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1 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208

2 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208

3 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) TABLE OF CONTENTS Committees... 4 Welcome Addresses... 7 General Information... 8 Exhibition Plan and Listing... 4 Floor Plan... 4 Program at a glance Associated Meetings th AIBT Annual Meeting Program Wednesday Thursday... 3 Friday Saturday Poster Presentations Speakers - Chairs Authors Index

4 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Committees LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CONGRESS CHAIRMAN Valeria Miotti (IT) CONGRESS CO-CHAIRMEN Antonio Amoroso (IT) Carlo Carcassi (IT) LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Marco Andreani (IT) Andrea Bontadini (IT) Emanuele Cozzi (IT) Maria E. Fasano (IT) Silvia Gregori (IT) Luca Mascaretti (IT) Benedetta Mazzi (IT) Lia Mele (IT) Franco Papola (IT) Antonina Piazza (IT) Francesca Quintieri (IT) Nicoletta Sacchi (IT) Manuela Testi (IT) Luca Vago (IT) ORGANIZING SECRETARIAT Planning Congressi srl Via Guelfa Bologna (Italy) Ph Ext. 30 Fax m.mura@planning.it 4

5 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) EFI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Elissaveta Naumova (BG), President Joannis Mytilineos (DE) President Elect Mats Bengtsson (SE), Secretary Dave L. Roelen (NL), Deputy Secretary Gwendaline Guidicelli (FR), Treasurer Katia Gagne (FR), Deputy Treasurer EFI COUNCILLORS Pierre-Antoine Gourraud (FR) Teresa Kauke (DE) Neema Mayor (UK) Valeria Miotti (IT) Fatma Oguz (TR) Jean Villard (CH) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE AND REVIEWERS CHAIR Katharina Fleischhauer (DE) MEMBERS Rainer Blasczyk (DE) Silvia Gregori (IT) Sebastiaan Heidt (NL) James Robinson (UK) Ludvig Sollid (NO) James Traherne (UK) John Trowsdale (UK) Luca Vago (IT) Lotte Wieten (NL) 5

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7 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) WELCOME ADDRESSES Dear Colleagues and Friends, The 32 nd European Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Conference, joint with the 25 th AIBT (Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology) annual meeting, will be held in Venice, Italy from 9 th to 2 th of May, 208. Art and Science: the evolving picture of Immunogenetics is the motto of EFI208 that reflects the dynamism of the Immunogenetics World and its ability to get involved in new addictive biomedical fields, like Leonardo s masterpiece. I am confident that the meeting will be interesting and exciting, enriching you with the most recent updates in Tissue Typing, Immunogenetics and Transplantation Immunology. The conference will take place in the historical buildings of Palazzo del Cinema and Palazzo del Casinò, located in Venice Lido, the quiet, peaceful and green narrow island that stretches between the open sea and the lagoon, just 5 minutes far from St. Mark s Square. Marvellous Venice, where, everybody knows, there is no traffic jam and you can wander around the labyrinth of narrow cobbled streets and over the countless bridges that criss-cross the canals. You shall not rush and you might lose track of time. Every corner is unique and worth a look for its artistic value or romantic atmosphere. You can get about Venice by water buses, water-taxis or Gondolas, which allows you to visit canals and the lagoon. Don t miss the chance to see Ponte dei Sospiri (Bridge of Sighs) where the convicts saw the lagoon before their imprisonment, sighing at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells; Canal Grande (Grand Canal); Rialto Bridge, Churches, Art-galleries, Murano (famous for its glass works) and Burano (famous for the lace shops). It is a great honour and pleasure to invite you to such a unique, romantic, slow, fascinating place named Venice. Looking forward to seeing you all Valeria Miotti On behalf of AIBT and Conference Co-Chairs Carlo Carcassi and Antonio Amoroso 7

8 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 GENERAL INFORMATION CONFERENCE VENUE The Conference will take place in Venice Lido, at Palazzo del Cinema and Palazzo del Casinò. Lungomare Guglielmo Marconi, Lido di Venezia The Palazzo del Cinema is the main facility and screening theatre of the Venice Film Festival. It was built according to the modernist trends of the 930s, and inaugurated on 0 th August 937 on the occasion of the fifth edition of the festival. In this building will be held: Opening Ceremony Plenary Sessions Closing Ceremony PALAZZO CINEMA PALAZZO CASINÒ The Palazzo del Casinò was designed by the Chief Engineer of the City of Venice Eugenio Miozzi in the Rationalist style, influenced by the Fascist architecture of the 930s and built in the record time of 8 months in 938. In this building will be held: 25 th AIBT Annual Meeting Parallel Sessions Luncheon Sessions Scientific Poster Reception 8

9 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION DESKS The registration desks are located on level. OPENING HOURS Wednesday 9 May :00-20:00 Thursday 0 May :00-9:00 Friday May :00-9:00 Saturday 2 May :00-4:00 ON SITE REGISTRATION FEES Member 560 Euro Non Member 620 Euro Student 395 Euro Technician 395 Euro Accompanying Person 0 Euro Gala Dinner 70 Euro REGISTRATION INCLUDES: VAT Access to the conference sessions (not included for Accompanying Persons) Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception Coffee Breaks Lunches (not included for Accompanying Persons) VENEZIA UNICA City Card COFFEE BREAKS Coffee and refreshments will be served to delegates at several points at the exhibition area. LUNCH BOX Tickets are required for the lunch box and are provided with the registration package. Additional tickets for guests can be purchased through the Registration desk. CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE The certificate of attendance will be sent by after the Conference. 9

10 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 GENERAL INFORMATION PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Venice s official City Pass VENEZIA UNICA is a card that offers three days of public transportation use with the ACTV Company in the city area (the card will be activated for the whole days of May 0, and 2). Warning: The fare includes the transport of only one piece of luggage and its three dimensions must not exceed 50 cm. The card will be delivered at the Congress Registration Desk. This card allows you to catch all vaporetto and buses in the City of Venice and buses in Mestre. The Tronchetto parking area in Venice is not reachable by bus, but only by the people mover. PLEASE NOTE THAT PEOPLE MOVER FARE IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE VENEZIA UNICA CARD. The card also includes the free use of the speedboat from Punta Sabbioni to Venice Lido, but it does NOT include bus transportation in Punta Sabbioni (one way fare,50 ). The public transportation from/to Marco Polo Airport is provided by another company, named Alilaguna, and is not included in VENEZIA UNICA card. CONFERENCE APP Full program and more information regarding the Conference are available at the 32 nd EFI conference application for ios and Android. QR CODE to download the conference app. WI-FI Free Wi-Fi is provided for all delegates and Exhibitors attending the Conference. Network ConventionCenter password EFI208! EFI BOOTH The EFI Booth is situated in the Exhibition Hall on level 3. Membership secretary is available: Thursday 0 May :30-7:00 Friday May :30-7:00 0

11 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) SPEAKER READY ROOM The Speaker Ready room is located on level. All speakers should deliver their presentations at least 2 hours prior to their speech. OPENING HOURS Wednesday 9 May 208 5:00-8:30 Thursday 0 May :00-9:00 Friday May :00-8:30 Saturday 2 May :00-3:00 POSTERS The Poster Area is located on level 3. The poster panels will be numbered. Please refer to the final poster number of your submission which has been communicated to you earlier. Posters can be mounted on Thursday May 0 th (from 8:00 to 0:30) and should be removed on Saturday, May 2 th by 9:00. Any posters remaining on poster boards after this time will be disposed of by the organizers. Posters should be attached to poster boards using double sided tape - supply of the tape will be available at the poster area for all poster presenters. Posters will be presented during the Poster Session in the late afternoon of Thursday, May 0 th. The presenting author should be available beside his/her poster in order to discuss the data with the attendants. AIBT ANNUAL MEETING Please note that the official language of the AIBT Meeting will be Italian. No simultaneous translation will be provided. AIBT MEETING - CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME) Planning Congressi S.r.l. is a CME Provider - identification code no and has assigned to the event no. 3,5 credits for Biologists, Chemists, Physicians and Technicians. Please be aware that for the acquisition of credits it is mandatory to have attended the 90% of the whole duration of the congress and selected at least the 75% of correct answers of the CME questionnaire.

12 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 GENERAL INFORMATION EFI CONGRESS - CPE AND CPD CREDITS For the first time at this Conference, Certificates regarding CME/CPD credits awarded will only be provided to delegates after the meeting, following completion of a short survey. The survey is designed to capture information about the meeting, speakers and venue and will inform future conference organisation. The survey link will be sent to delegates by immediately following the Conference. We hope delegates understand the usefulness of this meeting evaluation survey and of the provision of EFI Educational Credits and ASHI continuing education credits. EXHIBITION The Exhibition will be held on level and 3. OPENING HOURS Wednesday 9 May :00-9:00 Thursday 0 May :00-9:30 Friday May :00-9:00 SOCIAL PROGRAM EFI Inspectors Dinner (by invitation only) Tuesday 8 May, 9:00 - La Favorita Restaurant, Venice Lido Welcome Reception Wednesday 9 May, 9:30 - Palazzo Cinema Foyer Tulip Run (Sponsored by GenDx) Thursday 0 May, 07:00-08:00 Scientific Poster Reception (Sponsored by One Lambda and Lagitre, srl) Thursday 0 May, 8:00-20:00 - Palazzo del Casinò (3 rd floor) Ceppellini Dinner (by invitation only) Thursday 0 May, 20:30 - Da Celeste Restaurant - Pellestrina Island Speakers Dinner (by invitation only) Thursday 0 May, 20:30 - Relais Alberti, Venice Lido Conference Gala Dinner (additional fee) Friday May, 20:45 - Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice Lido 2

13 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) EXHIBITION PLAN AND LISTING FLOOR PLAN

14 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 PALAZZO DEL CINEMA AUDITORIUM ENTRANCE PERLA ROOM COMPANY NAME BOOTH NUMBER CareDx B Histogenetics C Immucor, Inc. D One Lambda A Thermo Fisher Scientific Brand A E CLOAKROOM SECRETARIAT CORNER SECRETARIAT CORNER SPEAKER READY ROOM 2 SPEAKER READY ROOM TERRAZZA COPERTA SPEAKER READY ROOM CASINÒ ROOM A B C D I st FLOOR PALAZZO DEL CASINÒ 4

15 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) 2 nd FLOOR PALAZZO DEL CASINÒ 0. MANGANO ROOM. ROSSI DRAGO ROOM 2. MARTINELLI ROOM 3. CHIARI ROOM 4. KOSCINA ROOM 5. BUY ROOM 6. RONDI ROOM AMICI ROOM LIFTS 0 TOILETTE

16 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, rd FLOOR PALAZZO DEL CASINÒ MOSAICI ROOM 2 MOSAICI ROOM POSTER EXHIBITION CATERING AREA CATERING AREA CATERING AREA EXHIBITION AREA CLOAKROOM COMPANY NAME BOOTH NUMBER BAG Health Care GmbH -2 Beckman Coulter S.r.l. 22 Bionobis EFI 23 EFI GenDx 7-8 Imegen 4 Inno-Train Diagnostik GmbH 4-5 JETA Molecular BV 6 Miltenyi Biotec 3 Omixon 5-6 One Lambda A Thermo Fisher Scientific Brand PIRCHE AG 24 Promega Italia S.r.l. 28 Protrans medizinische 29 diagnostische Produkte GmbH ROSE GenTech. Corp 7 STEMCELL Technologies 0 SystemLink, Inc. 8 TBG Biotechnology Corp. 25 6

17 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) GROUND FLOOR PALAZZO DEL CINEMA E F G ENTRANCE ATRIUM A B C D AUDITORIUM CLOAKROOM REGISTRATION AREA COMPANY NAME BOOTH NUMBER BAG Health Care GmbH G CareDx B GenDx E Histogenetics C Immucor, Inc. D Omixon F One Lambda A Thermo Fisher Scientific Brand A 7

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19 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

20 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 TIME ROOM Palazzo del Cinema Foyer Palazzo del Casinò Casinò Room st floor TUESDAY, 8 th MAY Palazzo del Casinò Mosaici Room 3 rd floor Palazzo del Casinò Mosaici 2 Room 3 rd floor Palazzo del Casinò Buy Room 2 nd floor 08:00-08:30 08:30-09:00 09:00-09:30 EBTI Assembly Meeting 09:30-0:00 0:00-0:30 0:30-:00 :00-:30 :30-2:00 ESHI diploma examination 2:00-2:30 2:30-3:00 3:00-3:30 Accreditation Inspectors Workshop 3:30-4:00 4:00-4:30 4:30-5:00 5:00-5:30 IBMDR Meeting 5:30-6:00 6:00-6:30 6:30-7:00 7:00-7:30 7:30-8:00 8:00-:8:30 8:30-9:00 9:00-9:30 9:30-20:00 20

21 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) TIME ROOM Palazzo del Cinema Foyer Palazzo del Casinò Casinò Room st floor Palazzo del Casinò Perla Room st floor WEDNESDAY 9 th MAY Palazzo del Casinò Amici Room 2 nd floor Palazzo del Casinò Mangano Room 2 nd floor Palazzo del Casinò Rossi Drago Room 2 nd floor Palazzo del Casinò Martinelli Room 2 nd floor Palazzo del Casinò Buy Room 2 nd floor 08:00-08:30 08:30-09:00 09:00-09:30 09:30-0:00 0:00-0:30 0:30-:00 :00-:30 :30-2:00 2:00-2:30 2:30-3:00 3:00-3:30 3:30-4:00 25 th AIBT Annual Meeting External Proficiency Testing Committee Executive Committee Meeting Standards Committee Meeting Accreditation Committee Meeting 4:00-4:30 4:30-5:00 5:00-5:30 Open Meeting of the Population 5:30-6:00 Genetics Working 6:00-6:30 Group Education Committee 6:30-7:00 7:00-7:30 7:30-8:00 8:00-:8:30 8:30-9:00 9:00-9:30 9:30-20:00 20:00-20:30 20:30-2:00 2:00-2:30 Opening Ceremony Welcome Reception 2

