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Monday 16 August 2010
Morning Concurrent Symposia/Oral Sessions • 10:30 - 12:00

O01: Experimental Immunobiology
Chair: Caigan Du, Canada & Philip Acott, Canada
Location: MR 202 - 204, Level 2


O02: T Cell Diversity and Functional Biology
Chairs: Leslie Brent, UK & David White, Canada
Location: MR 205 - 207, Level 2


O03: Genomics and Biomarkers
Chairs: Daniel Salomon, USA & Thomas Mueller, Canada

Location: MR 211, Level 2


O04: Organ Donation and Allocation I
Chairs: Bernard Cohen, The Netherlands & Valter Duro-Garcia, Brazil

Location: MR 109 - 110, Level 1


O05: Induction Immunosuppression
Chairs: Olwyn Johnston, Canada & Arthur Matas, USA

Location: Ballroom A/B, Level 1


O06: CMV Infection
Chairs: Petra Reinke, Germany & William Rawlinson, USA

Location: MR 220 - 222, Level 2


O07: A New Century of Pediatric Transplantation?
Chairs: Susan Samuel, Canada & Anne Dipchand, Canada

Location: MR 217 - 219, Level 2


O08: Immunosuppression for Liver Transplantation
Chairs: Douglas Hanto, USA & Hans Schlitt, Germany

Location: MR 118 - 120, Level 1


O09: Optimizing Immediate Graft Function in Kidney Transplantation
Chairs: Marti Manyalich, Spain & Edward Cole, Canada

Location: Ballroom C, Level 1


O10: Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Cellular Transplantation
Chair: Mario Abbud Filho, Brazil & Michael Breimer, Sweden

Location: MR 212 - 214, Level 2


O11: Late Breaking
Chairs: Pierre Daloze, Canada & TBC

Location: MR 121 - 122, Level 1

Mini Oral Sessions • 12:15 - 13:15

MO01: Immune Regulation and Tolerance I
Chairs: Johann Pratschke, Austria & Leslie Brent, UK

Location: MR 202 - 204, Level 2


MO02: Clinical and Ethical Aspects of Living Donor Transplantation
Chairs: Jean Shapiro, Canada & Francis Delmonico, USA

Location: MR 109 -110, Level 1


MO03: Induction Immunosuppression
Chairs: John Najarian, USA & Diego Cantarovich, France

Location: MR 211, Level 2


MO04: Epidemiology and Clinical Outcomes
Chairs: Robert Gaston, USA & Sita Gourishankar, Canada

Location: MR 205 - 207, Level 2


MO05: Living Liver Donors and Techniques
Chairs: David Grant, Canada & Chung Mau Lo, Hong Kong

Location: MR 217 - 219, Level 2


MO06: Laboratory Immunology and Kidney Transplantation
Chairs: Ron Kerman, USA & Ian Hutchinson, USA

Location: MR 220 - 222, Level 2


MO07: Islet and Pancreas Transplantation I
Chairs: Richard Allen, Australia & Frantisek Saudek, Czech Republic

Location: MR 212 - 214, Level 2

Afternoon Concurrent Symposia/Oral Sessions • 15:30 - 17:00

O12: Experimental Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury
Chair: Ian Alwayn, Canada
& Matthew Cooper, USA
Location: MR 220 - 222, Level2


O13: Assays to Predict Allorgraft Rejection
Chairs: Joseph Campistol, Spain & David Rush, Canada

Location: MR 217 - 219, Level 2


O14: Molecular Mechanisms of Delayed Kidney Graft Function
Chairs: Christophe Legendre, France & Shiro Takahara, Japan

Location: MR 211, Level 2


O15: Access to Treatment and Quality of Life
Chairs: Elias David-Neto, Brazil & Jeff Zaltzman, Canada

Location: MR 109 - 110, Level 1


O16: Use of mTor inhibitors and MPA I
Chairs: Klemens Budde, Germany & Josep Grinyo, Spain

