The 1st International Online Conference on Veterinary Sciences
The 1st International Online Conference on Veterinary Sciences
Veterinary Virology in the New Era: Comprehensive Research from Identification to Prevention
Part of the International Online Conference on Veterinary Sciences series
Event's Timezone: Central European Time
4 September 2025
24 September 2025
28 November 2025
Vaccine, Antivirals, Epidemiology, Microbiome, Zoonoses
IOCVS 2025 Abastract Submission has been closed.
Free registration HERE until 28 November 2025.
For any inquiries, please contact us at iocvs2025@mdpi.com.
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the 1st International Online Conference on Veterinary Sciences (IOCVS 2025), set to take place online from 3-5 December 2025, promoted by the open access MDPI journal Veterinary Sciences (ISSN: 2306-7381; Impact Factor: 2.3). This virtual event provides an invaluable platform for researchers, clinicians, and experts in veterinary sciences to gather, discuss, and exchange insights on the latest developments in the field.
This conference will focus on, but is not limited to, the following five sessions:
-Identification and Detection of Novel Animal Viruses;
-Development and Optimization of Animal Vaccines;
-Veterinary Epidemiology;
-Antiviral Therapy;
-Virology in One Health.
We invite the community to join us in making the first International Online Conference on Veterinary Sciences a successful and impactful event. Let’s engage, collaborate, and push the boundaries of veterinary science together!
Lastly, we would like to express our sincere gratitude for your unwavering support and participation, which will make this conference a great success!
Kind regards,
Director, Animal Disease Diagnostic Center at Huazhong Agricultural University, China
National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University
Program Overview
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3 December 2025 - Morning
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4 December 2025 - Morning
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5 December 2025 - Morning
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3 December 2025 - Afternoon
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Event Chair
National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China,
The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University. Selected as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics and listed among the top 2% of global scientists. He has long been engaged in research on the infection mechanisms and control technologies of animal pathogens. He has published over 100 research papers in international journals, with 39 papers as the first or corresponding author (including co-authorship) in leading international journals. His work has been cited over 8,700 times, with an H-index of 37. Nine of his papers have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers. One of his articles was recognized as the most influential and innovative COVID-19-related research in Nature Communications (ranked 1st) and ranked 3rd among the 50 most influential papers of 2020. He holds 7 authorized invention patents (including 1 international patent) and has participated in the approval of 2 national new veterinary drug certificates.
Host Pathogen Interactions program, Disease Intervention and Prevention Program, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, USA,
Assistant Professor of Virology, Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Viruses, National Research Centre, Egypt
Dr. Ahmed Mostafa Elsayed is a Staff Scientist at Texas Biomedical Research Institute’s Host-Pathogen Interactions and Disease Intervention and Prevention Programs. His research focuses on viral evolution, transmission, and viral pathogenesis of zoonotic viruses, aiming to advance recombinant vaccines and antiviral therapies. He has extensive experience in high-containment labs (BSL2–BSL4) and expertise in viral-host interactions, antiviral testing, vaccine development, and animal models. Dr. Elsayed has authored over 135 publications with 4,500+ citations (H-index 35) and was named among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2023 and 2024.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Leyi Wang
College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Diagnosis of viral infectious diseases and vaccine development; Application of Next-Generation Sequencing for characterization of pathogens
Dr. Rui Guo
National & Local United Engineering Laboratory of Natural Biotoxin, Apitherapy Research Institute, College of Bee Science and Biomedicine of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
Bee-pathogen interaction; non-coding RNA; omics; functional genes; disease diagnosis and control
Prof. Dr. Xing-Quan Zhu
College of Veterinary Medicine, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong, China
parasite genetics; genomics and functional “omics”; molecular vaccines; molecular epidemiology and diagnostics
Prof. Dr. Yingyu Chen
National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Animal epidemiology and bovine diseases
Prof. Dr. Yongtao Li
Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
new technologies for diagnosis and prevention of important swine diseases such as African swine fever, blue ear disease and viral diarrhea
