ISBER 2009 Annual Meeting &
Exhibits
May 12 -15, 2009
Portland, Oregon, USA |

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Meeting Agenda

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Tuesday, May 12,
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8:00am - 12:00pm
NOTE: This is an
Optional Workshop
and Requires an Additional Registration Fee.
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Optional Workshop
Designing and Maintaining a Tissue Repository
William E. Grizzle and Katherine C. Sexton, Tissue Collection
and Banking Facility
University of Alabama at Birmingham and Southern Division,
Cooperative Human Tissue Network, USA
Optional Workshop
Requires an additional registration fee.
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Who Should Attend?
Anyone thinking about or planning to establish a repository
should attend. Those who have recently begun repositories will
also find the workshop useful.
How You Will Benefit from this Workshop
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Gain insight
about the various repository models available |
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Learn what
issues should be considered when designing and operating a
repository |
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Discuss the
various types of services your repository might want to provide
(without performing the investigator’s research for them!) |
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Understand
the importance of quality control and safety in the repository |
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Learn how to
develop an appropriate cost recovery model |
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Gain a
better understanding about the legal, ethical, and regulatory
issues that may affect the repository |
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Understand
the “nuts and bolts” of operating a repository
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Identify
space and resources needed to begin a repository |
Appropriate time will be devoted to questions and audience
discussion.
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Workshop Agenda |
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Tuesday, May
12, 2009 |
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2:00pm - 4:15pm |
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ISBER'S First Ten Years: A Look Back, A
Look Ahead
Chairs: Roger Aamodt, PhD, Aamodt Enterprises, Gaithersburg,
MD, USA, and
Fay Betsou, DrSc, HDR, Biobanque de Picardie, Saluex, France |
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Welcome
and and Introduction from the ISBER President
Robert Hewitt, MB BS, BSc (Hons), PhD, (ISBER President),
National University Hospital, NUH-NUS Tissue Repository,
Singapore |
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Ten Years
that Changed the Biobanking World - ISBER’s First Decade
Elaine W. Gunter, MT (ASCP), Specimen Solutions, LLC, Tucker,
GA, USA |
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Cancer
HUB for Gold-Standard Sample Collection
Jim Vaught, PhD, Office of Biorepositories & Biospecimen
Research, NIH, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Ischemia
Time and Quality of Derivatives
Hartmut Juhl, MD, CEO, INDIVUMED, Hamburg, Germany |
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New Integrated Cryotechnologies
for Cell Banks: The Technology of the "Global HIV Vaccine
Research Cryorepository (GHRC)"
Heiko Zimmermann, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technology
(IBMT) St. Ingbert, Germany |
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The Forum of International Biobanking Organizations(FIBO)
Mylene Deschênes, B.C.L., L.L.B., L.L.M., P3G Consortium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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4:15pm - 7:00pm |
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Opening Reception, 10th Anniversary
Celebration, Visit the Exhibits |
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Wednesday, May 13,
2009 |
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7:30am - 8:20am |
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“Getting to Know ISBER” Breakfast |
8:30am - 10:15am
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Preservation of Global Resources for
Future Generations
Chairs: Yeonhee Lee, PhD, Korea National Research Resource
Center, Korea, and Rebecca Pugh, MS, National Institutes of
Standards & Technology, Charleston, SC, USA |
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Svalbard
Seed Bank
David Ellis, National Center for Genetic Resource Preservation,
Fort Collins, CO, USA |
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Frozen
Ark Project
Paul Bartels, PhD, Wildlife Biological Resource Centre,
BioBank SA, National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, South
Africa |
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Emerging issues: Access and Benefit Sharing and
expanding interest in scientific
collections
David Schindel, PhD, Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), Washington DC, USA |
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10:15am - 11:15am |
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Visit the Posters
and Exhibits |
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11:15am - 12:30pm |
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Demonstration of the new Self-Assessment Tool for ISBER's
Best Practices and ISBER’s Working Group Presentations:
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Self-Assessment Tool for the ISBER Best
Practices
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Automated Repositories
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Biorepository Funding & Promotion
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Biospecimen Science
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Informed Consent Procedures for the Collection of Biospecimens
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Rights to & Control of Human Tissue Samples |
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12:30pm - 2:00pm |
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RoundTable Lunch Discussions
(Click here for
RoundTable Lunch discussion topics) |
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Corporate-Sponsored Workshop:
Innovative Technologies to Enable Next-Generation Biobanking
GenVault Corporation
Michael Hogan, Ph.D. CSO, GenVault Corporation
(Click here for more
information)
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2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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Poster Discussion
Chair: David
Horsfall, PhD, Hanson Institute for Medical Research, Australian
Prostate Cancer Bioresource, Adelaide (Australia); Co-Chair:
