Full Schedule

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US PDT

Volunteer Breakfast

Location: Orange County 1 - 2

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM US PDT

Service Awards Presentation

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – UAB Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Lab

Speaker: – Alberta Precision Labs (Retired)

Speaker: – Gift of Life Michigan

Moderator: – University of Alberta

Moderator: – University of Wisconsin HLA Laboratory

Moderator: – KSL Diagnostics

CE: .08 CEC / .5 CME

8:01 AM - 8:10 AM US PDT

Distinguished Service Award

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Alberta Precision Labs (Retired)

8:10 AM - 8:20 AM US PDT

Outstanding Technologist Award

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Gift of Life Michigan

8:20 AM - 8:30 AM US PDT

J. Marilyn MacQueen Rising Star Award

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – UAB Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Lab

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM US PDT

Keynote Address: ABO Histocompatibility: New Tools to Explore ABH Antigens and ABO Antibodies in the Transplant Setting

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – University of Alberta

Moderator: – University of Alberta

Moderator: – SWID

CE: .15 CEC / 1 CME

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM US PDT

AM Break

Location: Platinum Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM US PDT

Scholar Presentations

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Speaker: – Thermo Fisher Scientific - One Lambda

CE: .08 CEC / .05 CME

10:01 AM - 10:15 AM US PDT

Efficient production of soluble class II HLA-Fc fusion proteins stabilized by interchain disulfide bond

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM US PDT

Kinetic Characterization of Sera Antibodies – A Surface Plasmon Resonance Study

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Thermo Fisher Scientific - One Lambda

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM US PDT

Plenary I: New Horizons in Cardiothoracic Transplantation

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – University Health Network

Speaker: – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Speaker: – Duke Medical Center

Moderator: – Bloodworks NW

Moderator: – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM US PDT

Breaking Down CPRA Barriers in Lung Transplantation

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – University Health Network

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM US PDT

Monitoring Heart Allografts: New Tools of the Trade

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM US PDT

Innovations in Pediatric Heart Transplantation

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Duke Medical Center

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM US PDT

ASHI Lunch

Location: Grand E - F

12:40 PM - 1:35 PM US PDT

User Group Meeting: Thermo Fisher Scientific: New Molecular Assays: From Validation to Reimbursement

Location: Marquis Center

1:40 PM - 2:35 PM US PDT

User Group Meeting: GenDx - Advancing Transplant Medicine: The Impact of Nanopore Sequencing on HLA & SLA (Swine) Typing

Location: Marquis Northeast

1:40 PM - 2:35 PM US PDT

User Group Meeting: Werfen: Exploring New Frontiers in Transplantation Testing.

Location: Marquis South

2:45 PM - 4:15 PM US PDT

Abstract I: Preclinical Discovery and Innovation

Location: Marquis South

Speaker: – Emory University

Speaker: – University of Michigan

Speaker: – Thermo Fisher Scientific

Speaker: – Emory University

Speaker: – Medical University of South Carolina

Moderator: – University of Saskatchwean

Moderator: – Vancouver Coastal Health

CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM US PDT

Role of epidermal growth factor in cardiac allograft injury

Location: Marquis South

Speaker: – Medical University of South Carolina

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM US PDT

HLA-C Peptide Repertoires as Predictors of Clinical Response During Early SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Location: Marquis South

Speaker: – University of Michigan

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM US PDT

Concentration-dependent antibody specificity profiles of human leukocyte DQ antigens and predictions of functional epitopes

Location: Marquis South

Speaker: – Thermo Fisher Scientific

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM US PDT

Defining functional epitopes of human leukocyte DQ antigens using a new single antigen bead panel and engineered variants

Location: Marquis South

Speaker: – Thermo Fisher Scientific

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM US PDT

Use of Single Antigen Beads Coated with Engineered Variants for Mapping a Functional Epitope of an HLA-DQA1*01 Specific Antibody

Location: Marquis South

Speaker: – Emory University

2:45 PM - 4:15 PM US PDT

Abstract II: Expanding the HLA Toolbox

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – Australian Red Cross Lifeblood - SATIS

Speaker: – Stanford University - Stanford Health Care

Speaker: – LifeLink Foundation

Speaker: – Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network

Speaker: – Emory University

Speaker: – Temple University Hospital

Moderator: – University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Moderator: – Labcorp

CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM US PDT

Power BI for HLA

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – Temple University Hospital

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM US PDT

Assessing the clinical utility of the ExPlex Panel in a cohort of highly sensitized Black Americans

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – Emory University

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM US PDT

Uncovering New Potentials: High Resolution Deceased Donor Human Leukocyte Antigen Typing in Less Than 4 Hours

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM US PDT

Evaluation of Spurious Luminex Bead Reactions with HISTO SPOT® HLA AB, Flow Cytometry Cross Matching and Adsorption with Crossmatch and Elution

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – Australian Red Cross Lifeblood - SATIS

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM US PDT

Inverse Correlation between MFI and Bead Counts in Single Antigen Bead Assay for Anti-HLA Antibody Testing

