Following posters are approved by the Selection Committee for presentation in GARAD 2015

Posters will be displayed in the Great Hall. All poster boards are numbered. Please display your poster in the poster board allocated to you on Monday morning during registration periods. Poster display materials will be available at the registration desk.

Poster #1 Epigenetic regulation of gga-microRNA-126 during lymphoproliferative disease in chicken: Isabelle Gennart, Lore Parissi, Srdan Pejakovic, Benoît Muylkens

Poster #2 Outbreak of infectious bursal disease (IBD) in Finland in 2014: Niina E Tammiranta, T Anita Huovilainen

Poster #3 Generation of a vaccine to prevent poultry from Newcastle disease and control viral shedding: Haijin Liu, Renata S D Almeida, Patricia Gil, Minet Cécile, Emmanuel Albina

Poster #4 The phylodynamic nature of Newcastle disease virus isolated from Malaysia during 2004-2011: Dilan A Satharasinghe, Tan S Wei, Yeap S Keong, Muhammad Munir, Aini Ideris and Abdul R Omar

Poster #5 Development and evaluation of an immunochromatographic strip for rapid detection of capsid protein antigen p27 of avian leukosis virus: QIAN Kun, LIANG You-zhi, YIN Li-ping, SHAO Hong-xia, JIN Wen-jie, YE Jian-qiang, QIN Ai-jian

Poster #6 An ex vivo B cell culture model for studying IBDV pathogenesis: Andrew Broadbent, Karen Staines, Colin Butter, Paul Britton, Venugopal Nair

Poster #7 Transcriptional analysis of host responses to Marek’s disease virus infection in chicken thymus: Haitao Zou, Aijian Qin, Xuming Hu, Hongxia Shao, Kun Qian, and Jianqiang Ye

Poster #8 Transcriptional profiling of host gene expression in chicken embryo fibroblasts infected with Reticuloendotheliosis virus: Ji Miao, Yanqing Bao, Jianqiang Ye, Hongxia Shao, Kun Qian, Aijian Qin

Poster #9 Overcoming diagnostic challenges caused by co-circulation of potentially zoonotic avian influenza viruses H5N1 and H9N2 in Egypt: Mahmoud M. Naguib, Abdel-Satar A. Arafa, Magdy F. El-Kady, Abdullah A. Selim, Mohamed K. Hassan, Martin Beer, Timm C. Harder

Poster #10 Interactions between M. avium with avian macrophage: Nawzat A. Issa, Mohammed Shukur, Sabine Tötemeyer, Paul Barrow, Michael A. Jones

Poster #11 Vitamin D3 modulates T lymphocyte function in chicken: Nitish Boodhoo and Shahriar Behboudi

Poster #12 Changes in phase-variable gene switching of Campylobacter jejuni during persistent colonisation of chickens: Lea Lango-Scholey, Alexandra Woodacre, Jack Aidley, Ryan Howitt, Mikhail Tretyakov, Christopher D. Bayliss, Michael A. Jones

Poster #13 cDNA cloning and mRNA expression analysis of the Pekin duck programmed death ligand-2: Qingxia Yao, Karl Fischer, Lorne Tyrrell, Klaus Gutfreund

Poster #14 Influence of diet on microbial diversity of intestinal microbiota in broiler chicken: Shubhada Chothe, Asha Thomas, Katelyn Molinaro, Megan Bailey, Subhashinie Kariyawasam,
Tania Lamore, Bhushan Jayarao

Poster #15 Investigation of Marek’s disease virus (MDV)-induced activation of chicken NK cells: Aunyaratana Thontiravong, Daphne A. van Haarlem and Christine A. Jansen

Poster #16 Pathogenicity and tissue tropism of infectious bronchitis virus correlates to elevated apoptosis and innate immune responses: R. Chhabra, S. V. Kuchipudi, J. Chantrey& K. Ganapathy

Poster #17 In vitro immune modulation of Salmonella enterica serotype Pullorum: Ying Tang, Paul A. Barrow, Neil Foster, Michael A. Jones

Poster #18 Prevalence of avian viruses in respiratory disease outbreaks in broiler flocks in Egypt: Kareem E. Hassan, Salama A.S. Shany, Ahmed Ali, Azza A. El-Sawah and Magdy F. Elkady

Poster #19 Experimental coinfection of broiler chickens with infectious bronchitis and low pathogenic avian influenza H9N2 viruses: Kareem E. Hassan, Ahmed Ali, Salama A.S. Shany, Azza A. El-Sawah and Magdy F. El-Kady