22 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 TIME ROOM 08:00-08:30 Palazzo del Cinema Auditorium 08:30-09:00 PLENARY SESSION 09:00-09:30 Governance of immunemodulation in 09:30-0:00 transplantation Palazzo del Casinò Casinò Room st floor Palazzo del Casinò Mosaici Room 3 rd floor THURSDAY, 0 th MAY Palazzo del Casinò Mosaici 2 Room 3 rd floor 0:00-0:20 Coffee break & Poster viewing Palazzo del Casinò Perla Room st floor Palazzo del Casinò Buy Room 2 nd floor Palazzo del Casinò Martinelli Room 2 nd floor 0:20-0:50 0:50-:20 : Meet the Expert ESHI Diploma Oral Session MHC Evolution - Anthropology - Population Genetics Oral Session 2 New Technologies and Bioinformatics Teaching Session How NGS technology is changing the way of HLA typing Scientific Committee Meeting Pause 2:00-2:30 Luncheon Session 2:30-3:00 CareDx Luncheon Session GenDx 3:00-3:30 Lunch Box 3:30-4:00 Luncheon Session 4:00-4:30 Immucor Luncheon Session Omixon 4:30-4:40 Pause 4:40-5:0 5:0-5:40 5:40-6:0 Meet the Expert 2 EPT External proficiency testing Oral Session 3 Immunotherapy - Gene Therapy - Cellular Therapy Oral Session 4 Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Luncheon Session One Lambda Luncheon Session One Lambda Teaching Session 2 Clinical impact of de-novo HLA antibodies in solid organ transplantation 6:0-6:30 Coffee break & Poster viewing Executive Committee and Co-ordinators Meeting 6:30-7:00 PLENARY 7:00-7:30 SESSION 2 Solid Organ 7:30-:8:00 Transplantation 8:00-8:30 8:30-9:00 9:00-9: Scientific Poster Reception 22

23 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) TIME ROOM 08:00-08:30 08:30-09:00 09:00-09:30 09:30-0:00 Palazzo del Cinema Auditorium PLENARY SESSION 3 HSCT Current clinical perspectives Palazzo del Casinò Mosaici Room 3 rd floor FRIDAY, th MAY Palazzo del Casinò Mosaici 2 Room 3 rd floor 0:00-0:20 Coffee break & Poster viewing 0:20-0:50 0:50-:20 : Oral Session 5 Solid Organ Transplantation Pause 2:00-2:30 2:30-3:00 Luncheon Session Bag Healthcare Oral Session 6 NK and Miscellaneous 3:00-3:30 Lunch Box 3:30-4:00 4:00-4:30 4:30-4:40 Pause 4:40-5:0 5:0-5:40 5:40-6:0 SPECIAL JOINT SESSION WMDA and EFI Oral Session 7 Reproduction, Autoimmunity, Infection & Cancer Luncheon Session Histogenetics 6:0-6:30 Coffee break & Poster viewing 6:30-7:00 7:00-7:30 7:30-:8:00 8:00-8:30 8:30-9:00 9:00-9: PLENARY SESSION 4 Immunogenetics beyond HLA Conference Gala Dinner Palazzo del Casinò Perla Room st floor Teaching Session 3 Tools for a successful HSCT: evaluation of HLA allele frequencies, anti-hla antibodies, structural and expression models for permissive mismatches Luncheon Session One Lambda Luncheon Session One Lambda Teaching Session 4 How to prepare for an inspection: demonstrating how quality standards are met EFI General Assembly 23

24 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 TIME ROOM 08:00-08:30 08:30-09:00 09:00-09:30 09:30-0:00 0:00-0:30 Palazzo del Cinema Auditorium Best Abstract Session 7 th and 8 th IHW reports 0:30-0:50 Coffee Break 0:50-:20 PLENARY : SESSION 5 New Frontiers in Immunogenetics 2:20-2:50 Closing Lecture 2:50-3:30 Closing Ceremony Palazzo del Casinò Casinò Room st floor SATURDAY, 2 th MAY Palazzo del Casinò Mosaici Room 3 rd floor Palazzo del Casinò Mosaici 2 Room 3 rd floor Palazzo del Casinò Perla Room st floor 24

25 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) ASSOCIATED MEETINGS 25 th AIBT ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM

26 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 ASSOCIATED MEETINGS Tuesday 8 May 208 8:30-9:30 EBTI Assembly Meeting Chairperson: Marco Andreani :30-8:30 IBMDR Meeting Chairperson: Nicoletta Sacchi 09:00-4:00 ESHI diploma examination Chairperson: David Turner CASINÒ ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) BUY ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) 9:30-6:30 Accreditation Inspectors Workshop Chairperson: Andrea Harmer FOYER - PALAZZO CINEMA Wednesday 9 May 208 8:30-6:00 External Proficiency Testing Committee Chairperson: Falko Heinemann 8:30-6:30 Executive Committee Meeting Chairperson: Elissaveta Naumova 8:30-6:00 Standards Committee Meeting Chairperson: Juha Peräsaari AMICI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) MANGANO ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) ROSSI DRAGO ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) 26

27 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Wednesday 9 May 208 9:00-6:30 Accreditation Committee Meeting Chairperson: Andrea Harmer MARTINELLI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) 3:30-7:00 Education Committee Chairperson: David Turner BUY ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) CASINÒ ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) 5:00-6:30 Open Meeting of the Population Genetics Working Group Chairperson: Alicia Sanchez-Mazas Thursday 0 May 208 0:00-2:00 Scientific Committee Meeting Chairperson: Katharina Fleischhauer BUY ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) MARTINELLI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) 2:5-4:30 Executive Committee and Co-ordinators Meeting Chairperson: Elissaveta Naumova Friday May EFI General Assembly PERLA ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) 27

28 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, th AIBT ANNUAL MEETING Accreditato ECM Wednesday 9 May 208 PERLA ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) 9:00 Apertura lavori WEDNESDAY I SESSIONE Moderatori: Valeria Miotti, Manuela Testi 9:30 Il donatore non familiare, adulto e cord: quali prospettive nell era del trapianto aploidentico Nicoletta Sacchi 0:00 Anticorpi DSA nel Trapianto di CSE, gestione e desensibilizzazione Giovanni Rombolà 0:30 Metodologia di studio del chimerismo in relazione alle diverse tipologie di trapianto di CSE: ricaduta clinica Marco Andreani :00 Nuovi targets della risposta immune umorale nel trapianto d organo Emanuele Cozzi :30 Coffee break 28

29 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Wednesday 9 May 208 PERLA ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) II SESSIONE Moderatori: Lia Mele, Antonina Piazza :45 Epigenetica e nuove tecnologie: cosa cambia nell associazione HLA e malattie immunomediate Carlo Carcassi 2:5 Il Controllo di qualità Esterno Francesca Quintieri WEDNESDAY 3:30 Lunch 4:45 AIBT nella storia Valerio Misefari 5:5 Conclusione lavori 5:30 Assemblea dei Soci 29

30 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 PROGRAM Wednesday 9 May 208 OPENING CEREMONY 7:30-8:00 Welcome Addresses Valeria Miotti, Carlo Carcassi, Antonio Amoroso, Elissaveta Naumova, Alessandro Nanni Costa AUDITORIUM - PALAZZO CINEMA WEDNESDAY 8:00-8:30 In memory of Jon van Rood Frans H.J. Claas 8:30-8:55 Julia Bodmer Award Katharina Fleischhauer 8:55-9:00 HLA Award Steven G.E. Marsh 9:00-9:30 Ceppellini Lecture Elissaveta Naumova 9:30-20:00 Sounds from Italy - Classic and cinema 20:00-2:30 Welcome Reception 30

31 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Thursday 0 May 208 PLENARY SESSION Governance of immune-modulation in transplantation Chairpersons: Frans H.J. Claas, Silvia Gregori 8:30-9:00 Mesenchimal stem cells in transplantation Katarina K. Le Blanc 9:00-9:30 Exosome Adrian E. Morelli 9:30-0:00 Innate lymphoid cells Hergen Spits AUDITORIUM - PALAZZO CINEMA 0:00-0:20 Coffee break & Poster viewing PALAZZO CASINÒ THURSDAY 3

32 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Thursday 0 May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS 0:20-:50 Meet the Expert - ESHI Diploma Marco Andreani, David Turner CASINÒ ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) Overview of the ESHI Diploma David Turner Preparation for the Application and Examination Marco Andreani New EFI CME/CPD scheme David Turner Q&A THURSDAY MOSAICI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 0:20-:50 Oral Session : MHC Evolution - Anthropology - Population Genetics Chairpersons: Pierre-Antoine Gourraud, Alicia Sanchez-Mazas O9 O0 O AGE-DEPENDENT CHANGES IN REGULATION OF HLA-DQ GENE EXPRESSION (WITHDRAWN) Marie Cerna, Martin Chmel, Michael Hudec, Adela Rihova, Elena Silhova 2 Charles University, Third Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic - 2 University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady, Prague, Czech Republic THE DISTRIBUTION OF HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN A AND B GENES IN POPULATIONS IS STRONGLY SHAPED BY THEIR FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP Da Di, Jose M. Nunes, Alicia Sanchez-Mazas University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland HLA ALLELE AND HAPLOTYPE FREQUENCIES CHARACTERIZED USING NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING METHODS IN UNRELATED WORLD-WIDE POPULATIONS: SUMMARY FROM THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL HLA AND IMMUNOGENETICS WORKSHOP Lisa E. Creary, Chia-Jung Chang 2, Gonzalo Montero-Martin, Kalyan C. Mallempati 3, Sridevi Gangavarapu 3, Kazutoyo Osoegawa 3, Tamara Vayntrub 3, Marcelo A. Fernández-Viña Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States of America - 2 Stanford Genome Technology Center, Palo Alto, United States of America - 3 Stanford Blood Center, Palo Alto, United States of America 32

33 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Thursday 0 May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS O2 O3 O4 O5 O6 MOSAICI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) THE MICRORNA BINDING-SITE REGION OF MHC GENES PLACED IN AN EVOLUTIONARY CONTEXT Corrine M.C. Heijmans, Cristy Verzijl, Hans J.H.A. Rijnaard, Jeffrey Oliveira, Kaat Tielens, Natasja G. de Groot, Ronald E. Bontrop Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, Netherlands HLA CLASS I HAPLOTYPE DIVERSITY IS CONSISTENT WITH SELECTION FOR FREQUENT EXISTING HAPLOTYPES Yoram Louzoun, Loren Gragert 2, Martin Maiers 3, Idan Alter, Stephanie Fingerson 3 Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel - 2 Tulane University, New Orleans, United States of America - 3 National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America MANY MHC-B ALLELES OF THE BONOBO SHARE SIMILAR FEATURES WITH HLA ALLELES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH PROTECTION FROM MALARIA Natasja G. de Groot, Corrine M.C. Heijmans, Philippe Helsen 2, Jeroen M.G. Stevens 2, Ronald E. Bontrop Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, Netherlands - 2 Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium EVOLUTIONARY FATE OF NEW ALLELES Pedro Cano Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, United States of America ANCIENT ORIGIN OF TWO CLADES OF DPB ALLELES Gerhard Schöfl, Steffen Klasberg, Kathrin Lang, Alexander H. Schmidt 2, Vinzenz Lange DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany - 2 DKMS, Tübingen, Germany THURSDAY 33

34 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 THURSDAY Thursday 0 May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS 0:20-:50 Oral Session 2: New Technologies and Bioinformatics Chairpersons: Emanuele Cozzi, Eric Spierings O7 O8 O9 O20 O2 MOSAICI 2 ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) NEXT-GENERATION TARGET CAPTURE AND DIRECT LONG READ SEQUENCING OF THE MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX (MHC) Johannes Dapprich, Oscar A. Pérez-Escobar 2, Sidonie Bellot 2, Jessica Rothe 3, Stefanie Köcher 3, Marion Nagy 3, Mehmet Tevfik Dorak 4, Stephen Rudd 5, Fabian Grunz 6, Nicolas Krezdorn 6, Klaus Hoffmeier 6 Generation Biotech, Lawrenceville, United States of America - 2 Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 3 Institute for Legal Medicine, Berlin, Germany - 4 Kingston University, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 5 Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 6 GenXPro, Frankfurt, Germany HIGH RESOLUTION HAPLOTYPE ANALYSES OF CLASSICAL HLA GENES IN FAMILIES FOR THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL HLA AND IMMUNOGENETICS WORKSHOP Kazutoyo Osoegawa, Lisa E. Creary 2, Kalyan Mallempati, Sridevi Gangavarapu, Steven J. Mack 3, Medhat Askar 4, Marcelo Fernandez Vina 2 Stanford Blood Center, Palo Alto, United States of America - 2 Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States of America - 3 Children s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, United States of America - 4 Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, United States of America IPD-MHC DATABASE: IMPROVING TOOLS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF THE MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX Giuseppe Maccari, James Robinson 2, Natasja G. de Groot 3, Nel Otting 3, Ronald E. Brontop 3, John A. Hammond 4, Steven GE. Marsh 2 The Pirbright Institute and Anthony Nolan, Guildford, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 2 Anthony Nolan and UCL Cancer Institute, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 3 Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, Netherlands - 4 The Pirbright Institute, Guildford, United Kingdom (Great Britain) IS NANOPORE SEQUENCING READY FOR PRIME TIME? ACCURATE HLA CLASS I GENOTYPING AND DETECTION OF NOVEL SEQUENCE VARIANTS BASED ON FULL GENE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS Vineeth Surendranath, Kathrin Lang, Alexander H. Schmidt 2, Gerhard Schöfl, Vinzenz Lange DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany - 2 DKMS, Tübingen, Germany SIMULATING THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSIONS TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF T-HELPER AND B-CELL EPITOPES ON THE RISK FOR PLATELET REFRACTORINESS Kirsten Geneugelijk, Talitha de Hoop, Eric Borst, Eric Spierings University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands 34

