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



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Advance Registration is closed.  Please register onsite at the Meeting!

Past Deadlines:
Housing Reservation Deadline:
April 9, 2009

Abstract Submission February 2, 2009

ISBER Travel Award Applications:
February 15, 2009


Early Registration:
March 9, 2009



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Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, May 12,
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
Gain insight about the various repository models available
Learn what issues should be considered when designing and operating a repository
Discuss the various types of services your repository might want to provide (without performing the investigator’s research for them!)
Understand the importance of quality control and safety in the repository
Learn how to develop an appropriate cost recovery model
Gain a better understanding about the legal, ethical, and regulatory issues that may affect the repository
Understand the “nuts and bolts” of operating a repository
Identify space and resources needed to begin a repository

Appropriate time will be devoted to questions and audience discussion.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
2:00pm - 4:15pm   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
  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
  Ten Years that Changed the Biobanking World - ISBER’s First Decade
Elaine W. Gunter, MT (ASCP), Specimen Solutions, LLC, Tucker, GA, USA
  Cancer HUB for Gold-Standard Sample Collection
Jim Vaught, PhD, Office of Biorepositories & Biospecimen Research, NIH, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
  Ischemia Time and Quality of Derivatives
Hartmut Juhl, MD, CEO, INDIVUMED, Hamburg, Germany
  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
  The Forum of International Biobanking Organizations(FIBO)
Mylene Deschênes, B.C.L., L.L.B., L.L.M., P3G Consortium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
4:15pm - 7:00pm   Opening Reception, 10th Anniversary Celebration, Visit the Exhibits
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
7:30am - 8:20am   “Getting to Know ISBER” Breakfast
8:30am - 10:15am
 
  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
  Svalbard Seed Bank
David Ellis, National Center for Genetic Resource Preservation, Fort Collins, CO, USA
  Frozen Ark Project
Paul Bartels, PhD, Wildlife Biological Resource Centre, BioBank SA, National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, South Africa
  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
10:15am - 11:15am   Visit the Posters and Exhibits
11:15am - 12:30pm   Demonstration of the new Self-Assessment Tool for ISBER's Best Practices and ISBER’s Working Group Presentations:
Self-Assessment Tool for the ISBER Best Practices
Automated Repositories
Biorepository Funding & Promotion
Biospecimen Science
Informed Consent Procedures for the Collection of Biospecimens
Rights to & Control of Human Tissue Samples
12:30pm - 2:00pm
  RoundTable Lunch Discussions
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  Corporate-Sponsored Workshop:
Innovative Technologies to Enable Next-Generation Biobanking

GenVault Corporation
Michael Hogan, Ph.D. CSO, GenVault Corporation
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2:00pm - 3:30pm   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
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3:30pm-4:30pm   Visit the Posters and Exhibits
4:30pm - 6:30pm
  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
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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
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
7:30am - 8:20am   Working Group Breakfasts:
Informed Consent Procedures for the Collection of Biospecimens
Leader: Scott Jewell
Biorepository Funding & Promotion
Leaders: Sara Loud & Hollie Schmidt
Biospecimen Science
Leader: Fay Betsou
8:30am - 10:30am   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
  The Inter-SPORE Prostate Biomarker Study (IPBS) Informatics Experience
Paul Fearn, MBA, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY, USA
  Working Together: Cancer Registries and Biorepositories
April Fritz, RHIT, CTR, A Fritz and Associates, LLC, Reno, NV, USA
  NSF Cyberinfrastructure: Supercomputing Resources for Biologists
Gordon Jarrell, PhD, University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK (USA)
10:05am -11:30am   Visit the Posters and Exhibits
11:30am - 12:30pm   ISBER Awards Presentation & Business Meeting
12:30pm - 2:00pm
  RoundTable Lunch Discussions
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2:00pm - 4:00pm
  Contributed Papers - Session I
  Contributed Papers - Session II
4:00pm - 4:30pm   Visit the Exhibits
4:30pm - 6:30pm   Contributed Papers - Session III
    Contributed Papers - Session IV
5:30pm - 6:30pm   Vendor Meeting (Exhibitors)
Friday, May 15, 2009
7:30am - 8:20am   Working Group Breakfasts:
Automated Repositories
Leaders: Andy Zaayenga & Diane L. Johnson
Biospecimen Science
Leader: Fay Betsou
Rights to & Control of Human Tissue Samples
Leaders: Tyron C. Hoover & Rajiv Dhir
 
8:30am - 10:30am   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
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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
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10:30am - 11:00am   Break
11:00am - 1:30pm   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
  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
  Patient Advocacy and Sample Access
Paula Kim, Translating Research Across Communities (TRAC) Solana, Beach, CA, USA
  Benefit Sharing Between Countries
Gerry Thomas, PhD, Wales Cancer Bank, Cardiff, UK
  Biospecimens: The FDA Perspective
Elizabeth Mansfield, PhD, FDA
  Panel Discussion
  Closing Remarks from the President
Friday Afternoon   Friday Afternoon Social Programs
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