11:00am - 7:00pm

Registration & Check-In 

2:00pm - 2:10pm

Welcome - Marianna Bledsoe, MA, (ISBER President) NIH Office of Science Policy, Bethesda, MD (USA)
Overview - Robert Hewitt, MBBS PhD, (ISBER President-Elect) NUH-NUS Tissue Repository, National University Hospital, Singapore (Singapore)

2:10pm - 4:00pm

PLENARY SESSION:
Practical Applications of Biobanked Materials: From Samples to Results
Chairs: Marianna Bledsoe, MA, ISBER President, NIH Office of Science Policy, Bethesda, MD (USA) and Andrew Glass, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, OR (USA)

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Genomics, Medicine, and Society
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD (USA)

Teamwork in Linking Multiple Cohorts with Biobanks: Lessons from Pancreatic Cancer Genome Scan
Patricia Hartge, Sc.D., Whole Genome Scan for Pancreatic Cancer Risk, (PanScan) DCEG/NCI, Bethesda, MD (USA)

The California Birth Defects Monitoring Program - Banking Residual Maternal Blood Samples for Birth Defects Tracking
Gordon Frampton, Ph.D., The California Birth Defects Monitoring Program, Berkeley, CA (USA)

How Korean National Research Resource Centers (KNRRC) use Biobanked Material in Collaborations with Industry
Yeonhee Lee, Ph.D., Seoul Women’s University, Korean National Research Resource Center, Seoul (KOREA) 

4:00pm - 7:00pm

Opening Reception and Exhibits
Welcome: Marianna J. Bledsoe, MA, President
Robert Hewitt, MBBS, Ph.D., President-Elect
David Wellis, Ph.D., C.E.O., GenVault Corporation (Opening Reception Sponsored by GenVault)

7:30am - 6:30pm

Registration & Check-In 

8:30am - 9:45am

PLENARY SESSION:
Global Biobanking Collaborations: Are the Continents Ready? Part I
Chairs: Robert Hewitt, MBBS PhD, NUH-NUS Tissue Repository, National University Hospital, Singapore (Singapore) and Rebecca Pugh, M.S., National Institute of Standards & Technology, Charleston, SC (USA)
 

African Wildlife Biobanking for Global Conservation Efforts
Paul Bartels, Ph.D., Wildlife Biological Resource Centre / BioBankSA, National Zoological Gardens of South Africa (South Africa)

Biobanking - A Challenge for Natural History Museums Globally
Ole Seberg, F.L.S., Dr. Sc., National History Museum of Denmark, Botanical Garden and Museum (Denmark)

A Registry for Biorepositories - The First Step in Assessing the Impact of Biobanks
Robert Hanner, Ph.D., Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, Canadian Barcode of Life Network, Ontario (Canada)

9:45am - 10:45am

10:45am - 12:30pm

PLENARY SESSION:
Global Biobanking Collaborations: Are the Continents Ready? Part II
Chair: Jim Vaught, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD (USA) and Manuel Morente, M.D. Ph.D., Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas, Madrid (SPAIN)

Asian Network of Biological Resource Centers
Juncai Ma, Ph.D., (Asian BRC network) Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)

The European Research Infrastructure for Biobanks and Biological Resources
Kurt Zatloukal, M.D., European Research Infrastructure for Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources (BBMRI) Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz (Austria)

Harmonizing Biobanks Internationally - A Shared Goal
Paul Burton, Ph.D., University of Leicester, Department of Health Sciences and Department of Genetics, Leicester, (UK) Mylene Deschenes, B.C.L., L.L.B., L.L.M., Executive Director, P3G Consortium, Montreal, Quebec (Canada) and Isabel Fortier, Ph.D., Director, P3G Observatory, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)

Panel Discussion

12:30pm - 2:00pm (Concurrent Sessions)

Corporate Workshops
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GenVault Corporation

RTS Life Science

2:00pm - 3:30pm

 

POSTER DISCUSSION
Chair:  David Horsfall, Ph.D., Hanson Institute for Medical Research, Australian Prostate Cancer Bioresource, Adelaide (Australia)  Co-Chair: Robert Hewitt, MBBS PhD, NUH-NUS Tissue Repository, National University Hospital, Singapore (Singapore)

HSR9 A report of Bio-Sample Repository at the National Cancer Center Hospital (NCCH) in Tokyo
Koh Furuta, National Cancer Center Hospital (Japan) 

MR1 Database development for a centralized museum repository of genetic resources: first steps toward a portal to facilitate molecular-based research in biology
J. Andres Lopez (Alternative Presenter: Lorena Endara), Florida Museum of Natural History (USA) 

ASR6 The Integrated Primate Biomaterials And Information Resource
Joseph Lorenz, Coriell Institute for Medical Research (USA) 

QAC4 Implementation Of Standard Operating Procedures And Quality Assurance In EuroBoNeT Tissue Exchange
Monique Oomen, Erasmus MC Rotterdam (Netherlands) 