35 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Thursday 0 May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS O22 O23 O24 MOSAICI 2 ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) CONVERGING EVOLUTION LEADS TO NEAR MAXIMAL JUNCTION DIVERSITY THROUGH PARALLEL MECHANISMS IN B AND T CELL RECEPTORS Yoram Louzoun, Jennifer Benichou Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel FULL-LENGTH HLA AND KIR ALLELE SEQUENCE CHARACTERIZATION WITH DR2S Steffen Klasberg, Kuntal Worah, Marie Günther, Kathrin Lang, Alexander H. Schmidt 2, Vinzenz Lange, Gerhard Schöfl DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany - 2 DKMS, Tübingen, Germany COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY AND BENEFIT OF EPITOPE MATCHING FOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION Matthias Niemann, Nils Lachmann 2, Oliver Staeck 2, Eric Spierings 3 PIRCHE AG, Berlin, Germany - 2 Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany - 3 UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands PERLA ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) 0:20-:50 Teaching Session How NGS technology is changing the way of HLA typing Joannis Mytilineos, Sarah Patricia Peacock The whole gene: Application and implementation of whole gene sequencing in the clinical lab Katy Latham NGS in a Transplant Center: a French experience Béatrice Bardy Sequencing with nanopores: current status and near future potential Vineeth Surendranath General discussion & close THURSDAY 35

36 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 THURSDAY Thursday 0 May 208 LUNCHEON SESSIONS CASINÒ ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) 2:00-3:00 Luncheon Session - CareDx Welcome Roswitha Keller, PhD VP, Transplant Laboratory Solutions, CareDx International, Vienna, Austria Olerup QTYPE development, utilizing the full potential of a primer-probe based assay in HLA typing Ben Passey, Development Manager, CareDx International, Stockholm, Sweden Speed and precision in real time; Results from an Olerup QTYPE Multicentre Clinical Validation Study John Lunz, PhD D(ABHI), Director of the Histocompatibility Laboratory, Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Itasca IL, USA 3:00-3:30 Lunch 3:30-4:30 Luncheon Session - Immucor Clinical Relevance of Complement Activating Pre-formed Donor Specific Antibodies in Crossmatch Positive HLA-incompatible Renal Transplantation: a Multicentre Study Dr. Olivia Shaw, Viapath at Guy s Hospital, Clinical Transplantation Lab at Guy s Hospital, Clin Transpl Dept., New City Court Post Transplant Monitoring - ksort Analysis in a Real World Context Dr. Michael Spigarelli, Vice President Medical Affairs - Immucor Inc. 36

37 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Thursday 0 May 208 LUNCHEON SESSIONS MOSAICI 2 ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 2:00-3:00 Luncheon Session - GenDx Improvements in Transplantation Diagnostics Chairperson: Wietse Mulder What is next in NGS HLA typing Daniel Mathow, PhD Senior Sales & Application Manager, GenDx Daily practice of HLA typing in a clinical setting Marte Viken, PhD Senior Scientific Advisor, Oslo University Hospital, Norway Recent improvements in NGSengine to make life easier Erik Rozemuller, PhD Senior Scientist Bioinformatics, GenDx Update in chimerism clinical practice Dominique Bories, MD, PhD Head Moleculair Onco-Hematology Laboratory, Henri Mondor Hospital Creteil, France Chimerism monitoring made easy Maarten Penning, PhD CTO, GenDx Conclusion Wietse Mulder, PhD CEO, GenDx 3:00-3:30 Lunch 3:30-4:30 Luncheon Session - Omixon Holotyping without Borders - Holotype HLA V2. Experiences Within and from Outside the EU for the Benefit of the Wider Transplant Community The Lunchtime Symposium will focus on the experiences of existing Holotype HLA users in- and outside the European Union. Three Guest Speakers, Vera Siffnerova (UHKT), Dr. Elena Shagimardanova (Kazan Federal University) and Derrick Nelson (South African National Blood Service) are going to share their experience with the new Holotype HLA V.2. protocol. Omixon s CEO, Dr. Peter Meintjes will announce major product innovations and new directions for the company. - Welcome & Introduction - Presentations by Guest Speakers - Announcement of Major Product Enhancements by Dr. Peter Meintjes (CEO, Omixon) THURSDAY 37

38 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 THURSDAY Thursday 0 May 208 LUNCHEON SESSIONS PERLA ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) 2:00-3:00 Luncheon Session - One Lambda Defining -HLA loci in a diverse cord blood bank using the AllType NGS Assays Sandra Guerra, Ph.D National H&I Service Development Laboratory Post-Doctoral Research Scientist NHS Blood and Transplant London, United Kingdom 3:00-3:30 Lunch 3:30-4:30 Luncheon Session - One Lambda Epitope Matching vs. HLA Matching in Organ Transplantation Chris Wiebe, MD Nephrologist, University of Manitoba Canadian Blood Services Winnepeg, Manitoba Canada 38

39 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Thursday 0 May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS CASINÒ ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) 4:40-6:0 Meet the Expert 2 - EPT External proficiency testing Falko Heinemann Extending the Spectrum of EPT in H&I EPT in H&I: From History to New Developments Organization of EPT: Schemes, Workshops and Inter-Laboratory Exchanges Specialist EPT Schemes: HNA, HPA, mhag and KIR The Impact of New Technology on EPT: Next Generation Sequencing and Single Antigen Bead tests - Result based or method based assessment? MOSAICI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 4:40-6:0 Oral Session 3: Immunotherapy - Gene Therapy - Cellular Therapy Chairpersons: Rainer Blasczyk, Mats Bengtsson O25 O26 O27 NKG2A EXPRESSION IS NOT PER SE DETRIMENTAL FOR THE ANTI-MULTIPLE MYELOMA ACTIVITY OF HIGH DOSE IL-2 ACTIVATED NATURAL KILLER CELLS IN AN IN VITRO SYSTEM MIMICKING THE TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT Niken M. Mahaweni, Femke Ehlers, Subhashis Sarkar, Johanna W. H. Janssen, Marcel G. Tilanus, Gerard M. J. Bos, Lotte Wieten Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands ALLOREACTIVE NATURAL KILLER CELL THERAPY AS NOVEL APPROACH FOR BREAST CANCER Femke Ehlers, Michel van Gelder, Nicky Beelen, Marcel Tilanus, Marjolein Smits, Loes Kooreman, Gerard Bos, Lotte Wieten Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands IN VIVO CRISPR/CAS9 SCREENING FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL PLAYERS IN LEUKEMIA IMMUNE ESCAPE Eleonora Draghi, Alessandro Migliara 2, Giacomo Oliveira, Arnolda Jakovija, Nice Turazzi, Antonella Antonelli, Barbara Camisa, Francesco Santaniello, Monica Volpin, Daniela Cesana, Eugenio Montini, Bernard Gentner 2, Attilio Bondanza, Chiara Bonini, Fabio Ciceri, Angelo Lombardo 2, Luca Vago San Raffaele Hospital Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy - 2 San Raffaele-Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy THURSDAY 39

40 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 THURSDAY Thursday 0 May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS O28 O29 O30 O3 O32 MOSAICI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) EXPLORING FCγRIIIA GENE VARIATION: NOVEL APPROACHES TO EXAMINE FULL-LENGTH GENE POLYMORPHISMS Timo I. Olieslagers, Niken M. Mahaweni, Ivan Rivas Olivares, Stefan Molenbroeck, Gerard M. Bos, Mathijs Groeneweg, Marcel G.J. Tilanus, Christina E.M. Voorter, Lotte Wieten Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands MULTIKINASES INHIBITOR IMPAIRING VASCULATURE FACILITATES THE IMMUNE RESPONSIVENESS AGAINST LEUKEMIA BY DECREASING THE POTENTIAL OF REGULATORY CELLS Emilia Jaskuła, Janusz Lange 2, Mariola Sedzimirska 2, Helena Pakos 2, Michalina Krydel 2, Jolanta Bochenska 2, Iwona Maszko-Wodzinska 2, Andrzej Lange L. Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences/ Lower Silesian Center for Cellular Transplantation with National Bone Marrow Donor Registry, Wroclaw, Poland - 2 Lower Silesian Center for Cellular Transplantation with National Bone Marrow Donor Registry, Wroclaw, Poland DONOR/RECIPIENT IL6 GENOTYPE IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH SERUM PROFILE OF INFLAMMATION-ASSOCIATED MOLECULES IN PATIENTS AFTER ALLOGENEIC HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION Frantisek Mrazek, Petra Schneiderova, Ludek Raida, Eva Kriegova, Adam Kuba, Martin Petrek, Zuzana Ambruzova Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University and University Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic FIRST PILOT STUDY ON THE EFFICACY OF INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULINS (IVIG) IN BEHCET PATIENTS: IMPROVEMENT OF DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX AND INFLAMMATORY MARKERS Martina Finocchi, Giacomo Emmi, Elena Silvestri, Annalisa De Silvestri 2, Carmine Tinelli 2 Cristina Capittini 2 Careggi University Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy - 2 IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy VACCINATION WITH A PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE DOES NOT INDUCE HLA ANTIBODIES IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS Monika Lindemann, Simon Heckel 2, Benjamin Wilde 3, Peter A. Horn, Falko M. Heinemann, Oliver Witzke 4 Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital, Essen, Germany - 2 Institute for Transfusion Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Essen, Germany - 3 Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Essen, Germany - 4 Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital, Essen, Germany 40

41 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Thursday 0 May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS 4:40-6:0 Oral Session 4: Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Chairpersons: Manuela Testi, Jean Villard O33 O34 O35 MOSAICI 2 ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) BETTER HLA MATCHING AS REVEALED ONLY BY ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION HLA TYPING RESULTS IN SUPERIOR OVERALL SURVIVAL Neema P. Mayor, James D. Hayhurst 2, Thomas R. Turner, Richard M. Szydlo 3, Bronwen E. Shaw 4, Will P. Bultitude, Jex- Ray Sayno 2, Franco Tavarozzi 2, Katy Latham 2, Chloe Anthias 5, James Robinson, Henny Braund 2, Robert Danby 6, Julia Perry 7, Marie C. Wilson 8, Adrian J. Bloor 9, Andrew Clark 0, Stephen MacKinnon, David I. Marks 2, Antonio Pagliuca 3, Michael N. Potter 4, Victoria T. Potter 3, Nigel H. Russell 5, Kirsty J. Thomson, J. Alejandro Madrigal, Steven GE. Marsh Anthony Nolan Research Institute & UCL Cancer Institute, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 2 Anthony Nolan Research Institute, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 3 Anthony Nolan Research Institute & Imperial College, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 4 CIBMTR and Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States of America - 5 Anthony Nolan Research Institute & Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 6 Anthony Nolan Research Institute & Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 7 British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BSBMT), London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 8 Anthony Nolan Research Institute & British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BSBMT), London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 9 The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 0 West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Gartnavel Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 2 University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 3 Kings College Hospital, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 4 Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 5 Nottingham University Hospital, Nottingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain) INVESTIGATING THE RECONSTITUTION OF THE T LYMPHOCYTE REPERTOIRE BY HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING AT ONE YEAR FOLLOWING HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN A LARGE COHORT OF PATIENTS FROM SWITZERLAND Stéphane Buhler, Florence Studer-Bettens, Carole Dantin, Sylvie Ferrari-Lacraz, Yves Chalandon, Jean Villard Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland DISSECTING GENETIC CONTROL OF HLA-DPB EXPRESSION AND ITS RELATION TO STRUCTURAL MISMATCH MODELS IN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION Thuja Meurer, Esteban Arrieta Bolaños, Maximilian Metzing, Mona Langer 2, Peter van Balen 3, Frederick Falkenburg 3, Dietrich W. Beelen 4, Peter A. Horn 2, Katharina Fleischhauer, Pietro Crivello Institute for Experimental Cellular Therapy, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany - 2 Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany - 3 Department of Hematology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands - 4 Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation, West German Cancer Center, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany THURSDAY 4

42 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 THURSDAY Thursday 0 May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS O36 O37 O38 O39 O40 MOSAICI 2 ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) HOW DONOR HLA MISMATCH, KIR-LIGAND MISMATCH AND NK CELL LICENSING MODELS AFFECT LEUKAEMIA RELAPSE IN HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS Elzbieta Graczyk-Pol, Marta Rogatko-Koros, Klaudia Nestorowicz, Slawomir Gwozdowicz, Renata Mika-Witkowska, Daria Pawliczak, Marta Zubala, Joanna Dziopa, Urszula Szlendak, Agnieszka Witkowska, Agnieszka Tomaszewska, Barbara Nasilowska-Adamska, Andrzej Szczepinski, Michal Wojcik, Kazimierz Halaburda, Jacek Nowak Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF PATIENTS NON-SHARED HLA-C ALLOTYPE EXPRESSION LEVELS IN A 9/0 SINGLE HLA-C MISMATCHED UNRELATED HSCT SETTING USING AN HLA-C EXPRESSION PROXY MODEL Chrysanthi Tsamadou, Daniel Furst, Dietger Niederwieser 2, Donald Bunjes 3, Christine Neuchel, Martin Gramatzki 4, Renate Arnold 5, Eva Wagner 6, Hermann Einsele 7, Hubert Schrezenmeier, Joannis Mytilineos German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Baden-Wuerttemberg Hessen, Ulm, Germany and Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany - 2 University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany - 3 University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany - 4 University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany - 5 Charité Campus Virchow Berlin, Ulm, Germany - 6 Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany - 7 University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany MICRORNA EXPRESSION LEVELS IN CUTANEOUS ACUTE GRAFT-VERSUS HOST DISEASE Sadaf Atarod, Louis A. Bibby 2, Jean Norden 2, Anne Janin 3, Philippe Ratajczak 3, Clare Lendrem 2, Kim F. Pearce 2, Xiao-nong Wang 2, Steven O Reilly 4, Jacob M. Van Laar 5, Matthew Collin 2, Anne M. Dickinson 2, Rachel E. Crossland 2 Boston University and Boston Medical Center, Boston, United States of America - 2 Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 3 Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France - 4 Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 5 Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands SINGLE HAPLOTYPE ADMIXTURE MODELS USING LARGE SCALE HLA GENOTYPES TO REPRODUCE HUMAN ADMIXTURE Yoram Louzoun, Alexandra Litniski, Abeer Madbouly 2, Michael Halagan 2, Martin Maiers 3 Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel - 2 NMDP, Minneapolis, United States of America - 3 National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America QUANTITATIVE PCR-BASED CHIMERISM MONITORING IN BONE MARROW OR PERIPHERAL BLOOD TO PREDICT LEUKAEMIA RELAPSE IN HIGH-RISK PATIENTS: FINAL RESULTS OF THE KIM-PB PROSPECTIVE STUDY Valentina Gambacorta, Riccardo Parolini, Elisabetta Xue, Raffaella Greco, Evelien Bouwmans 2, Cristina Toffalori, Fabio Giglio, Andrea Assanelli, Maria Teresa Lupo Stanghellini, Alessandro Ambrosi 3, Wietse Mulder 2, Consuelo Corti, Jacopo Peccatori, Fabio Ciceri, Luca Vago San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy - 2 GenDx, Utrecht, Netherlands - 3 University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy 42