Prof. Dr. Francis Eko
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
vaccine, delivery system, vaccine evaluation and testing, immunity
PD Dr. El-Sayed M. Abdel-Whab
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology (IMVZ), Germany
Virology, Zoonoses, One Health, Molecular Biology; Influenza, Interspecies Transmission, Molecular Determinants
Event Committee
Department of Epizootology, Parasitology and Protection of One Health, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia
animal viruses; molecular virology; molecular diagnostics; molecular epidemiology; analysis of virus genomes
Virology and Parasitology Laboratory (LABVIRPA), Federal University of Acre (UFAC), Rio Branco, Brazil
virology, parasitology, epidemiology, molecular diagnosis
National Reference Centre for Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR), Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Umbria-Marche, Perugia, Italy
herpesviruses; pestiviruses; African Swine Fever Virus; circovirus; swine influenza virus; porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus; cell biology; DNA immunization; chimeric vaccines; experimental infection in vivo and in vitro under BSL3 facil
preventive veterinary medicine; public health
Virology Department, Institute of Veterinary Medicine of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
veterinary virology; transboundary animal diseases; viral diseases diagnostics; epidemiology
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia “A. Mirri”, Italy,
Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Polo Universitario dell’Annunziata, Italy
Veterinary virology; animal infectious diseases; epidemiology; sequence analysis; companion animals
State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
microbiology; hematology; immunology
EpiCentre, School of Veterinary Science - Tāwharau Ora, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4410, New Zealand
veterinary epidemiology, quantitative data analysis, farm biosecurity, diagnostic evaluation and validation, infectious disease modelling
Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
antivirals; animal virus; pathobiology; molecular biology
Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neuroscience, Medicine Academy, Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Veterinary Academy,
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
neurophysiology, tick-borne encephalitis virus, emerging zoonotic viruses, epidemiology, veterinary hematology and toxicology
School of Biotechnology, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China
Poultry genetics, breeding and reproduction, application of plant-based feed in livestock and poultry
Immunodiagnostic, Immunotherapy, Viral infection, Monoclonal antibodies
Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
virology (host-pathogen interactions); cellular microbiology; proteomics
gut microbiota modification with a focus on the gut-disease relation
Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre (TIDREC), Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
infectious diseases; antiviral; vaccine; drug discovery; virology
Center for Human and Animal Virology, CEVHAN-CONICET, Interamerican Open University, Buenos Aires Ciudad, Argentina
arenavirus; virus Junin; vaccines; immune response; host-pathogen interactions
microbiology; immunology; infectious diseases; antimicrobial resistance; One Health
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya
immunology; virology
Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
viral genetic variability; hepatitis viruses; antiviral resistance; new viral biomarkers
Laboratory of Animal Pathology, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, State University of Londrina, Brazil
bovine respiratory disease; canine distemper virus; diagnostic immunohistochemistry; infectious diseases of domestic animals; malignant catarrhal fever; Neorickettsia helmintheoca; molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases
Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy - Institute of National Importance for the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
chemical thermodynamics; biothermodynamics; nonequilibrium thermodynamics; biochemistry; biophysics
Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
zoonotic infections; avian influenza virus; avian corona virus; molecular virology; avian pathology
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour, Egypt
Animal Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Diagnosis
Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, USA
Developmental Biology; Immunology
National University of Singapore, Duke-NUS Medical School, Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Singapore
Molecular Virology, Animal Models, Zoonotic Diseases, Hepatitis Viruses, Respiratory Viruses
Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Canada
porcine viruses, mink viruses, influenza, HIV, coronaviruses, emerging viral diseases, zoonotic viruses, virus-host interactions
Institute for Game and Wildlife Research (IREC - CSIC,
UCLM, JCCM), Spain
vaccine development, animal viruses, wildlife-livestock interface, environmental contamination
virology; sequencing; phylogenetic
