Name: International One Health Symposium 2025
Start: 2025-10-13T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-15T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Hotel Berlin, Berlin

Monday, October 13, 2025

12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Area C
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

1:00 PM Welcome Note: One Health Platform - Stephan Ludwig (One Health Platform Münster)

1:05 PM Welcome Note: Federal Ministries - Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter (Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN)) Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg) Federal Minister of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity (BMLEH) Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
1:20 PM One Health Approach to Control Zoonoses in Changing Animal Production Systems
One Health Approach to Control Zoonoses in Changing Animal Production Systems
1:20 PM - 1:50 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

2:00 PM Phenotypic resistant single-cell characteristics under recurring ampicillin antibiotic exposure in Escherichia coli - Ulrich Steiner (Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Biology, Berling, Germany)

2:15 PM The accumulation of antimicrobial resistance genes in a wild chimpanzee population over seventeen years. - Coch Tanguy Floyde Tanga (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HIOH))

2:30 PM Environmental characteristics associated with the resistome from wildlife populations of house mice - Víctor Hugo Jarquín-Díaz (Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany)

2:45 PM Occurrence and characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus argenteus in food products in Germany - Sven Maurischat

3:00 PM Food System Changes in One Health: Options for Reducing Antimicrobial Use - Thomas Burke (University of Göttingen)

3:15 PM Landscape fragmentation and rural land-use drive antimicrobial resistance gene diversity in a wild primate - Vinícius Klain (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)

3:30 PM Anti-SARS-CoV-2 potential of RSK Inhibitors – Combining synergistic effectiveness and resistance prevention - André Schreiber (University of Muenster)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Room C4
Contributions

2:00 PM Epidemiology of Autochthonous West Nil Virus Infections in Lower Saxony in 2024 - Christiane M Klier (Public Health Authority of Lower Saxony)

2:15 PM Viral Interference During Flavivirus Coinfections - Nils Tadewaldt (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut)

2:30 PM Characterization of viral factors responsible for Arenavirus-host barriers in M. natalensis - Chris Hoffmann (Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Virology Department, Hamburg, Germany)

2:45 PM A novel astrovirus isolated from a greater white-toothed shrew - Viola Haring

3:00 PM In Vitro Reassortment Between Eastern BTV-16 and Western BTV-1 Reveals Unique Genome Constellations - Shadia Berjaoui (Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise "G. Caporale")

3:15 PM Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, an Emerging Zoonosis: 2022 Surveillance in One-Humped Camels in Nigeria - Bitrus Inuwa (National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, Nigeria)

3:30 PM Risk Factors Associated with Mpox Infection: A Case-Control Study in Masaka City and District, Uganda, February–April 2025 - Gertrude Abbo (Uganda National Institute of Public Health)
3:45 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Area C

4:30 PM One Health Governance – from national initiatives to the global pandemic agreement
One Health Governance – from national initiatives to the global pandemic agreement
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

5:00 PM SARS-CoV-2 evolution on a dynamic immune landscape - Sofia Paraskevopoulou (Department MFI, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany)

5:15 PM Mx-mediated Host Restriction of Emerging Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Viruses - Jakob Ankerhold (University of Freiburg Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)

5:30 PM The One Health Teaching Clinic: An Educational Model for Integrating One Health in Schools - Ulrich Hobusch (University College of Agricultural and Environmental Education, Vienna, Austria)

5:45 PM Negotiating cohabitation in a Nigerian abattoir: One Health perspectives of human-animal-ecosystem interactions examined in the light of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic - Valerie Allendorf (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald - Insel Riems, Germany)

6:00 PM Readiness for sampling from the environment for One Health Research: Findings from a Population-based Cohort (MuSPAD) in 2024 - Dörthe Meyerdierks (Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany. Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany; Ph.D. Programme "Epidemiology", Braunschweig-Hannover, Germany.)

6:15 PM Towards a One Health Region: Insights from Stakeholders of an Innovation Alliance in Western Pomerania, Germany - Susan Thomschke (Chair of Economic and Social Geography, University of Greifswald)
5:10 PM
5:10 PM - 6:25 PM
Room: Room C4
Contributions

5:10 PM Modeling the potential distribution of Wesselsbron, Sindbis, and Middelburg viruses and their vectors in Africa under future climatic and land-use changes - Maureen Nabatanzi (Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn)

5:25 PM Regional and seasonal variations in the impacts of large-scale teleconnections of the European-North Atlantic region on mosquito abundance in Germany - Emmanuel Adeleke (Chair of Regional Climate Change and Health, University of Augsburg)

5:40 PM Leptospirosis Occurrence in Europe: Understanding Environmental and Socio-Economic Drivers Using Machine Learning - Omid Airom (1. Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. 2. Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.)

