Name: International One Health Symposium 2026
Start: 2026-10-05T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-07T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Hotel Berlin, Berlin

International One Health Symposium 2026

from Monday, October 5, 2026 (12:00 PM) to Wednesday, October 7, 2026 (4:00 PM)

Monday, October 5, 2026

12:00 PM Registration / Daily Check-in & Finger food

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Area C

1:00 PM Welcome Note

1:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"

1:20 PM Keynote I: David S. Barbosa - Title: One Health and the Climate Agenda: Integrating the Triple Planetary Crisis into Health Governance, Equity, and Synergistic Response towards COP30
David S. Barbosa - Title: One Health and the Climate Agenda: Integrating the Triple Planetary Crisis into Health Governance, Equity, and Synergistic Response towards COP30
1:20 PM - 1:50 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
2:00 PM Session 1: Vectors I
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

2:00 PM Temperature-driven mortality in Aedes aegypti and its role in modulating dengue outbreaks: an ecological time-series analysis - Nicolhole Atero (SENTINET: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and New Technologies for Infectious Emerging Threats, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, Región Metropolitana 7820436, Chile.)

2:15 PM An experimental field approach to study climate warming effects on container-breeding mosquitoes - Felix Sauer (Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine)

2:30 PM Human presence shapes mosquito community composition and virus abundance in a Savannah ecosystem - Hannah Munzel (Institute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.)

2:45 PM Behavioral Plasticity in Ixodes ricinus: Linking Energy Reserves to Host-Seeking Activity and Infection Transmission Potential - Paula Hornauer (Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover)

3:00 PM Hidden interactions in ticks: Co-infection patterns of Borrelia spp. as indicators of TBEV microfoci - Katrin Fachet-Lehmann (University of Hohenheim, Department of Parasitology, Stuttgart)

3:15 PM The Role of Raccoons in Tick-Borne Disease Ecology - Alexander Lindau (University of Hohenheim, Department of Parasitology)
Session 2: Novel and Emerging Pathogens
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room B5
Contributions

2:00 PM Establishing One Health surveillance across human, domestic animals, wildlife and arthropod vectors in two different Brazilian biomes. - Tomas Moutinho (University of São Paulo)

2:15 PM Rethinking arboviral risk in malaria-endemic Africa - Fanny Hellhammer (TiHo Hannover AG VABI)

2:30 PM Bats Are Susceptible to H5N1 Infection but Rapidly Control Virus Replication - Arthur Wickenhagen (1 Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, MT, USA 2 Laboratory for Host-Virus Systems and Transmission, Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Greifswald, Germany)

2:45 PM Full genome sequencing of Ekpoma Virus 2 from human sera, Uganda - Selina L. Graff (Institute of Virology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117 Berlin, Germany)

3:00 PM Decoding Vascular Responses to Disparate Hemorrhagic Viruses: Andes and Ebola Viruses - Isabel von Creytz (Center for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, 13343 Berlin, Germany)

3:15 PM Monkeypox virus in the wild: new insights into animal hosts and between species transmission - Ariane Düx (Helmholtz Institute for One Health)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Area C

4:00 PM Keynote II: Agustina Rimondi, Title: H5N1 in Argentina: From Wildlife Surveillance to a One Health Network
Agustina Rimondi, Title: H5N1 in Argentina: From Wildlife Surveillance to a One Health Network
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
4:45 PM Session 3: Pandemic Preparedness & Prevention
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

4:45 PM Can Wastewater-Based Epidemiology and Artificial Intelligence Predict Nosocomial Infections? - Folker Meyer (Universität Duisburg-Essen)

5:00 PM Immune function and Coronavirus prevalence in straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) at the Human-bat Interface in Nigeria - Chinedu I. Ngene (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Berlin. Free University Berlin, Germany)

5:15 PM BTN3A3 resistance of emerging influenza A viruses is shaped by Mx1 of mammalian intermediate host species. - Jamina Molsen (Institute of Virology, Medical Center University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)