43 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Thursday 0 May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS PERLA ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) 4:40-6:0 Teaching Session 2 Clinical impact of de-novo HLA antibodies in solid organ transplantation Antonina Piazza, David Turner The clinical relevance of de novo HLA antibodies in renal transplantation Antonina Piazza The clinical relevance of de novo HLA antibodies in heart transplantation Martin Howell The clinical relevance of de novo HLA antibodies in pancreas and islet transplantation David Turner Q&A 6:0-6:30 Coffee break & Poster viewing PALAZZO CASINÒ THURSDAY 43

44 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Thursday 0 May 208 PLENARY SESSION 2 Solid organ transplantation Chairpersons: Antonio Amoroso, Joannis Mytilineos AUDITORIUM - PALAZZO CINEMA 6:30-7:00 T regulatory cell based therapy in promoting tolerance solid organ transplantation Giovanna Lombardi 7:00-7:30 Desensitization in SOT Christophe M.F. Legendre 7:30-8:00 Novel Biomarkers for allograft rejection in SOT Minnie M. Sarwal THURSDAY 8:00-20:00 Scientific Poster Reception (Sponsored by One Lambda and Lagitre, srl) PALAZZO DEL CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 44

45 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Friday May 208 PLENARY SESSION 3 HSCT Current clinical perspectives Chairpersons: Luca Vago, Lotte Wieten AUDITORIUM - PALAZZO CINEMA 8:30-9:00 Haplo settings or impact of non shared haplotype on haplotransplant Leonido Luznik 9:00-9:30 Adoptive immunotherapies in HSCT Chiara Bonini 9:30-0:00 Tregs in HSCT Silvia Gregori 0:00-0:20 Coffee break & Poster viewing PALAZZO CASINÒ PARALLEL SESSIONS 0:20-:50 Oral Session 5: Solid Organ Transplantation Chairpersons: Franco Papola, Dave L. Roelen O4 O42 MOSAICI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) A NEW TOOL FOR QUANTIFICATION OF THE DONOR HLA-SPECIFIC MEMORY B CELL REPERTOIRE IN IMMUNIZED PATIENTS Gonca E. Karahan, Yvonne J.H. de Vaal, Juliette Krop, Caroline Wehmeier, Dave L. Roelen, Frans H.J. Claas, Sebastiaan Heidt Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands ROLE OF HLA-E-RESTRICTED CD8+ T CELLS IN TRANSPLANTATION Gabriella Pietra, Selene Ottonello, Irene Cossu 2, Lucy C. Sullivan 3, Michela Falco 4, Maria Christina Mingari, Lorenzo Moretta 5 University of Genova, Genova, Italy - 2 IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy - 3 University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia - 4 Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Immunology, Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy - 5 Ospedale Pedriatico Bambino Gesù, Roma, Italy FRIDAY 45

46 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 FRIDAY Friday May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS O43 O44 O45 O46 O47 O48 MOSAICI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) ENDOTHELIAL-EPITHELIAL-RELATED TRANSCRIPTIONAL LEVELS IN ACUTE REJECTION BIOPSIES OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS ARE PREDICTIVE FOR A WORSE RESPONSE TO STEROID TREATMENT Jianxin Yang, Marijke J. Spruyt-Gerritse, Darius Soonawala, Geert W. Haasnoot, Hans W. de Fijter, Marlies E.J. Reinders, Marian C. Clahsen 2, Frans H.J. Claas, Michael Eikmans Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands - 2 Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands KIDNEY TRANSPLANTED PATIENTS WITH OPERATIONAL TOLERANCE HAVE INCREASED FREQUENCIES OF CD9+CDD+CD5+ SUPPRESSOR B CELLS AND HAVE A POSITIVE CORRELATION WITH THE PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL B CELLS Cristian M. Alvarez, Christian Morath 2, Marlon Castrillon, Daniel Alzate, Gerhard Opelz 2, Martin Zeier 2, Caner Süsal 2 Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia - 2 University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany HLA EPITOPE MATCHING OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS PREDICTS ANTIBODY- AND CELL- MEDIATED REJECTION Nils Lachmann, Oliver Staeck, Matthias Niemann 2, Klemens Budde, E. Spierings 3, Constanze Schönemann Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany - 2 PIRCHE AG, Berlin, Germany - 3 University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands STUDY OF IMMUNOLOGICAL AND IMMUNOGENIC RISK FACTORS FOR BKV REPLICATION AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION Snezhina Mihaylova, Atanaska Georgieva 2, Yana Krasteva 2, Anastasya Mihaylova, Tsvetelin Lukanov 2, Valentina Atanasova 2, Luisa Hristova 2, Emil Paskalev, Elissaveta Naumova Medical University Sofia, University Hospital Alexandrovska, Sofia, Bulgaria - 2 University Hospital Alexandrovska, Sofia, Bulgaria DIFFERENCES FOR T-CELLS SUBTYPES IN ASPIRATION BIOPSIES OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENTS UNDER POLYCLONAL AND MONOCLONAL IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENTS Maria Paula DP. Xavier, Maria Conceição Magalhães 2, Susana Sampaio-Norton 3, Tiago Guimarães 2, José Gerardo Oliveira 4 Instituto Português do Sangue e da Transplantação, Porto, Portugal - 2 Centro Hospitalar S. João, Serviço Patologia Clínica, Porto, Portugal - 3 Hospital S. João, Serviço Nefrologia, Porto, Portugal - 4 Faculdade Medicina Porto, Hospital S. João, Porto, Portugal IMPACT OF HLA-E*0:03 ALLELE CARRIER STATUS AND NKG2C ALLELE DELETION ON THE RISK OF CMV INFECTION AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION Hana Guberina, Fabiola da Silva Nardi, Rafael Tomoya Michita, Sebastian Dolff, Anja Gäckler, Falko M. Heinemann, Benjamin Wilde, Mirko Trilling, Peter A. Horn, Andreas Kribben, Oliver Witzke, Vera Rebmann University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany 46

47 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Friday May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS 0:20-:50 Oral Session 6: NK and Miscellaneous Chairpersons: Benedetta Mazzi, Caner Süsal O49 O50 O5 O52 O53 O54 MOSAICI 2 ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) IMPACT OF KIR ALLELE POLYMORPHISM ON THE STRUCTURE AND THE FUNCTION OF KIR2D NK CELL REPERTOIRE Katia Gagne, Bercelin Maniagou 2, Léa Dubreuil 2, Gaelle David 2, Nolwenn Legrand 2, Catherine Willem 2, Christelle Retiere 2 Blood Bank EFS; CRCINA; Labex Transplantex, Nantes, France - 2 Blood Bank EFS; CRCINA; Nantes, France THE ROLE OF T CELL RECEPTOR CROSS-REACTIVITY IN HUMAN DISEASES Nicole Mifsud, Louise Rowntree, Lloyd D Orsogna 2, Heleen van den Heuvel 3, Frans Claas 4, Patricia Illing, Stephanie Gras, Tom Kotsimbos 5, Anthony Purcell Monash University, Clayton, Australia - 2 Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Australia - 3 Leiden University Medical Centre/Monash University, Leiden, Netherlands - 4 Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands - 5 The Alfred Hospital/Monash University, Melbourne, Australia THE GENETIC IMBALANCE AMONG HLA LIGANDS FOR INHIBITORY KIR3D RECEPTORS IN KAWASAKI CHILDREN: CLUES FOR ETIOPATHOGENESIS Cristina Capittini, Annalisa De Silvestri, Grazia Bossi, Savina Mannarino, Annamaria A. Pasi, Carmine Tinelli, Miryam Martinetti, Giacomo Emmi 2 IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy - 2 Careggi University Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy KIR HAPLOTYPES DEFINED BY THEIR TRANSCRIPTOMES Jesse Bruijnesteijn, Marit K. H. Van der Wiel, Wendy Swelsen 2, Nel Otting 3, Annemiek J. M. de Vos-Rouweler 3, Diënne Elferink 4, Gaby G.M. Doxiadis 3, Neubury M. Lardy 2, Natasja G. De Groot 3, Ronald E. Bontrop 3 BPRC, Rijswijk, Netherlands - 2 Sanquin, Amsterdam, Netherlands - 3 Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, Netherlands - 4 LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF SOLUBLE NKG2D LIGAND EXPRESSION IN UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD PLASMA REVEALS ACTIVATING POTENTIAL OF SOLUBLE MICA-29VAL VARIANTS Steven T. Cox, Robert Danby, Diana Hernandez, Alejandro Madrigal, Aurore Saudemont Anthony Nolan Research Institute, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) VITREOUS CRYOPRESERVATION OF HLA-MATCHED VASCULAR GRAFTS UTILIZING THE DECELLULARIZED HUMAN UMBILICAL ARTERY Panagiotis Mallis, Efstathios Michalopoulos, Michalis Katsimpoulas 2, Amalia Dinou, Aggeliki Papapanagiotou 3, Maria Spyropoulou-Vlachou 4, Catherine Stavropoulos-Giokas Hellenic Cord Blood Bank-Biomedical Research Foundation Of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece - 2 Biomedical Research Foundation Of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece - 3 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece - 4 Alexandra General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece FRIDAY 47

48 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Friday May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS O55 O56 MOSAICI 2 ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING REVEALS THE MOLECULAR SIGNATURE OF SEVERE CARBAMAZEPINE-INDUCED HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS Nicole Mifsud, Alison Anderson 2, Patricia Illing, Patrick Kwan 2, Anthony Purcell Monash University, Clayton, Australia - 2 Royal Melbourne Hospital/University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia HLA-G SELECTS PEPTIDES TISSUE SPECIFIC AND DISPLAYS EXCEPTIONAL TARGETS FOR IMMUNE EVASION Alexander A. Celik, Gwendolin S. Simper, Trevor Huyton 2, Wiebke Hiemisch, Rainer Blasczyk, Christina Bade-Doeding Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany - 2 Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany FRIDAY PARALLEL SESSIONS PERLA ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) 0:20-:50 Teaching Session 3 Tools for a successful HSCT: evaluation of HLA allele frequencies, anti-hla antibodies, structural and expression models for permissive mismatches Marcelo A. Fernández-Viña, Katharina Fleischhauer Allele and haplotype frequencies: How variation affects donor searches Anti-HLA antibodies: Role of DSA in HLA mismatched transplantation Coding and non-coding HLA variation: Relationship between T-cell epitopes and HLA expression levels for permissive mismatches in HSCT 48

49 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Friday May 208 LUNCHEON SESSIONS MOSAICI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 2:00-3:00 Luncheon Session - Bag Health Care First experiences with the HISTO SPOT HLA AB test for automated antibody diagnostics John Smith, PhD, FRCPath HCS Consultant Head of Tissue Typing Service, Heart Science Centre, Harefield Hospital, Harefield, UK Evaluation of the HISTO SPOT HLA AB test in comparison to a Luminex SA Test Ing. Murielle Verboom Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Transplantation Immunology, Hannover, Germany PERLA ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) 2:00-3:00 Luncheon Session - One Lambda DSA Flow Cytometry Crossmatching The New Frontier Cathi Murphey, Half, Ph.D Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory Southwest Immunodiagnostics, Inc San Antonio, Texas 3:00-3:30 Lunch 3:30-4:30 Luncheon Session - One Lambda LinkSēq SABR HLA Typing Kit resolution and HLA specific antibodies identification using the single antigen technology Julie Jouffrey Medical Engineer Laboratoire d Immunologie et Histocompatibilité Hôpital Saint Louis Paris, France FRIDAY 49

50 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Friday May 208 LUNCHEON SESSIONS MOSAICI 2 ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 3:30-4:30 Luncheon Session - Histogenetics New Horizons in HLA Typing and Haplotyping: Revolution in HLA Genomics Nezih Cereb, MD - CEO and Co-Founder Histogenetics SPECIAL JOINT SESSION WMDA and EFI Chairpersons: Lydia Foeken, Elissaveta Naumova, Nicoletta Sacchi AUDITORIUM - PALAZZO CINEMA 4:40-5:0 Past, Present and Future of unrelated Donor registries Lydia Foeken 5:0-5:40 Pharma-economics of CB banking in the haplo era Sergio Luis Querol-Giner 5:40-6:0 How to choose the best unrelated HSC donor? Carolyn Katovich Hurley FRIDAY 50

