Programme

Please note timings below are provisional and are subject to change.

18:30 – 21:30

Young Scientist Event

09:00 – 12:00	Workshops Workshop 1: Veterinary clinical epidemiology – the basics Workshop 2: Inferential modelling with wide data Workshop 3: Spatial visualisation of health events Workshop 4: Introduction to Game Theory Workshop 5: Disease outbreak investigations Workshop 6: Substantiating freedom from infection
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 14:00	Session 1: Conference Opening
14:00 – 15:00	Session 2: Animal movements
15:00 – 15:45	Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing
15:45 – 17:10	Session 3 : Qualitative methods in animal health
17:15 - 17:45	Poster viewing
18:15 - 19:10	Drinks Reception (Belfast City Hall)
19:00 – late	late Dinner (Ten Square Hotel)

08:30 – 10:00	Session 4 : Dairy cow health
10:00 – 10:30	Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing
10:30 – 11:30	Session 5 : Risk modelling
11:35 – 13:00	Annual General Meeting
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:25	Session 6 : Porcine disease control
15:25 – 16:15	Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing
16:15 – 17:30	Session 7 : Avian and swine influenza transmission
19:30 – late	Drinks Reception & Conference Dinner (Clayton Hotel)

09:00 – 10:15	Session 8 : Surveillance and control
10:15 – 11:00	Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing
11:00 – 11:50	Session 9 : Emerging methods for veterinary epidemiology
11:50 – 13:00	Session 10: The Gareth Davies Lecture
13:00 – 14:00	Takeaway Lunch