Location: Ballroom A/B, Level 1


O17: Non-Viral Infections in Transplantation
Chairs: Rainaldo Bestetti, Brazil & Michael Ison, USA

Location: MR 202 -204, Level 2


O18: Biologic and Therapeutic Advances in Heart Transplantation I
Chair: Richard Kirk, UK & Marian Zembala, Poland

Location: MR 205 - 207, Level 2


O19: The Problem of Viral Hepatitis in Liver Transplantation
Chairs: Sheung-Tat Fan, Hong Kong & Norm Kneteman, Canada

Location: MR 118 -120, Level 1


O20: Options and Outcomes in the Sensitized Kidney Recipient
Chairs: Mark Stegall, USA & Steve Woodle, USA

Location: Ballroom C, Level 1


O21: Clinical Islet Transplantation
Chairs: Thierry Berney, Switzerland & Annika Tibell, Sweden

Location: MR 212 - 214, Level 2

 

Tuesday 17 August 2010
Morning Concurrent Symposia/Oral Sessions • 10:30 - 12:00

O22: B Cells and Antibody Responses
Chairs: William Baldwin, USA & Mark Pescovitz, USA

Location: MR 202 -204, Level 2


O23: Activation and Role of T Regulatory Cells
Chairs: Megan Levings, Canada & Nader Najafian, USA

Location: MR 205 - 207, Level 2


O24: Molecular Mechanisms of Chronic Kidney Graft Injury
Chair: Sundaram Hariharan, USA
& Dietmar Abendroth, Germany
Location: MR 211, Level 2


O25: Organ Donation and Allocation II
Chairs: Detlef Boesebeck, Germany & Paul Robertson, USA

Location: MR 109 -110, Level 1


O26: New Immunosuppressive Agents
Chairs: Flavio Vincenti, USA & Bjoern Nashan, Germany

Location: Ballroom A/B, Level 1


O27: BK Virus Infection
Chairs: Henrik Ekberg, Sweden & Serdar Yilmaz, Canada

Location: MR 220 - 222, Level 2


O28: Innovations in Composite Tissue Transplantation
Chairs: Jean-Michel Dubernard, France & David Cooper, USA

Location: MR 217 - 219, Level 2


O29: Outcomes of Liver Transplantation I
Chairs: John O'Grady, UK & Stephen Chung, Canada
Location:
MR 118 - 120, Level 1


O30: Therapeutic Strategies for Kidney transplantation
Chairs: Anantharaman Vathsala, Singapore & Gabriel Danovitch, USA
Location: Ballroom C, Level 1


O31: Cell Therapy and Stem Cells
Chairs: Hans-Dieter Volk, Germany & Alan Colman, Singapore

Location: MR 212 - 214, Level 2


O32: Late Breaking
Chairs: Mark Meloche, USA & David Landsberg, Canada
Location: MR 121 -122, Level 1

Mini Oral Sessions • 12:15 - 13:15

MO08: Immune Regulation and Tolerance II
Chairs: Alvaro Pacheco-Silva, Brazil & Willem Weimar, The Netherlands
Location: MR 202 - 204, Level 2


MO09: International Trends in Organ Donation
Chairs: Helen Pilmore, New Zealand & Maher Ramzy, Egypt

Location: MR 109 - 110, Level 1


MO10: New Immunosuppressive agents
Chairs: Barry Kahan, USA & Mark Pescovitz, USA

Location: MR 211, Level 2


MO11: Societal Issues and public policy
Chairs: Felix Cantarovich, France & Haibo Wang, China

Location: MR 205 - 207, Level 2


MO12: Immunuosuppression in Liver Transplantation
Chair: Marcus Bahra, Germany & Goran Klintmalm, USA

Location: MR 217 - 219, Level 2


MO13: Clinical Strategies and Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation
Chairs: Stuart Flechner, USA & Franco Citterio, Italy

Location: MR 220 - 222, Level 2


MO14: Islet and Pancreas Transplantation II
Chairs: Helmut Arbogast, Germany & Stephen Bartlett, USA