51 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Friday May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS MOSAICI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 4:40-6:0 Oral Session 7: Reproduction, Autoimmunity, Infection & Cancer Chairpersons: Andrea Bontadini, Antonio Martinho O57 O58 O59 O60 AN ALTERNATIVELY SPLICED ISOFORM OF THE HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN-DR ALPHA CHAIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RISK ALLELE HLA-DRB*5:0 Vincent Damotte, Alessandro Didonna, Maneesh K. Misra, Noriko Isobe, Ravi Dandekar, Ashley H. Beecham 2, Stacy Cailler, Adam Santaniello, Jacob L. McCauley 2, Steven L. Hauser, Jorge R. Oksenberg, Jill A. Hollenbach University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America - 2 University of Miami, Miami, United States of America HELLP SYNDROME IS ASSOCIATED WITH MHC GENES IN A FINNISH POPULATION A. Inkeri Lokki, Jenni Heikkinen-Eloranta 2, Juha Sinisalo 2, Hannele Laivuori 3, Marja-Liisa Lokki University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland - 2 University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland - 3 University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland EXPRESSION QTLs WITH OPPOSING EFFECTS ON HLA-DR AND -DQ GENES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS: EVIDENCE FOR MIXED ISOTYPE HETERODIMER FORMATION? Sandeep K. Singh, Johannes Dapprich 2, Jacob L. McCauley 3, Mehmet Tevfik Dorak 4 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America - 2 Generation Biotech, Lawrenceville, NJ, United States of America - 3 University of Miami, John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Miami, FL, United States of America - 4 Kingston University London, Kingston, United Kingdom (Great Britain) HLA-DRB*09:0 IS ASSOCIATED WITH A SEVERE ASTHMA OUTCOME IN THE CONSORTIUM ON ASTHMA AMONG AFRICAN-ANCESTRY POPULATIONS IN THE AMERICAS (CAAPA) Nicolas Vince, Sophie Limou 2, Michelle Daya 3, Nicholas Rafaels 3, Jill Hollenbach 4, Antoine Lizée 4, Estelle Geffard, Alexandre Walencik 5, Maria Pino-Yanes 6, Steven Salzberg 7, Daehwan Kim 7, Harold Watson 8, Leslie Lange 3, James Wilson 9, Terri Beaty 7, Margaret Taub 7, Ingo Ruczinski 7, Rasika Mathias 7, (CAAPA) Consortium on Asthma among African-ancestry Populations in the Americas 7, Kathleen Barnes 3, Dara Torgerson 4, Pierre-Antoine Gourraud 0 INSERM, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France - 2 INSERM, Université de Nantes, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France - 3 University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, United States of America - 4 University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America - 5 EFS Centre - Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France - 6 Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain - 7 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America - 8 The University of the West Indies, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown, Barbados - 9 University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States of America - 0 INSERM, Université de Nantes, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France FRIDAY 5

52 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 FRIDAY Friday May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS O6 O62 O63 O64 MOSAICI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING OF BTNL2 REVEALS NOVEL ASSOCIATIONS WITH ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME IN FINNISH POPULATION Marja Marchesani, Juha Sinisalo 2, Veikko Salomaa 3, Markus Perola 4, Markku S. Nieminen 5, Steven J. Mack 6, Marja-Liisa Lokki University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland - 2 Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland - 3 National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland - 4 National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland - 5 Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland - 6 Children s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, United States of America MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITORY FACTOR AND D-DOPACHROME TAUTOMERASE ARE POTENTIAL DISEASE SEVERITY MODIFIERS IN MALE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SUBJECTS Gil Benedek, Halina Offner 2, Jorge R. Oksenberg 3, Dennis Bourdette 2, Richard Bucala 4, Arthur A. Vandenbark 2 Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel - 2 Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America - 3 University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America - 4 Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, United States of America FUNCTIONAL ANNOTATION OF THE CLUSTER OF SCHIZOPHRENIA RISK MARKERS IN THE EXTENDED HLA CLASS I REGION Sandeep K. Singh, Johannes Dapprich 2, Mehmet Tevfik Dorak 3 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America - 2 Generation Biotech, Lawrenceville, NJ, United States of America - 3 Kingston University London, Kingston, United Kingdom (Great Britain) ASSOCIATION OF MICA POLYMORPHISM WITH MICA SERUM LEVELS AND CLINICAL OUTCOME OF ANTI-TNF THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS Milena Iwaszko, Jerzy Świerkot 2, Marta Dratwa, Barbara Wysoczańska, Lucyna Korman 2, Katarzyna Kolossa 3, Sławomir Jeka 3, Piotr Wiland 2, Katarzyna Bogunia-Kubik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland - 2 Wrocław Medical University, Wrocław, Poland - 3 Hospital University Number 2 Jana Biziela, Bydgoszcz, Poland 52

53 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Friday May 208 PARALLEL SESSIONS PERLA ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) 4:40-6:0 Teaching Session 4 How to prepare for an inspection: demonstrating how quality standards are met Andrea Harmer, Luca Mascaretti Presenters: Milena Ivanova, Christien Voorter Preparing for Packet A and Packet C inspection Common deficiencies How to meet molecular testing and main quality management standards Use of the accreditation software Q&A and best practices 6:0-6:30 Coffee break & Poster viewing PALAZZO CASINÒ FRIDAY 53

54 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Friday May 208 PLENARY SESSION 4 Immunogenetics beyond HLA Chairpersons: Marcel G.J. Tilanus, John Trowsdale 6:30-7:00 Immunogenetics in autoimmunity Francesco Cucca AUDITORIUM - PALAZZO CINEMA 7:00-7:30 Exploiting targeted (EPI) genome editing for therapeutic applications Angelo Lombardo 7:30-8:00 GWAS in multiple sclerosis Stephen James Sawcer 8:00-9:30 EFI General Assembly PERLA ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ ( st FLOOR) FRIDAY 54

55 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Saturday 2 May 208 8:30-0:00 Best Abstract Session Chairpersons: Katharina Fleischhauer, Luca Mascaretti O O2 O3 O4 O5 AUDITORIUM - PALAZZO CINEMA THE ENIGMA OF HLA-MEDIATED ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS: EPOXIDE BUT NOT CARBAMAZEPINE INDUCES THE BINDING OF HAPTENATED PEPTIDES TO HLA-B*5:02 Gwendolin S. Simper, Alexander A. Celik, Gia-Gia T. Hò, Trevor Huyton 2, Joachim Kuhn 3, Rainer Blasczyk, Christina Bade-Doeding Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany - 2 Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany - 3 Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany IMMUNITY ON A KNIFES EDGE: SELF/NON-SELF DISCRIMINATION AND THE CO- EXPRESSION OF NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTORS FINELY TUNES T CELL RECEPTOR AFFINITY AND FUNCTION Lucy C. Sullivan, Christopher M. Harpur, Thi H.O. Nguyen, Abbie R. Kanagarajah, Jacqueline M.L. Widjaja, Gabriella Pietra 2, Katherine Kedzierska, Karl-Johan Malmberg 3, Andrew G. Brooks University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia - 2 University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy - 3 Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway INVISIBLE ORGANS MADE BY GENETIC ENGINEERING TO TURN OFF MHC PRIOR TO ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION PREVENT A PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE RESPONSE IN THE RECIPIENT Constanca Figueiredo, Marco Carvalho-Oliveira, Chen Chen-Wacker, Klaus Höffler, Marc Kühnel, Katharina Jansson, Axel Haverich, Gregor Warnecke, Rainer Blasczyk Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany THE ALLOTYPIC ARCHITECTURE OF HLA-B57 ALLOTYPES ALTERS PEPTIDE CONFORMATION TO REGULATE INHIBITION OF NK CELL ACTIVATION THROUGH KIR3DL Andrew G. Brooks, Philippa M. Saunders, Philip Pymm 2, Jacqueline ML. Widjaja, Jie Lin, Jamie Rossjohn 2, Julian P. Vivian 2 Peter Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia - 2 Monash University, Clayton, Australia EPIGENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY REVEALS IMMUNOGENETIC TARGETS OF DNA METHYLATION MODIFICATION BY HIV- Kevin Hoang, George Nelson 2, Elizabeth Binns-Roemer 2, Nicolas Vince, Pierre-Antoine Gourraud 3, James J. Goedert 4, Cheryl Winkler 2, Sophie Limou 5 INSERM, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France - 2 Frederick National Laboratory, Frederick, MD, United States of America - 3 INSERM, Université de Nantes, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France - 4 NIH/NCI, Bethesda, MD, United States of America - 5 INSERM, Université de Nantes, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France SATURDAY 55

56 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Saturday 2 May 208 AUDITORIUM - PALAZZO CINEMA O6 O7 EXPLOITING CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGIES TO ANALYZE LOSS OF HLA IN A GLOBAL MULTICENTRIC COHORT OF POST-TRANSPLANTATION RELAPSES: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE HLA LOSS COLLABORATIVE STUDY Luca Vago, Cristina Toffalori, Ahci Müberra 2, Vinzenz Lange 3, Kathrin Lange 3, Sonia Todaro, Karin Stempelmann 2, Andreas Heinold 2, Friedrich Stölzel 4, Miguel Waterhouse 5, Rainer Claus 5, Ketevan Gendzekhadze 6, Masahiro Onozawa 7, Raynier Devillier 8, Ruoping Tang 9, Maayan Ulman 0, Dejan Lazarevic, Maria Teresa Lupo Stanghellini, Jacopo Peccatori, Nina K. Steckel 2, Peter A. Horn 2, Alessandra Picardi, Sara Manetta 2, Jose L. Pinana 3, Jaimie Sanz 3, Brian Schaffer 4, William Arcese, Guillermo Sanz 3, Benedetto Bruno 2, Massimo Pini 5, Guido Kobbe 6, Katharine C. Hsu 4, Monzr Al Malki 6, Takanori Teshima 7, Nicolaus Kroeger 7, Jurgen Finke 5, Arnon Nagler 0, Didier Blaise 8, Mohamad Mohty 9, Martin Bornhauser 4, Dietrich W. Beelen 2, Alexander Schmidt 3, Fabio Ciceri, Katharina Fleischhauer 2 San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy - 2 Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany - 3 DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany - 4 Technical University Dresden, Medical Clinic and Policlinic I, Dresden, Germany - 5 University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany - 6 City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, United States of America - 7 Hokkaido University, Faculty of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan - 8 Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France - 9 Hopital Saint Antoine AP-HP, Paris, France - 0 Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer and Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel - Tor Vergata University of Rome - Regional Transplant Center of Lazio, Roma, Italy - 2 A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Torino, Italy - 3 Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain - 4 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States of America - 5 A.O. SS Antonio e Biagio e C. Arrigo, Alessandria, Italy - 6 Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany - 7 University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany UNRAVELLING DYNAMIC CHANGES IN THE MATERNAL IMMUNE COMPARTMENT AT THE MATERNAL-FETAL INTERFACE DURING PREGNANCY BY MASS CYTOMETRY Anita van der Zwan, Vincent van Unen, Thomas Höllt 2, Hanneke J.M. Kapsenberg, Marie-Louise P. van der Hoorn, Merve Uyar-Mercankaya, Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes, Frits Koning, Frans H.J. Claas, Sebastiaan Heidt Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands - 2 Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands SATURDAY O8 LOSS OF HLA-A IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA TRANSMITTED BY THE DONOR TO LIVER AND KIDNEY GRAFT RECIPIENTS Luigi Marchionni, Anna Serra 2, Federico Genzano Besso 3, Silvia Deaglio 2, Piero Stratta 4, Monica Berrino 3, Francisco Lobo Pereira, Aleksei Stupniko, Gianluca Gaidano 4, Benedetto Bruno 2, Giuseppe Saglio 2, Antonio Amoroso 4 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States of America - 2 University of Turin, Turin, Italy - 3 Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Presidio Molinette, Torino, Italy - 4 University of Eastern Piedomont, Novara, Italy 0:00-0:30 7 th and 8 th IHW reports The 7 th International HLA & Immunogenetics Workshop 207 Marcelo A. Fernández-Viña The 8 th International HLA & Immunogenetics Workshop 202 Eric Spierings 0:30-0:50 Coffee break 56

57 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Saturday 2 May 208 PLENARY SESSION 5 New frontiers in immunogenetics Chairpersons: Elissaveta Naumova, David Turner 0:50-:20 Single cell technologies Ido Amit :20-:50 Immunopeptidome Markus Löffler :50-2:20 Neoantigens in cancer immunotherapy Derin Keskin AUDITORIUM - PALAZZO CINEMA CLOSING CEREMONY Chairpersons: Valeria Miotti, Elissaveta Naumova AUDITORIUM - PALAZZO CINEMA 2:20-2:50 Closing Lecture Chairpersons: Carlo Carcassi, Valeria Miotti Leonardo da Vinci: the prototype of Art & Science man Pietro Cesare Marani Jon van Rood Award and Best Abstract Awards Committee Chair: Frans H.J. Claas Best Poster Awards Committee: Marco Andreani, Carlo Carcassi, Luca Mascaretti, Sandra Tafulo, Hien Tran EFI 209, Lisbon Antonio Martinho SATURDAY Closing Remarks 57

58 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 POSTER PRESENTATIONS POSTER SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION P P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 INTRA-GRAFT DETECTION OF ANTI-HLA ANTIBODIES AND TRANSPLANT FAILURE: A REPORT OF FOUR CASES Elena Longhi, Angela Nocco, Miriam Ramondetta, Viviana Sioli 2, Annalisa Innocente 2, Loretta Crespiatico 2, Mario Macchiagodena 2, Denise Bertola 2, Caterina Brambilla 2, Nicoletta Cagni 2, Massimo Cardillo 3 Fondazione IRCCS Ca Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy - 2 IRCCS Maggiore Policlinico Hospital, Milano, Italy - 3 Fondazione IRCCS Ca Granda- Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy IMPACT OF FC-GAMMA RECEPTORS IIIA [58F/V] POLYMORPHISMS ON CHRONIC LUNG ALLOGRAFT DYSFUNCTION (CLAD) AND PATIENTS SURVIVAL AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Christophe Picard, Julie Di Cristofaro, Pascale Paul 2, Agnes Basire 3, Anderson Loundou 4, Mattieu Pelardy 3 Luc Lyonnet 5, Coralie Frassati 3, Pascal Thomas 6 Carine Gomez 6 Martine Reynaud-Gaubert 6 UMR7268 AMU CNRS EFS, MARSEILLE, France - 2 INSERM 076, Aix Marseille Université, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Marseille, Marseille, France - 3 EFS PACAC, Marseille, France - 4 University hospital Marseille, Marseille, France - 5 Assistance Publique hopitaux de Marseille, Hematology Unit, Marseille, France - 6 APHM-Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France APPLICATION OF THE SINGLE REGIONAL LIST FOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION IN SICILY. CRITICALITY AND ADVANTAGES Serena Mistretta, Rosalba Bavetta, Floriana Bruno, Giuseppe Davì, Valentina Cappuzzo, Francesco Ingrassia, Maria Igea Vega, Maria Blando, Bruna Piazza 2, Raimondo Marcenò Lab. Regionale di Tipizzazione Tessutale ed Immunologia dei Trapianti, Palermo, Italy - 2 Centro Regionale Trapianti (CRT) Sicilia, Palermo, Italy KIDNEY TRANSPLANT FOR HIGHLY SENSITISED PATIENTS ON THE SICILIAN WAITING LIST: REPORT ON THE FIRST TRANSPLANTED PATIENT Serena Mistretta, Rosalba Bavetta, Floriana Bruno, Giuseppe Davì, Valentina Cappuzzo, Francesco Ingrassia, Maria Igea Vega, Maria Blando, Valentina Vinti 2, Antonio Amato 2, Flavia Caputo 2, Raimondo Marcenò Lab. Regionale di Tipizzazione Tessutale ed Immunologia dei Trapianti, Palermo, Italy - 2 Nefrologia con Trapianto, Palermo, Italy OMISSION OF THE PROSPECTIVE CROSSMATCH IN DECEASED DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION AND INCIDENCE OF EARLY AMR David M. Turner, Richard Battle, Angus Turnbull 2, Lorna Henderson 2 Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 2 Transplant Unit, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain) BAFF RS SNP DOES NOT INFLUENCE ANTI-HLA ANTIBODY PRODUCTION IN KIDNEY RECIPIENTS Silvia Alizzi, Pamela M. Moschini, Maristella Pitzalis 2, Maristella Steri 2, Cristiana Caorsi 3, Claudia Maria Rosso 4, Silvia Deaglio 5, Francesco Cucca 2, Antonio Amoroso 5 Città della Salute e della Scienza Hospital, Torino, Italy - 2 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cagliari, Italy - 3 AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Torino, Italy - 4 Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Presidio Molinette, Torino, Italy - 5 University of Turin, Torino, Italy 58

