Towards a One Health Approach to Study Leprosy

- Online -

8 - 11 February 2021

Venue: Online

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This workshop will be aimed at discussing evolutionary patterns and transmission pathways of M. leprae through integrating and translating global data on the presence of M. leprae and possibly M. lepromatosis. The workshop online report and proceedings will focus on developing new One-Health based research strategies and disease intervention strategies, bridging thus far, non-overlapping research domains.


    Monday 8 February 2021

    Theme: Paleopathology and History

    All times are CET. 

     

    15:0015:10 

    Welcome Introduction to the Lorentz Center
    15:1015:30 

    Introduction to technical tools and aims of the workshop   Toine Pieters
    15:2515:35 

    Introduction to the session: Sarah Inskip (Paleopathologist) and Kathleen Walker Meikle (Medievalist)
    15:3515:55 

    Sarah Inskip (5 min questions) Old Diseases, New Questions: Paleopathology and Hansen’s Disease
    15:5516:00 

    Introduction to virtual coffee break
    16:0016:30 

    virtual coffee break 1
    16:3016:50 

    Kyle Harper (5 min questions) Leprosy in Animals in Classical Veterinary Texts?
    16:5017:10 

    Kathleen Walker-Meikle (5 min questions) Squirrels in the Middle Ages
    17:1017:30 

    Discussion 1; moderator: Toine Pieters; virtual whiteboard
    17:3018:00 

    virtual coffee break2
    18:0018:30 

    Pecha Kucha Session 1: Paleopathology and History -> for more details please see Workshop Files
    18:3018:40 

    Wrap up day 1

    Tuesday 9 February 2021

    Theme:  Modern and ancient genomics

    All times are CET. 

    15:0015:10 

    Introduction to the session: Charlotte Avanzi (modern genomics) and Verena Schuenemann (ancient genomics)
    15:1015:30 

    Anne Stone (5 min questions) M. leprae Genomic Variation and Transmission Patterns in the Pacific
    15:3015:50 

    Charlotte Avanzi (5 min question) Applications of whole-genome sequencing in modern leprosy
    15:5016:10 

    virtual coffee break1
    16:1016:30 

    Verena Schuenemann (5 min questions) Ancient M. leprae genomics
    16:3016:50 

    Discussion 2, moderator: Pushpendra Singh; virtual whiteboard
    16:5017:10 

    virtual coffee break2
    17:1017:40 

    Pecha Kucha Session 2: Modern and ancient genomics -> for more details please see Workshop Files
    17:4018:00 

    Outcome discussion 1 (How can the different disciplines contribute to understand leprosy inter species transmission across time?) virtual whiteboard; wrap up day 2

    Wednesday 10 February 2021

    15:00 - 16:10 -> Theme: Transmission: Immunological and Epidemiological perspectives
    16:10 - 18:00 -> Theme: Zoonosis and one health

    All times are CET

    15:0015:10 

    Introduction to the session: Jan Hendrik Richardus & Annemieke Geluk
    15:1015:30 

    Annemieke Geluk (5 min questions) Use Cases of Immunodiagnostics Tools in Leprosy
    15:3015:50 

    Jan Hendrik Richardus (5 min questions) Understanding Transmission of M. leprae through the Epidemiology of Leprosy
    15:5016:10 

    virtual coffee break 1
    16:1016:30 

    Susan Jones (5min questions) One Health: (re-)Emerging Zoonoses: The Challenge of Prevention and Control
    16:3016:50 

    Discussion, moderator: Verena Schuenemann; virtual whiteboard
    16:5017:10 

    virtual coffee break 2
    17:1017:40 

    Pecha Kucha Session 3: Epidemiological perspectives and reservoirs and sources for leprosy -> for more details please see Workshop Files
    17:4018:00 

    Outcome discussion 2 (understanding transmission, one health transformational concepts); virtual whiteboard; wrap up day 3

    Thursday 11 February 2021

    Theme: Wild life reservoirs and one health

    All times are CET

    15:0015:10 

    Introduction to the session: Toine Pieters
    15:1015:30 

    Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer (5 min questions) Leprosy in Wild Chimpanzees
    15:3015:50 

    Toine Pieters & Henk Menke (5 min questions) Animals and Soil in Explanations of Leprosy Patients Living in the Surinamese Rain Forest
    15:5016:10 

    virtual coffee break
    16:1017:30 

    Outcome discussion 3 (wild life reservoirs and one health transformational concepts); virtual whiteboard; planning of publication; wrap up conference
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    Toine Pieters, Utrecht University  

    Annemieke Geluk, Leiden University Medical Center  

    Verena J. Schuenemann, University of Zurich  


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