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Programme Outline 

APHIA Programme outline JULY 10 subject to change

Tuesday 16th November 2010

8.00 : 21.00

Registration

9.00 : 12.00

User Group Meetings – (1) One Lambda (2) Diagnostic Solutions

9.00 : 12.00

APHIA Council Meeting

12.00 : 13.00

Lunch in exhibition and poster area       

13.00 : 15.00

APHIA Quality Assurance Programme

15.00 : 15.30

Tea Break in exhibition and poster area

15.30 : 16.00

Welcome, Introduction and Keynote

  History of tissue typing in the Asia-Pacific Region, Brian Tait (Melbourne)

 

Peter Parham, Topic TBA

 

Current approaches to overcoming blood group incompatibility and donor specific HLA antibodies in solid organ transplantation, Shlomo Cohney (Melbourne)

 

Welcome reception with Central Otago wine tasting to be held in the hotel garden courtyard
Sponsored by: Histogenetics

 

Evening free to dine in Queenstown or in hotel

 

Wednesday 17th November 2010                            

8.00 : 21.00

Registration

8.30 : 12.30

PLENARY SESSION 1
Advances in solid organ transplantation

 

Advances in tissue typing and their clinical application in solid organ transplantation, Shlomo Cohney (Melbourne)

  

Paired exchange organ transplantation, Frank Christiansen (Perth)

  

Organ trafficking, Ian Dittmer (Auckland)

 

Tea Break in exhibition and poster area

 

Relevance of luminex antibodies, crossmatches and SOT, Ilias Doxiadis (Leiden)

                          

Selected abstracts for oral presentation #1: relevance of luminex antibodies, crossmatching and solid organ transplantation (5-6x 7+2 mins)

12.30 : 13.30

Lunch in exhibition and poster area                       

13.30 : 17.00

PENARY SESSION 2
“Advances in haematopoietic stem cell transplantation

 

Jim McCluskey (Melbourne,) Topic TBA

 

MHC polymorphism, John Trowsdale (Cambridge)

 

KIR polymorphism, Derek Middleton (Liverpool)

 

Tea Break in exhibition and poster area

 

Advances in matching and umbilical cord transplantation, Lochie Teague (Auckland)

 

Selected abstracts for oral presentation #2 (5-6x 7+2 mins)

18.00 : 19.30

Poster session with wine/cheese
Sponsored by: Roche Diagnostics NZ Ltd

20.00 : 23.00  

“Café Crawl”- dining in 3 restaurants, entrée, main, dessert

           

APHIA Council Dinner with invited speakers

 

Thursday 18th November 2010

 

Specialist Interest Group (SIG) and Workshop Meetings

13.00 : 14.00

APHIA Annual General Meeting               

14.00 : 15.30

Scientific Session“HLA genomics”

 

Reductio ad inheritum, Malcolm Simons (Melbourne)    

 

Peter Parham (Stanford), Topic TBA

 

MHC and non MHC genetic susceptibility to type 1 diabetes, Brian Tait (Melbourne)  

15.30 : 16.00

Tea Break in exhibition and poster area

16.00 : 17.00

Scientific Session “Transfusion support”                                             

 

Transfusion reactions and haemovigilance, Dorothy Dinesh (Auckland)

 

Platelet immunology, speaker TBA

 

Managing the platelet refractory patient, Jon Downing  (Auckland)        

18.00 : 22.00

Cruise on TSS Earnslaw to Walter-Peak Station and Conference Dinner, incl prize presentation (x 2)
Sponsored by : Conexio Genomics, Biofortuna and Wiratech  

 

Friday 19th November 2010

8.30 : 10.30

Scientific Session
“Genetics and donor selection”

                               

Steve Marsh (London) Topic TBA

 

Finding donors for NZ HSCT patients, Hilary Blacklock (Auckland)

 

HLA migration to remote Oceania, Geoff Chambers (Wellington)

 

Campbell Witt (Perth), Topic TBA

10.30 : 11.00      

Tea Break in exhibition and poster area          

11.00 : 15.00

Scientific Session
“Modern population genetics in the Asia-Pacific region”

 

To be confimed.

12.00 : 13.00

Lunch in exhibition and poster area

 

KIR population genetics in Indonesia, Marija Velickovic (Sydney)

 

KIR polymorphism in Thai blood donors, Pimpun Kipotke (Bangkok)

 

HLA diversity in Thai bone marrow and cord blood donors, Pawinee Kupatawintu (Bangkok)

 

Update on new nomenclature and 16th IHWS, Steve Marsh  (London)

15.00 : 15.10      

APHIA 2011

15.10                    

Closing Remarks followed by Afternoon Tea

 

 

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