Nordic Conference on the biology of myelodysplastic syndromes 2011 November 16-18
First Nordic Conference on the Biology of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Dates: November 16-17 2011
Venue: Rosersbergs Hotell och Conference, close to Arlanda
http://www.rosersbergsslott.se
Host:
Nordic MDS Group
Background - Summary
The Nordic MDS Group is supported by ”Planeringsanslag” from the Swedish Cancer
Society. The Nordic MDS Group (NMDSG) meets annually in April, and in November for a
two-day meeting. An important focus of these meetings is the pursuit of the clinical trials
and epidemiological studies performed within the group. The first day of the November
meeting has been designed as a "preclinical day", during which PhD students and post doc
at the NMDSG centra present their projects. This activity has expanded during the last
years, not the least as a result of the biobank material generated from the NMDSG Phase II
GCP studies. Moreover, NMDSG collaborates intensively with MDS oriented research
groups in Pavia, Italy, Hannover, Germany, and Oxford and Cambridge, UK. In April 2011
NMDSG therefore decided to expand the previous preclinical meeting to a 1,5 days
conference with international participation. This meeting will be actively announced to all
Nordic hematologists and open to international participants.
Scientific Committee
Eva Hellström Lindberg
Sten-Eirik Jacobsen
Mario Cazzola
Brigitte Schlegelberger
Kirsten Gronbeck
Karolinska Institute
Institute of Molecular Medicine Oxford, 25% guest professor
Karolinska Institute
University of Pavia
Hannover Medical School
Rigshospitalet Copenhagen
Format
Intense program focusing on the biology of specific subtypes of MDS and the utility of
cutting-edge techniques such as exome and transcriptome sequencing, stem cell
technologies, epigenetic profiling, telomere biology and immunology. We aim for 60
participants including speakers, limiting the number to 100. A strong focus will be on
collaborative projects
If funded, we will send out the call in June 2011 (NMDSG members has already booked
Thursday Nov 17 for the meeting in the previous format). We also specifically ask the
invited speakers to bring junior members of their respective research groups in order to
create a network of junior researchers.
Nordic Conference on the biology of myelodysplastic syndromes 2011 November 16-18
Programme
Wednesday November 16
14.00
Gathering & coffee
14.45
Welcome
15.00 - 17.00
Lessons from recent molecular work
Nijmegen
Joop Jansen
Cambridge
Elli Papaemmanuil
Oxford
Jackie Boultwood
Vancouver
Martin Jädersten
Stockholm
Juha Kere/Liselotte Vesterlund
17.15 - 18.15
Oral presentations of ongoing work
18.15 - 19.30
Poster presentations and time for collaborative study planning
19.30
Dinner
Eva Hellström-Lindberg
Thursday November 17
8.30 – 10.30
Lessons from recent cellular work
Stem cell biology
Sten-Eirik Jacobsen
Stem cell biology
Paresh Vyas
Telomeres and genetics
Brigitte Schlegelberger
NK cell biology in MDS
Kalle Malmberg
10.30 - 11.00
Coffee, viewing posters
11.00 - 12.00
Oral presentations
12.00 - 13.00
Lunch
13.00 - 14.30
RARS including oral presentation
Mario Cazzola
Eva Hellström Lindberg
14.30 - 15.00
Coffee
15.00 - 16.30
High-risk MDS including oral presentation
Kirsten Gronbeck
16.30 - 16.45
Break
16.45 - 17.15
17.45 - 18.30
Oral presentations: other incoming MDS abstracts
Time for planning of collaborative work
19.30
Conference dinner
Friday November 18
9.00 - 16.00
NMDSG Clinical trial meeting
Invited speaker:
David Bowen, Leeds
Nordic Conference on the biology of myelodysplastic syndromes 2011 November 16-18
Faculty
Email
Affiliation
Country
Eva Hellström-Lindberg eva.hellstrom-lindberg@ki.se
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
Juha Kere
juha.kere@ki.se
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
Kalle Malmberg
kalla.malmberg@ki.se
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
Kirsten Grönbeck
kisserg6@gmail.com
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen
Denmark
Joop Jansen
J.Jansen@labgk.umcn.nl
Nijmegen University
The Netherlands
Elli Papaemmanuil
Ep7@sanger.ac.uk
Sanger Institute, Cambridge
United Kingdom
Sten-Eirik Jacobsen
sten.jacobsen@imm.ox.ac.uk
Institute of Mol Med, Oxford
United Kingdom
Jackie Boultwood
Jacqueline.boultwood@ndcls.ox.ac.uk
John Radcliffe Hosp. Oxford
United Kingdom
Paresh Vyas
paresh.vyas@imm.ox.ac.uk
Institute of Mol Med, Oxford
United Kingdom
Mario Cazzola
mario.cazzola@unipv.it
University of Pavia
Italy
Brigitte Schlegelberger
Schlegelberger.Brigitte@MH-Hannover.de Hannover University
Germany
David Bowen
d.bowen@nhs.net
UK
Leeds Teaching Hospital
Other participants - comments
In addition, invited speakers have agreed to bring junior members from their groups to the meeting. We will
aim for a low cost for accommodation for these participants. Also, all NMDSG center will be invited to submit
abstracts for oral or poster presentations.
We have refrained from inviting US/Canadian colleges because of the costs. We prefer using available funds
for lowering the costs for junior participants.
A recent Nordic MDS grant will be used to cover 2 junior participants from Norway, Denmark and Finland.
Abstracts
Abstracts should be submitted before October 1 and will be used to divide contributions into oral and poster
presentations. We expect speakers to present data in progress/unpublished results and will therefore not
publish these on the NMDSG website.