Zoonosis, Viral disease, RNA virus, Biosafety, Animal model, Virus pathogenicity
Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex (PRDC); Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV); Porcine Circovirus type 2 (PCV2)
Zoonotic Diseases; Antibiotic Resistance; Computer-Aided Drug Discovery; One Health & Food Safety; Natural Antimicrobials & Biomarkers in Veterinary Medicine
Senior Researcher, Division of Biomedical and Life
Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK,
Associate Professor of Virology, Cairo University, Egypt
Development and Optimization of next generation Vaccines; Innate Immunity; Virus-Host Interactions; Interferon Signaling; Viral Pathogenesis; RNA Virus Evolution; Diagnostics and Molecular Surveillance; CRISPR Applications in Virology
Immunopharmacology and vaccine response; Host-pathogen interactions in veterinary infectious diseases; Antiviral therapeutics and immunomodulators; Molecular virology (IBV, AIV, ILTV, Toxoplasma gondii); Development and optimization of animal vaccines
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, USA,
CERI Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, Stellenbosch University, Van Der Byl Rd, Stellenbosch Central, South Africa
Climate Change and Disease Spread; Phylodynamic Modeling; Arbovirus Transmission; Zoonotic Viruses; Wildlife Surveillance
Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sadat City, Sadat City, Egypt
Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China
antimicrobial resistance; resistance mechanisms; bacterial disease of swine; vaccine; transmmission mechanism of resistance genes; streptococcus suis; epidemiology
Keynote Speakers
Host Pathogen Interactions program, Disease Intervention and Prevention Program, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78245, USA,
Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Viruses, National Research Centre, Egypt
The Expanding Challenge of H5N1: Driving Innovation in Avian Influenza Vaccine Development
Dr. Ahmed Mostafa Elsayed is a Staff Scientist at Texas Biomedical Research Institute’s Host-Pathogen Interactions and Disease Intervention and Prevention Programs. His research focuses on viral evolution, transmission, and viral pathogenesis of zoonotic viruses, aiming to advance recombinant vaccines and antiviral therapies. He has extensive experience in high-containment labs (BSL2–BSL4) and expertise in viral-host interactions, antiviral testing, vaccine development, and animal models. Dr. Elsayed has authored over 135 publications with 4,500+ citations (H-index 35) and was named among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2023 and 2024.
avian influenza, Antiviral, vaccination, molecular Virology, RNA viruses
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology (IMVZ), Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
Influenza Virus: One Health
Virology, Zoonoses, One Health, Molecular Biology; Influenza, Interspecies Transmission, Molecular Determinants
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Speech Title: Harnessing the power of ghosts in animal vaccine development
Dr. Eko is Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Morehouse School of Medicine and NIH Principal Investigator. He obtained the Dr.Sc. degree in Microbiology from the University of Vienna, Austria. Dr. Eko designed the novel Vibrio cholerae ghost (VCG) vaccine delivery platform, which he utilizes for the development of human and veterinary vaccines. He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, American Association of Immunology, and Chlamydia Basic Research Society. Dr. Eko has received numerous awards and is an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Cellular & Infection Microbiology and Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports and Biomedicines
vaccine, delivery system, vaccine evaluation and testing, immunity
Speech Title: Application of Next Generation Sequencing for Viral Identification and Challenge
Application of Next Generation; Sequencing for Viral Identification and Challenge
Department of Biomedical And Life Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Challenges in NDV Control and Solutions Ahead
Muhammad Munir is a Professor of Virology at the Lancaster University in the Northwest of England, UK. Prof Munir has been studying virus pathobiology, viral antagonism of immune responses, and host factors that limit virus replication for last 15 years. Owing to his extensive research on Newcastle disease virus (NDV) including proprietary vector establishment, Pro Munir is a leading figure in the NDV-based vaccine development. Molecular Virology Laboratory of Prof Munir holds HSE-compliant CL3 facility, egg incubation facility and viral vectors. He also acts as Technical Advisor of pharmaceuticalsand supports novel product development for both human and animals. Prof Munir has promoted the public understanding of viruses and zoonoses, presenting over 1000 times on CNN, BBC, SkyNews, ITV, Al-Jazeera, GBNews, among others on both national and international forums. Prof Munir has won Dean’s Award 2022 and Research Impact Award 2022 for his research excellence on viruses. Prof Munir is author of >175 articles, 8 books, 25 book chapters and is the Associate Editor of Scientific Reports and Microbial Pathogenesis amongst others.
