Day 1 Detailed Program

Tuesday 29th November, 2005

Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Time

Session Title

Speakers and Participants
 
8:00
Welcome Professor James McCluskey  
  Plenary Lectures:
Sponsored by Amgen Australia
8:30-
9:00
Haematopoietic Regulators, Receptors and Modulators Professor Don Metcalf, FAA, FRS
• Melbourne, Australia.
9:00-
9:30
The Thymus and its Role in Immunity Professor Jacques F.A.P. Miller, FAA, FRS
• Melbourne, Australia.
  Coffee Break

10:00-
11:30

Workshop Presentations:

Histocompatibility Matching in Unrelated Donor Stem Cell Transplantation - results of 14th IHIWS collaborative study
Chair:
Peter Bardy • Adelaide, Australia
Effie Petersdorf • Seattle, USA.
Contributors:
Effie Petersdorf
Overview of IHWG HCT WG progress and database, MHC matching and survival analysis.
• Seattle, USA
Yasuo Morishima
JMDP MHC matching
• Nagoya, Japan
Steven Marsh
DP study
• London, UK
Anne Cambon-Thomson Microsatellites • Toulouse, France
Mari Malkki
IHWG Microsatellites
• Seattle, USA
11:30-
12:00
Minor Antigens Els Goulmy
• Leiden, Netherlands
  Lunch Break

Lunchtime Presentation by Dynal in the Plaza Conference Centre Room 1/2
  Plenary Lectures:
1:00-
1:45
Role of Other Genes in Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) -cytokines.

Sponsored by Dynal
Chair:
Effie Petersdorf • Seattle, USA.
Anthony Schwarer • Melbourne, Australia
Contributors:
John Hansen • Seattle, USA
Peter Bardy • Adelaide, Australia
Mari Malkki • Seattle, USA

1:45-
3:45

 

 

Role of KIR in HSCT. Chair:  
Derek Middleton • Belfast, UK
Frank Christiansen
• Perth, Australia
Lecture:
Andrea Verlardi • Perugia, Italy
Contributors:
Campbell Witt
• Perth, Australia
Yasuo Morishima • Nagoya, Japan
Kathy Hsu • New York, USA
Anthony Schwarer • Melbourne, Australia
  Coffee Break

4:15-
5:45

Clear as Mud: The Scientific and Clinical Power of the Haematopoietic Stem Cell Donor Registries. Chair:
Carolyn Hurley
• Washington DC, USA
Contributors:
Machteld Oudshoorn • Leiden, Netherlands
Martin Maiers • Minneapolis, USA
Steven Marsh • London, UK
6:30-8:00
Welcome Reception - Government House

An all day meeting of the Asia Pacific region of the Type 1 Diabetes Consortium will be held concurrently in Room G02/03.

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