59 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P7 P8 P9 P0 P P2 P3 P4 P5 DETERMINATION OF LEUKOCYTE ANTIBODIES IN PATIENTS WAITING FOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN Aida Turganbekova, Zhandos Burkitbaev, Saniya Abdrakhmanova, Indira Ramilyeva, Dana Baimukasheva, Zhazira Saduakas, Perizat Zhunus Republic scientific and production center of transfusiology, Astana, Kazakhstan THE IMPACT OF DE NOVO DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES AND HLA HISTOCOMPATIBILITY IN LONGTERM KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION OUTCOME (UP TO 27 YEARS) Asimina Fylaktou, Efstratios Kasimatis 2, Theodoros Karampatakis, Maria Schoina 2, Aikaterini Anastasiou, Anna Boukla, Vasiliki Nikolaidou, Marianthi Papachristou, Theodoros Chronis, Aikaterini Papagianni 2 National Peripheral Histocompatibility Center, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece - 2 Kidney Department,Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece DONOR SPECIFIC ANTI-HLA IGA ANTIBODIES AND GRAFT SURVIVAL AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION Marie-Luise Arnold, Christian Bach 2, Falko M. Heinemann 3, Andrea Dick 4, Bernd M. Spriewald 2 Institute for Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, Rheumatology and Immunology, Erlangen, Germany - 2 Institute for Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine 5, Hematology and Oncology, Erlangen, Germany - 3 Intitute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany - 4 Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany RITUXIMAB INTERFERENCE IN B-CELL CROSSMATCH: A PROBLEM SOLVED Beatrice Bardy, Paolo Malvezzi 2, Lionel Rostaing 2, Dominique Masson EFS Rhone Alpes, La Tronche, France - 2 CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION - SELECTED IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS Antonij Slavcev, Zuzana Sekerkova, Barbora Kovandova, Eva Honsova, Sarka Valhova, Pavel Trunecka IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic HIGHLY-SENSITIZED PATIENTS: MORE THAN ANTI-HLA ANTIBODIES Laura Riesco, Juan Irure, Emilio Rodrigo, Juan Calos Ruiz-San Millán, Marcos López-Hoyos, David San Segundo Marques de Valdecilla Universitary Hospital-IDIVAL, Santander, Spain EFFICIENCY OF DONOR EXCHANGE PROGRAM AT KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL JEDDAH Ashraf Dada, Nabeela Al Baz, Hamad Bokhari Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF COMPLEMENT-DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY AS A SUPPORTING ASSAY IN THE KIDNEY PAIR EXCHANGE SETTING Ashraf Dada, Osama Al Suraihi, Nabeela Al Baz, Ahmad Bokhari Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia EDTA TREATMENT WITH NORMAL GOAT SERUM (GS) BLOCKING REMOVES DR4/DR6 BUT NOT DP/DP5 FALSE POSITIVE PATTERNS ON SINGLE ANTIGEN BEAD (SAB) HLA CLASS II ANTIBODY TESTING Kristina A. Davis, Maria Ramirez, Timothy Williams, Lena Kleyman, Gregory Simmons, Debra Schauss, Abdul Abdulle, Nell Field, Samantha Fogel, Thomas Franks, Kelsey Makushik, Andrea Parkinson, Cory Peitsch, Cynthia Schall, Omar Moussa University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America POSTER 59

60 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 POSTER P6 P7 P8 P9 P20 P2 P22 P23 P24 PATIENTS AWAITING KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION ARE MORE FREQUENTLY CARRIERS OF THE RS G ALLELE THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER IL-7F SERUM LEVELS Malgorzata Kaminska, Wanda Niepieklo-Miniewska, Artur Nieszporek, Katarzyna Gebura, Katarzyna Bogunia-Kubik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Wroclaw, Poland COMPARISON OF VIRTUAL AND CDC, FLOW, LUMINEX CROSS MATCH METHODS Derya Gulec, Tulay Kilicaslan Ayna, Asli Kocyigit Ozkizilcik, Asli Eldem, Burcu Cerci Gurbuz, Mustafa Soyoz Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey IN VITRO TGF-Β SECRETION CAPACITY OF STIMULATED PERIPHERAL BLOOD CELLS CORRELATES WITH THE OCCURRENCE OF OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION IN LIVER AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION Francisco Boix, Gema Gonzalez-Martinez, Rafael Alfaro, Jose Antonio Galian, Isabel Legaz 2, Maria R. Moya-Quiles, Alfredo Minguela, Jose A. Pons, Santiago Llorente, Manuel Muro Clinic University Hospital Virgen Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain - 2 University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain COMPARING INFERENCES DRAWN FROM INTERMEDIATE HLA TYPING TO HIGH RESOLUTION TYPING RESULTS - COULD IT BE AN INTERIM SOLUTION? A STUDY FROM A TERTIARY CARE MEDICAL INSTITUTION IN INDIA Sam A. Doss R, Siddharth Mittal 2, Mary P. Chacko 2, Dolly Daniel 2 Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, India - 2 Christian Medical College, Vellore, India UNEXPECTED FLOW CYTOMETRY CROSSMATCH REACTIVITY IN PATIENTS AWAITING KIDNEY TRANSPLANT Anastasiya Mihaylova, Petiya Yankova, Anzhela Antonova 2, Nevena Gesheva 2, Valentina Atanasova 2, Milena Ivanova-Shivarova, Elissaveta Naumova University Hospital Alexandrovska, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria - 2 University Hospital Alexandrovska, Sofia, Bulgaria ANALYSIS OF HLA ALLOREACTIVITY BASED ON PREDICTION OF HLA-DRB RESTRICTED T CELL EPITOPES Miriam Vilches-Moreno, Cristina Abad-Molina 2, Antonio Nieto Hospital Puerta del Mar, Cádiz, Spain - 2 Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain COMPARISON OF THE VIRTUAL CROSSMATCH VERSUS ACTUAL CROSSMATCH IN CADAVER DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION Biserka Palfi, Natalija Martinez, Mirica Batarelo, Davorka Galenic, Kristina Kopic, Magdalena Svetec, Zorana Grubic, Renata Zunec University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia HLA-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES DETECTED BY THE BEAD ARRAY TECHNIQUE CAN ACT AS SURROGATE MARKERS FOR T- AND B-CELL FLOW CROSSMATCHES Sabine Wenda, Daniela Koren 2, Ingrid Faé, Gottfried F. Fischer Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria - 2 General Hospital Vienna, Vienna, Austria USING FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY LEVELS BY LUMINEX TO PREDICT CROSSMATCH BY CDC Cristina Abad-Molina, Miriam Vilches-Moreno 2, Israel Olivas-Martínez 3, Mario Cárdaba-Arranz, María Francisca González-Escribano 3 Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain - 2 Hospital Puerta del Mar, Cádiz, Spain - 3 Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío Sevilla, Spain 60

61 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P25 P26 P27 P28 P29 P30 P3 P32 DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIFIC DONOR HLA ALLOANTIBODIES (DSAS) AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE Paola F. Zanelli, Roberta Merli, Sara Tedeschi 2, Ilaria Gandolfini 2, Umberto Maggiore 2, Adele Zanetti SSUO Immunogenetica dei Trapianti, Parma, Italy - 2 SSUO Trapianti Rene - Pancreas, Parma, Italy SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND REMOVAL OF UNACCEPTABLE ANTIGENS SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVES THE CHANCE OF A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT FOR HIGHLY SENSITISED PATIENTS. A SINGLE CENTRE APPROACH IN THE UK Sean B. Carey, Andrew Connor, Imran S. Saif, Sara Stacey, Linda Boorer, Mazen Mabrok, Kim Boswijk, Jamie Barwell, Anthony Poles 2 Plymouth Hospitals, Plymouth, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 2 Plymouth Hospitals & Filton, Plymouth & Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain) IMPACT OF ANTI-HLA-DP AND -DQA ANTIBODIES IN RENAL TRANSPLANTATION: A PRELIMINARY STUDY Paola F. Zanelli, Valentina Sgobba, Roberta Merli, Roberta Lamanna, Silvia Giuliodori, Magda Benecchi SSUO Immunogenetica dei Trapianti, Parma, Italy FLOW CYTOMETRY CROSSMATCH: FCXM VS. FLOWDSA-XM Giuseppina Ozzella, Elvira Poggi, Antonio Giuseppe Bianculli 2, Damiano Colasante 2, Maria Rosaria Fazio 2, Annarita Manfreda 2, Silvia Sinopoli 2, Lucia Spano 2, Antonina Piazza National Council of Researches, IFT Unit of Rome S. Camillo Hospital - Regional Transplant Center of Lazio, Rome, Italy - 2 Regional Transplant Center of Lazio, Rome, Italy CORRELATION OF THE DE NOVO DONOR SPECIFIC ANTI-HLA ANTIBODY (DNDSA) EMERGENCE WITH IMMUNOSUPPRESSION AND 2-YEAR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION OUTCOME: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY Marianthi Papachristou, Asimina Fylaktou, Theodoros Karampatakis, Evaggelos Chologitas 2, Maria Daoudaki 3, Charalampos Zarras, Fani Makrovasili, Ioannis Fouzas 4 National Peripheral Histocompatibility Center, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece - 2 st Internal Medicine Department, Medical School, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece - 3 Biochemistry Laboratory, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece - 4 Solid Organ Transplantation Center, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece DISCOVERY OF A NOVEL HLA-B*08 NULL ALLELE IN A DANISH KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT Mette Christiansen, Pernille B. Koefoed-Nielsen, Bjarne K. Møller Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark THE ROLE OF LUMINEX-DETECTED HLA ANTIBODIES IN LONG-TERM OUTCOME OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANT: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE Serena Maria Passamonti, Antonino Cannavò, Francesca Poli, Annalisa Innocente, Alejandro Espadas de Arias, Piergiorgio Messa, Mariano Ferraresso, Massimo Cardillo Fondazione IRCCS Ca Granda- Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy INCIDENCE OF ANTI-DQ DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODY IN RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS OF TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL OF NORTH INDIA Mohit Chowdhry, RN Makroo, Yogita Thakur, Mandhata Singh, Manoj Mishra, Vandana Sharma Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India POSTER 6

62 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 P33 P34 P35 P36 P37 P38 P39 ANTIBODY PROFILE OF STEM CELL AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION PATIENTS IN A SINGLE CENTER Claudia Lehmann, Ramona Landgraf, Ilias Doxiadis Transfusion medicine, HLA-laboratory, Leipzig, Germany OPTIMIZATION AND VALIDATION OF AN IGA HLA-SPECIFIC LUMINEX SINGLE ANTIGEN BEAD ASSAY Helena Car, Cynthia S.M. Kramer, Simone Brand-Schaaf, Gonca E. Karahan, Cees Van Kooten 2, Paul W.H.I. Parren, F.H.J. Claas, Dave L. Roelen, Sebastiaan Heidt Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands - 2 LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands REASSESSMENT OF T-LYMPHOCYTE CROSSMATCH RESULT PREDICTION FOR ANTI-HLA-C ANTIBODIES WITH SINGLE ANTIGEN FLOW BEADS ASSAYS Gwendaline Guidicelli, Mamy Ralazamahaleo, Charlene Bouthemy, Thoa Nong 2, Jar-How Lee 2, Jean-Luc Taupin, Jonathan Visentin Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France - 2 One Lambda, Inc, Canoga Park, United States of America DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF ANTI-HLA ANTIBODIES IN PATIENTS ON THE WAITING LIST FOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION Orjeta Bonaca, Eva Plesec, Katja Rotar, Blanka Vidan-Jeras Blood Transfusion Center of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia AXL EXPRESSION IN MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTIONS IN A POPULATION OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENTS Maria Paula DP. Xavier, Susana Sampaio-Norton 2, José Gerardo Oliveira 3 Instituto Português do Sangue e da Transplantação, Porto, Portugal - 2 Hospital S. João, Serviço Nefrologia, Porto, Portugal - 3 Faculdade Medicina Porto, Hospital S João, Porto, Portugal INVESTIGATION OF COSMC GENE DNA METHYLATION PROFILE AND EXPRESSION LEVEL IN IGA Sebahat U Akgul, Cigdem Kekik, Yasar K Caliskan, Egemen Cebeci 2, Erol Demir, Sonay Temurhan, Filiz Aydin 3, Fatma Oguz Savran Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey - 2 Haseki Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey - 3 Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Medical Biology Department, Istanbul, Turkey BIOMARKER FOR PROGRESSION OF IGA NEPHROPATHY Sonay Temurhan, Sebahat U. Akgul, Cigdem Kekik, Yasar K. Caliskan, Yasemin Ozluk, Serra Ertan, Erol Demir, Halil Yazici, Aydin Turkmen, Isin Kilicarslan, Mehmet S Sever, Fatma Oguz Savran Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey POSTER 62

