Scientific Programme

Please find below the provisional program for LeishVet UP! 2026

Friday 16th October, 2026

 LEISHVET UP!, UPDATE FOR PRACTITIONERS
11:00 - 13:45Registration Opens at the Rikli Balance Hotel
12:30 - 13:45Light Lunch
14:00 - 15:00Opening. Plenary Lecture by an Invited Speaker
15:00 - 16:00Keynote Lectures by LeishVet Members on Canine and Feline Leishmaniosis
16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break, Commercial Exhibition
16:30 - 18:00Keynote Lectures by LeishVet Members on Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Leishmaniosis
19:30Social Dinner

Saturday 17th October, 2026

 LEISHVET UP!, UPDATE FOR PRACTITIONERS
08:30 - 10:30PART I: 4 Lectures by LeishVet Members
Main Hot Topics: Serology/PCR, Co-Infections, Treatment in Immune-Mediated Diseases, FeL Diagnosis, FeL Clinical Staging/Management, Circulating Immune Complexes Disease Management, Treatment Failure, CanL Uncommon Clinical Presentations, Public Health Considerations
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break, Commercial Exhibition
11:00 - 13:00PART II: 4 Lectures by LeishVet Members
Continuing with Hot Topics.
13:00 - 14:15Lunch
14:30 - 16:30Clinical Cases. Small Group Discussions
16:30Closing and Coffee Break

This programme is subject to change and will be completed in the near future with further details.
 Research StreamClinical Stream
08:30 - 09:00Opening Ceremony
09:00 - 09:45Plenary Session | Jorge Alvar
Control of visceral leishmaniasis: successes, risks and expectations


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10:00 - 10:45Session 1: “Around the vectors”
Oral Communications		Keynote Speaker - Marta Leiva
Top three ophthalmic challenges in the management of animal leishmaniosis

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10:45 - 11:30Coffee-Break | Poster Session | Commercial Exhibition
11:30 - 12:15Keynote Speaker - Carla Maia
Phlebotomine sand flies – small vectors causing major problems in public and animal health

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Oral Communications
12:15 - 12:30Session 1 cont.: “Around the vectors”
Oral Communications
12:30 - 13:15Round Table
Vectorial and non-vectorial transmission		Round Table
The post-treatment management of leishmaniosis (endemic and non-endemic areas)
13:15 - 14:15Lunch
14:15 - 15:00Session 3: "Prospective for control"
Oral Communications		Keynote Speaker - Chiara Noli
Expect the unexpected: usual and unusual skin lesions in canine leishmaniosis

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15:00 - 15:15Session 4: "Immune response, consequences"
Oral Communications
15:15 - 16:00Keynote Speaker - Christopher Fernandez-Prada
Extracellular vesicles and canine leishmaniosis: friends or foes?

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16:00 - 16:45Coffee-Break | Poster Session | Commercial Exhibition
16:45 - 17:30Session 3 cont.: “Prospective for control”
Oral Communications		Session 4 cont.: “Immune response, consequences”
Oral Communications
17:30 - 18:15Round Table
Drug resistance		Round Table
Leishmaniosis and immune mediated diseases: diagnostic and therapeutic challenges
19:15Bus departure for Gala Dinner at the Chagall Museum
 Research StreamClinical Stream
08:00 - 08:45Informal Get Together (young scientists and clinicians breakfast with LeishVet group)
09:00 - 09:45Session 5: "Epidemiology: around the Leishmanias"
Oral Communications		Keynote Speaker - Manolis Saridomichelakis
When should clinicians suspect feline leishmaniosis?

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09:45 - 10:00Session 6: "Monitoring"
Oral Communications
10:00 - 10:45Keynote Speaker - Christine Petersen
Dogma, ecology, and potential reservoirs for Leishmania donovani in Bihar, India

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10:45 - 11:30Coffee-Break | Poster Session | Commercial Exhibition
11:30 - 12:15Session 5 cont.: "Epidemiology: around the Leishmanias"
Oral Communications		Session 6 cont.: "Monitoring"
Oral Communications
12:15 - 13:00Round Table
Leishmaniases: many diseases, One Health		Round Table
Coinfections
13:00 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 14:45Session 7: "One Health"
Oral Communications		Keynote Speaker - Lluís Ferrer
The conundrum of clinical relapses in canine leishmaniosis

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14:45 - 15:00Session 8: "Diagnosis"
Oral Communications
15:00 - 15:45Keynote Speaker - Filipe Dantas-Torres
Other Leishmania species infecting dogs: zoonotic and clinical significance

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15:45 - 16:30Coffee-Break | Poster Session | Commercial Exhibition
16:30 - 17:00Session 7 cont.: "One Health"
Oral Communications		Session 8 cont.: "Diagnosis"
Oral Communications
17:00 - 17:30Closing Ceremony