Provisional Agenda
(Subject to change: The conference may finish earlier or later than the advertised times each day)
Event type: Virtual/in-person hybrid
Presentation language: English
Venue: The Jarvis Doctorow Hall, St Edmund Hall, Queen’s Lane, Oxford, UK
Time Zone: All times mentioned refer to British Standard (BST) – London/GMT +01:00.
Password and links: Registered conference delegates will be sent joining information and conference access links a few days before the conference.
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NB: Due to the hybrid nature of the agenda and the wide geographical locations of our speakers, it may not always be possible to group related presentations together.
Day 1, 26th August
1330: Registration
1425: Welcome and housekeeping
1430-1730: Presentations including refreshments and poster viewing
Day 2, 27th August
0930-1730: Presentations including lunch, refreshments and poster viewing
1900: Networking dinner
Day 3, 28th August
0930-1230: Presentations including refreshments and poster viewing
1230-1240: General discussion, networking and departure
Confirmed speakers
Professor Sir David Warrell
Professor Emeritus, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Professor Glenn King (Keynote)
Professor, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD, Australia
Gain from pain: spider venoms as a source of non-addictive analgesics
Professor Mark O’Shea MBE
Professor of Herpetology, University of Wolverhampton, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK
The need for ecological research on human:snake interactions in snakebite prone communities
Professor Denise Tambourgi
Professor, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Laboratory of Immunopathology, Butantan Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
Premolis semirufa and pararamosis: mechanisms of chronic joint inflammation and tissue damage
Professor Cesare Montecucco
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova and Institute of Neuroscience, National Research Council, Padova, Italy
Botulinum toxins impair the enteric nervous system lowering intestinal defense
Professor Juan Calvete
Professor, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Building bridges between Elapiland, Viperiland, and Colubriland
Professor Jacqueline de Almeida Gonçalves Sachett
Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of the State of Amazonas, Brazil
Ancillaries Treatments to Antivenom in Snakebite: Impact on Functional Outcomes and Disability
Professor Thomas Platts-Mills
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Virginia, USA
The “Aalpha-gal” syndrome
Dr David Williams
Consultant, Regulation and Prequalification Department, Health Systems Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
TBA
Professor José María Gutiérrez
Professor, Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
Thrombocytopenia induced by viperid snake venoms in a murine model and its neutralization by antivenoms
Professor Nelson Jorge da Silva, Jr
Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, School of Medical and Life Sciences, Graduate Program in Environmental and Health Sciences, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Clinical silence, taxonomy, and toxinology complexity: the underestimated significance of coral snake envenomations in Brazil
Dr Cecilie Knudsen
Postdoctoral Scientist, Digital Biotechnology Lab, Department of Bioengineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Storkøbenhavn, Denmark
In silico design of polyspecific minibinders targeting snake venom phospholipase A2s
Dr Tim Platts-Mills
CMO, Ophirex, Inc, Paradise Drive, Corte Madera, CA, USA
Lessons Learned from Two Clinical Trials of Varespladib: Building a Framework for Evaluating Novel Snakebite Therapies
Dr Abdullah Abu Sayeed
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Chittagong Medical College, Chattogram, Bangladesh
Monovalent Avian Antibodies for Snakebite Envenoming: First Local Production and Preclinical Evidence from Bangladesh
Dr Stefanie Menzies
Lecturer in Molecular Cell Biology, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Lancaster University, UK
Application of Cryo-EM to Uncover Toxin Assemblies and Antivenom Interactions
Dr Joao RN Vissoci
Investigator, Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Association of Snakebite Severity and Functional Recovery in a Multinational Randomized Clinical Trial
Dr Krzysztof Kowalski
Department of Vertebrate Zoology and Ecology, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, 1 Lwowska Street, Toruń, 87-100, Poland
Metabolic costs of poison production in the common toad, Bufo bufo
Dr Madison McGann
Investigator, Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Effects of Varespladib for Cytotoxic, PLA2-rich, Agkistrodon contortrix Envenoming: A Secondary Analysis of Results from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
Dr Sheikh Mohammed Arif
Postdoctoral Scientist, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrookes Hospital, Hills Rd, Cambridge, UK
Generation of immune-derived Naja PLA2-neutralising recombinant antibodies by phage display
Dr Alan de Lima Pereira
Principle Investigator, Medecins Sans Frontieres, 14 Plantage Middenlaan, Amsterdam, Nord Holland 1018 DD, Netherlands
Polyvalent antivenom for snakebite envenoming in Ethiopia: a prospective cohort study
Dr Rhys Dunphy
Postdoctoral Scientist, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrookes Hospital, Hills Rd, Cambridge, UK
Generation of neutralising recombinant antibodies against an Echis ocellatus SVMP-III isoform from immune derived phage display libraries
Dr Nick Burlet
Postdoctoral Scientist, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2700 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Discovery of broadly-neutralizing recombinant single domain antibodies for treatment of snakebite envenoming
Dr Thomas Lamb
Consultant Physician, Department of infectious Diseases, North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
Understanding the role of cell free heme causing acute kidney injury following snakebite in India
Dr Michelle Khai Khun Yap
Senior Lecturer and Program Director of Medical Bioscience, School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
Proteomics- and machine-learning-guided identification of biomarkers associated with cobra venom cytotoxin-induced cell death