63 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P40 P4 P42 P43 P44 P45 P46 DECREASED GRAFT SURVIVAL OF RETRANSPLANTS CAN LARGELY BE EXPLAINED BY INCREASED HLA-IMMUNIZATION Elena G. Kamburova, B.W. Wisse, I. Joosten 2, W.A. Allebes 2, A. van der Meer 2, L.B. Hilbrands 2, M.C. Baas 2, Eric Spierings, C.E. Hack, F. van Reekum, A.D. van Zuilen, M.C. Verhaar, M.L. Bots, L. Plaisier, M.A.J. Seelen 3, J.S.F. Sanders 3, B.G. Hepkema 4, A.J. Lambeck 4, L.B. Bungener 4, C. Roozendaal 4, M.G.J. Tilanus 5, C.E. Voorter 5, L. Wieten 5, E. van Duijnhoven 5, M. Gelens 5, M. Christiaans 5, F. van Ittersum 6, A. Nurmohamed 6, N.M. Lardy 7, W.T. Swelsen 7, K.A.M.I. van der Pant 8, N.C. van der Weerd 8, I.J.M. ten Berge 8, F.J. Bemelman 8, A.J. Hoitsma 9, P.J.M. van der. Boog 0, J.W. de Fijter 0, M.G.H. Betjes, Sebastiaan Heidt 0, D.L. Roelen 0, F.H.J. Claas 0, H.G. Otten University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands - 2 Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands - 3 University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands - 4 University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands - 5 Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands - 6 VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands - 7 Sanquin, Amsterdam, Netherlands - 8 Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands - 9 NTS, Leiden, Netherlands - 0 Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands - Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands HLA-DP ANTIBODY INCOMPATIBLE TRANSPLANTATION: A SINGLE CENTRE REVIEW Adrienne Seitz, Katherine Mounsey, Ruth Foster, Pamela Hughes, Richard Baker, Brendan Clark Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trusts, Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain) IGG SUBTYPES IDENTIFIED BY A FLOW CROSSMATCH ASSAY INCREASES SUCCESSFUL TRANSPLANTS IN SENSITIZED RECIPIENTS Prakash Rao, Deo Dayanand, David Baran 2, Mark Zucker 2, Jesus Almendral 3, Shamkant Mulgaonkar 4, Praveen Kandula 4 NJ Sharing Network, New Providence, NJ, United States of America - 2 Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, United States of America - 3 Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America - 4 Barnabas Health, Livingston, NJ, United States of America PREVALENCE OF DQA AND DPB ANTIBODIES AMONG PATIENTS ON THE WAITING LIST FOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION Randi Berg, Pernille Koefoed-Nielsen Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark ASSESSMENT OF A PORTUGUESE PANEL REACTIVE ANTIBODY CALCULATOR Bruno A. Lima, Helena Alves 2 Oficina de Bioestatística, Vilar Formoso, Portugal - 2 Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Porto, Portugal LINKSĒQ FOR ABO, A MOLECULAR BASED SUBGROUPING SOLUTION FOR THE ABO BLOOD GROUP William J. Lane, Helen Mah, Joshua M. Rodriguez, Thierry Viard 2, Roland Russnak 2, Vivian Yuen 2, Rania Haddad 2, Isaac Kim 2, Raymond Li 2, Zachary Antovich 2 Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, United States of America - 2 Thermo Fisher Scientific, South San Francisco, United States of America CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMORPHISMS AT THE 3 UNTRANSLATED REGION OF THE HLA-G GENE IN PATIENTS WITH RENAL GRAFT REJECTION Ana L. Cidral, Vanessa Hauer, Bruna C. Bertol 2, Eduardo A. Donadi 2, Maria da Graça Bicalho Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil - 2 University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil POSTER 63

64 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 POSTER P47 P48 P49 P50 P5 P52 P53 P54 P55 P56 USEFULNESS OF INTRAGRAFT DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODY DETECTION IN THE CONTEXT OF ANTIBODY MEDIATED REJECTION WITHOUT CIRCULATING DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES Anne Parissiadis, Jerôme Olagne 2, Philippe Guntz, Gabriella Gautier Vargas 2, Nadine Froelich, Sophie Caillard 2 Etablissement Français du Sang-Grand Est, Strasbourg, France - 2 Hôpitaux Universitaires, Strasbourg, France DONOR HLA TYPES FROM GRAFT BIOPSIES Mette Christiansen, Karen B. Lauridsen 2, Pernille B. Kofoed-Nielsen Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark - 2 Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark EPITOPE-BASED HLA MATCHING: IN SILICO STRATEGIES TO PREDICT DE NOVO DONOR- SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION Sandra Tafulo, Jorge Malheiro 2, Luísa Lobato 2, Leonídio Dias 2, António Castro-Henriques 2 Portuguese Institute of Blood and Transplantation, Porto, Portugal - 2 Hospital de Santo António, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal LONG TERM RESULTS OF A DESENSITIZATION PROTOCOL WITH AND WITHOUT RITUXIMAB IN HIGHLY SENSITIZED KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS Moshe Israeli, Heftziba Green, Tirza Klein, Ruth Rachamimov, Sigal Eisner, Eviatar Nesher, Eytan Mor Rabin Medical Center, Petach-Tikva, Israel VARIABILITY OF IGG SUBCLASSES OVERTIME David Pinelli, Muralidhar T. Gopalakrishnan, Anat R. Tambur Northwestern Univeristy, Chicago, United States of America THE ROLE OF HLA ALLELES IN SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SUSTAINED BK VIREMIA: A SINGLE- CENTER EXPERIENCE Sevim Gönen, Özant Helvacı, Yaşar Kandur, Hakan Sözen, Oğuz Söylemezoğlu Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey A NOVEL TOOL TO DEFINE THE IMMUNOGENICITY OF HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN MISMATCHES Cynthia S.M. Kramer, Johan Koster, Geert W. Haasnoot, Dave L. Roelen, Frans H.J. Claas, Sebastiaan Heidt Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands EPLET AND PIRCHE-II ANALYSIS OF ANTIBODY REACTIVITY AFTER FIRST PREGNANCY J. Rene Duquesnoy, Marilyn Marrari, Matthias Niemann 2, Irene Hösli 3, Stefan Schaub 3, Gideon Hönger 3 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, United States of America - 2 PIRCHE AG, Berlin, Germany - 3 University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland MONOSPECIFIC REACTIONS DETECTED BY SINGLE ANTIGENS FAIL TO DETECT NATURAL HLA ANTIGENS Laura Riesco, Juan Irure, Emilio Rodrigo, Marcos López-Hoyos, David San Segundo Marques de Valdecilla Universitary Hospital-IDIVAL, Santander, Spain CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF LUMINEX CROSSMATCH TO DETECT PRE-TRANSPLANT DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES IN LIVING RELATED RENAL ALLOGRAFT TRANSPLANT: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE Monika Jain, Kumar Digvijay, Vinant Bhargava, Anurag Gupta, Manish Malik, Ashwani Gupta, Anil K. Bhalla, Devinder S. Rana, I. C. Verma Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India 64

65 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P57 P58 P59 P60 P6 P62 P63 HLA-B*5 SNPS PREDICT THE SEROLOGICALLY DEFINED HLA-B5 SPLIT ANTIGENS Burcu Duygu, Benedict M. Matern, Christel M.H. Meertens, Christina E.M. Voorter, Marcel G.J. Tilanus Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands HLA MATCH AND THORACIC TRANSPLANTS Pamela M. Moschini, Paola Magistroni 2, Elena Garino 2, Gina A. Mazzola 2, Monica Berrino 2, Silvia Alizzi 2, Tiziana Melchiorre 2, Massimo Boffini 2, Antonio Amoroso 3 Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza, Turin, Italy - 2 Città della Salute e della Scienza Hospital, Torino, Italy - 3 University of Torino, Torino, Italy PHARMACOGENETIC EFFECTS OF URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE-GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE POLYMORPHISMS ON MYCOPHENOLIC ACID PHARMACOKINETICS IN TURKISH RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS Hayriye Senturk Ciftci, Tzevat Tefik 2, Meltem Karadeniz Savran 3, Erol Demir 4, Ismet Nane 2, Fatma Oguz Savran, Aydin Turkmen 4 Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Medical Biology Department, Istanbul, Turkey - 2 Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Urology, Istanbul, Turkey - 3 Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesia, Istanbul, Turkey - 4 Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nephrology, Istanbul, Turkey DOES CROSSMATCH IMPACT LIVER TRANSPLANTATION OUTCOME? A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE Paola Magistroni, Pamela M. Moschini 2, Cristiana Caorsi, Francesca E. Bertinetto, Ennia Dametto, Elena Navaretti, Lorenzo Rocchi, Francesco Perrone, Francesco Tandoi, Renato Romagnoli, Mauro Salizzoni, Antonio Amoroso 3 Città della Salute e della Scienza Hospital, Torino, Italy - 2 Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza, Turin, Italy - 3 University of Torino, Torino, Italy MONITORING OF HLA-ANTIBODIES IN PATIENTS WHO UNDERWENT HEART TRANSPLANTATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN Aida Turganbekova, Zhandos Burkitbaev, Saniya Abdrakhmanova, Indira Ramilyeva, Dana Baimukasheva, Zhazira Saduakas, Perizat Zhunus Republic scientific and production center of transfusiology, Astana, Kazakhstan ANTIENDOTHELIAL CELL AND ANTI ATR ANTIBODIES IN TWO CLUSTERS OF RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS WITH ACUTE ANTIBODY MEDIATED REJECTION - A STUDY FROM A TERTIARY CENTRE IN INDIA Dolly Daniel, Santosh Varughese, Siddharth Mittal Sam Aruldoss, Vinoi G. David, Suceena Alexander, Anjali Mohapatra, John Jude Christian Medical College, Vellore, India CLINICAL IMPORTANCE OF TYPE ANGIOTENSIN II RECEPTOR (ATR) Y ANTI-ENDOTELIN- TYPE A (ETAR) ANTIBODIES IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION Jaouad El Kaaoui El Band, Pedro Martinez-Garcia, Gema Martinez-Gonzalez, Rafael Alfaro, Jose Antonio Galian, Francisco Boix, Isabel Legaz 2, Maria R. Moya-Quiles, Alfredo Minguela, Santiago Llorente, Manuel Muro Clinic University Hospital Virgen Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain - 2 University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain POSTER 65

66 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 P65 P66 P67 P68 P69 P70 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RS SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM AT THE UMOD PROMOTER REGION AND SERUM UROMODULIN LEVELS: IMPLICATIONS IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION Silvia Deaglio, Ilaria Notaro, Alice Ianniello 2, Daniela F. Giachino, Daniela Biongiovanni 2, Pamela M. Moschini 3, Paola Magistroni 2 Giulio Mengozzi 2 Luca Rampoldi 4, Antonio Amoroso University of Turin, Torino, Italy - 2 Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza, Torino, Italy - 3 Città della Salute e della Scienza Hospital, Torino, Italy - 4 San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy HLA ANTIBODY MONITORING AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION Tjasa Kovacevic Cuculic, Natasa Katalinic, Orlic Lidija, Helena Kurtovic Marijana Duhovic, Ines Simac Susanj, Sanja Balen Clinical Hospital Center, Rijeka, Croatia STARTING THE PAIRED KIDNEY DONATION PROGRAM IN GREECE Angeliki G. Vittoraki, Maria Darema 2, Dimitra A. Skoumi, Maria D. Apostolaki, Ioannis Bokos 2, Alexandra A. Siorenta, Georgios Zavvos 2, John N. Boletis 2, Aliki G. Iniotaki Immunology Department and National Tissue Typing Center, General Hospital of Athens, G.Gennimatas, Athens, Greece - 2 Transplantation Unit, Laikon Hospital, Athens, Greece PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF A TEST ALLOWING THE DETECTION OF DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODY CAPABLE OF BINDING C3D AT THE TIME OF DIAGNOSIS OF HUMORAL REJECTION IN RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS Marine Gatin, Dominique Bertrand 2, Fabienne Farce, Françoise Hau Etablissement Français du Sang Hauts de France Normandie, Bois Guillaume, France - 2 CHU de Rouen, Bois Guillaume, France HIGH HLA-DPB EXPRESSION IN PRE-IMPLANTATION KIDNEY BIOPSIES IS ASSOCIATED WITH POOR LATE GRAFT FUNCTION Karina L. Mine, Tuíla B. Mourão, Claudia R. Felipe 2, Gisele F. Rampim, José O. Medina-Pestana 2 Hélio Tedesco-Silva 2 Maria Gerbase-DeLima Immunogenetics Institute, São Paulo, Brazil - 2 Hospital do Rim e Hipertensão, São Paulo, Brazil SERUM PRE-TREATMENT WITH FETAL BOVINE SERUM SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASES LUMINEX- BASED HLA ANTIBODY ASSAY SPECIFICITY BY REDUCING HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY INTERFERENCE Andrés Jaramillo, Justin L. House, Lora J. Nelson, Scott Stoll, Rose M. Ridgley, Hasan A. Khamash Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America POSTER 66

