Event Program and Video Recordings from GARD 2024

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5 August, 2024

 

Session 1

 

1. A vision for a healthier herpetofaunal trade (Matthew Gray, keynote)

2. Invasive lizards as novel hosts and vectors of invasive pentastomes in Florida, USA (Madison Harman)

3. Unveiling the role of symbiotic turtle egg microbiota on hatching success and its interactions with fusariosis fungal infection in a freshwater turtle (Ana Sofia Carranco) – audio only.

4. Can parasites cause host population divergence? Lessons from a widespread and well-studied Australian skink (the sleepy lizard or shingleback) (Michael G. Gardner)

5. A systematic survey of Ophidiomycosis in snake populations inhabiting northwest Iowa (Bob Brodman)

6. Vampire in the slow lane: Investigating the identity, host associations, and historical biogeography of the Asian turtle tick Amblyomma geoemydae (Ace Kevin S. Amarga) – audio only.

 

Session 2

 

1. Recent discoveries of reptile-associated mites and ticks (Acari) from Taiwan and the Philippines (Ace Kevin S. Amarga)

2. Increasing chytrid resistance in Southern Corroboree Frogs through selective breeding. (Mikaeylah Davidson)

 

Speed Talks (one recording)

 

1. Applications of immunological techniques to reptile models (Lorin A. Neuman-Lee)

2. Hemoparasites in herpetofauna: revealing hidden components of southern Africa biodiversity (Amanda M. Picelli)

3.  Fusarium an emerging fungal threat to leatherbacks (Dermochelys coriacea) (Debra Miller)

4. The efficacy of two novel treatments (Ponazuril and Humatin) for reducing Cryptosporidium related mortality in captive Western Painted Turtles Chrysemys picta bellii (Andrea Gielens)

5. Sex and infection: do sex hormones affect parasitic load in bisexual and parthenogenetic rock lizards? (Oleg Nikolaev)

6. Climatic patterns of blood parasite abundances in western Mediterranean lizards (Emilio Civantos)

7. Using flow cytometry to compare leukocytes in three species of watersnakes (Natalie Haydt)

8. Monsters in the park: potential disease transfer from captive individuals to free-ranging snakes (Chantelle Derez)

9. Unraveling the disease ecology of Ophidiomyces ophidiicola: high genetic variability and ecological basis of Snake Fungal Disease (Nicolas Joudrier)

10. Applying ensemble distribution models to predicting Ranavirus risk in turtles (Sneha Dharwadkar)

11. Exploring the diversity of haemoparasites in Smaug depressus (Flat dragon lizard), an endemic from the Soutpansberg mountain range in South Africa (Edward C.  Netherlands)

 

6 August, 2024

 

Session 3

 

1. How environmental context shapes amphibian responses to chytrid fungus (Ben Scheele, Keynote)

2. Once infected, always “infected”? Long-term consequences of batrachochytrid infections at molecular level (María Torres-Sánchez)

3. Evidence for a metal disease refuge: The amphibian-killing fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) is inhibited by concentrations of metals tolerated by amphibians (Milad Esmaeilbeigi) – no recording (technical error)

 

Session 4

 

1. Phylogenetically unconstrained trait variation dictates divergent, continental competitive interactions amongst genotypes of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Trenton W.J. Garner)

2. Genes under selection due to Bd (Alexander Wendt)

3. Assessment of the occurrence and impacts of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in the highly threatened Andean water frogs (Telmatobius spp.) (José Fernando Aguilera)

4. Heterogeneity of chytrid infection in the wake of extreme climatic events (Thais Sasso)

5. Evaluating chytridiomycosis susceptibility in Northern and Southern Corroboree Frogs (Melissa Hernandez Poveda)

 

Session 5

 

1. Chytridiomycosis in Asian amphibians: the lessons learnt and the way forward (Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Keynote)

2. Impact of age and chytridiomycosis on longitudinal gene expression in Southern Corroboree Frog (Pseudophryne corroboree) (Dan Guinto)