CCP2 Evaluation of Serum Free Cryopreservation Solutions for Cryopreservation of EBV Transformed Lymphocytes
Douglas Fugman, Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository (USA) 

HSR7 Designing and Establishing an International Research Registry Repository
Yvonne De Souza, UCSF AIDS Specimen Bank (USA) 

HSR15 Cancer Society Tissue Bank (CSTB) New Zealand: The Increasing Importance of Supplementary Sample Banking for Breast Cancer Research
Helen Morrin, University of Otago, Christchurch (New Zealand) 

RIN4 Establishing an Infrastructure for Digital Pathology in a Tissue Bank Facility
Thomas Barr, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital (USA) 

PSR2 Korea Brassica Genome Resource Bank (KBGRB): Integrated Genomic Resources of Brassica Species
Lim Yong Pyo, Korea Brassica Genome Resource Bank, Chungnam National University, (Republic of Korea)

HSR8 Retrospective Localization of Samples of Rare Diseases Using Public Health System Disease Registration Tools
Irene Fernández Romacho (Alternative Presenter: Manuel Morente), Red de Bancos de Tumores de Andalucía, Granada (Spain) 

BSR9 RNA quality of human breast tissue after surgical removal-effect of processing method, temperature and storage
Amy Shoemaker, Clinical Breast Care Project, Windber Research Institute (USA) 

NIN5 Venezuelan Biobank. A pilot study for its creation
Maria Correa de Adjounian, Universidad Central de Venezuela. (Venezuela) 

CCP1 Nanofiber Culture Plates for the Easy Banking and Reculture
Han-Ik Bae, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu (Republic of Korea) 

HSR6 Evaluation of DNA Extraction kits using the epMotion 5075
Jane Carpenter, Westmead Millennium Institute, (Australia) 

NIN6 The All-Ireland Cancer Biobank and Informatics Network for collaborative translational research: A progress report
Eoin Gaffney, St James' Hospital (Ireland)

ASR4 Aging Tissue Biobank and Data Base
Hae Young Chung, Pusan National University (Republic of Korea)

BSR4 Tissue Collection Protocol Differentially Influences RNA levels in Human Biospecimens
Rebecca Barnes, Tumour Tissue Repository, BC Cancer Agency (Canada)

7:30am - 6:30pm

Registration & Check-In 

7:30am - 8:20am

8:00am-5:00pm

Exhibits Open

8:30am - 10:30am

PLENARY SESSION:
Biobanking, Big Pharma and CROs: Challenges in Industry
Chairs: Pasquale DeBlasio, Ing., BioRep S.r.l., Milan, (Italy) and Phil Baird, M.S., Fisher BioServices, Rockville, MD (USA

Biorepositories, Biomarkers and the Critical Path
Samir Khleif, M.D., FDA (USA)

Expectations for Biorepositories in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Joseph Kessler, Merck Research Labs, Wayne, PA (USA)

Academic Biobanks and the Corporate Sector: Issues, Hurdles and Opportunities!
Anil R. Prasad, MD, University of Arizona Health Science Center, Tucson, AZ (USA)

Interacting with the Outside! Tales from the NCI's Open and Active Repository Experience
David J. Newman, D. Phil, National Cancer Institute, Natural Products Branch, Frederick, MD (USA)

Panel Discussion

10:30am - 11:30am

Visit the Posters and Exhibits

11:30am - 12:30pm

ISBER Award Presentations and Business Meeting

12:30pm - 2:00pm (Concurrent Sessions)

RoundTable Lunch Discussions
Join your colleagues in an interesting discussion on a special topic area during lunch. 

12:30pm - 2:00pm (Concurrent Sessions)

Corporate Workshops
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Air Liquide Healthcare America

Whatman Inc., Now a Part of GE Healthcare

2:00pm - 4:00pm (Concurrent Session)

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS I: Biospecimen Science
Chairs: Mark Cosentino, M.D., Ph.D., NCI-Frederick/SAIC , Frederick, MD (USA) and Eng Chon Boon, Ph.D., NUH-NUS Tissue Repository, National University Hospital (Singapore)

ASR1 Cryopreservation, archiving, and distribution to support functional annotation of the mouse genome: A role for the Canadian Mouse Mutant Repository in the International Knockout Mouse Consortium, Colin McKerlie

ASR2 Isolation, Characterization and Storage of Animal Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Claretta Losi

BSR1 Nanosphere-Enabled RNA Storage, in the Air Dried State, Michael Hogan

BSR2 Room temperature storage and stabilization of complex biological samples, Judy Muller-Cohn
QAC1 Development of a unique DNA fingerprinting assay for quality control and assurance in the Personalized Medicine Research Project cohort, Deanna Cross

QAC2 Histopathologic Quality Assurance Driving Scientific Advancement in a Pharmaceutical Research Tissue Bank, Sandra McDonald

2:00pm - 4:00pm (Concurrent Session)

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS II:
Biobank Networking
Chairs: Eoin Gaffney, St. James's Hospital , Dublin, Ireland, and Marianne Henderson, M.S., NCI/NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, MD (USA)

