

Sunday,
April 19
2:30-4:30 PM
Tissue Fixation for Morphological Analysis and Molecular Profiling
Organizers:
Denis G. Baskin, VA
Puget Sound Medical Center and University of Washington School of Medicine,
Seattle, WA
Stephen W. Carmichael, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Speakers:
Unlocking the Archives: Genomic Analysis of Formalin-Fixed Paraffin Embedded
Tissue
Federico A. Monzon, The
Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Ultrasound-mediated
Tissue Specimen Preparation and On-slide Molecule Extraction from Fixed
Tissue Samples
Wei-Sing
Chu, Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC
Formalin
Fixation and Antigen Retrieval: Translating Insights to Clinical Innovation
Steven
A. Bogen, University
School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Non-formalin
Tissue Fixation for Biochemical and Molecular Analysis
Scott
D. Jewell, Ohio
State University Innovation Centre, Columbus, OH
Monday,
April 20
10:30
AM-12:30 PM
Molecular
Cytogenetics in Preimplantation/perinatal Genetic Analysis and Cancer
Research
Organizers:
Heinz-Ulrich Weier, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley,
CA
Thomas Liehr, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena,
Germany
Speakers:
Molecular Cytogenetic Delineation of Chromosome Structure and Complexity
Stuart Schwartz, University
of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Multi-color
FISH Assays for Characterization of Marker Chromosomes and Epigenetic
Changes
Thomas
Liehr, Friedrich
Schiller University of
Jena, Jena, Germany
Clincical
Application of alphaCGH for Prenatal Diagnosis: Experience with >350
Cases
Sau
Wei Cheung, Baylor
College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Single
Cell
Cytogenetics
Jingly
F. Weier, Reprogenetics,
LLC, South San Francsco, CA
2:30-4:30 PM
Joint with AAA: Stem Cell Plasticity and Homing in their Histological Context
Organizers:
Heinz-Ulrich
Weier, Lawernce
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Peter J. Quesenberry, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence,
RI
Speakers:
The
Paradoxical Dynamism of Marrow Stem Cells
Peter J. Quesenberry, Rhode
Island Hospital, Providence, RI
Stem
Cells and The Lung
Jason M. Aliotta, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence,
RI
Generation
of Functional Humanized Liver in Sheep by Bone Marrow Cells
Esmail
D. Zanjani, University
of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
Very
Small Embryonic like (VSEL) Stem Cells-characterization, Biological
Significance and Potential Applications
Mariusz
Ratajczak, University
of Louisville, Louisville, KY