiology and Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria)

11:45 Discovery of novel hepadnaviruses in passerine birds - Francesco Pellegrini (University of Bari Aldo Moro)

12:00 Case report of a cat infected with EBLV-1 in the Netherlands - Phaedra Eblé (Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR))

12:15 Black proventriculus in broiler chicks: recent Italian clinical case and laboratory findings - Davide Giovanardi

12:30 Coronavirus detection in British Red Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) - Charlotte Parker (University of Nottingham)
12:45

12:45 - 14:15
14:15 Asisa Volz
Asisa Volz
14:15 - 14:45
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

14:15 New vaccines against emerging zoonotic infections: From animal models to clinical evaluation - Asisa Volz (Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Bünteweg 2, 30559 Hannover)
Elke Genersch
Elke Genersch
14:15 - 14:45
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:15 Pathogenesis of P. larvae - 20 years of research on an important but understudied bacterial pathogen - Elke Genersch (Institute for Bee Research, Dept. f. Molecular Microbiology & Bee Diseases, Friedrich-Engels-Str. 32, 16540 Hohen Neuendorf)
14:45
14:45 - 15:30
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:45 Chromosomal ampR Regulates Plasmid-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance and Gene Duplication Amplification in Enterobacter cloacae - Yuwen Fang (Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Centre for Infection Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

15:00 Within-host evolution of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius in dogs with skin disease - Kate Worthing (The University of Sydney)

15:15 Investigating the Role of the DUF445-Containing Putative Membrane Protein in Albicidin Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii IMT51508 - Sana Khan (Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
14:45 - 15:30
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

14:45 Application of Machine Learning to Predict Antigenic Distance Between Newcastle Disease Virus Strains from Sequence Data - Giovanni Franzo (Padua University)

15:00 Virome Diversity in Ticks Associated with Wild Boars: A Metagenomic Approach - Gianvito Lanave (Univesity of Bari Department of Veterinary Medicine)

15:15 NOVEL STRATEGY FOR THE SEQUENCING AND DISCOVERY OF CIRCULAR DNA VIRUSES - Georgia Diakoudi (Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

16:00 A novel macrolide-lincosamide resistance gene in Actinomyces bowdenii isolated from an abscess in a dog - Sonja Kittl (Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, University of Bern, Switzerland)

16:15 Genetic basis of antimicrobial resistance in Pasteurellaceae of diseased cattle and pigs from Germany - Henrike Krüger-Haker (Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, School of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

16:30 Antimicrobial resistance profile and mobilome of *Klebsiella pneumoniae* isolates from the reproductive tract of mares and stallions - Amin Kawarizadeh (The Centre for Equine Infectious Disease, Melbourne Veterinary School, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne)
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

16:00 Superinfection exclusion and enhancement of infection in pestiviruses - Benjamin Lamp (JLU Gießen)

16:15 Feline Bocaparvovirus in domestic cats with gastrointestinal disease - Anna Salvaggiulo (Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano (Bari), Italy)

16:30 A defective canine distemper virus strain responsible for CNS disease in a Eurasian Lynx shares key phenotypic traits with measles virus strains associated with SSPE in humans - Martin Ludlow (University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover)

16:45 Pseudorabies virus-associated encephalitis in hunting dogs in Greece: The role of wild boars as a persistent reservoir in Greece - Konstantinos Papageorgiou (School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
17:15

17:15 - 18:45
Room: Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité

19:30

19:30 - 23:59
Room: Reinhard Bär Restaurant
Friday 12 September 2025

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Foyer (ground floor)
09:00 Martin Wagner
Martin Wagner
09:00 - 09:45
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 Listeria monocytogenes: Survival strategies in food processing environments - Martin Wagner (Center for Food Safety and VPH, Department for Farm Animals and Food Systems Science, University of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinärplatz 1, 1210 Vienna; Austrian Competence Center for Feed and Food Quality, Safety and Innovation, 3430 Tulln)
09:45
09:45 - 10:15
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:45 Wild coypu (Myocastor coypus) as sentinel of antimicrobial resistance in water ecosystems: preliminary insights using Aeromonas spp. as bioindicator - Elisa Massella (IZSLER, Brescia, Italy)

10:00 EVIDENCE AND SPREAD OF MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT ACINETOBACTER SPP. IN FARM ANIMALS AND ENVIRONMENT UNDER A ONE HEALTH PERSPECTIVE - Marina C T Meligrana (University of Camerino)
09:45 - 10:15
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

09:45 Communicating emerging diseases to animal owners - Rachael Tarlinton (School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham)

10:00 The Hunt for Maedi Visna Resistance: Understanding the Current TMEM154 Genetic Situation within the UK National Flock - Scott Jones (University of Nottingham)
10:15 Coffee
Coffee
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Dennis Rubbenstroth
Dennis Rubbenstroth
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

10:45 Rustrela virus (RusV) – a newly discovered cause of fatal encephalomyelitis in domestic, wild and zoo animals. - Dennis Rubbenstroth (Friedrich-Loeffler Insitute, Germany)
Jennie Fischer
Jennie Fischer
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:45 WGS challenges and opportunities in bacteriological diagnostics - Jennie Fischer (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment)
11:15
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

11:15 Towards harmonised methods for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in clinical infections from companion animals in the UK (VetCLIN AMR) - Dorina Timofte (University of Liverpool)

11:30 First Epidemiological Surveillance of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococci in a Veterinary Teaching Hospital Using IR Biotyper® - Raffaele Scarpellini (Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna)

11:45 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius and Staphylococcus aureus in dogs and cats: isolation rates from different clinical conditions - Gabriele Ratti (I-Vet s.r.l.)

