Conference Leadership
November 23
Registration and abstract submission open
February 22
Early bird registration and abstract submission deadline
Congress Organizing Board
President
María Emilia Eirin
Independent Researcher at CONICET.
Instituto de Agrobiotecnología y Biología Molecular (IABiMo), UEDD INTA-CONICET.
Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Vice President
Patricio Retamal
Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases Unit, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Universidad de Chile.
Santiago, Chile.
Secretaries
María Julia Traversa
Adjunct Professor of Preventive Medicine, FCV-UNCPBA.
Assistant Researcher at CICPBA and member of CIVETAN.
Head of the Mycobacteria Laboratory, FCV-CIVETAN-UNCPBA.
Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Soledad Barandiarán
Professor and Associate Researcher at CONICET.
Instituto de Investigaciones en Producción Animal (INPA), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Infectious Diseases Chair, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Nicolás Valdivieso Cariola
Regional Officer in Charge of Livestock Protection, Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero (SAG), Aysén Region, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Chile.
Aysén, Chile.
Conference Organizing Committee
Sergio Gabriel Garbaccio
Researcher at the Instituto de Patobiología Veterinaria
(IPVet), UEDD INTA-CONICET.
Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ana María Canal
Former Full Professor of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.
Former Director General of Animal Health, Ministry of Production of Santa Fe.
Santa Fe, Argentina.
Francisco Olea-Popelka
Beryl Ivey Chair in One Health and Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University.
London, Ontario, Canada.
Martín Zumárraga
Principal Researcher at CONICET and Researcher at INTA.
Instituto de Agrobiotecnología y Biología Molecular (IABiMo), UEDD INTA-CONICET.
Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ximena Ferrara Muñiz
Postdoctoral Researcher at the VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Madrid, Spain.
Gabriel Eduardo Travería
Full Professor, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, and Director of the CEDIVE laboratory.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Bernardo Alonso
Head of the Mycobacteria Department, DILAB-SENASA, Argentina’s National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Amelia Bernardelli
Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Former Bacteriology Coordinator at SENASA and international expert in bovine tuberculosis and paratuberculosis.
Advisor on bovine and avian PPD tuberculin production and consultant to the Mycobacteria Area
at Ceva Animal Health, Brazil.
Jimena Marfil
School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Universidad de San Sebastián, Bellavista 7, 8420524, Metropolitan Region, Santiago, Chile.
Cristina Lourdes Vazquez
Assistant Researcher at CONICET and Researcher at INTA.
Instituto de Agrobiotecnología y Biología Molecular (IABiMo), UEDD INTA-CONICET.
Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
María Andrea Fiorentino
Researcher at INTA.
Bacteriology Laboratory, Animal Health Group, Balcarce Agricultural Experiment Station.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Honorary Committee
| Amelia Bernardelli Argentina |
Simeon Cadmus Nigeria |
Angel Cataldi Argentina |
| Isabel de Kantor Argentina |
Paula I. Fujiwara United States |
Eamonn Gormley Ireland |
| Glyn Hewinson Wales |
Gareth Jones England |
John Kaneene United States |
| Anita Michel South Africa |
Michele Miller South Africa |
Douwe Bakker The Netherlands |
International Committee
| Gobena Ameni Ethiopia |
Javier Bezos Spain |
Mark Chambers United Kingdom |
| Maria Laura Boschiroli France |
Fabiana Bigi Argentina |
Beatriz Romero Spain |
| Luis Paredes Chile |
James Wood United Kingdom |
Lin Mari de Klerk Lorist South Africa |