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Day 2 Detailed ProgramWednesday 30th November, 2005
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Session Title
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Invited Speakers and Participants
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8:20 |
Welcome | ||
8:30- 10:30 |
Pre-Transplant Monitoring and Antibody Ablation Protocols – the Highly Sensitised Transplant Recipient
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Chair: | |
| Andrea Zachary | • Baltimore, USA | ||
| Solomon Cohney | • Melbourne, Australia | ||
| Presentations: | |||
| Desensitization, Persistent Antibody, and Graft Function in Renal Transplantation | |||
| Andrea Zachary | • Baltimore, USA | ||
| Options Available to Patients with Incompatible Donors | |||
| Robert Montgomery | • Baltimore, USA | ||
| Mechanisms of Anti-HLA Antibodies in Transplant Vasculopathy and Accommodation. | |||
| Elaine Reed | • Los Angeles, USA | ||
| Coffee Break | |||
11:00- 12:30 |
Pre-Transplant Monitoring and Antibody Ablation Protocols – the Highly Sensitised Transplant Recipient (Cont./) Sponsored by Wyeth |
Immunomodulation with Intravenous Gammaglobulin (IVIG): from bench to bedside in the highly sensitized patient. | |
| Stanley Jordan | • Los Angeles, USA | ||
Monitoring Antibody Levels During Desensitization Therapies in Lung Transplantation. |
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| Nancy Reinsmoen | • Durham, USA | ||
The Acceptable Mismatch Programme. The Alternative to Desensitisation of Highly Sensitised Patients. |
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| Frans Claas | • Leiden, Netherlands | ||
| Lunch Break Lunchtime Presentation “ Donor specific HLA antibody identification using GTI’s Micro-AMS kit” Presented by BC Serologicals in Room G02/3. MicroAMS: A Novel ELISA for Detecting Donor-Specific HLA Antibodies. This assay uses an innovative low volume microplate to detect both HLA Class I and Class II IgG antibodies. Learn more of how the assay works and the advantages of monitoring patients prior to transplant, as well as post-transplant monitoring. Lunchtime Presentation by One Lambda Inc. in the Plaza Conference Centre. One Lambda welcomes all of our friends and colleagues to Melbourne, Australia, and invites them to join us for a special luncheon presentation. Invited speakers will discuss their experiences with our new line of Luminex® based products. Each guest who attends the luncheon will be entered into a drawing for an I-pod Video. We invite everyone to visit the One Lambda display for further information. |
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1:30- 3:30 |
HLA Antibodies and Chronic Rejection Sponsored by One Lambda |
Chair: | |
| Paul Terasaki | • Los Angeles, USA | ||
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| The Humoral Theory of Rejection | |||
| Paul Terasaki | • Los Angeles, USA | ||
| Results of Workshop Study | |||
| Jarhow Lee | • Los Angeles, USA | ||
| Role of MIC in Transplantation | |||
| Peter Statsny | • Dallas, USA |
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| Coffee Break | |||
4:00-
6:00 |
HLA Matching, Definition of Epitopes and Alloresponses | Chair: | |
| Rene Duquesnoy | • Pittsburgh, USA | ||
| Frans Claas | • Leiden, Netherlands | ||
| Presentations: | |||
| Reactivities of Antibodies Against Structurally Defined HLA Epitopes. | |||
| Rene Duquesnoy | • Pittsburgh, USA | ||
| Acceptable Mismatches. | |||
| Frans Claas | • Leiden, Netherlands | ||
| Definition of Allele-Specific Peptide Motifs to Estimate the Severity of HLA Mismatches. | |||
| HLA-B*4103 Preferentially Binds Peptides of Extraordinary Length. | |||
| Christina Bade-Doeding | • Hannover, Germany | ||
| Use of HLA Structure and Function Parameters to Understand the Relationship between HLA Disparity and Transplant Outcomes. | |||
| Lee Ann Baxter-Lowe | • San Francisco, USA | ||
| Progress Report on the 14th Workshop Projects on the Structural Basis of HLA Compatibility. | |||
| Rene Duquesnoy | • Pittsburgh, USA | ||
| Progress Report on 14th Workshop Project on Virtual Crossmatching. | |||
| Dan Cook | • Ohio, USA | ||
6:00 |
Wine Tasting Social Function- Everyone Welcome | ||
7:30
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IHIWS Councillors Dinner | ||
9:00-1:00 |
One
Lambda will host an evening party for all of the workshop delegates. Venue: Bond Lounge at 24 Bond Street in Downtown Melbourne between Elizabeth and Queen Street. |
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