5:55 PM “Heat is a danger to my health even though I said I am used to it”: Qualitative insights of heat among Community Health Workers and Promoters in Kenya - Teresia Wamuyu Maina (Heidelberg Institute of Global Health)

6:10 PM Water Reuse from the One and Planetary Health Perspective - Manuela Helmecke (German Environment Agency (UBA), Dessau, Section II 2.1 General Aspects Water and Soil)
6:30 PM

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Area C
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Area C

9:00 AM Informing and prioritizing AMR mitigation strategies through 'omics-based environmental surveillance
Informing and prioritizing AMR mitigation strategies through 'omics-based environmental surveillance
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

9:30 AM A rapid response mobile laboratory for (waste)water monitoring in emergency settings - Arianna Ceruti (Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, Leipzig University)

9:45 AM The pESI plasmid may be a burden for Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis in plant environments - Adam Schikora (Julius Kühn Institute (JKI))

10:00 AM The German Environmental Survey – 40 years of research on exposure to harmful pollutants in humans and their environment - Philipp Zimmermann (German Environment Agency, Berlin, Germany)

10:15 AM How soil health-promoting Streptomyces adapt to soil stresses - Natalia Tschowri (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität)

10:30 AM Environmental Burden of Disease of IQ loss attributable to lead exposure in Germany - Paulina Sell (German Environment Agency, Exposure Assessment and Environmental Health Indicators, Berlin, Germany)

10:45 AM A holistic model to assess risk factors of fasciolosis in Ankole cattle - Ping Sun (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
9:40 AM
9:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Room C4
Contributions

9:40 AM Comparative virology: Risk Group-4 viruses elicit divergent immune responses in the human endothelium - Isabel von Creytz (Center for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, 13343 Berlin, Germany)

9:55 AM A novel trans-Golgi-associated egress pathway of ORF3-deficient hepatitis E virus preserves quasi-envelopment in human hepatoma cells - Nele Gremmel (University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Institute of Virology)

10:10 AM Risk assessment of Oropouche virus transmission by mosquitoes in Europe - Stephanie Jansen (BNITM/UHH)

10:25 AM Alphamesonivirus-1 in Culex pipiens: Genomic Insights and Diagnostic Tool Design - Alessandra Spina (University of Teramo (UniTe), Teramo, Italy - Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Abruzzo and Molise (IZSAM), Teramo, Italy)

10:40 AM Multiplex serology to determine the role of wild boar as a reservoir host for hepatitis E virus and a sentinel host for West Nile virus and tick-borne encephalitis virus - Lydia Kasper (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany)

10:55 AM Isolation of Chandipura virus from sandflies and detection of neutralizing antibodies in humans, Kenya - Inga Slothouwer (Institute of Virologie Charité Berlin)
11:15 AM

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room B5

12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: Breakfast / Dinner room
1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

1:45 PM Geographic dispersal of West Nile and Usutu virus in Berlin, 2023-24 - Corinna Patzina-Mehling (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

2:00 PM More than the Sum of Its Parts: Combining Genomic and Epidemiological Data for Comprehensive and Sustainable Pathogen Surveillance - Felix Hartkopf (Robert Koch-Institut)

2:15 PM A customized, lightweight mobile laboratory vehicle for outbreak investigations with highly dangerous pathogens - experiences from a field trial in Germany - Markus Keller

2:30 PM NGS-based genomic surveillance of West Nile virus in a One Health framework - Anne Schwarzer (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut)

2:45 PM Assessment of Toxic Heavy Metals in Soil, Vegetables and Grasses Irrigated with Healthcare Wastewater and Associated Health Risks in the Akaki River Catchment, Central Ethiopia - Jirata Shiferaw Abosse (Addis Ababa University, College of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture)

3:00 PM Genomic Characterization of Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza Viruses in Wild and Domestic Animals in Argentina Using a One Health Approach - Agustina Rimondi (Robert Koch-Intitut)
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Room C4
Contributions

1:45 PM Evolutionary Dynamics of Bluetongue virus Strains Circulating in Italy, 2024-2025 - Gloria Plebani (Università degli Studi di Teramo, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Abruzzo Molise-Teramo)

2:00 PM Nanopore-Based Methylome Profiling of Microbial Communities - Valentina Galeone (RKI)

2:15 PM Combining Short- and Long-Read Sequencing to Investigate a Ralstonia pickettii Outbreak Linked to Contaminated Saline Solutions - Vladimir Bajić (Genome Competence Centre (MF 1), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany)

2:30 PM Multi-omics investigation of L-sorbose metabolism in high-risk Escherichia coli lineages linking fitness and virulence - Lena-Sophie Swiatek

2:45 PM H7 highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus genomes from the first half of the 20th century - Annika Graaf-Rau (Department of Pathogen Evolution, Helmholtz Institute for One Health, Greifswald, Germany)

3:00 PM Automatic sequential clustering in the context of integrated genomic surveillance - Torsten Houwaart (Genome Competence Centre (MF1), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany)
3:15 PM 10 recommendations for a better life: The Lancet One health Commission Report.
10 recommendations for a better life: The Lancet One health Commission Report.
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"

3:45 PM

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Room B5

5:15 PM

5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Area C

6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"

8:00 PM

8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Breakfast / Dinner room

10:30 PM

10:30 PM - 11:59 PM
Room: Table tennis room
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Area C

9:00 AM Health communication and human health behavior in times of climate change
Health communication and human health behavior in times of climate change
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

