Program
Monday, April 3, 2017 |
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GENERAL INFORMATION | |
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Registration Hours |
6:30 PM - 8:15 PM | Exhibition Hours (including Get Together) |
PROGRAM | |
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Short Courses in Informatics Practical Informatics: Interpretation Somatic Variant Interpretation and Reporting - The Informatics Underpinning in the Light of Recent AMP Guidelines Complexities in the Analysis and Interpretation of NGS Data for Inherited Disorders Practical Informatics: Pipeline Methods for Calling and Prioritzation of Somatic Variants from Panel, Exome and Genome Sequencing Validation of NGS Bioinformatics Pipelines: The AMP Working Group Guideline Practical Informatics: Mining Databases Linking Whole-Exome Cancer Sequencing Analysis with Therapeutics and Other Datasources What Have Public Databases Taught Us about Clinical Variant Classification |
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Lunch |
2:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Industry Workshops |
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM | Opening Remarks |
5:15 PM - 6:45 PM |
General Session: Mining Clinical Information from Big Data Molecular Pathology Informatics – Infrastructures and Toolsets for Distributed and Scalable Cancer Genomics in Clinical Practice ClinGen Allele Registry, Pathogenicity Calculator, and the Emerging Computational Knowledge Resources for Clinical Genomics |
6:45 PM - 8:00 PM | Opening Networking Reception |
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 |
|
GENERAL INFORMATION | |
7:30 AM - 6:00 PM | Registration Hours |
7:30 AM - 6:00 PM | Exhibition Hours |
PROGRAM | |
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
General Session: Cancer Diagnostics: Therapeutic Resistance and Minimal Residual Disease Cancer Evolution as a Therapeutic Target Molecular Diagnostics in Myeloid Malignancies in the Era of NGS - Changing Paradigms |
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break - Visit Posters & Exhibits |
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
Breakout Sessions Profiling ctDNA, CTC and Cell Free DNA Circulating Tumor DNA in the Real World: Challenges and Opportunities The Clinical Applications and Validation of Cell-free DNA-based Digital PCR Assays Advanced Diagnostics for Hematopoietic Neoplasms Next Generation Sequencing and Leukemia Diagnosis Impact of NGS Data on Lymphoma Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment Economic Considerations in Genomic Testing & Panel Design Choose Wisely: Comprehensive vs Targeted Genetic Tumor Profiling Syndromic Infectious Disease Testing: Advantages, Challenges and Opportunities |
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch |
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
General Session: Small & Degraded Samples Circulating Tumor Cells, Cell Free DNA, Liquid Biopsies Targeted Sequencing in Small Tissue Biopsy Specimens |
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | Coffee Break - Visit Posters & Exhibits |
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM |
Breakout Session on Tissue Specimens Clonal Evolution and Heterogeneity in Solid Tumors Molecular Prostate Cancer Heterogeneity Intratumoral Heterogeneity: Inferring How Human Tumors Grow New Aspects in Immunotherapy & Epigenetics Open Access PERSONAL Genomics and Epigenomics Tissue Specimens: Viral Carcinogenesis HPV-Induced Carcinogenesis and Viral Integration Viral Carcinogenesis in Polyomavirus-Induced Carcinogenesis and Viral Integration |
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Presentations from Selected Abstracts |
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Networking Social (Please see Registration Desk for more infomration) |
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 |
|
GENERAL INFORMATION | |
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM | Registration Hours |
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | Exhibition Hours |
PROGRAM | |
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
General Session: New Applications in Clinical Microbiology and Oncology The Triumph of MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry and New Developments in Tandem Mass Spectrometry for Clinical Microbiology Chemical Proteomics Reveals the Target Landscape of Clinical Kinase Inhibitors |
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break - Visit Posters & Exhibits |
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM |
Short Courses Updates in Molecular Tumor Pathology Updates on the Guidelines for Lung Cancer Testing HER2 in Gastric Cancer Interface between Infectious Agents and the Human Genome The Human Gastrointestinal Microbiome and Advances in Metagenomic Medicine Update on the Use of Human Gene Expression for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases Liquid Specimens: Prenatal and Urine NIPT Beyond Aneuploidy Screening Molecular Testing of Urine for Detection of Cancer |
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch |
2:00 PM - 4:15 PM | Industry Workshops |
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Break |
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM | Award Recognition & Closing Remarks from Organizing Chair |
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM |
General Session: Quality Assurance in Molecular Diagnostics Quality Assurance in Pathology: The QuiP Experience Good or Bad Sequencing Data? Setting a Benchmark for the Quality of NGS in the Diagnostic Lab |