WDA - Australasia Annual Conference 2008
	Kioloa, NSW.
	September 20th - 26th
Day	Author
SUNDAY
9.00	Chris Bunn	Welcome to Conference
9.15	Steven van Berkhout	Manager, Kioloa Coastal Campus
9.30	Roy Bengis (Chris Bunn)
9.45
10.00
10.15
10.30	MORNING TEA
11.00	Pradeep Malik (Pam Whiteley)	Development of an Indian Wildlife Health Cooperative (IWHC)
11.15
11.30
11.45
12.00	Ed Addison	Benefits of fragmentation and isolation to wildlife management and ecology
12.15	Richard Whittington	Iridoviruses, ornamental fish quarantine and conservation of threatened freshwater fish in Australia
12.45	Mitsuhiko Asakawa	Post mortem examination of carcasses of sea birds found in Hokkaido, Japan between 2004 and 2007 and its pathobiological overview
1.00	LUNCH
2.00	Free afternoon for exploring area
	(BUT NOT Aboriginal Walk)
6.00	DINNER
7.30	Informal Talks with Roy & Pradeep
MONDAY
9.00	Stephanie Shaw* (Maurice Alley)	Distribution and prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in New Zealand
9.15	Jamie Voyles*	Pathophysiological changes associated with chitridiomycosis, a lethal amphibian pathogen
9.30	Steve Debrincat*	Effects of disease, short-term captivity and environmental stressors on the antioxidant capacity of southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons)
9.45	Carlo Pacioni*	Unravelling the contribution of genetics in the decline of the Woylie
10.00	Sabrina Trocini*	The narrow window for biting insects: the epidemiological investigation of a blood-borne pathogen in loggerhead turtles
10.15	Louisa Robertson*	Evaluating the efficacy of anthelmintic treatment and reliability of diagnostic methods in the endangered, captive-reared black stilt (Himantopus novaezelandiae) released to the wild
10.30	MORNING TEA
11.00	Alana Mailey* (Karrie Rose)	The social and regulatory impacts on the captive Morelia population in Australia
11.15	Janelle Ward*	Central neuropathy associated with enteric coccidiosis in a juvenile takahe
11.30	Hayley Stannard*	Diet of the red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura) in Alice Springs Desert Park
11.45	Alicia Kasbarian*	Managing wildlife in degraded landscapes
12.00	Ro McFarlane*	Synanthropic wildlife and emerging infectious diseases in Australasia and Southeast Asia
12.15	Pip Chalk*	The nature of human/wildlife interactions; a case study of eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) in the Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
12.30	Joanna Griffith*	Do drugged koalas really get high? Pharmacokinetic profiles of selected fluoroquinolone antibiotics in koalas
12.45
1.00	LUNCH
2.00	Jenny McLelland* (Dave Spratt)	What's lead got to do with it? Lead exposure in free-ranging kea and takahe in New Zealand
2.15	Anna Le Souëf*	An epidemiological study of black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus spp.) admitted to Perth Zoo Veterinary Department.
2.30	Danielle Middleton*	Salmonella enterica prevalence amongst endemic New Zealand lizards
2.45	Natasha Speight*	Renal failure in the koala population of the Adelaide Hills: the significance of oxalate nephrosis
3.00	Lynley Johnson	Clinical manifestation and treatment of oxalate nephrosis in koalas
3.15	AFTERNOON TEA
3.45	Aboriginal Walk
6.00	DINNER
7.30	WINE, CHEESE & AUCTION
TUESDAY
10.00	AWHN AGM
11.00	MORNING TEA
11.30	Lee Berger (Sue Bigwood)	Overview of chytridiomycosis
11.45	Lynley Johnson	Pregnancy in an uraemic Australian sea lion; an eventful journey
12.00	Philip Ladds	Pathology of wild-caught marine turtles in Indonesia
12.15	Chris Bunn	Pacheco's disease - a threat to Australia?
12.30	Teri Bellamy	Use of Suprelorin to control problem behaviour in a hand-reared grey-headed flying fox
12.45	Gary Joyce	Henry the sea lion
1.00	LUNCH
2.00	Pradeep Malik (Ed Addison)	Wildlife Institute of India - a regional center on biodiversity conservation in South Asia
2.15
2.30	Roy Bengis
2.45
3.00	AFTERNOON TEA
3.30	Parag Nigam (Kerri Morgan)	Field immobilisation of free-ranging sambar (cervus unicolour) using medetomidine-ketamine
3.45	Jasmin Hufschmid	Fluorosis in eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) in south-western Victoria
4.00	Wayne Boardman	The medical management of necrobacillosus in macropods in zoos in South Australia
4.15	Lynley Johnson	Efficacy of Lufenuron treatment for Microsporum gypseum in brush-tailed bettongs
4.30	Michael Lynch	Disease surveillance in Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus)
4.45	Michael Lynch	Investigation of an alopecia syndrome in Australian fur seals ((Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus)
6.00	DINNER
WEDNESDAY	EXCURSIONS
6.00	DINNER
THURSDAY
9.00	WDA AGM	Including overview of current WDA issues- Ed Addison
10.30	Morning Tea
11.00	Shan Siah (Rupert Woods)	The "One health" concept in Australia: where and how does wildlife health preservation fit it?
11.15	Lee Skerratt	The Australian Government threat abatement plan (TAP) for chitridiomycosis
11.30	Shan Siah	To be announced
11.45	Dan Tompkins	Emerging infectious diseases in New Zealand
12.00	Dan Tompkins	Avian malaria impact on native New Zealand avifauna
12.15	Hume Field	Hendra re-visited
12.30	Lee Skerratt	A longitudinal study of avain influenza in waterfowl in northern Queensland
12.45	Dave Spratt	The role of health in wildlife management and ecology - understanding the complexity in interactive ecological systems
1.00	LUNCH
2.00
2.15
2.30
2.45
3.00	AFTERNOON TEA
3.30	Sue Hemsley (Philip Ladds)	Computerised tomographic investigation of the koala nasal cavity and cranium
3.45	Cheryl Sangster	Description of Vibrio alginolyticus infection in cultured Sepia officinalis, S. apama and S. pharaonis
4.00	Wayne Boardman	Camels in the bush: immobilizing and satellite tracking camels in SA and WA
4.15	Maurice Alley	Septic peritonitis in Saddlebacks, Philesturnus carunculatus) due to the migrating nematode, Porrocaecum sp.
4.30	Kerri Morgan	Nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism in wild, intensively managed avian paopulations
4.45
	DINNER  AT  ULLADULLA
6.00
FRIDAY
9.00
9.15
9.30
9.45
10.00
10.15	MORNING TEA
10.30
11.00	PACK UP
		* = student presentations
		(parentheses) = prospective session convenors