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Getting the Jump! On Amphibian Diseases

Program for Scientific Conference

The following is the program for the scientific conference held in Cairns on 26-27 August 2000. The links on authors connect with their home pages or brief biographies; the links on titles will take you to the abstracts. Within the abstracts there are some links to complete presentations.

Rick Speare, Chair of Steering Committee

27 August 2000

Event	Duration	Speaker	Title
Registration	8:00-9:00
First Session: Opening and plenary papers Chair: Stan Orchard	9:00-9:15	Nigel Stork	Opens conference
	9:15-9:35	Tim Halliday	Amphibian population declines: Putting disease in perspective
	9:35-9:55	Rick Speare	Understanding the pieces of the amphibian disease puzzle
	9:55-10:15	Ross Alford	Testing the novel pathogen hypothesis
Morning break	10:15-10:30
Second session: Amphibian chytrid Chair: Harry Hines	10:30-11:00	Joyce Longcore	Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the "frog chytrid"
	11:00-11:30	Lee Berger et al	Overview of Batrachochytrium and frog declines
	11:30-11:55	Elizabeth Davidson et al	Chytridiomycosis in Arizona (USA) Tiger Salamanders
	11:55-12:20	Ken Aplin, Peter Kirkpatrick	Chytridiomycosis in southwest Australia: historical sampling documents the date of introduction, rates of spread and seasonal epidemiology, and sheds new light on chytrid ecology
	12:20-12:30	Alex Hyatt et al	Advances in the development of diagnostic assays for the detection of the amphibian chytrid fungus (Genus Batrachochytrium)
Lunch	12:30-13:30
Third Session: Laboratory and husbandry aspects Chair:	13:30-13:50	Gerry Marantelli, Lee Berger	Quarantine methods for captive collections
	13:50-14:10	Gerry Marantelli, Lee Berger, Kelly McInnes	Investigations into the treatment of Batrachochytrium in frogs and tadpoles
	14:10-14:30	Gerry Marantelli	Providing tools for research and the building of arks: the role of husbandry in disease research and recovery processes
Afternoon break	14:30-15:00
Fourth session: Ranaviruses Chair:	15:00-15:45	Alex Hyatt, Andrew Cunningham	Ranaviruses; a threat to amphibians?
	15:45-16:15	Brad Cullen, Lee Owens	Ranaviruses in amphibians
	16:15-16:45	Leigh Owens, Brad Cullen	The potential role of hobby and pest fish in spreading systemic iridoviruses
	16:45-17:00	Jim Collins et al	The current status of salamander ranaviruses in Western North America
Fifth session: Synthesis of main points	17:00-17:15		Overview of main points
Night session	19:00 - 22:00	Histological diagnosis of chytridiomycosis	Lee Berger, Rick Speare & Diana Mendez

Sunday 27 August

Event	Duration	Speaker	Title
First Session: International outbreaks Chair: Jim Collins	09:00-09:20	Jean-Marc Hero et al	The ecological characteristics of declining frogs in Australia: implications for global amphibian declines
	09:20-09:40	Jaime Bosch	Evidence of a chytrid fungus infection involved in the decline of the common midwife toad in protected areas of Central Spain
	09:40-10:10	Rolando Mazzoni	Diseases in farmed American bull frog (Rana catesbeiana shaw, 1802) in Uruguay
	10:10-10:30	Bruce Waldman et al	Discovery of chytridiomycosis in New Zealand
Morning break	10:30-11:00
Second Session: Epidemiological aspects Chair:	11:00-11:30	Peter Daszak et al	Amphibian chytridiomycosis, emerging diseases and pathogen pollution
	11:30-12:00	Richard Retallick	Using translocations to learn about frog declines and disease
	12:00-12:30	Hamish McCallum	Epidemiological modelling of amphibian disease
Lunch	12:30-13:30
Third session: Surveillance Chair: Liz Dovey	13:30-14:00	Rick Speare	Surveillance of amphibian populations for infectious diseases
	14:00-14:30	Michael Mahoney	Prevalence of chytrid in wild populations of frogs in eastern New South Wales
	14:30-15:00	Grahame Gillespie, Gerry Marantelli	The role of the amphibian chytridiomycete fungus in population dynamics of the Spotted Tree Frog (Litoria spenceri) a declining riverine species in south-eastern Australia
Afternoon break	15:00-15:30
Fourth session: Community and corporate involvement Chair: Keith McDonald	15:30-15:50	Stan Orchard	Are corporate partnerships the future and salvation of amphibian conservation biology research?
	15:50-16:10	Ken Aplin, Suzzane Johnson	Community involvement in the detection, surveillance and management of frog diseases: a case study from Alcoa frogWAtch, southwest Australia
	16:10-16:30	Jenny Holdway et al	The role of the Queensland Frog Society in the prevention of potentially fatal amphibian diseases in frog populations
	16:30-16:50	Gerry Marantelli, Raelene Hobbs	Disease vectors and the community: from lost frogs to frog friendly gardens - how do we help frogs while containing disease spread?
Fifth Session: Overview of the day	17:00-17:15		Overview of day's main points
Night Session	19:00-22:00	Workshop on culturing chytrids: Recognizing, isolating, and culturing Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis from amphibians	Joyce Longcore Lee Berger

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Getting the Jump! on Amphibian Disease was sponsored by:

National Heritage Trust of Australia

World Wide Fund for Nature Australia

Rainforest CRC

Page updated by Rick Speare
24 August 2000