Program

Committee Meetings

(Invitation Only)

*please refer to the program book for room assignments

Long Range Planning Committee

2011 Program Committee

Education & Training Committee

Marketing Committee

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Special Pre-meeting Session: Has the time come to form a European Chapter of ISBER?

The objective of this session will be to find out the level of interest in forming a European chapter of ISBER. The alternative possibility of a European-African chapter will also be discussed. The session will begin with a short presentation describing the services and opportunities that the proposed chapter might offer. Active discussion will then be invited from meeting participants, to find out their opinions, wishes and expectations. Finally, a survey form will be distributed to gather additional feedback.

Co Chairs: Robert Hewitt, MBBS, PhD, Hewitt Biobank Consultancy, Aix-en Provence, France and Pasquale De Blasio, MBA, Biorep, Milan, Italy

2:00pm – 4:30pm

Diversity in BioBanking: Embracing Differences, Harnessing Commonalities
This session features speakers who will present topics regarding diversity and
commonalities between biobanks and how biobanks are vital to future advances in medicine, biological and environmental science.
Co Chairs: Peter Riegman, PhD, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Scott Jewell, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

• Welcome from the Ministry
• Integrating Genetics, Genomics, and Biology Towards a More Personalized Medicine, Jeffrey Trent, PhD, FACMG, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
• Differences in Sample Collections from an Environmental Specimen Bank Perspective, Rebecca Pugh, MS, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
• Fungi of Agricultural, Industrial and Medical Importance (FAIM) and Beyond, Pedro Crous, CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• The European Research Infrastructure for Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources (BBMRI): Towards implementation and global integration, Kurt Zatloukal, MD, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
• Panel Discussion

Opening Reception

Visit the Posters and Exhibits

Connecting Repositories
This session features speakers who present topics of diversity, interoperability, access and sharing, and informatics.
Co Chairs: Paul Bartels, Wildlife Biological Resource Centre / BioBankSA, Pretoria, South Africa, and Ole Seberg, FLS, D. Sc., Ph. D. Botanical Garden and Museum, The Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Collaboration Between Competitors: The Creation of a Joint Infrastructure for Disease Oriented Biobanks in the Netherlands, Maurits Ros, Msc, String of Pearls Initiative, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• GBIF: Building the Biodiversity Informatics Commons, Making Biodiversity Information Accessible to All, Vishwas Chavan, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Biobanking Opportunities in Europe - Next Steps for BBMRI, in FP7 and Nationally, Gert-Jan van Ommen, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, Centre for Medical Systems Biology, Leiden, The Netherlands

RoundTable Lunch Discussions
Corporate-Sponsored Workshop - GenVault (Ambient Temperature Technology for Sustainable Biobanking of DNA, RNA and Blood)

(Concurrent Sessions)

ISBER Workshops:

Sponsored by the ISBER Education & Training Committee

(Concurrent Workshops)

• Practical Approaches to the daily workflow processes of a Tissue Bank, Stella Somiari, PhD, Tissue Bank, Windber Research Institute
• Digital Microscopy as a Tool in Tissue Banking, Anand Kulkarni, MD, Tissue Services Core (Tumor Bank)

Working Group Breakfasts

(Concurrent Sessions)

Quality Assurance, Quality Control & Harmonization
This session features speakers who present topics of quality control between varying biobanks, evidenced-based procedures and principles of QC analysis and anticipated use.
Co Chairs: Fay Betsou, PhD, Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg (IBBL), Luxembourg (effective February 1, 2010), and Scott Jewell, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

• Quality Control in the Biobanking Process: New Solutions to Old Problems, Old Solutions to New Problems, Fay Betsou, PhD, Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg (IBBL), Luxembourg
• EU Project SPIDIA - Standardisation and Improvement of Generic Pre-analytical Tools and Procedures for Sample Workflows, Uwe Oelmueller, PhD, QIAGEN Gmbh, Hilden, Germany
• Developing the Underlying Science Necessary for Successful Biobanking, Helen Moore, PhD, NCI/OD, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
• Safeguarding Against “Identity Theft” in a Biorepository Setting: Implementing Standard QC Measures to Identify Sample Discrepancies, David Toke, PhD, Rutger's University Cell & DNA Repository, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA

RoundTable Lunch Discussions

(Concurrent Sessions)

Contributed Papers Session

(Concurrent Sessions)

Contributed Papers Session

(Concurrent Sessions)
Session III
Session IV

Working Group Breakfasts

(Concurrent Sessions)

ISBER Workshops:

Sponsored by the ISBER Education & Training Committee

(Concurrent Workshops)

8:30am – 10:30am

• Potentials and pitfalls in establishing a global network to identify Bio-specimens for research, Rivka Ravid, PhD, Brain Bank Consultants

8:30am – 9:30am

• Expanding the Role of the Consumer in Biobanking, Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance, PXE International

9:30am – 10:30am

• New Tissue Preservations Technologies Improving Commercialization of Human Biospecimens, Olga Potapova, PhD, Cureline, Inc (CEO & Scientific Director) & Irina Zaytseva, MBA, Cureline, Inc (VP Business Development)

• Millennium Seed Bank Partnership - Working Together to Save Plants Worldwide, Jayanthi Nadarajan, Royal Botanic Gardens KEW, Surrey, United Kingdom
• Update on SciColl, Richard Lane, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
• The Ethical Challenge of International Exchanges for Existing and New Human Biobanks, Anne Cambon Thomsen, MD, INSERM, Paris, France
• Unique Cultural Aspects for Biobanking in New Zealand: Can we join global biobanking initiatives and still fulfill our cultural obligations?, Helen Morrin, Curator, Cancer Society Tissue Bank, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Panel Discussion
  

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