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – Stanford University - Stanford Health Care

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM US PDT

Evaluation of the Performance of Next Generation Sequencing ABO Probes in a Solid Organ Transplant Population

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – LifeLink Foundation

2:45 PM - 4:15 PM US PDT

Workshop 1: Back to Basics: Deep Dive into Antigenicity, Immunogenicity, and Alloantibody Formation

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Speaker: – La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Speaker: – Scripps Research

Moderator: – KSL Diagnostics

Moderator: – UCLA

CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME

2:46 PM - 3:15 PM US PDT

Defining Immune Epitopes for Antigen Recognition and Presentation

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – La Jolla Institute for Immunology

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM US PDT

Antigen Presenting Cells: How innate cells sense “danger,” present antigen, and shape the adaptive immune response

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM US PDT

How B Cells Discriminate Self from Non-self and Become Primed for Antibody Production

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Scripps Research

4:15 PM - 4:45 PM US PDT

PM Break

Location: Platinum Ballroom

4:45 PM - 6:15 PM US PDT

Abstract III: Adaptive Immunity and Transplant Outcomes

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – University of Calgary

Speaker: – IGEN/AFIP and Federal University of Parana

Speaker: – Atrium Health

Speaker: – UCLA Immunogenetics Center

Speaker: – UCLA

Speaker: – Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Moderator: – University of Michigan Medicine

Moderator: – Northwestern University

CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM US PDT

Non-Permissive Hla-Dpb1 Mismatches are Associated with Increased 1-Year Mortality after Unrelated Donor Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Non-Malignant Disorders

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – Complexo Hospital de Clínicas - Federal University of Paraná

5:00 PM - 5:15 PM US PDT

Reconstitution of T Cells at Three Months after Stem Cell Transplant Influences the Discovery of Predictive Markers of Relapse

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – University of Calgary

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM US PDT

Serological reactivity of HLA alleles is dependent on race/ethnicity

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – UCLA

5:30 PM - 5:45 PM US PDT

Treatment with Bi-Specific Antibody Blinatumomab Effectively Reduces HLA Antibodies

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – Cedars Sinai Medical Center

5:45 PM - 6:00 PM US PDT

Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury Drives Increased Allosensitization to HLA-B, DQB1 and DPB1 and Leads to Poor Outcomes in Liver Transplant Recipients

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – UCLA Immunogenetics Center

6:00 PM - 6:15 PM US PDT

North Carolina Flow-XM Collaboration

Location: Marquis Northeast

Speaker: – Atrium Health

4:45 PM - 6:15 PM US PDT

Workshop 2: Tools for HLA Antibody Analysis: Pulling Back the Curtain

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Emory University

Speaker: – Stanford Blood Center

Speaker: – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Speaker: – hôpital Saint-Louis

Speaker: – UCLA

Speaker: – UNC Chapel Hill

Moderator: – Emory University Hospital

Moderator: – Duke University

Moderator: – Rush University Medical Center

CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME

4:46 PM - 4:55 PM US PDT

Introduction: Realities of histocompatibility complexity

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Duke University

4:55 PM - 5:35 PM US PDT

LIVE HLA antibody challenge

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – Stanford Blood Center

Speaker: – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Speaker: – hôpital Saint-Louis

Speaker: – Emory University

5:35 PM - 5:45 PM US PDT

Cluster Tools to examine serological equivalents or false positive bead patterns

Location: Marquis Center

Speaker: – UNC Chapel Hill

Speaker: – UCLA

5:45 PM - 6:15 PM US PDT

Panel Q&A Session

4:45 PM - 6:15 PM US PDT

Workshop 3: AABB/ASHI Symposium: Exploring Transplant Uncertainties/Conundrums in ABO

Location: Marquis South

Speaker: – University of Alberta

Speaker: – NYU Langone Health

Speaker: – UC San Diego Health

Moderator:

Moderator: – University of Alberta

CE: .23 CEC / 1.5 CME

4:46 PM - 5:15 PM US PDT

Overview of Glycobiology, Review of the Literature for Use of Red Cell Agglutination Titers in Transplantation

Location: Marquis South

Speaker: – University of Alberta

5:15 PM - 5:45 PM US PDT

Overcoming Challenges in Performing Testing for ABO-incompatible Transplants

Location: Marquis South

Speaker: – UC San Diego Health

5:45 PM - 6:15 PM US PDT

ABO-Incompatible Transplantation from the Clinical Perspective

Location: Marquis South

Speaker: – NYU Langone Health

6:15 PM - 7:15 PM US PDT

Directors in Training Reception

Location: Hospitality Suite

6:15 PM - 8:15 PM US PDT

Poster Reception with Exhibits

Location: Platinum Ballroom

6:45 PM - 7:45 PM US PDT

International Reception

Location: Elite 2 & 3

7:15 PM - 8:15 PM US PDT

ARB/Inspector's Reception

Location: Gold Key II