Agenda

Venom Week 2025 Agenda Snake GIF

TimeSessionDetails
8:30 AMShuttle PickupOllie the Trolley picks up attendees from hotel
9:00 AMOpening RemarksDr. Luis Padilla, Kristen Wiley, and Jessi Krebs – Welcome to Venom Week's 20th Anniversary
9:15 AMKeynoteStephen S. Hall – "Fangs and the Pharmakon" -- How Ancient and Modern Snake Symbolism Intersects With Contemporary Science
10:00 AMTalkDr. Haley Beer – Optimizing Captive Snake Conditions with AI
10:20 AMMorning BreakSign-up for Thursday Venomous Snake Handling Course (limited capacity)
10:40 AMTalkDr. Philip Bickler – Understanding Neurotoxicity and Key Questions in the Field
11:00 AMTalkDr. Cory Woliver – Varespladib in Dogs with Neurotoxic Envenoming
11:20 AMTalkJordan Benjamin β€” Deadly Dendroaspis - A Decade Of Pearls, Pitfalls And Lessons Learned Managing Mamba Bites In West Africa
11:40 AMPanel DiscussionBickler, Woliver, Benjamin - Neurotoxic Envenomings Panel and Discussion
12:00 PMLunchLunch Break (12:00–1:00 PM)
1:00 PMTalkDr. Rick Dart – Surprises & Controversies in Emergency Medicine
1:30 PMTalkDr. Charles Gerardo β€” Highlights from Recent Clinical Trials
1:50 PMTalkDr. Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci - Psychometric Evaluation of the Snakebite Severity Score (SSS) in a Multinational Randomized Clinical Trial
2:10 PMAfternoon Break—
2:20 PMTalkDr. Lyndi Gilliam - Snakebite Treatment in Horses
2:40 PMTalkDr. Stephen Mackessy – Major Toxins of Snake Venoms: Evolution, Diversification, and their Actions
3:00 PMTalkDr. StanisΕ‚aw Pikul – Developing Marimastat as a New Drug for the Treatment of Snakebite Envenoming
3:20 PMTalkNick Gordon - 72 Hours, 37 Venomous Animals - Lessons from a Major Confiscation Event
3:40 PMTalkAarΓ³n GΓ³mez - The Welfare of Horses Used for Snake Antivenom Manufacture: Stress Levels, Hematological Condition, and Plasma Productivity
4:00 PMAdjourn for Day—
5:00 PMDome: Behind the ScenesDesert Dome Tour
5:00 PMCocktail HourDesert Dome Bar
7:00 PMDinnerTreetop Restaurant
8:30 - 9:30 PMShuttle PickupReturn to hotel
TimeSessionDetails
8:30 AMShuttle PickupOllie the Trolley picks up attendees from hotel
9:00 AMTalkDr. Sakthi Vaiyapuri – Long-Term Effects of Snakebite and a New Molecule for Muscle Recovery
9:30 AMTalkDr. Choo Hock Tan – Comparative Physiology & Preclinical Therapeutics
10:00 AMMorning Break—
10:20 AMKey TalkDr. Melisa Benard Valle - Design and Development of Recombinant Antivenoms to treat Snake Envenomation in Sub-Saharan Africa
10:40 AMTalkSamuel Kerwin - In Vivo Results and Observations of a Novel Oligoclonal Nanobody-Based Recombinant Antivenom
11:00 AMTalkMark Bellin - Snake Venom Protection by a Cocktail of Varespladib and Broadly Neutralizing Human Antibodies
11:20 AMTalkDr. Emelyn Salazar - Decoding the Biological Activities of True Cobras (Naja spp.) Venoms
11:40 AMTalkDr. Montamas Suntravat - Investigating the Potential Roles of Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) in the Pathogenesis of the Early Phase of Snake Envenomation
12:00 PMLunchLunch Break
1:00 – 4:00 PM 🚌 Breakout Session Venomous Snake Handling Course
Led by Dennis Ferraro – Hands-on training and safety protocols
Limited attendance. Takes place off-site and runs concurrently with main conference talks. Sign-up Wednesday Morning
1:00 PMTalkDr. Cara Smith - Discerning Specific Thrombolytic Activities and Blood Clot Degradomes of Diverse Snake Venoms with Untargeted Peptidomics
1:20 PMTalkJames Hearth – Varespladib for Massive Hymenoptera Envenomation
1:40 PMTalkChelsea Martin - Temperament and Retaliation: Personality Influences the Defensive Behaviors and Venom Use of Rattlesnakes
2:00 PMBreak—
2:20 PMTalkDr. Anna Tupetz - Perspectives on Acute and Post-Acute Care of Snakebite Envenoming Patients
2:40 PMTalkDr. Cuong Q. Nguyen - Repurposing FDA-Approved Drugs to Inhibit Phospholipase A2
3:00AdjournPoster setup and preparation
3:30 PMPoster SessionPoster Presentations
5:00 PMExhibitor HallNetworking Event with Exhibitors
TimeSessionDetails
8:30 AMShuttle PickupOllie the Trolley picks up attendees from hotel
9:00 AMTalkDr. Elda E. Sanchez - Extracellular Vesicles in Snakebite Envenoming: Dual Origins and Emerging Roles in Pathophysiology and Therapy
9:20 AMTalkDr. Geoffrey Smelski – Long-Term Clinical Outcomes after Rattlesnake Envenomation
9:40 AMTalkLorenzo Seneci - Highway to helleri: Geographic patterns and medical implications of venom variation in the Southern Pacific Rattlesnake
10:00 AMTalkJerrod Tynes – The Importance of North American Venomous Reptile Identification in Curriculum Development for Healthcare Providers
10:20 AMMorning Break—
10:40 AMTalkDr. William Hayes - Venom Ontogeny in Helodermatid Lizards
11:00 AMTalkDr. Spencer Greene – Once, Twice, Three Times a Bite Victim: Recidivism in Snake Envenomation
11:20 AMTalkDr. Ben German - True Compartment Syndrome following a Bitis arietans (Puff Adder) bite
11:40 AMTalkDr. Dan Keyler – Envenoming by Conophis lineatus concolor (Dipsadidae)
12:00 PMLunchLunch Break
1:00 PMKey TalkDr. Jeffrey Ettling – Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Armenian Vipers (Montivipera raddei) in Two Landscapes: Implications for Conservation
1:40 PMTalkDr. Ana Luiza B. Paiva - Development of a Recombinant Antigen as Alternative for Antivenom Production for the treatment of Envenomation by Lachesis spp. snakes
2:00 PMTalkNeil Balchan - Deconstructing a rattlesnake's kiss: A story of metalloproteinase, myotoxin, and mouse
2:20 PMTalkKaryn Wheatley - Safe Management of King Cobras (Ophiophagus spp.) in Zoo Collections
2:40 PMAfternoon Break—
3:00 - 4:00 PMToxinology JeopardyConference Review: Quiz and Expert Discussion with Prizes (Moderator: James Hearth)
4:00 PMEnd of Conference TalksExplore the Henry Doorly Zoo
5:00 PMCocktail HourPre-dinner social and networking
6:00 PMBanquet Dinner & AwardsCelebrating 20 Years of Venom Week

End of Conference