ISBER 2023 Regional Symposium

Oral Presentations will take place on Oct. 25, 2:00pm - 3:00pm.
Poster Presentations will take place on Oct. 24, 5:30pm – 6:30pm. 

Please see the Program section below to see the list of Oral and Poster Abstract Presentations.

Abstracts were accepted in the following categories within biospecimen science:

• Cell preservation and cryobiology
• Validation of processing methods / method comparison
• Quality control methods
• Stability studies over time
• Other

 

Oral Presenter Instructions

Presentation Duration: 12 minute presentations, 3 minutes Q&A - 15 minutes total
Format: Please note your presentation should be formatted as 16 X 9 (widescreen), and not 4 X 3. Please send both a Powerpoint deck and a PDF version.

Poster Presenter Instructions 

Poster Dimensions: "A0 portrait" - 84.1 cm wide x 118.9 cm tall (no landscape please!)
Poster Set-Up Time: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 | 8:00am –10:15am
Poster Tear-Down Time: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | 2:00pm – 4:00 pm

Poster presenters are responsible for bringing their poster to the conference and putting it up. Please note that Head Office staff may not be able to assist you in putting up your poster.

Please make sure your posters are set up and torn down during designated times! Posters that are not taken down during the designated time may be disposed of by Head Office.

This program is subject to change. Please check back for most up-to-date information.
Updated: October 23

Please click here to access the program.

SYMPOSIA SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES:

José Antonio López-Guerrero, PhD

José Antonio López-Guerrero is head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at IVO, and Associated Professor of Cell Biology at the Medical School of the Catholic University of Valencia. Dr. López-Guerrero has been involved in the field of biobanking since the beginning of his professional career in Translational Research and Molecular Pathology. Until November 2022, Dr. López-Guerrero has been the Scientific Director of the IVO Biobank. He currently is involved in GEIVEX in which they are focused in standardizing the pre-analytical handling of bio specimens for extracellular vesicles study.

Giuseppe Lippi, MD

Giuseppe Lippi is Full Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Director of Laboratory Service, and Dean of Faculty of Medicine at Verona University in Italy. He has published over 2150 articles in peer-reviewed journals with an impact factor greater than 13000 and an H-index of 130. Dr. Lippi has participated in over 600 national and international congresses and has given more over 350 lectures. He currently chairs the EFLM TF on lab in emergencies.

Adam Corner, PhD

Adam Corner has spent 26 years in a range of life science companies and start-ups  supporting scientific strategy and management. The last 10 years, Dr. Corner has been heavily focused on driving digital PCR adoption globally, with a strong focus on liquid biopsies for oncology. He is currently involved in multiple global consortia related to this liquid biopsy focus, including co-chair of the JFDI working group in BloodPAC and membership of ELBS, FNIH Biomarker Consortium and ILSA.

Eline Willemse, PhD

With a drive to improve the lives of patients living with brain diseases, Eline Willemse’s work focusses on developing neurological biomarkers for use in the clinic. Dr. Willemse was trained as a biomedical scientist with a master’s degree in neurosciences. Her PhD and postdoc concentrated on the stability and harmonization of biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid, including the implementation of novel assay platforms. Dr. Willemse currently pursues her second postdoc at the multiple sclerosis center at University Hospital Basel in Switzerland, focusing on biomarkers in blood.

Omar Youssef, MD, PhD

Omar Youssef was graduated from Cairo Medical School in 2007, and then completed his residency training program at the National Cancer Institute of Egypt with a Clinical Pathology specialty, with sub-specialized at the field of Cancer Genetics and Molecular Medicine. In 2015, Dr. Youssef switched gears and moved to Finland where he completed his PhD in Biomedicine and Cancer Genetics at the University of Helsinki. Dr. Youssef has been a senior postdoc at the Pathology Department, University of Helsinki since 2019, where he is responsible for the molecular and genetic aspects of ongoing projects.

Lidia Calpena, PhD

Lidia Agueda has been the Biorepository Lab Manager at the CNAG in Barcelona since 2010. She holds a bachelors in Chemistry and Biochemistry, and PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of Barcelona. Since the inception of the CNAG, Dr. Calpena has been actively involved in the in-house development of the CNAG LIMS tool, a pivotal resource for sample management and traceability. At CNAG, her primary responsibilities include coordinating the reception and quality control of samples. CNAG has achieved ISO 9001 and 17025 certifications, demonstrating the lab's commitment to quality.