NIN1 Establishment of a Hereditary Tumor Bank Network in Brazil, Jose Claudio Casali-da-Rocha

NIN2 Sample Exchange Infrastructure Within EuroBoNeT A European Bone Tumor Project, Peter Riegman

NIN3 Centralised Access Streamlines Access to Cancer Biospecimens: Operational Model of the Victorian Cancer Biobank, Zoe Squire

NIN4 Informatics solutions for integrating centers of the Brazilian National Tumor and DNA Bank (BNT) network, Ricardo Silva

HT1 Quiet Revolution: Connectivity in the Cancer Research Community, Ian Fore

RIN1 CAISIS allows 22 research groups world-wide to manage clinical and biospecimen data in a single data format, Paul Fearn

4:00pm - 4:30pm

Visit the Posters and Exhibits

4:30pm - 6:30pm (Concurrent Session)

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS III:
Repository and Project Overviews
Chairs: William Grizzle, M.D., Ph.D., Tissue Collection & Banking Facility, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (USA) and Helen Morrin, Cancer Society Tissue Bank, University of Otago, Christchurch (New Zealand)
 

HSR1 The Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository: Biosample Storage and Processing In the 21st Century, Michael Sheldon

HSR2 Genetic Alliance BioBank: Community Directed Repository and Registry, Sharon Terry

HSR3 Creating a repository to identify the genetic and environmental causes of multiple sclerosis, Hollie Schmidt

HSR4 Facilitating Cancer Etiology and Early Marker Research by Enabling Access to a Large Biorepository of Well-Characterized Biospecimens, Danielle Carrick

ASR3 The Italian Cell Culture Reference Centre, Maura Ferrari

ER1 Blubber From Grey Seal Stored in the Swedish Environmental Specimen Bank Can Reveal Diet of Grey Seals in the Past Using Fatty Acid Signature Analyses (FASA), Ylva Lind

4:30pm - 6:30pm (concurrent session)

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS IV:
Biobank Management/Repository Automation
Chairs: Cynthia Kleeberger, M.A.S., Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham NC (USA)  and David Harding, RTS Life Science, Manchester (UK)

HSR5 The development of cost recovery policy in the NUH-NUS tissue repository, Rajeev Singh

RIN2 Biobanking: Accurate, Compliant and Efficient Management for Today's Biorepository, Alicia Sable-Hunt

RIN3 Biospecimen Information Management System Facilitating Molecular Profiling of Brain Tumors, Jian Wang

RAT1 Development of an Automated Frozen Sample Aliquotter, Dale Larson

RAT2 Liquid Nitrogen Refrigeration for Automated Sample Storage at -80°C., Peter Woods

RAT3 Self-Assembling Ceramic Nanospheres: A Reversible Matrix for Room Temperature DNA Storage, Michael Hogan

5:30pm - 6:30pm

7:30am - 1:30pm

Registration & Check-In 

7:30am - 8:20am

Working Group Breakfasts

8:30am - 10:30am

PLENARY SESSION:
Biospecimen Research: The Leading Edge in Repository Management & Panel Discussion
Chairs: Carolyn C. Compton, MD, PhD, NCI/OD, Bethesda, MD (USA) and David Horsfall, PhD, Hanson Institute for Medical Research, Australian Prostate Cancer Bioresource (Australia

Issues with Developing Biorepositories for Fluid Specimens
Patrick Sluss, PhD, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (USA)

Stability Testing to Support Deferred Analysis of Biospecimens for the National Children's Study
Barbara O'Brien, MPH, Westat, Rockville, MD (USA
 

Measurements of Degradation in Frozen Tissue: Effects of Packaging, Temperature, and Length of Storage
Scott Jewell, PhD, CHTN, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (USA)

Factors that Influence Biomolecular Analysis of Laser Capture Microdissected Samples
John Gillespie, M.D., (Contractor), National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, MD (USA)

Panel Discussion

WORKSHOP (Sponsored by the E & T Committee;
Balancing Your Bank: Biobanking Cost Recovery & Financial Planning
Moderator: Peter H.J. Riegman, PhD, Tissue Resource Manager, Erasmus MC Tissue Bank, Coordinator, European Human Frozen Tumor Tissue Bank (Tubafrost), Chair, OECI Pathbiology Group, Chair EORTC Tissue Bank Steering Committee, Department of Pathology, Josephine Nefkens Institute, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, (The Netherlands)

Speakers:
Lisa B. Miranda, BS, CCRC, Technical Director, TTAB Tumor Tissue and Biospecimen Bank Facility, University of Pennsylvania, Biospecimen Resource Consultant, USA
Peter Geary, MBA, Director & Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Tumour Repository Network (CTRNet), Manitoba, Canada 

Panel Participant:
Brian J. Clark, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, on Core, Hertfordshire, (UK)

Workshop Contributor:
Lisa Devereux, Research Manager, Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, (Australia)