As per preliminary announcement, the 2013 FRDC Australasian Scientific Conference on Aquatic Animal Health will be held in Cairns at The Pullman Reef Hotel, on 9-12 July 2013.
The scientific program will be held over 4 days to accommodate the increasing interest in the conference both domestically and from overseas. There will be a short happy hour at the end of each day to facilitate networking opportunities, and the conference dinner will be held on the last day of the conference.
As announced previously the two international expert presenters at the conference are:
Prof Hugh Ferguson
Head of the Department of Pathobiology, Director of the Marine Medicine programme, Professor of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, St George’s University, Grenada, West Indies.
Prof Don Lightner
Aquaculture Pathology Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Science and Microbiology, University of Arizona, OIE Reference
Laboratory for Crustacean Diseases.
A conference website is being developed for conference registration and abstract submission.
Details will be announced soon.
For more information, please contact
Joanne Slater
FRDC Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram Coordinator
C/o CSIRO Animal, Food and Health Sciences
Australian Animal Health Laboratory
PO Box 24 Geelong VIC 3220
Phone: 03 5227 5427
Fax: 03 5227 5555
Email: joanne.slater@csiro.au
