Conferences and symposiums Symposium: Young Researchers in Hematology

29-01-2020 9:00 am Add to iCal
Aula Sune Bergström, Bioclinicum, Karolinska Solna

Welcome to the Young Researchers in Hematology Symposium!
Wednesday January 29th, 2020 in Aula Sune Bergström, Bioclinicum, Karolinska Solna

Organizers: Mattias Carlsten, Marzia Palma, Bianca Tesi, Johan Törlén, Johanna Ungerstedt on behalf of the FoUU committee PO Hematology KI/K
 

9.00-9.15 Welcome

9.15-10.15 Keynote lecture
Edward Smith. How studies on an inherited immunodeficiency (XLA) resulted in a new class of leukemia drugs (ibrutinib).

10.45-11.30 Coffee break

10.45-11.30 Real world data in Hematology. Chair Marzia Palma, Johan Törlén
Tove Wästerlid.
Ongoing real-world studies on lymphoma: prediction of risk, prognosis and long-term outcomes.
Anna Ravn-Landtblom. Myeloproliferative neoplasms and Swedish registers.
Mari Wilhelmson. Late effects after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for pediatric AML.

11.30-12.15 Genetics. Chair Bianca Tesi
Vasilios Zachariadis, Joint genomic and gene expression profiling of single cells in ALL.
Hassan Foroughi. Reliability and reproducibility of bioinformatic workflows for cancer diagnostics.
Lucia Peña Perez. Phased WGS on 240 FACS sorted cells for comprehensive genetics in multiple myeloma.

12.15-13.15 LUNCH

13.15-14.00 Immunology. Chair Mattias Carlsten
Petter Brodin. Systems-level immunomonitoring in human patients.
Lucas Arruda. Taking a BITE out AML/MDS: CD34 as a target for BITE therapy.
Melanie Lambert. Genetic engineering of lymphocytes to improve their homing capacity.

14.00-14.45 Hematopoiesis & stroma. Chair Johanna Ungerstedt
Marios Dimitriou. Stem and progenitor cells genetics as a predictor of MRD during treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes.
Ninib Baryawno. Microenvironmental changes in malignancies of the bone marrow through the single-cell lens.
Isabel Hofman. Identification of a potential stress erythropoiesis pathway in human bone marrow.

14.45-15.15 Coffee break

15.15-16.15 Workshops in parallel
1. Anethe Mansén. Career service (for PhD stud and post docs)
2. Paul Dickman. Statistics and epidemiology
3. Andreas Lennartsson. Epigenetics for beginners

16.15-16.25 Break

16.25-17.10 Short project pitches
Maria Bruzelius. Clinical research in thrombosis and hemostasis.
Cecilia Arthur. Cell free tumor DNA in plasma for minimally invasive monitoring of childhood leukemia.
Maria Creignou. High Throughput Targeted DNA Sequencing of 1000 Swedish patients with myelodysplastic syndrome.
Nikolas Herold. Translational research on targeting antimetabolite resistance in acute myeloid leukaemia.
Katarina Holmberg & Linda Eriksson. Symptom frequency and distress after allogeneic HSCT.
Magali Merrien. Effects of cannabinoids on malignant B cells and nonmalignant leukocytes in patients with indolent B cell leukemia.
Oksana Goroshchuk. RNAi against pediatric leukemia.

17.10-17.25 Concluding remarks

17.25-20.00 Food and Mingle

Please register at the latest January 10, by the link below!
https://survey.ki.se/Survey/17393

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