9:30 AM From Field to Genome: Genomic characterization of pneumococcal strains circulating at the human-wildlife interface in Sub-Saharan Africa - Moritz J.S. Jochum (Helmholtz Institute for One Health)

9:45 AM Anthrax outbreak associated with handling and consuming meat from animals that died suddenly, Kanungu District, Uganda, June–November 2024 - Charity Mutesi (Uganda National Institute of Public Health)

10:00 AM Evaluating response to an anthrax outbreak using 7-1-7 metrics in Southwestern Uganda, September 2024 - Hannington Katumba (Uganda National Institute of Public Health)

10:15 AM One Health in Austria: What agencies can do to implement international recommendations at national level - Barbara Kovacs (AGES, Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit)

10:30 AM Screening of shrews for Borna disease virus 1 (BoDV-1) and its implications for public health management - Lea Lenhard (Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald - Insel Riems, Germany; Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Munich, Germany; Zoonotic Bornavirus-Focal Point Bavaria (ZooBoFo) 2.0, Germany)

10:45 AM Psychological impact and perceived mpox risk among frontline healthcare workers during early epidemic phase, Uganda, August–September, 2024 - Joyce Owens Kobusingye (Uganda National Institute of Public Health)
9:40 AM
9:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Room C4
Contributions

9:40 AM Development of broadly protective Outer Membrane Vesicle based intranasal betacoronavirus vaccine - Kaneemozhe Harichandran (Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Virology, Germany)

9:55 AM Development and Evaluation of a Bivalent Vaccine Candidate for the Protection of Pigs against Infections with Pseudorabies and Nipah Virus - Anne Balkema-Buschmann (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit)

10:10 AM Magnetic bioprinted granuloma: a three-dimensional model for cattle tuberculosis - Anca Dorhoi

10:25 AM Establishing a human stem cell-derived infection model to visualize the effects of Listeria monocytogenes on the developing brain - Annika Fischer (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Institute of Food Quality and Food Safety, University for Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

10:40 AM Towards Real-Time Detection of COVID-19 via Untargeted Volatile Organic Compound Profiling Using Online Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectrometry - Deevanshi Walia (Fraunhofer IZI)

10:55 AM Tackling One Health risks – From current practice to future perspectives - Alexandra Fetsch (Competence Centre for Food Safety, Chair of Food Microbiology, LMU Munich)
11:10 AM Coffee & Poster Viewing
Coffee & Poster Viewing
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Area C
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

11:30 AM Comparative Immune Responses to Pathogenic and Non-Pathogenic Mammarenaviruses in Human and Reservoir-Derived Antigen-Presenting Cells - Nicolas Corrales (Robert Koch Institut)

11:45 AM Genomic characterization and mapping of molecular factors driving the increased replication fitness of Arabian MERS-CoV lineage B5 - Annika Beyer (Charité Institut für Virologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

12:00 PM Deciphering Lineage-Specific Determinants of Usutu Virus through Targeted prM/E Substitutions - Marialuigia Caporale (Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Abruzzo and Molise (IZSAM), Teramo, Italy. PhD National Programme in One Health approaches to infectious diseases and life science research, Departiment of Public Health, Experimental and Forensice Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, 27100, Italy)

12:15 PM Prevalence and associated factors of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety disorders among mpox survivors, Uganda, 2024 - Emmanuel Okiror Okello (Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Uganda National Institute of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda)

12:30 PM 90 kDa ribosomal S6 Kinase 1 influences endosomal acidification during Influenza A virus infection - Nicole Oberberg (Institute of Virology, UKM Münster)

12:45 PM Detection of Nairobi Sheep Disease Virus in Goats and Sheep and of Two Previously Unknown Nairoviruses in Rodents and Shrews in Uganda’s Albertine Rift - Erick E. B. Kigai (Makerere University Kampala)
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room C4
Contributions

11:30 AM Simultaneous and Sequential Co-Infections with West Nile Virus and Usutu Virus in Culex pipiens biotype molestus - Christin Körsten (Friedrich-Löffler-Institut, Institute of Infectology)

11:45 AM A Multi-Ecosystem Analysis of the Links Between Land-Use Change, Mosquito Communities, and Virus Abundance - Selina Graff

12:00 PM Studies on the co-localization of TBE-Virus and Borrelia species at selected TBEV-foci in Baden-Wuerttemberg - Rebecca Vogt (University of Hohenheim, Department for Parasitology)

12:15 PM Plasticity in Thermal Tolerance, Vector Competence, and Metabolomic Responses of Culex pipiens under Seasonal and Microclimatic Variation - Isabelle Kramer (Goethe University Frankfurt)

12:30 PM Vectors on the rise – survivability of R. sanguineus s.l. in Germany - Katrin Fachet-Lehmann (University of Hohenheim, Parasitology)

12:45 PM Vector Behavior meets Transcriptomics: A Case Study of Ixodes ricinus and Harz Mountain Virus - Paula Hornauer (Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Breakfast / Dinner room

2:00 PM BBats as reservoirs of viral zoonoses: How Egyptian fruit bats combat Marburg virus infection
BBats as reservoirs of viral zoonoses: How Egyptian fruit bats combat Marburg virus infection
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"

2:30 PM

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"