Location: MR 212 - 214, Level 2

Afternoon Concurrent Symposia/Oral Sessions • 15:30 - 17:00

O33: Cellular Mechanisms of Immune Regulation
Chairs: Alice Mui, Canada & Shane Grey, Australia

Location: MR 220 - 222, Level 2


O34: Cellular Assays of the Graft Response
Chairs: Ronald Gill, USA & Hideki Ohdan, Japan

Location: MR 217 - 219, Level 2


O35: Biomarkers in Kidney Transplantation
Chairs: Peter Nickerson, Canada & Caner Suesal, Germany

Location: MR 211, Level 2


O36: Ethics, Public Policy and Economics
Chair: Mark Schnitzler, USA & Zoltan Kalo, Hungary

Location: MR 109 - 110, Level 1


O37: Use of mTor inhibitors and MPA II
Chairs: Stuart Flechner, USA & Graeme Russ, Australia

Location: Ballroom A/B, Level 1


O38: Malignancy After Transplantation
Chairs: Edward Geissler, Germany & Ryutaro Hirose, USA
Location: MR 202 - 204, Level 2


O39: Biologic and Therapeutic Advances in Heart Transplantation II
Chairs: Mario Deng, Canada & Debra Isaac, Canada

Location: MR 205 - 207, Level 2


O40: HCC and Living Donor Transplantation
Chairs: Johann Pratschke, Austria & Mark Cattral, Canada

Location: MR 118 - 120, Level 1


O41: Transplantation in ABO mismatched and sensitized recipients
Chairs: Gunnar Tyden, Sweden & James Gloor, USA
Location: Ballroom C, Level 1


O42: Clinical Pancreas Transplantation I
Chairs: John Najarian, USA & Mark Meloche, Canada

Location: MR 212 -214, Level 2

 

Wednesday 18 August 2010
Mini Oral Sessions • 12:15 - 13:15

MO15: Immunological Monitoring
Chairs: Mannikam Suthanthiran, USA & Pekka Hayry, Finland

Location: MR 202 - 204, Level 2


MO16: Organ Donation, Preservation and Allocation
Chairs: Axel Rahmel, The Netherlands & Paul Robertson, USA

Location: MR 109 - 110, Level 1


MO17: CNI Minimization Strategies
Chairs: Yvon Lebranchu, France & Daniel Seron, Spain

Location: MR 211, Level 2


MO18: Innovations in Heart Transplantation I
Chair: John Kobashigawa, USA & Andreas Zuckerman, Austria

Location: MR 205 - 207, Level 2


MO19: Interventions and Outcomes in Liver Transplantation I
Chairs: Pierre Clavien, Switzerland & Andrej Buczkowski, Canada

Location: MR 217 - 219, Level 2


MO20: Xenotransplantation
Chairs: Maria Koulmanda, USA & David White, Canada

Location: MR 220 - 222, Level 2


MO21: Late Breaking
Chairs: Kareem Abu Elmagd, USA & TBC

Location: MR 212 - 214, Level 2

Afternoon Concurrent Symposia/Oral Sessions • 15:30 - 17:00

O43: Experimental and Human Tolerance
Chairs: Megan Sykes, USA & Maria Hernandez-Fuentes, UK

Location: MR 220 - 222, Level 2


O44: Xenotransplantation I
Chairs: Carl Groth, Sweden & Emanuele Cozzi, Italy

Location: MR 217 - 219, Level 2


O45: Molecular Diagnostics and Genomics
Chairs: Phil Dyer, UK & Andrea Zachary, USA

Location: MR 211, Level 2


O46: Epidemiology and Clinical Outcomes II
Chairs: Angela Webster, Australia & Denis Glotz, France

Location: MR 109 - 110, Level 1


O47: Clinical Trials of Immunosuppression
Chairs: Herwig-Ulf Meier Kriesche & Paul Trevillian, Australia

Location: Ballroom A/B, Level 1


O48: Advances in Surgery and Imaging
Chairs: Christopher Nguan, Canada & Richard Allen, Australia