Poster #20 Efficacy of inactivated Newcastle disease virus vaccines prepared from local Egyptian isolates: Walid H. Kilany, Ahmed Ali, Abedel-Hamed I. Bazid, Mohamed Ali Zain-El Abideen, Magdy El Sayed4

Poster #21 Molecular surveillance on avian influenza in poultry in Egypt: Shakal MA, Ahmed Bassem and Al Baroudi BM

Poster #22 Avian influenza viruses with deletions in the receptor binding site may pose an epizootic and zoonotic threat: Thomas Peacock, Kolli Reddy, Joe James, Donald Benton, John McCauley, Wendy Barclay, Holly Shelton and Munir Iqbal1

Poster #23 Characterization of Campylobacter jejuni isolated from farms in Selangor, Malaysia: Mohamad F A Zainol, Abdul R Omar and Mariatulqabtiah Abdul-Razak

Poster #24 HPAI H5 viruses in Vietnam 2014: Nguyen DT, To LT, Inui K, Nguyen TD, Nguyen HD, Mai TD, Do TH

Poster #25 Combating avian influenza through novel diagnostic tools and vaccines: Pengxiang Chang, Jean-Remy Sadeyen, Thao Le, To L. Thanh, Tahir Yaqub, Khalid Naeem, John W. McCauley, Tony Cass, Juliet Bryant, Munir Iqbal

Poster #26 Antiviral activity of the host defence peptide LL-37 against infectious bronchitis virus: Maarten Coorens, Marloes Angel, Erik A.W.S. Weerts, Steven J. van Beurden, Henk P. Haagsman, Edwin J.A. Veldhuizen, M. Helene Verheije

Poster #27 Highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza viruses from 2.3.4.4 HA clade exhibits efficient infection and transmission in mammals: Juan Pu, Honglei Sun1, YanDi Wei, Yipeng Sun, Jiao Hu, Litao Liu, Guanlong Xu, Weihua Gao, Chong Li, Xuxiao Zhang, George F. Gao, Xiufan Liu & Jinhua Liu

Poster #28 Avian reovirus strains associated with growth problems in UK broiler flocks: Victoria J. Smyth, Mildred Wylie, Irene McNair, Tony Patterson, James Trudgett, Heather Jewhurst, Daniel Todd.

Poster #29 Pathological, immunohistochemical and virological studies on avian influenza virus serotype H9N2 in SPF chicks: Mohamed R Mousa, Ayman H EL-Deeb, Kawkab A Ahmed and Mohamed M Lotfi

Poster #30 Experimental studies on H9N2 avian influenza virus co-infection with genotype II infectious bronchitis virus: Ayman H EL-Deeb, Mohamed R Mousa, Kawkab A Ahmed and Mohamed M Lotfi

Poster #31 Construction of recombinant HVT expressing PmpD, and immunological evaluation against Chlamydia psittaci and Marek’s disease virus: Yongqing Li

Poster #32 Metagenomic analysis of bats and pigeons from Campinas, Brazil: Daniel Ferreira de Lima Neto, Matheus Cavalheiro Martini, Márcia Mercês dos Santos, Leonardo Caserta, Ana Caroline de Souza Barnabé, Paulo Simas, Helena Lage Ferreira, Clarice Weis Arns

Poster #33 Pathogenicity of Brazilian IBV variants of chicken (BR-I) and pigeon (Mass) origin in chickens: Martini, M.C.; Caserta, L.C.; Santos, M.M.B.; Barnabé, A.C.S.; Carvalho, R.D.; Padilla, M.A.; Simas, P.V.M.; Ferreira, H.L., Arns, C.W

Poster #34 Response of simultaneous administration of immunomodulants and IBD vaccine in broiler chicks: Asim Aslam, Beenish Zahid

Poster #35 Conventional and molecular detection of infectious bursal disease virus in broiler chicken: Asim Aslam, Beenish Zahid

Poster#36 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N8 outbreaks in commercial poultry in the Netherlands in 2014: Francisca C. Velkers, Armin R.W. Elbers, Ruth J. Bouwstra, J. Arjan Stegeman

Poster #37 Identification of activating Chicken Ig-like receptors recognizing avian influenza viruses: Christine A. Jansen, Daphne A. van Haarlem, Beatrice Sperling, Peter J.S. van Kooten, Birgit C. Viertlboeck, Lonneke Vervelde, Thomas W. Göbel