5:30 PM Community-Centred One Health Preparedness for Ebola Virus Disease in a Transboundary Biodiversity Hotspot: Evidence from the Greater Virunga Landscape (GVL), Uganda - Jenifer Nancy Alaba (WWF Uganda Country Office) mugisha kwiringira (Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), Uganda Country Office)

5:45 PM One Health Systems Readiness Assessment in Croatia, Ghana and Nigeria: Development of an Assessment Tool for Evidence-informed Policy Making - Anna Fahrion (Friedrich Loeffler Institut FLI)

6:00 PM Stigmatization in the context of a pandemic: Implications for pandemic preparedness - Samuel Tomczyk (Universitätsmedizin Rostock)
Session 4: Climate Change, Ecosystems, Environmental Pollution
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room B5
Contributions

4:45 PM Wastewater based surveillance of fungi and mycotoxins - Christian Wurzbacher (Technical University of Munich)

5:00 PM ZOOM: A glimpse into antimicrobial resistance in Berlin through wastewater surveillance - Víctor Hugo Jarquín-Díaz (Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany)

5:15 PM Zoonotic virus dynamics in megadiverse regions: insights from wildlife across land-use gradients in Colombia - Natalia Trujillo (Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt)

5:30 PM The pollen microbiome at the interface of air pollution and allergic sensitization: Genomic and NOx-responsive traits of Pantoea agglomerans - Lisa-Marie Streb (Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Helmholtz Munich)

5:45 PM Improved Climate Characterisation and Persistence of West Nile Virus Risk in Europe based on regional climate model projections and Machine Learning - Fuseini Yakubu (Climate Service Center Germany, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon)
6:15 PM Poster Slam

6:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"

7:00 PM Snacks & Poster Viewing I

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Area C

8:00 PM Game Night

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Room C4
Tuesday, October 6, 2026

8:30 AM Registration / Daily Check-in

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Area C
9:00 AM Session 5: Public Health I
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

9:00 AM Watching the buzzzz: Public, media and knowledge attention to mosquito-borne disease risk in Europe - Maria Eugenia Degano (Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung)

9:15 AM When does forecasting become actionable? Real-time vs. seasonal prediction of Aedes aegypti abundance - Gaëlle Sehi (University of California Irvine; Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster)

9:30 AM Emergence of Northern European TBE virus strains in Central Europe - Gerhard Dobler (Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology)

9:45 AM Burden and Awareness of Zoonotic Tuberculosis in Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - Guash Abay Assefa (Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany; PhD Programme “Epidemiology” Braunschweig-Hannover, Germany)

10:15 AM Contact heterogeneity in network reconstruction: evaluating synthetic graph generators for rabies transmission modeling - Inez Derkx (Swiss TPH)
Session 6: Education, Implementation
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room B5
Contributions

9:00 AM One Health Detectives: Gamification as a Strategy for Inclusive Zoonosis Education in Latin American Schools - LUCIANA PIRES (Federal University of Parana (UFPR) and Centro Universitario Autonomo do Brasil -UniBrasil)

9:15 AM Interdisciplinary collaboration as individual and institutional learning: results from an interdisciplinary qualitative study - Susanne Ress (Technische Universität Berlin)

9:30 AM Developing One Health Competencies Through Interprofessional Co-Design: A Community Case Study of Veterinary Doctoral Students Collaborating with Pre-Service Science Teachers - Ulrich Hobusch (University College of Agricultural and Environmental Education)

9:45 AM One Health Educators, Practitioners, and Advocates: Engaging Veterinary Social Workers in Canadian Veterinary Care - Haorui Wu (School of Social Work, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University)

10:00 AM An educational intervention to reduce mosquito breeding habitats: The PuMo pilot project - Friederike Reuss

10:15 AM Strengthening One Health Governance through Transparent and Systematic Evidence-Informed Policy-Making: Lessons from Croatia, Ghana and Nigeria - Francis Sena Nuvey (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut)
10:30 AM Coffee & General poster viewing