Location: MR 202 - 204, Level 2

O49: Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Lung Transplantation
Chair: Robert Levy, Canada & Bronwyn Levvey, Australia

Location: MR 205 - 207, Level 2


O50: Intestine and Multivisceral Transplantation
Chairs: Saturo Todo, Japan & Douglas Farmer, USA

Location: MR 118 - 120, Level 1


O51: Immunological Monitoring in Kidney Transplantation
Chairs: Ferdinand Muhlbacher, Austria & Patricia Campbell, Canada

Location: MR 121 - 122, Level 1


O52: Experimental Islet Transplantation
Chairs: Leo Buhler, Switzerland & Olle Korsgren, Sweden

Location: MR 212 - 214, Level 2

 

Thursday 19 August 2010
Morning Concurrent Symposia/Oral Sessions • 10:30 - 12:00

O53: Clinical Role of HLA Antiobodies
Chairs: Samantha Fidler, Australia & Phil Dyer, UK

Location: MR 202 - 204, Level 2


O54: NK Cells in Graft Injury and Acceptance
Chair: Marie-Josee Hebert, Canada
& Alice Mui, Canada
Location: MR 205 - 207, Level 2


O55: Molecular and Cellular Pathology of the Kidney Allograft
Chair: Kim Solez, Canada
& David Rush, Canada
Location: MR 211, Level 2


O56: Epidemiology and Clinical Outcomes I
Chairs: Herwig-Ulf Meier-Kriesche, USA & Jagbir Gill, Canada

Location: MR 109 - 110, Level 1


O57: Pre-clinical immunosuppressive agents
Chairs: Randall Morris, USA & Daniel Abramowicz, Belgium

Location: Ballroom A/B, Level 1


O58: Other Viral Infections in Transplantation
Chairs: Raymund Razonable, USA & Dietmar Abendroth, Germany
Location: MR 220 - 222, Level 2


O59: Striving to Harness the Immune System in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation
Chairs: Richard Kirk, UK & Helen Evans, New Zealand

Location: MR 217 - 219, Level 2


O60: Outcomes of Liver Transplantation II
Chair: Sigfried Erb, Canada
& Bill Wall, Canada
Location: MR 118 - 120, Level 1


O61: Bone Marrow Transplantation
Chairs: Clayton Smith, Canada & Michael Barnett, Canada

Location: Ballroom C, Level 1


O62: Clinical Pancreas Transplantation II
Chairs: James Shapiro, Canada & Steven Paraskevas, Canada

Location: MR 212 - 214, Level 2


O63: Xenotransplantation II
Chairs: Henk Schuurman, The Netherlands & Kazuhiko Yamada, USA

Location: MR 121 - 122, Level 1

Mini Oral Sessions • 12:15 - 13:15

MO22: Immunopharmacology
Chairs: Dirk Kuypers, Belgium & Mario Abbud Filho, Brazil

Location: MR 202 - 204, Level 2


MO23: Pediatric Organ Transplantation
Chairs: Richard Thistlethwaite, USA & Oscar Salvatierra, USA

Location: MR 109 - 110, Level 1


MO24: Cardiac and Metabolic Complication of Transplantation
Chairs: Bert Kasiske, USA & Josep Grinyo, Spain

Location: MR 211, Level 2

MO25: Innovations in Heart Transplantation II
Chairs: Abbas Khani-Hanjani, Canada & Stephan Schueler, UK

Location: MR 205 - 207, Level 2


MO26: Interventions and Outcomes in Liver Transplantation II
Chairs: Ian Alwayn, Canada & Steve Lynch, Australia

Location: MR 217 - 219, Level 2


MO27: Experimental and Clinical Lung Transplantation
Chair: Annette Boehler, Switzerland
& Martin Strueber, Germany
Location: MR 220 - 222, Level 2


MO28: Stem Cells and Cellular Transplantation
Chairs: Igor Sauer, Germany & Clyde Barker, USA

Location: MR 212 - 214, Level 2

 

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