Anil Prasad, MD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
(Click
here for more poster list)
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3:30pm-4:30pm |
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Visit the Posters and Exhibits |
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4:30pm - 6:30pm |
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Workshop: Quality Control and Quality
Assurance
Chair: Fay Betsou, DrSc, HDR Biobanque de Picardie, Saluex,
France, Maura Ferrari, DZ, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale, Brescia, Italy, and Marian McKee, PhD, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas, VA, USA
(Click
here for more information) |
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Workshop:
The
Demonstration of an Automated Specimen Culling Tool: A Weighted
Approach
Chairs:
Kathleen
Groover, PhD, Fisher BioServices, Inc., Frederick, MD, USA and
Mark Cosentino, PhD,
SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Frederick, MD, USA
(Click here for more information) |
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Thursday, May
14, 2009 |
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7:30am - 8:20am |
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Working Group Breakfasts:
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Informed Consent Procedures for the Collection of Biospecimens
Leader: Scott Jewell
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Biorepository Funding &
Promotion
Leaders: Sara Loud & Hollie Schmidt
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Biospecimen Science
Leader: Fay Betsou |
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8:30am - 10:30am |
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Innovations in Biobanking Informatics
Chairs: Rajiv Dhir, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA, &
Peter Geary, MBA, Canadian Tumour Repository Network, Manitoba,
Canada |
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The Inter-SPORE Prostate Biomarker Study
(IPBS) Informatics Experience
Paul Fearn, MBA, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New
York City, NY, USA |
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Working Together: Cancer Registries and
Biorepositories
April Fritz, RHIT, CTR, A Fritz and Associates, LLC, Reno, NV,
USA |
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NSF Cyberinfrastructure: Supercomputing
Resources for Biologists
Gordon Jarrell, PhD, University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks,
AK (USA) |
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10:05am -11:30am |
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Visit the Posters and Exhibits |
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11:30am - 12:30pm |
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ISBER Awards Presentation & Business
Meeting |
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12:30pm - 2:00pm |
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RoundTable Lunch Discussions
(Click here for more info) |
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2:00pm - 4:00pm |
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Contributed Papers - Session I |
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Contributed Papers - Session II |
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4:00pm - 4:30pm |
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Visit the Exhibits |
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4:30pm - 6:30pm |
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Contributed Papers - Session III |
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Contributed Papers - Session IV |
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5:30pm - 6:30pm |
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Vendor Meeting (Exhibitors) |
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Friday, May 15,
2009 |
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7:30am - 8:20am |
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Working Group Breakfasts:
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Automated Repositories
Leaders: Andy Zaayenga & Diane L. Johnson
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Biospecimen Science
Leader: Fay Betsou
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Rights to & Control of
Human Tissue Samples
Leaders: Tyron C. Hoover & Rajiv Dhir
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8:30am - 10:30am |
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Workshop: Quality Control and Quality
Assurance
Chair: Fay Betsou, DrSc, HDR, Biobanque de Picardie, Saluex,
France, Maura Ferrari, DZ, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale, Brescia, Italy, and Marian McKee, PhD, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas, VA, USA
(Click
here for more information) |
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Workshop:
The
Demonstration of an Automated Specimen Culling Tool: A Weighted
Approach
Chairs:
Kathleen
Groover, PhD, Fisher BioServices, Inc., Frederick, MD, USA and
Mark Cosentino, PhD,
SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Frederick, MD, USA
(Click here for more information) |
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10:30am - 11:00am |
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Break |
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11:00am - 1:30pm |
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Emerging Legal & Ethical Issues:
Challenges and Practical Solutions
Chair: Marianna Bledsoe, MA, NIH Office of Science Policy,
Bethesda, MD, USA & Helen Morrin, Cancer Society Tissue Bank,
University of Otago, Christchurch,
New Zealand |
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Challenging Ethical Issues Related to
Broad Sharing Specimens and Data
Wylie Burke, MD PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,
USA, and Nancy Press, Oregon Health & Science University, School of Nursing, Portland, OR, USA |
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Patient Advocacy and Sample Access
Paula Kim, Translating Research Across Communities (TRAC)
Solana, Beach, CA, USA |
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Benefit Sharing Between Countries
Gerry Thomas, PhD, Wales Cancer Bank, Cardiff, UK |
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Biospecimens: The FDA Perspective
Elizabeth Mansfield, PhD, FDA |
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Panel Discussion |
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Closing Remarks from the President |
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Friday Afternoon |
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Friday Afternoon Social Programs
(Click here for more information) |
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