10:30 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Area C

Sideprogram: One Health Career Get-Together

10:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Restaurant / Bar "Lütze"

11:10 AM Poster Slam

11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Hall "Berlin"

11:45 AM Keynote III: Mayumi D. Wakimoto, Title:
Mayumi D. Wakimoto, Title:
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"

12:15 PM Lunch

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Breakfast / Dinner room
1:00 PM Session 7: Research consortia on the topic of “Pandemic prevention and response within a One Health framework”
1:00 PM - 2:13 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

1:00 PM Introduction BMFTR

1:19 PM FLUPREP: A National Early-Warning System for Emerging Influenza Threats - M. Schwemmle (University Medical Center Freiburg – Institute of Virology)

1:37 PM The Respiratory Mucus Barrier in Zoonotic Influenza Transmission - Maximilian Rohde

1:55 PM *TrophicHealth: Effects of fertilization on AMR and zoonotic pathogen accumulation along the trophic chain – towards a One Health perspective in circular agriculture* - Simone Sommer (Ulm University, Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, EcoHealth, Germany)
2:30 PM Session 8: Public Health II
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

2:30 PM Salmonella Bochum outbreak in children caused by chocolate hazelnut spread, Germany 2026 - Anika Meinen (Robert Koch Institute, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Berlin, Germany)

2:45 PM Cross-species transmission of Strongyloides fuelleborni at the human–animal interface - Barbora Pafco

3:00 PM Prevalence and associated factors of severe mpox in Mbarara City, southwestern Uganda, October 2024–May 2025 - Justine Wobusobozi (Field epidemiologist)

3:15 PM RBM-targeted amplicon sequencing coupled with the WasteCov pipeline for rapid surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 lineage groups in municipal wastewater - Achilleas P. Galanopoulos (Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 41222, Larisa, Greece)

3:30 PM Transcriptomic Profiling of Intestinal Organoids Infected with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis - Paula Emily Schweizer (Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany)

3:45 PM Successes & Outlook of the Integrated Genomic Surveillance: importance of computational infrastructure for pandemic preparedness in Germany - Silver A. Wolf (Genome Competence Centre (MF1), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany)
Session 9: Biodiversity, Landuse & Food Systems
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room B5
Contributions

2:30 PM Inactivation of pathogens in contaminated cattle manure by Lactic Acid Fermentation and in biogas plants - Hannah Halm (FLI Riems)

2:45 PM Operationalising One Health in regional food systems - Hannah Schöneberg (University of Göttingen)

3:00 PM Impact of oil palm plantation use on the gut microbiome of Malaysian macaques - Miriam Simon

3:15 PM Trends and Geographical Distribution of Snakebite Cases in Uganda, 2020–2024: An Analysis of National Surveillance Data - Martha Dorcas Nalweyiso (Uganda National Institute of Public Health)

3:30 PM Landscape Change Shapes Bat Communities and Viral Dynamics in the Colombian Amazon - Gabriela Aliaga-Samanez (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany)
4:00 PM Coffee & Poster Viewing II

4:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Area C

4:40 PM Keynote V: Wanda Markotter, Title: The importance of One Health in Pandemic Prevention
Wanda Markotter, Title: The importance of One Health in Pandemic Prevention
4:40 PM - 5:10 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"

5:15 PM Members Assembly & Election SAB

5:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"

7:15 PM Conference Dinner

7:15 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Breakfast / Dinner room

9:30 PM Party (aka "Music, Table Tennis & Drinks")

9:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Room: Table tennis room
Wednesday, October 7, 2026

8:30 AM Registration / Daily Check-in

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Area C

9:00 AM Keynote V: Carlos N. Ibarra-Cerdena, Title: Two Scales, One Health: Lessons from Sea Turtles and Bats on Human Impacts on Wildlife Health
Carlos N. Ibarra-Cerdena, Title: Two Scales, One Health: Lessons from Sea Turtles and Bats on Human Impacts on Wildlife Health
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
9:45 AM Session 10: AMR I
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

