Thursday, February 25, 2010

08:00-12:00		Novel Applications for Genomic Technologies in Organ Transplant Injury Co-chairs: Jeremy Chapman, Director, Acute Interventional Medicine and Renal Services, Westmead Hospital, SWAHS, Westmead, Australia Kathryn Wood, Associate of the Oxford Stem Cell Institute, Professor of Immunology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK This session is sponsored through an unrestricted educational grant by Pfizer.

08:00-08:10		Opening message Jeremy Chapman, President TTS

08:10-08:40		Advances in Genome Analysis Technologies Ronald W. Davis, Professor of Biochemistry and Professor of Genetics, Member of the Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

08:40-09:00		Reclassifying Graft Injury by Genomics Phil Halloran, Director, Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre; Distinguished University Professor, University of Alberta; Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Transplantation, Edmonton, AB, Canada

09:00-09:20		Deconvoluting the Peripheral Blood Transcriptome in Graft Rejection Minnie Sarwal, Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

09:20-09:40		Noninvasive Diagnosis of Renal Allograft Status Manikkam Suthanthiran, Stanton Griffis Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Chief, Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, New York, NY, USA

09:40-10:00		Exploring Genomic Medicine Using Translational Bioinformatics Atul Butte, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

10:00-10:30		Networking Coffee Break, Posters & Exhibits

		Novel Applications for Genomic Technologies in Organ Transplant Injury (cont.) Co-chairs: Phil Halloran, Director, Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre; Distinguished University Professor, University of Alberta; Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Transplantation, Edmonton, AB, Canada Manikkam Suthanthiran, Stanton Griffis Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Chief, Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, New York, NY, USA
10:30-11:00		Immune-Monitoring in Health and Infection Mark Davis, Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

11:00-11:20		The Evolution of Non-Immune Histological Injury Maarten Naesens, Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

11:20-11:40		The Genomics of Fibrosis Progression Valeria Mas, Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery and Pathology; Director Molecular Transplant Research Laboratory, Division of Transplant, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

11:40-12:00		RNA Silencing in Gene Regulation Christopher Contag, Co-Director, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

12:00-13:30		Lunch, Posters & Exhibits

13:30-16:00		Predicting Graft Risk by Transplantomics Co-chairs: Philip O'Connell, Director, Transplantation and CTRR, Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research, Westmead, Australia Thomas Mueller, Division of Nephrology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada This session is sponsored through an unrestricted educational grant by Bristol-Myers Squibb.

13:30-14:00		The Impact of Genome-wide Variation in Renal Transplant Donors and Recipients on Graft Survival Graham Lord, Professor of Medicine, Nephrology, Transplantation and Internal Medicine; Director of Translational Research Development and Deputy Director of NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre; Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital and King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

14:00-14:20		Challenges in Association Studies of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Associated and Renal Transplant Outcomes Ajay Israni, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology & Community Health, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

14:20-14:40		MicroRNA and RNA Profiles with Graft Rejection Dany Anglicheau, Associate Professor, Kidney Transplant Unit, Necker Hospital, Paris, France

14:40-15:00		Predictors of Transplant Vasculopathy and Glomerulopathy Roslyn B. Mannon, Director of Research, Alabama Transplant Center; Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology; Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

15:00-15:20		A Signature for Operational Liver Transplant Tolerance Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

15:20-15:40		Can Immune Accommodation Be Predicted Using "-omics" Tools? Bruce McManus, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

15:40-16:00		Interactive Coffee Break, Posters & Exhibits


16:00-17:00		Mini-Oral Presentations Co-Chairs: Allan D. Kirk, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Emory University and Scientific Director of the Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA, USA Roslyn B. Mannon, Director of Research, Alabama Transplant Center; Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology; Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

17:00-18:00		Poster Session with Wine and Cheese

19:00		Dinner at Forbes Island (bus departs from hotel at 18:45)

Thursday, February 25, 2010

08:00-12:00

Novel Applications for Genomic Technologies in Organ Transplant Injury

Novel Applications for Genomic Technologies in Organ Transplant Injury (cont.)

13:30-16:00

Predicting Graft Risk by Transplantomics

Mini-Oral Presentations

17:00-18:00

Poster Session with Wine and Cheese