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We invite investigators from all around the world to present their research on avian diseases at the CURRENT RESEARCH IN AVIAN DISEASES conference, September 19 and 20, 2009.

Abstracts must be submitted in response to this call no later of August 25, 2009 and they will be considered by the Scientific Committee with regard to scientific merit and originality for the conference program. The accepted abstracts will be compiled and printed in a booklet for the conference and distributed among all the attendees.

Both oral presentations and/or posters will be accepted. Presentations could be on any avian health and disease-related topic, including but not limited to disease ecology, impact of diseases on wild avian populations, conservation medicine, disease management, parasite-host interactions, molecular epidemiology, diagnosis, pathogenesis and pathology of avian diseases, infectious and parasitic causes of diseases, avian zoonoses and therapeutics.

Please, submit your abstract by August 25, 2009. Abstractthat will be selected for presentation will be notified by August 31, 2009. Presenters will have 15 minutes to present their work.

Abstract submission

Abstracts should include authors´ name and affiliation, including the e-mail address of the author who is giving the paper. Title should be in large case and should not exceed 15 words. Please underline the presenting author's name.

Abstracts should be written in English, using Microsoft Word text processor and Arial 12 point fonts, single line spacing, full justification and do not indent paragraphs. The abstract, excluding the title, should not exceed 250 words.

Several abstracts can be submitted by the same author, but priority will be given to accommodate all participants. Principal Investigators are encouraged to facilitate graduate students, research technicians, co-investigators to present at this conference.

Please, note that the final acceptance depends upon registration of the presenting author.

Use the following abstract as a model.

DECLINE OF VULTURES ON THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT
H L Shivaprasad
California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System-Fresno Branch
University of California at Davis, Fresno, California
hlshivaprasad@ucdavis.edu

A crash in the populations of three species of vultures (Oriental white-backed vultures, long-billed vultures and slender-billed vultures) on the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan and Nepal) has been observed since the 1990's. Post mortem and histopathology studies conducted on many of these vultures revealed that they were dying of renal failure and visceral gout. Toxicologic analysis of the kidneys from these vultures revealed diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, as the cause. The source of diclofenac for these vultures was carcasses of domestic animals that received the drug shortly before they died. Renal failure and visceral gout were experimentally reproduced in vultures by direct oral exposure to diclofenac, as well as through feeding vultures with meat from diclofenac-treated livestock. The ecological role vultures on the Indian subcontinent are significant, and efforts to restore the endangered vultures to viable population levels should be undertaken immediately. Various steps such as banning the veterinary use of the drug, identifying alternative drugs that are effective in livestock but safe for vultures, preventing the exposure of vultures to livestock carcasses contaminated with diclofenac, breeding and releasing captive vultures until viable populations are restored, and educational programs to raise the awareness of the ecological effects of diclofenac are being considered.