Thursday 22nd September 2016

08:00
Registration
08:30
Lesley Ann Sutton (SE) - Welcome
 
KEYNOTE LECTURES
Chair: Richard Rosenquist (SE)
08:40
Dimitar Efremov (IT) - B cell receptor signaling pathways in health and disease
09:30 Lesley Ann Sutton (SE) - Immunogenetics in CLL: the last 20 years
10:10 Coffee break
 
SESSION I – IG SEQUENCE ANALYSIS
Chair: Kostas Stamatopoulos (GR)
10:40
Frederic Davi (FR) - Mechanisms of immunoglobulin diversity
11:10 Anton Langerak (NL) - From the patient to the sequence: Primers, PCR, Detection of clonality, Sequencing
11:50 Veronique Giudicelli (FR) - “IMGT tools for Interpretation of IG sequences and NGS repertoires: 2016 novelties”
12:20 Andreas Agathangelidis (GR) - BcR IG Stereotypy: Identifying CLL subsets
12:50 Lunch
 
SESSION II – PRACTICAL EXERCISES
14:00
Vasilis Bikos (CZ) - Hands-on exercises I
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Vasilis Bikos (CZ) - Sequence interpretation and results
 
SESSION III – IG GENES FOR CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING
16:30
Richard Rosenquist (SE) - CLL genetics and prognostication
17:00 Paolo Ghia (IT) - Targeting signaling pathways for treating CLL
17:30


Round Table Discussion/Debate:
IG genes or genetic aberrations for prognostication in CLL?
Panel: Fred Davi (FR), Kostas Stamatopoulos (GR), Paolo Ghia (IT), Richard Rosenquist (SE)
18:30
Scientific session closed
19:00
Dinner