9:45 AM Biofouling in membrane bioreactors decreases the retention of free plasmid DNA carrying antibiotic resistance genes - Robin Starke (TU Dresden, Institute of Hydrobiology)

10:00 AM Similar Wastewater Microbiomes, Distinct Resistomes: A Comparative Metagenomic Analysis of German and Nigerian Wastewaters from Diverse Sources - Chijioke Nsofor (1. School of Biological Science, Federal University of Technology Owerri Nigeria. 2. Institute of Hydrobiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

10:15 AM Harmonized One Health surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and heavy metal tolerance in Baltic Sea surface waters and wild birds - Max Sittner

10:30 AM Dual-Species Interactions with Intestinal Bacteria Drive Multi-Drug Resistance in Campylobacter - Sangeeta Banerji (Robert Koch Institut, FG11)
Session 11: Vaccines & Immunology
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Room B5
Contributions

9:45 AM Advancements in Chikungunya Virus Vaccines: Emerging Innovations and Future Directions - Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit

10:00 AM Zoonotic MPXV Clades Outpace Human-adapted Strain in Driving Disease and Shedding in a Nasal Respiratory-Infection Macaque model - Julia R. Port (Laboratory of Transmission Immunology, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany)

10:15 AM Impacts of Respiratory Mucus on Influenza Virus Stability, Transmission, and Immune Interactions - Jailene Castillo

10:30 AM Differential innate immune activation following Puumala virus infection of human or reservoir host cells - Marie Demuth (Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens (ZBS), Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany) Daniel Bourquain (Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens (ZBS), Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany)
10:45 AM Coffee & General poster viewing
Coffee & General poster viewing
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Area C
11:30 AM Session 12: AMR II
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"
Contributions

11:30 AM Predicting environmental susceptibility to antimicrobial-resistant bacterial invasion using biodiversity and phylogenetic structure - Uli Klümper (TU Dresden)

11:45 AM One Health Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Integrated Constructed Wetlands - Gaia Streparola (Teagasc Food Research Centre, Food Safety Department, Ashtown, Dublin, Ireland. School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)

12:00 PM Comparison of antimicrobial resistance in conventional and organic pig production in Germany - Bernd-Alois Tenhagen (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung)

12:15 PM Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance bacteria in dust from piglet farms. - Elisabeth Pfrommer (RKI)

12:30 PM Syntheses of KAP surveys on AMU and AMR in livestock across Ethiopia: implications for one health and informed decision - Tenaw Andualem Tadege (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

12:45 PM Molecular Surveillance of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase- and Carbapenemase-Producing Escherichia coli from one health interface in Ado-Ekiti, Southwestern Nigeria - Fiyinfoluwa Ojeniyi (APIN PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES)
Session 13: Vectors II
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room B5
Contributions

11:30 AM Not all West Nile virus lineages behave alike: dose-response differences between lineages 1 and 2 - Stephanie Jansen (Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin; Universität Hamburg)

11:45 AM Does viral persistence shape virus–virus interactions in mosquitoes? - Mine Altinli (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute)

12:00 PM Virus detection in Culicoides biting midges during the BTV-3 outbreak in north-west Germany 2024 - Sophie Zeiske

12:15 PM Experimental BTV-3 and BTV-8 infection of Culicoides sonorensis biting midges - Franziska Sick (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut)

12:30 PM Sequencing complete mitochondrial genomes to solve Culicoides biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) phylogeny - Dorothee Scheuch (Friedrich Loeffler Institut)

12:45 PM Mosquitoes are important vectors of arboviruses - Esther Schnettler
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: Breakfast / Dinner room

1:45 PM Keynote VI: Monica Berger Gonzalez, Title: Jun Kawilal: integrating a Maya indigenous One Health approach in the design of a community-based risk assessment tool
Monica Berger Gonzalez, Title: Jun Kawilal: integrating a Maya indigenous One Health approach in the design of a community-based risk assessment tool
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"

2:15 PM Poster Prize & Farewell

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Hall "Berlin"