Ala Tabor

University of Queensland, Australia

Alejandro Cabezas

French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). France

Andrei Mihalca

University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca. Romania

Title: Ticks and tick-borne pathogens of carnivores in Europe: the wild-domestic interface

Consuelo Almazán

Veterinary Medicine Natural Sciences College, Autonomous University of Querétaro, Mexico

Domenico Otranto

Department of Veterinary Medicine University of Bari. President – World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology. Italy

Title: Transmission of canine filarial worms by ticks

Filipe Dantas

Aggeu Magalhães Institute, Department of Immunology. Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz). Brazil

Title: Tick-borne diseases in dogs and cats in Latin America

Gad Baneth

Koret School of Veterinary Medicine. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Israel

Title: Pathogenesis and treatment of canine babesiosis

Juan Mosqueda

Veterinary Medicine Natural Sciences College, Autonomous University of Querétaro, Mexico

Ladislav Šimo

French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). France

Michael Levin

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA

Title: What does it cost to be a vector: Effects of tick-borne pathogens on the survival and behavior of ticks.

Reinhard Straubinger

Department at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany

Title: When bacteria and ticks work together – how dogs deal with Lyme borreliosis

Sangaran Arumugam

Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, TANUVAS, India

Title: Tick-borne diseases of dogs and cats in the Indian sub-continent.

Sara Moutailler

Animal Health Laboratory, National Agency for Food and Environment Safety, France

Title: High-throughput nanotechnologies for tick-borne pathogens detection

Shimon Harrus

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Title: Canine monocytic ehrlichiosis – an update