3. Application of a video surveillance framework for the evaluating disease progression in amphibians (Dan Guinto)

4. Defying decline: Unique infection patterns in a naturally recovering frog species (Jordann Crawford-Ash)

5. Chytrid infections in the ‘off’ season (Dave Daversa)

 

Speed Talks (one recording)

 

1. Host- pathogen dynamics in the wild – Lessons from enzootic chytridiomycosis in Indian anurans (Gayathri Sreedharan)

2. Altered seasonality intensifies population-level infections and host movements (Zuania Colón-Piñeiro)

3. Multi-omics approaches to investigate among-individual variation in Bsal infection dynamics and chytridiomycosis disease severity (Léa Fieschi-Méric)

4. The special case of Bsal in Germany – a global hotspot (Amadeus Plewnia)

5. Association of MHC with amphibian chytridiomycosis (Minjie Fu)

6. Climatic drivers of chytrid prevalence in the critically endangered Admirable Redbelly Toad from Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Mariana Retuci Pontes)

7. Skin microbiome on Asian amphibian hosts associated with resistance to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Dan Sun)

8. Can Critically Endangered tree frogs learn to avoid chytrid zoospores? (Madeleine Holmes)

9. Look up: Detecting Bd in phytotelmata of Ecuador (Mar Moretta-Urdiales)

10. Bd and its influence on physiological traits in the alpine tree frog (Litoria verreauxii alpina) Alexander Wendt

 

7 August, 2024

 

Session 6

 

1. Ex-situ approaches to address disease-driven amphibian declines: how far have we come and where are we going? (Richard A. Griffiths, keynote)

2. Frogs and their blood parasites: A biodiversity survey of the Soutpansberg mountain range (Joretha du Buisson)

3. Ferlaviral disease in Caiman lizards imported into France from Peru (Rachel Marschang)

 

Session 7

 

1. Detection of pathogens in amphibians in Brandenburg, Germany (Rachel E. Marschang)

2. Mexican amphibians and their current status in relation to emergent infectious diseases (Adua Sofia Olvera Avila)

3. Development of an axenic tadpole model: a new powerful tool to study amphibian microbiome (Andrea Barbi)

4. What's eating you? Coinfection by fungal and helminth parasites in a common Australian amphibian (Danielle K. Wallace)

5. Host specificity of blood parasites in amphibians (Gemma Palomar)

 

Session 8

 

1. Overwintering larval American Bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) as highly competent Ranavirus reservoirs (Danielle J. Galvin)

2. Do changes in invasive host density alter Ranavirus dynamics in an ecosystem? (Catarina D. Coutinho)

3. The pervasive threat of Ranavirus infection on herpetofauna: Prevalence and genetic diversity of Ranavirus (family Iridoviridae) in ectothermic vertebrates of Asia (Jayampathi Herath)

4. Frog virus 3 promiscuous interactions with amphibian hosts, bacteria and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Jacques Robert)

5. Behaviour in the presence of a pathogen: Juvenile agile frogs spatially avoid ranavirus-infected conspecifics, but do not show generalized social distancing or self-isolation (Dávid Herczeg)

6. Survey of ranavirus in reptiles and amphibians of western Colombia (Rachel M Goodman)

 

Speed Talks (one recording)

 

1. First investigation of ectoparasitic fly larvae causing myiasis in Australian frogs (David De Angelis)

2. Environmental DNA enhances infectious disease surveillance in traded and wild amphibians (Joseph D. Trafford)

3. Partitioning the influence of host specificity in amphibian populations threatened by multiple emerging infectious diseases (Arik M. Hartmann)

4. Tolerance to infectious diseases in wildlife - insights from studies on herpetofauna (Laura F. Grogan)

5. Does habitat transformation impact microbial diversity in amphibians? (Soline Bettencourt-Amarante)

6. First evidence for self-medication in amphibians (Marvin Schäfer)