Program
4th Educational Workshop on Immunoglobulin Sequence Analysis
in Chronic Lymphocytic
Leukemia
Stresa, 6-7 April
2011
Hotel La
Palma
Lungo Lago Umberto I,
33
Stresa, ITALY
http://www.hlapalma.it
Wednesday 6 April 2011
9.00 Welcome
P. Ghia
9.10 Key-note
lecture
CLL
ontogeny: options and possibilities
M. Ferrarini
Session I - IG sequences in CLL: biological and clinical aspects
Chair: Paolo
Ghia
10.00 Mechanisms of immunoglobulin
diversity
F. Davi
10.30 Clinical
relevance of IG gene
sequence
11.00 Coffee
break
Session II - IG sequences in CLL: technical aspects
Chair: Frederic
Davi
11.30 From the
patient to the sequence:
A. Langerak
Primers, PCR, Detection of clonality,
Sequencing
12.30 How to analyze IG sequences: the IMGT/V-QUEST tool V. Giudicelli
13.00 Lunch
Session III - Interpretation of IG sequences: bioinformatics
Chair: Anton
Langerak
14.15 Basic Exercises I
15.10
15.30
16.30 Coffee
break
16.45
17.15 Navigation through the IMGT web- resources M-P Lefranc
19.00 Boat departure
19.15 Aperitif at Isola Pescatori
20.00 Dinner at Isola Bella
Thursday 7 April
2011
Session IV - Interpretation of IG sequences: 'trouble' cases
Chair: Marie-Paule
Lefranc
8.30 Introduction to 'trouble' cases
C. Belessi
9.00 Exercises
10.00 Solutions
C. Belessi
10.30 Coffee
break
Session V - IG sequence analysis in clinical routine
Chair: Paolo
Ghia
11.00 ERIC
recommendations/Review Board
F. Davi
11.30 How to
report IG sequence data
in clinical routine?
Cases difficult to categorize - how to handle
them?
Session VI - Enabling innovative IG sequence research in CLL: present and future
Chair:
12.00 Stereotyped BcR in CLL (References)
K. Stamatopoulos
12.20 Data handling and
analysis: standards
before innovation
A. Hadzidimitriou
12.40 Turning integration of data and
expertise into innovation
N. Darzentas
13.00 Concluding remarks
P. Ghia
13.05 Lunch
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