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Biodiversity, Wildlife & Pathogen Interfaces - session 1

Metagenomic surveillance of rodents reveals the impact of deforestation and seasonality on pathogenic viral diversity and evolution
Charles C.Y. XU (1,2), Mathieu PRUVOT (2,1), Vireak HEANG (3), Vibol HUL (3), Sokha CHEA (4), Alex D. GREENWOOD (5), Sarah H. OLSON (1), Erik KARLSSON (3), 1: Wildlife Conservation Society, USA;
2: University of Calgary, Canada;
3: Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Cambodia;
4: Wildlife Conservation Society, Cambodia;
5: Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Germany
Habitat disturbance drives turnover in mosquito and virus communities across major tropical ecosystems
Selina Laura GRAFF (1), Victor Sebastian SCHARNHORST (1), Georg Joachim EIBNER (1), James Robert OCHIENG (2), Anthony Mutebi NSUBUGA (3), Julius Julian LUTWAMA (4), Innocent Bidason RWEGO (5), Sandra JUNGLEN (1), 1: Institute of Virology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117 Berlin, Germany;
2: Department of Zoology, Entomology and Fisheries Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;
3: Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology and Biotechnology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;
4: Department of Arbovirology, Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe, Uganda;
5: Department of Biosecurity, Ecosystems and Veterinary Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
A Market-Based Sentinel Surveillance for an Early Detection of Viral Outbreaks
Paola MARTÍNEZ-DUQUE (1,2), Marco A. JIMÉNEZ-RICO (1,2), Lucio A. BACAB-CAB (3), Aarón G. CANTÓN (3,4), Rhys P.D. INWARD (5,6), Bernardo GUTIÉRREZ (5,6,7), Sumali BAJAJ (6,8), Stien VANDENDIESSCHE (9), Henry PUERTA-GUARDO (3), James ERNEST (10), Pablo MANRIQUE-SAIDE (3), Gonzalo VAZQUEZ-PROKOPEC (11), Daniel CANUL-CANUL (3), Karina Jaqueline CIAU CARRILLO (3), Guadalupe AYORA-TALAVERA (3), David ROIZ (2,12,13), Carlos MACHAÍN-WILLIAMS (14), Arturo REYES-SANDOVAL (14), Moritz U. G. KRAEMER (5,6), Miguel A. GARCÍA-KNIGHT (15,16), Gerardo SUZÁN (1,2), Marina ESCALERA-ZAMUDIO (17), 1: Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, México.;
2: International Joint Laboratory IRD/UNAM, Yucatán, México.;
3: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México.;
4: School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland.;
5: Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford UK.;
6: Pandemic Sciences Institute, Oxford UK.;
7: Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.;
8: Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford UK.;
9: Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.;
10: Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, FL, USA.;
11: Emory University, Atlanta, USA.;
12: MIVEGEC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France.;
13: SaBio Group, IREC (UCLM-CSIC-JCCM), Ciudad Real, Spain;
14: Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), México.;
15: Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico.;
16: Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom.;
17: Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK.
Protected Areas and One Health: Insights and the MAP-ACT-CREATE for One Health toolkit for minimizing disease risks from an IUCN WCPA Task Force
Sarah H. OLSON (1), Paulo COLCHAO (2), Amélie DESVARS-LARRIVE (3), Hannah T. FAIRBANK (4), Nina Lester FINLEY (5), David T. S. HAYMAN (6), Ziva JUSTINEK (7), Shirin KARRYYEVA (8), Renata MUYLAERT (9), Brent MITCHELL (10), Serge MORAND (11), Alexandria P. NELSON (12), Nicole NOVA (13), Anna PONTEL DE ALMEIDA (14), Paula PRIST (15), Gavrila Amadea PUSPITARANI (3), Kent REDFORD (16), Chris WALZER (1), Skylar R. HOPKINS (12), 1: Wildlife Conservation Society, Health Program, United States of America;
2: Wildlife Conservation Society, Peru;
3: University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria, Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria;
4: Global Environment Facility (GEF), USA;
5: Health In Harmony, USA, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom;
6: Massey University, Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory, School of Veterinary Sciences, New Zealand;
7: Planet Indonesia, Indonesia;
8: Conservation X Labs, Turkmenistan;
9: University of Sydney, Sydney School of Veterinary Science, Australia;
10: Quebec-Labrador Foundation (QLF), USA;
11: HealthDEEP, CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) - Kasetsart University - Mahidol University, Thailand;
12: North Carolina State University, Department of Applied Ecology, USA;
13: Princeton University, USA;
14: University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria;
15: IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Forest and Grasslands Unit, USA;
16: Archipelago Consulting, USA
Tackling the Biodiversity-Pandemics relationship at the roots through research policy transformation
<p>Alexandre CARON (1) Soushieta JAGADESH (2) Claire LAJAUNIE (3) Mahur TURAN (4) NIls BUNNEFELD (5) Andrew CUNNINGHAM (6) Miguel FERNANDEZ (7) Alister SCOTT (8) Norbert TCHOUAFFE TCHIADJE (9) Serge MORAND (10) Candice POUGET (11) Adam IZDEBSKI (12) Julie SHAPIRO (13)</p>, 1: CIRAD ASTRE - ILRI, ILRI, NAirbo, Kenya; 2: International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), Boston; 3: Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm), UMR LPED (Aix-Marseille Université, IRD), Marseille, France; 4: TUBITAK, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye, Turkiye; 5: Biological and Environmental Science, Faculty of Natural Science, University of Stirling, UK; 6: Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK; 7: German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Germany; 8: Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Northumbria, UK; 9: Pan-African Institute for Development, African Academy of Sciences and University of Ebolowa, Cameroon; 10: IRL HealthDEEP, CNRS – Kasetsart University – Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; 11: Department of Conservation Biology & Social-Ecological Systems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany; 12: Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland; 13: Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel
From detection to preparedness: A One Health approach to arbovirus surveillance in Canada’s changing climate
Jumari SNYMAN (1,2), Louwrens P SNYMAN (3), Carol-Anne VILLENEUVE (4), Valeria MARTINEZ (5), Priya GOUNDAR (6), Nicole WHITE (6), Naima JUTHA (7), Isabelle DUSFOUR (8), Nicolas LECOMTE (9), Patrick A LEIGHTON (4), Darcy VISSCHER (1,10), Vanessa MEIER-STEPHENSON (1,2), Emily JENKINS (5), Anil KUMAR (5), Tom C HOBMAN (1,2), 1: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada;
2: Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Edmonton, Canada;
3: Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Canada;
4: Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada;
5: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada;
6: Government of Saskatchewan, Regina, Canada;
7: Government of the Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Canada;
8: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France;
9: Université de Moncton, New‐Brunswick, Canada;
10: The King's University, Edmonton,Canada
Global Sentinels: The Palearctic-Afrotropical Flyway as a Conduit for Antimicrobial Resistance in Wintering Little Stints (Calidris minuta)
Catherine MBUTHIA (1,2,3,4), Rael TOO (2), Alexanda MZULA (1), Titus IMBOMA (5), John KIIRU (2), Samuel KARIUKI (2), Abubakar HOZA (1), 1: Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Parasitology and Biotechnology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania;
2: Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya;
3: SACIDS Foundation for One Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania;
4: Department of Biological and Physical Sciences, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Karatina University, Karatina, Kenya;
5: Ornithology Section, Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya