Speaker:  Assoc. Prof David Phalen, University of Sydney

David Phalen, Associate Professor, University of Sydney, DVM from Cornell University, Ph.D. in Pathobiology from Texas A&M University. He is a member of the Avian Specialty of the American Board of Veterinary Medicine, Director of the University of Sydney's Center for Wildlife Health and Conservation and the Avian Reptile and Exotic Veterinary Hospital, and director of the University of Sydney's Master's Program in Wildlife Health and Population Management. His research interests include infectious, toxicological, and nutritional diseases of wildlife and exotic animals, as well as wildlife ecology and conservation.

Topic: Assessing the impact of disease as a cause of wildlife decline

Session 1

Introduction

Assessing the health of the individual wild animal

Assessing the health of a population of wild animals

Session 2

The avian postmortem:  collecting samples from an animal that has died so that a diagnosis can be made.

Nutritional diseases of wild animals and captive wildlife

Session 3

Toxicological diseases

Infectious diseases: Impacts on wild populations

Session 4

Infectious diseases:  Impacts on captive breeding programs

Infectious diseases:  Some Australian examples

Date and Places:

Tuesday 24 November, 9:30-11:30; Zoom meeting ID-61955244900  Code-817018

Friday 27 November, 9:30-11:30; Room 409, Ecology Building, BNU / Zoom meeting ID-69699763533  Code-369796

Tuesday 01 December, 9:30-11:30; Zoom meeting ID-66714456665  Code-635718

Friday 04 December, 9:30-11:30; Zoom meeting ID-68592574953  Code-247596

Host : Prof. Li Zhang