ISMD2016 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
THURSDAY, May 26, 2016
10.15 - 10.30 Opening
Harald H. Kessler, President, ISMD2016
Alexander C. Haushofer, President, Austrian Society for Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Chemistry
10.30 - 12.30 Plenary Session
Chairs: Alexander C. Haushofer, Harald H. Kessler
10.30 - 11.30
Children with HIV: risks and opportunities
Nigel Klein, UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
11.30 - 12.30
Th-17 cells - microbial translocation, immune activation, and exhaustion in HIV patients
Deshratn Asthana, University of Miami – Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View
14.30 - 16.00 New Technologies 1
Chairs: Hans-Joachim Burkardt, Evelyn Stelzl
14.30 – 14.45
Performance evaluation of the new real-time PCR-based cobas® HCV assay for use on the
cobas® 6800/8800 systems for the detection and quantification of HCV RNA
Johannes Vermehren, University Clinics Frankfurt/Main, Germany
14.45 - 15.00
Analysis of drug resistance associated mutations in HCV and HIV using Next Generation
Sequencing
Gerd Michel, Vela Research Ltd., Singapore
15.00 - 15.15
Towards standardized monitoring of HDV RNA viral load
Ute Hofmann, Analytik Jena, Germany
15.15 - 15.30
Virological monitoring of bone marrow transplant patients
Rolf Kaiser, University of Cologne, Germany
15.30 - 15.45
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Molecular point-of-care diagnostics of influenza A and B by lab-in-a-tube testing – the cobas
Liat system
Willem J.G. Melchers, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
15.45 - 16.00
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Multiplex detection of respiratory pathogens with GenMark’s ePlex sample-to-answer system
Jochen Lips, GenMark Diagnostics, Zug, Switzerland
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View
16.30 - 18.00 New Technologies 2
Chairs: Jörg Berg, Rodrig Marculescu
16.30 - 16.45
Efficient processing of complex test orders with an automated molecular diagnostics system
Guido Adler, altona Diagnostics GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
16.45 - 17.00
Flexibility and full automation for clinical sample extraction – preliminary performance
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evaluation of the new bioMerieux eMAG
Raphael Veyret, bioMérieux, Verniolle, France
17.00 - 17.15
Meet the diagnostic algorithm with modular tests – Zika virus included in the tropical panel
Olfert Landt, TIB Molbiol, Berlin, Germany
17.15 - 17.30
Preanalytical requirements for the analysis of free circulating mitochondrial DNA
Rene Zadnikar, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
17.30 - 17.45
Non-invasive prenatal testing by digital counting of fluorescently labeled DNA molecules
Fredrik Dahl, Vanadis Diagnostics, a PerkinElmer company, Sollentuna, Sweden
17.45 - 18.00
Development of a new multiplex-based Real-Time RT-PCR assay for comprehensive detection
of the four most common BCR-ABL breakpoint mutations
Martin Svoboda, Bioproducts Mag. Th. Langmann GmbH, Stockerau, Austria
FRIDAY, May 27, 2016
09.00 - 10.30 Pathogens – HCV, HIV
Chairs: Bernhard Haas, Rudolf E. Stauber
09.00 - 09.25
Hepatitis C virus kinetics in the era of direct antiviral agents
Johannes Vermehren, University Clinics Frankfurt/Main, Germany
09.25 - 09.50
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening project of patients on anti-HCV therapy
Rolf Kaiser, University of Cologne, Germany
09.50 - 10.15
Screening for acute HIV infection: algorithms and cost-effectiveness
Martin Hoenigl, University of California San Diego, California, USA
10.15 - 10.30
HIV and cardiovascular risk in a study population of mixed ancestry living in Cape Town, South
Africa: preliminary data from the EndoAfrica study
Hans Strijdom, Division of Medical Physiology, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View
11.00 - 12.30 Pathogens – HPV, Respiratory/Gastrointestinal Viruses
Chairs: Georg Mustafa, Brigitte I. Santner
11.00 - 11.30
HPV and p16/Ki-67 biomarker testing in routine: correlation with histology
Hans Ikenberg, Cytomol, Laboratory for Cytology and Molecular Biology, Frankfurt, Germany
11.30 - 12.00
Point-of-Impact testing for respiratory viruses in the emergency room
Hubert G. M. Niesters, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
12.00 - 12.30
Intra-individual noroviral evolution analyzed by next generation sequencing
Dieter Hoffmann, Institute of Virology, TU Munich, Germany
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View
14.30 - 16.00 HDV / Transfusion-related Pathogens
Chairs: C. Micha Nuebling, Michael Chudy
14.30 - 15.00
How reliable is HDV RNA quantification?
Michael Chudy, Paul-Ehrlich-Institute, Langen, Germany
15.00 - 15.30
Estimation of residual infection risks in blood components
C. Micha Nuebling, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
15.30 - 16.00
West Nile virus – an emerging virus leading to mandatory testing in transfusion?
Christian Gabriel, Red Cross Transfusion Service for Upper Austria, Linz, Austria
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View
16.30 - 18.00 Molecular Testing Systems for Rapid Detection of Bacteria and
Antibiotic Resistance (including round table discussion)
Chairs: Martin Altwegg, Georg Mustafa
16.30 - 16.45
The more, the better? Multiplex PCR for the detection of gastrointestinal pathogens
Martin Altwegg, Bioanalytica AG, Lucerne, Switzerland
16.45 - 17.00
Rapid molecular detection of bacterial antibiotic resistance genes
Guido V. Bloemberg, Unilabs, Dübendorf, Switzerland
17.00 - 17.15
The loss of controls – how to handle multiplex-PCR systems regarding positive and negative
controls?
Eva Leitner, Medical University of Graz, Austria
17.15 – 17.30
Molecular techniques for the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection – is more less?
Elisabeth Mustafa, medilab, Salzburg, Austria
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR AUSTRIAN PARTICIPANTS /
WICHTIGE MITTEILUNG FÜR ÖSTERREICHISCHE TEILNEHMER/INNEN
Ab 18.00 Uhr Informationsveranstaltung zur Facharztprüfung aus Medizinischer und
Chemischer Labordiagnostik fuer PrüfungskandidatInnen
SATURDAY, May 28, 2016
09.30 - 11.30 Circulating Cell-Free DNA – Molecular Genetic Testing
Chairs: Alexander C. Haushofer, Gregor Hörmann
09.30 - 10.00
Cell-free circulating DNA as a new tool for screening fertility issues, fetal rhesus and tumor
treatment follow-up
Pierre-Alain Menoud, Unilabs Lausanne, Switzerland
10.00 - 10.30
Liquid profiling – new perspectives for prediction and monitoring of therapy response in
cancer patients
Stefan Holdenrieder, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
10.30 - 11.00
Phenotypic alterations in relation to cytogenetics in acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Janos Kappelmayer, University of Debrecen, Hungary
11.00 – 11.30
Implementation of v-natal® non-invasive prenatal testing for the detection of trisomies and
gonosomal aneuploidies: a Swiss private laboratory experience
Christoph Noppen, Viollier AG, Basel, Switzerland
11.30 - 12.00 ISMD2016 Best Poster Award
Chairs: Deshratn Asthana, Alexander C. Haushofer
POSTER SESSIONS
THURSDAY, May 26, 2016 (poster walk 13.30 through 14.30) &
FRIDAY, May 27, 2016 (poster walk 13.30 through 14.30)
All presenters must be present for discussion during poster walks