Slaven Erceg, PhD

Slaven Erceg is the Director of the Spanish Stem Cell Bank and Group Leader of Stem Therapies in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Research Center Principe Felipe in Valencia, Spain. With a Ph.D. earned in 2004, his postdoctoral focused on induced pluripotent stem cells, using them as human disease models and for cell therapy in eye diseases and spinal cord injuries. Dr. Erceg is a prolific author with over 85 peer-reviewed publications.

Feng He, PhD

Dr. Feng He has been a scientist for the Department of Infection and Immunity at the Luxembourg Institute of Health since 2015. His research focuses on systems immunology and immune-ageing. His team has recently shown that one of the key familial Parkinson’s disease genes is a critical endogenous driver that inhibits the immune-ageing process. Through various projects, Dr. He and their team have demonstrated the potential using both cryopreserved and fresh clinical samples for unbiased reliable single-cell-level deep immunophenotyping.

Marcos Castellanos, PhD, MSc

Marcos Castellanos has been the Operations Manager of the Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre known as NASC, since 2008. He has an MSc in Plant Biotechnology for Emerging Economies from the University of Sussex and a PhD in Plant Biotechnology from the University of Nottingham. Dr. Castellanos is responsible for leading the NASC Team in preserving, curating and distributing diverse seed and other stocks of Arabidopsis thaliana and related species. NASC currently distributes over 120,000 tubes of seed annually to researchers and educators from 60 countries and runs on a mixed economy of grants and cost-recovery.

Jonas Astrin, PhD

Jonas Astrin is section head and curator of the biobank at Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, based at Museum Koenig, Bonn, Germany. He was trained as molecular zoologist and as scientific librarian. Merging these two specializations brought Dr. Astrin to animal biobanking. The LIB Biobank stores animal and environmental DNA, fixed tissue and viable cells, conducts methodological work, and is active in biodiversity biobanking networks, as the Global Genome Biodiversity Network, ISBER, ESBB, the Association of German Cryobanks, and the Frozen Ark.

Felizitas Bajerski, PhD

Felizitas Bajerski is a researcher of Microbial Ecology & Diversity, and collection expert of Group Leader Patent & Safe Deposit Department at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Dr. Bajerski studied Biology at the University of Potsdam in Germany and specialized on low temperature environments and cold-adapted microorganisms during their diploma thesis and PhD at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. Dr. Bajerski’s interests lie at the interface between low-temperature biology and diversity research and related biobanking issues.

Jindrich Peiren, ing.

Jindrich Peiren graduated as a biochemical engineer, and now  works as Technology manager at the Belgian Coordinated Collections of Microorganisms and Bacteria Collection. In Jindrich’s 15-year career, he built up expertise in optimization and controlling the freeze-drying process of bacterial cultures for long-term storage. He is also responsible for the quality control techniques sequencing and fingerprinting by MALDI-TOF MS of bacterial cultures. During the last 5 years, Jindrich initiated the optimization of data and document management to evolve to a paperless laboratory.

Jean Armengaud, PhD

Jean Armengaud is specialized in mass spectrometry for biology, specifically in proteogenomics and metaproteomics, having obtained his PhD in Biochemistry in 1994 from the University of Grenoble. Dr. Armengaud heads the ProGénoMIX platform located near Avignon in France. He is co-author of over 285 scientific publications, and he aims to contribute to new methodologies for microbiology and medical research, and a better understanding of the functioning of complex biological systems.

Lorieza Castillo, MSc

Lorieza Neuberger-Castillo is a Clinical Research Project Manager and Microbiome Specialist at the Luxembourg Institute of Health. In 2014, she joined the Integrated BioBank of Luxembourg as a Microbiome & Sequencing Assistant Scientist. With 17 years of laboratory experience, her expertise encompasses bacterial culture, gut microbiome studies, and method validation. In 2016, Lorieza Castillo played an active role in the ISO-17025 accreditation audit, marking IBBL as the first biobank accredited for 16S rRNA gene sequencing.

Laurent Debarbieux, PhD

Laurent Debarbieux is heading a research laboratory in Institut Pasteur where he studies bacteriophages and their application to treat bacterial infections. He is an renown international scientist in the field of experimental phage therapy. Using murine models, he showed the potential and the limits of bacteriophages therapeutic efficacy. His team is also investigating the role of bacteriophages in the intestinal microbiota.

 

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Task Force Responsibilities:

1. Creating the Program for the ISBER Regional Symposium
2. Communicating with invited speakers, organizing the review of submitted abstracts, recommending and inviting co-chairs for each session, and arranging various other details associated with the meeting

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Committee Members: