The 12th Australasian Biospecimen Network Annual Meeting:

"Australasian Harmonisation

Of Kiwis and Koalas: Embracing Commonalities"

Sunday 30th of November – Monday 1st of December 2014

Chateau on the Park, Christchurch, New Zealand

30 th November / Sunday
9.00-10.00am / ABN Oncology Executive Meeting (invitation only)
10.30-11:30am / ABNA Executive Committee Meeting (invitation only)
11am – 2pm / Registration Open
Welcome
1.30 – 1.45pm / Welcome: Kaumatua, ABNA President, Elizabeth Cunningham
Workshop A: ELSI (ethical, legal & societal issues)
1.50pm / Maui Hudson: Maori and Indigenous Governance Centre, University of Waikato.
Building bridges: Maori views on Genomic Research & Biobanks
Allamanda Faatoese: Christchurch Heart Institute, UOC.
Maori and Pacific Community Cohorts
Caroline Lintott: Senior Genetic Associate, Genetic Health Service NZ ,SI Hub.
CDH1 testing in New Zealand.
3.00 - 3.30pm Visit Industry displays & afternoon tea
Workshop: ELSI continued
3.30 pm / Andrew Shelling: Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, University of Auckland, NZ
Patient initiated biobanking
Margaret Otlowski: Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania.
Return of individual research results and incidental findings
4.30pm / Panel Discussion: Building Trans Tasman partnerships
5.30 – 6.00pm / ABNA Annual General Meeting
6.15pm / 1 hour City Bus Tour & transport to/from dinner venue
7.15pm / ‘CHART Biomedical Thermo Fisher Scientific’ Dinner at The George
1st December / Monday
8.00 – 10.00am / Registration Open
Workshop: Integrating Biobanks, Clinical Trials & Disease Registries
9.00 am / Paula Marlton: Director, Australasian Leukaemia & Lymphoma Group Tissue Bank QLD.
ALLGs integration of biobanking with disease registries and clinical trials
Caroline Graham: Manager, Office of Population Health Genomics, WA Dept of Health
RD-Connect data platform: Registry and Biobank integration
Round table discussion: Registry and Biobank data harmonisation and integration
10:30- 11.00am / Morning Tea in Industry Displays and Poster Viewing
Contributed papers session
11:00 / Selected oral presentations
12.30 – 1.30pm / Lunch and Poster Viewing
Workshop: Standardisation within Biobanking
1.30 / Amanda Rush: Biobanking Stakeholders Network, NSW.
State Wide Standardisation Project
Jane Carpenter: Manager, Australian Breast Cancer Tissue Bank, NSW.
Quality & certification: SPREC,BRISQ, CAP,NATA,OBER,ISO what does it all mean?
Jenn Fleming: Centre for Values, Ethics & Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW.
Managing Individual Results & Incidental Findings: Public & tissue donor views
2.30 / Panel discussion “Should researchers run Biobanks?”
3.15– 3.45pm / Afternoon Tea in Industry Displays and Poster Viewing
Future Directions
3.45 / Anna deFazio: Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, University of Sydney, NSW
Genomic profiling in clinical practise
TBC
4:45-5:00 pm / Closing views & Prize winners

Version 5 ABNA 2014 program