12:00 The burden and drivers of antimicrobial resistance in commensal E.coli from shelter dogs in North Macedonia - Iskra Cvetkovikj (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Skopje, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia)

12:15 Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance and ESBL-Producing E. coli from Mammals at UK Petting Zoos - Alice Nishigaki (Royal Veterinary College)

12:30 Abortion caused by Coxiella burnetii in captive Finnish Forrest reindeer in a zoo in the Netherlands - Marleen Kannekens-Jager (WBVR)
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

11:15 Comparison of conventional urine culture and BACT/ALERT® PF PLUS bottles for monitoring urinary tract infections in companion animals under different clinical and therapeutic conditions - Ioanna Lucia Radu (San Marco Veterinary Clinic and Laboratory, Padua, Italy.)

11:30 Culture or PCR? Benchmarking Brucellosis Diagnosis Without a Gold Standard - Alessandro Bellato (University of Turin, Italy)

11:45 Serovar detector: a bioinformatic tool for serotyping Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae - Øystein Angen (Statens Serum Institut)

12:00 Development and evaluation of a Pan-Borrelia TaqMan qPCR for detection of Borrelia spp. in ticks collected from cattle in Tanzania - Veronica Facile (Department of Veterinary Medical Science, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna)

12:15 Accelerating blood culture diagnostics in veterinary medicine: pathogen identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing - Caroline Robé (Institute of Animal Hygiene and Environmental Health, School of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

12:30 Oxytetracycline 30µg agar disk diffusion results for four QC strains - Andrea Feßler
12:45

12:45 - 14:15
14:15 Marta Kuźmińska-Bajor
Marta Kuźmińska-Bajor
14:15 - 14:45
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

14:15 Harnessing phages to combat bacterial pathogens in animal production: From research to application - Marta Kuźmińska-Bajor (Department of Biotechnology and Food Microbiology, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, 37 Chełmońskiego St., 51-630 Wroclaw, Poland)
Ralph Goethe
Ralph Goethe
14:15 - 14:45
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:15 Diversity of Mycobacterium avium virulence illustrated by mouse infection models - Ralph Goethe (Institute for Microbiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover)
14:45
14:45 - 16:00
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:45 Characterization of Enterococcal Groups Present in Hospital Environments - Catarina Geraldes (CIISA - Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; Associate Laboratory for Animal and Veterinary Sciences (AL4AnimalS))

15:00 Identification and phylogenetic analysis of Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium strains isolated from three Abyssinian cats from Northern Italy with disseminated mycobacteriosis - Stefania Lauzi (Università degli Studi di Milano Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria e Scienze Animali, Lodi)

15:15 Mycobacterium bovis infected domestic cats in an officially bovine tuberculosis free country resulting in human infection - Marleen van der Most (Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Wageningen University & Research, Lelystad, the Netherlands)

15:30 Tracing the Introduction and Rise of a Single Leptospira Pomona Clone in Animals in Israel - Shlomo Blum (Dept. of Bacteriology, Kimron Veterinary Institute, Rishon Lezion, Israel)
14:45 - 16:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

14:45 Usefulness of Metagenome-Assembled Genomes (MAGs) for the study of pathogen–microbiota interaction in swine dysetenry model - Cristina Galisteo (UNIVERSIDAD DE LEON)

15:00 Genetic Diversity and Lewis Antigen Status Shape Intestinal Mucus O-Glycome: A Network Perspective in TLR5-Deficient Pig Model - Fereshteh Ghazisaeedi (Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, School of Veterinary Medicine at the Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

15:15 Genomic and virulence insights of Western European Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida and development of Galleria mellonella infection assay - Salomé Desmecht (Veterinary Bacteriology Laboratory, Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Fundamental and Applied Research for Animals & Health (FARAH), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium)

15:30 PRELIMINARY METABOLOMICS DATA ON VIRUS INFECTION: THE CASE OF BOVINE CORONAVIRUS (BCoV) - Maria Michela Salvatore (University of Naples "Federico II")

15:45 Characterizing the Pathogenic Potential of Vibrio parahaemolyticus: Phenotypic and Genotypic Analysis of Biofilm Formation and Virulence Gene Expression in Clinical and Environmental Strains on Mussel Shells - Xia Huang (Free University of Berlin)
16:00

16:00 - 17:00
Room: Lecture Hall