Avian orthoavulavirus, avian diseases, immune
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Brisbane, Australia
Yin is a Research Scientist with CSIRO Agriculture and Food in Australia. His background is in veterinary epidemiology and he has extensive experience in animal disease surveillance, outbreak investigation and training official veterinaries and academic staff on epidemiology. He is passionate about promoting veterinary epidemiology in developing countries. Yin has substantial field experience. He has conducted analysis on animal health loss, biosecurity gaps, animal health surveys on the pig and poultry industries in countries and has undertaken a series of outbreak investigations on notifiable animal diseases, including African Swine Fever, Avian Influenza (HPAI and H7N9), Foot-and-Mouth Disease, and Peste Des Petits Ruminants (PPR). In the past years, Yin has published over 35 peer-reviewed papers.
National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Animal epidemiology and bovine diseases
Invited Speakers
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia, Italy,
Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Polo Universitario dell’Annunziata, Italy
veterinary virology; animal infectious diseases; epidemiology; sequence analysis; companion animals
Institue of Infection, Veterinary & Ecological Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Speech Title: Genomic Characterization of Avian Infectious Bronchitis Virus Using a Probe-Capture Enrichment Approach
Dr. Yan is an Associate Clinical Professor at the Mississippi Veterinary Research & Diagnostic Laboratory with more than 12 years’ expertise in molecular diagnostics, classical virology, and whole‑genome sequencing. She has led testing and control efforts for Avian Influenza outbreaks in Mississippi (2022–2025) and Minnesota (2015) and conducted research on Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus and Infectious Bronchitis Virus. Her research centers on viral infectious diseases and the characterization of bacterial and viral pathogens using whole‑genome sequencing. Committed to advancing molecular diagnostics, Dr. Yan maintains a strong scholarly record with numerous peer‑reviewed publications, book chapters and conference presentations.
Registration
The registration for IOCVS 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 28th November 2025.
Instructions for Authors
The 1st International Online Conference on Veterinary Sciences - Veterinary Virology in the New Era: Comprehensive Research from Identification to Prevention will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
1. Deadline for abstract submission has been extended: 4 September 2025
2. Deadline for abstract acceptance notification: 24 September 2025
You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.
1. The structure abstract should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please ensure that all co-author information is thoroughly completed when submitting your abstract to prevent any omissions.
3. The requirements for full affiliation include:
(1) Department/School/Faculty/Campus;
(2) University/Company/Institute;
(3) City;
(4) Post/ZIP code or equivalent, where available;
(5) Country.
4. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.
- Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3).
- You can use our free template to create your poster.
The poster template can be downloaded HERE. We will reach out to you closer to the dates of the conference with more information.
All accepted authors and registered participants will receive a Certificate of Participation as recognition of their contribution to IOCVS2025.
Certificates of Participation are available in your logged-in area of Sciforum.net, under “My Certificates” after the conference.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to a Special Issue published in Veterinary Sciences (ISSN: 2306-7381; Impact Factor: 2.3), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
2. Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published free of charge in the conference report of IOCVS 2025 in Biology and Life Sciences Forum (ISSN: 2673-9976); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper, free of charge, (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
Proceedings submission deadline: 16 January 2026
Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide six awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be six winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Sponsors and Partners
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