67 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION P7 DISTRIBUTION OF KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN-LIKE RECEPTORS (KIRS) ON NK CELLS OF HLA-MATCHED UNRELATED DONOR-RECIPIENT PAIRS RECEIVING HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (HSCT) Xiaoyan Shan, Dongmei Li, Wang Dongmei, Wang Zhongmei Jing Yuanyuan, Wang Jie Beijing Red Cross Blood Center, Beijing, China P72 P73 P74 LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY RESULTS IN PRE-TRANSPLANT HLA MISTYPING IN ONE PATIENT DIAGNOSED WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA Feiyun Liu, Chuen-Ying Lin, Chialing Chang, Chi-Cheng Li 2, Ya-Chien Yang National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan - 2 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF DNA EXTRACTED IN 203 BY MEANS OF QIASYMPHONY TECHNOLOGY AND KEPT AT +4 C Rayna Ivanova Derin, Pascale Loiseau, Kahina Amokrane, Sophie Caillat Zucman APHP Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France MICRORNA-46A AND NF-KB POLYMORPHISMS AND RISK OF ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE POST-ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION Ghada Mossallam, Raafat Abdel Fattah, Hossam Kamel National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt P75 ALLOGENEIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION IN THREE CASES WITH DOCK 8 DEFICIENCY Turkan Patiroglu, Murat Cansever, Alper Ozcan, Gulsah Uçan, Sevgi Keles 2, Ekrem Unal, Chatila Talal 3, Musa Karakukcu Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey - 2 Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey - 3 Harvard Medical School, Boston,United States of America P76 P77 Y CHROMOSOME DELETION FOUND IN CHIMERISM STR STUDY Laura Perotti, Lucia Longa, Maristella Prucca, Federica Piovano, Franco Papola 2, Carla Cervelli 2, Marco Lorenzi Struttura Complessa Interaziendale Immunoematologia e Medicina Trasfusionale, Cuneo, Italy - 2 Centro Regionale di Immunoematologia e Tipizzazione Tissutale, Abruzzo, Italy NULL HLA-A*02:227N ALLELE IN TUMOR CELLS OF THE PATIENT WITH PERIPHERAL T-CELL LYMPHOMA, NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED (A CLINICAL CASE) Bella V. Biderman, Natalia G. Chernova, Igor A. Yakutik, Maria V. Nareiko, Eugene E. Zvonkov, Ekaterina G. Khamaganova, Andrey B. Sudarikov, Valeriy G. Savchenko National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow, Russian Federation P78 PCR-SBT CHARACTERIZATION OF A NEW HLA ALLELE: B*4:58 Valentina Cappuzzo, Francesco Ingrassia, Rosalba Bavetta, Serena Mistretta, Maria Blando, Maria Igea Vega, Floriana Bruno, Giuseppe Davì, Raimondo Marcenò Tissue Typing and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Cervello Hospital - Ospedali Riuniti Villa Sofia-Cervello, Palermo, Italy P79 NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING HLA TYPING: FIRST EXPERIENCE IN AN ARGENTINIAN HISTOCOMPATIBILITY LABORATORY Maria Beatriz. Rodriguez, Ulises Toscanini, Karin Padros PRICAI, Buenos Aires, Argentina POSTER 67

68 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 POSTER P80 P8 P82 P83 P84 P85 P86 P87 P88 HIGH SIMILARITY HLA TYPING COMBINED WITH CROSS OVER IN A PATIENT WITH SICKLE CELL ANEMIA Osama Al Suraihi, Ahmad Bokhari, Nabeela Al Baz, Ashraf Dada Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia THE IMPACT OF KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN-LIKE RECEPTORS /HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN CLASS ONE COMBINATIONS ON THE ONE-YEAR PROGNOSIS OF ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE LEUKEMIA Shirin Farjadian, Marzieh Mansouri, Jean Villard 2, Mani Ramzi Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran - 2 Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Swaziland DETECTING LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY IN HLA GENES USING NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING IN A PATIENT WITH APLASTIC ANEMIA Viktoria Zakharova, Olga Shragina, Elena Raykina, Zhanna Kuzminova, Michael Maschan Dmitry Rogachev Federal Research Centre of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Moscow, Russian Federation AT HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION, THE PERCENTAGE OF COINCIDENCES OF 5 LOCI OF HLA - GENES IN RELATED DONORS: IN SIBLINGS AND IN PARENTS Liudmila Alexandrovna Gracheva, Larisa Vladimirovna Petrova, Elena Vladimirovna Skorobogatova, Ekaterina Andreevna Pristanskova, Andrey Anatol'evich Bologov Russian Children's Clinical Hospital, Moscow, Russian Federation IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL ALLELES WITH THE USE OF NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING Olga Shragina, Viktoria Zakharova, Elena Raykina, Michael Maschan, Alexei Maschan Dmitry Rogachev National Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Moscow, Russian Federation HIGH-FIDELITY HLA GENOTYPING IN THE POLISH POPULATION WITH THE USE OF NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING Anna Bogacz, Michał Góralski, Alicja Bukowska, Mateusz Sowiński, Karol Jopek, Mariusz Gronkowski, Sylwia Wróblewska-Kabba, Michał Kolasiński, Hanna Skalisz, Krzysztof Olbromski Regional Blood Center in Poznan, Poznan, Poland ANTI-HLA AND DONOR SPECIFIC ANTI-HLA (DSA) IN ALLOGENEIC HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (3 YEARS EXPERIENCE) Maria Dolores De Juan, Larraitz Aragon, Nerea Olivares 2, David Monzón, Jose Javier Ferreiro, Aitziber Alkorta Donostia University Hospital, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain - 2 Cruces University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain DETECTION OF A NOVEL ALLELE WITH NGS HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER Vera Siffnerova, Milena Vrana, Libor Kolesar 2, Efi Melista 3 The Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic - 2 Omixon Biocomputing Kft., Budapest, Hungary - 3 Omixon Inc., United States of America CORD BLOOD UNITS RELEASE ACTIVITY OF PADOVA CORD BLOOD BANK: SYNERGY BETWEEN CORD BLOOD BANK AND HLA LABORATORY Maria Paola Albergoni, Daniela Bovo 2, Aurora Strano 2, Roberta Favero, Genny Franceschetto 2, Giustina De Silvestro, Roberta Destro 2 UOC Immunotrasfusionale - DIMT Padova - Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Padova, Italy - 2 Oncoematologia Pediatrica - Padova Cord Blood Bank - Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Padova, Italy 68

69 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P89 P90 P9 P92 P93 P94 P95 P96 P97 COMPARISON OF UNRELATED DONOR SEARCH TIMES VIA THE NATIONAL DONOR REGISTRY AND INTERNATIONAL DONOR REGISTRIES: A SINGLE CENTER TWO YEARS EXPERIENCE FROM TURKEY Emel Gucyener, Fatma Savran Oguz 2, Zafer Gulbas, Kader Caliskan, Esra Isildak, Leman Ozel, Medine Hasauhadar 3 Anadolu Medical Centre, Kocaeli, Turkey - 2 Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Medical Biology Department, Istanbul, Turkey - 3 Stem Cell Coordination Center of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey ASSESSMENT OF THE PURITY OF ISOLATED CD3+ T CELL POPULATIONS BY A NEW MOLECULAR BIOLOGY TECHNOLOGY: IMPACT ON THE QUANTIFICATION OF CHIMERISM MONITORING POST HAEMATOPOITIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION Aurélie Lopasso, Clémence Demerle, Mélanie Velier, Sarah Dassa, Noura Kouba, Virginia Ferreira, Nicolino Brunet 2, Sophie Simon, Agnes Basire, Christophe Picard 3 EFS PACAC, Marseille, France - 2 AP-HM, Marseille, France - 3 UMR7268 AMU CNRS EFS, MARSEILLE, France HLA-G 4BP DELETION EFFECT ON STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION Sally Elfishawi, Raafat Abdel Fattah National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt DOCUMENTATION OF RARE HLA ALLELES Pedro Cano, Jennifer Wendel, Crystal Iozzino, Rachel Boasi, Yasmill Ramirez, Kathy Blaney Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, United States of America THE OPTIMAL DONOR PROFILE IN THE ERA OF NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING? Vinzenz Lange, Gerhard Schöfl, Monika Füssel, Johannes Schetelig 2, Alexander H. Schmidt 3 DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany - 2 Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany - 3 DKMS, Tübingen, Germany MANAGEMENT OF DSA IN HAEMATOLOGICAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION Valeria Miotti, Donatella Londero, Vincenzo De Angelis ASUIUD, Udine, Italy DYNAMIC TRENDS IN SEARCHING FOR MATCHED UNRELATED DONORS IN ISRAEL: A CURRENT UPDATE ( ) Chen-li Levi, Moshe Yeshurun, Jerry Stein 2, Tirza Klein, Anat Yahel 2, Michal Sela-Navon, Liat Shargian, Oren Pasvoski, Moshe Israeli Rabin Medical Center, Petach-Tikva, Israel - 2 Schneider Children s Medical Center, Petach-Tikva, Israel THE QUANTITATIVE PCR METHOD AS METHOD OF CHOICE IN CHIMERISM MONITORING AFTER HSCT Katarina Stingl Jankovic, Marija Maskalan, Zorana Grubic, Marija Burek Kamenaric, Renata Zunec University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia STRUCTURAL EPITOPE (EPLET)-BASED ANALYSIS OF HLA-ALLOIMMUNIZED PLATELET TRANSFUSION Qiang Chen, Mengdan Li 2, Jue Wang 3 Institute of Blood Transfusion, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences And Sichuan Cord Blood Bank, Chengdu, China - 2 Sichuan Cord Blood Blank, Chengdu, China - 3 Institute of blood transfusion, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, China POSTER 69

70 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 POSTER P98 P99 ROLE OF KIR RECEPTOR-HLA LIGAND MATCH/MISMATCH ON OUTCOMES IN POST TRANSPLANT CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE BASED HAPLOIDENTICAL TRANSPLANTATION Meenakshi Singh, Selma D. Silva, Sachin Punatar 2, Anant Gokarn 2, Avinash Bonda 2, Libin Mathew 2, Manisha Tambe, Sadhana Kannan 2, Sunil Rajadhyaksha, Navin Khattry 2 Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India - 2 Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India FULL LENGTH NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING (NGS) TYPING OF HLA-DPB ALLELES COMPRISES THE DETECTION OF ALLELE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONAL, CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS Ingrid Faé, Peter Kalhs, Sabine Wenda, Gottfried F. Fischer Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria P00 DEVELOPMENT OF PERSISTENT MIXED CHIMERISM (MC) IN ALLO-HSCT TRANSPLANTED BETA-THAL PATIENTS IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW MC EARLY AFTER TRANSPLANT AND TR CELLS Silvia Gregori, Tiziana Galluccio 2, Maria Grazia Roncarolo 3, Rosa Bacchetta 3, Marco Andreani 2 San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget), Milan, Italy - 2 IME Foundation at Polyclinic of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy - 3 Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, United States of America P0 IN SILICO PREDICTION OF NON-PERMISSIVE HLA-DPB MISMATCHES IN UNRELATED HCT BY FUNCTIONAL DISTANCE Pietro Crivello, Esteban Arrieta-Bolaños, Bronwen E. Shaw 2, Kwang Woo Ahn 2, Hai-Lin Wang 2, Michael R. Verneris 3, Katharine Hsu 4, Joseph Pidala 5, Stephanie J. Lee 6, Katharina Fleischhauer, Stephen Spellman 7 Institute for Experimental Cellular Therapy, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany - 2 Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States of America - 3 Pediatric BMT, University of Colorado, Aurora, United States of America - 4 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States of America - 5 Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, United States of America - 6 Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States of America - 7 Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, National Marrow Donor Program/Be the Match, Minneapolis, United States of America P02 AN IMPROVED SEARCH ALGORITHM BY HLA-DPB T CELL EPITOPE MATCHING Sendi Montanič, Sabina Kunilo Jamnik, Blanka Vidan-Jeras Blood Transfusion Center of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia P03 HLA PHASED HAPLOTYPES IN SWITZERLAND, PREDICTIVE VALUE FOR MATCHED UNRELATED DONOR SEARCHES AND CLINICAL OUTCOME AFTER HSCT Stéphane Buhler, Helen Baldomero 2, Sylvie Ferrari-Lacraz, José M. Nunes 3, Alicia Sanchez-Mazas 3, Stravoula Massouridi-Levrat, Dominik Heim 2, Joerg Halter 2, Gayathri Nair 4, Yves Chalandon, Urs Schanz 4, Tayfun Guengoer 5, Grazia Nicoloso 6, Jean-Marie Tiercy, Jakob Passweg 2, Jean Villard Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland - 2 Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland - 3 University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland - 4 University Hospital of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland - 5 Childrens Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland - 6 Foundation Swiss Blood Stem Cells, Bern, Switzerland P04 EASYMATCH-R: THE VALIDATION OF A WEB APPLICATION FOR DONOR QUERY IN HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (HSCT) Alexandre Walencik, Estelle Geffard 2, Sophie Limou 3, Anne Cesbron, Nicolas Vince 2, Pierre-Antoine Gourraud 2 EFS Centre-Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France - 2 INSERM, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France - 3 INSERM, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France 70

71 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P05 HAPLOIDENTICAL HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION AND HLA- ANTIBODIES: ABOUT A CLINICAL CASE OF APPARITION OF SPECIFIC RECIPIENT ANTIBODIES DURING POST STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION PERIOD Anne Parissiadis, Philippe Guntz, Marie-Pierre Ledoux 2, Bruno Lioure 2 Etablissement Français du Sang-Grand Est, Strasbourg, France - 2 Hôpitaux Universitaires, Strasbourg, France P06 INCIDENCE OF ANTI-HLA ANTIBODIES IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS AFFECTED BY HAEMATOLOGICAL DISEASES AND CANDIDATE TO HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT P. Giustiniani, C. Parlavecchio, P. Merli, F. Galaverna, R. M. Pinto, S. Bordasco, M. Montanari, F. Locatelli Bambino Gesù Children s Hospital, Rome, Italy P07 REVEALING THE HIDDEN CHIMERISM BY STR GENOTYPING OF LEUKOCYTE SUBSETS Gabriela Berardi, Cintia Llull, Nicolas Fernandez Escobar 2, Gregorio Jaimovich 2, Maria Beatriz Rodriguez, Pablo Morikone, Karin Padros, Ulises Toscanini PRICAI, Buenos Aires, Argentina - 2 CEHT, Buenos Aires, Argentina P08 THE IMPACT OF DONOR NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR GENES ON OUTCOME OF ALLOGENEIC HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FROM HLA-IDENTICAL SIBLING IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA Ekaterina G. Khamaganova, Elena N. Parovichnikova, Larisa A. Kuzmina, Elena P. Kuzminova, Sergey M. Kulikov, Valeriy G. Savchenko National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow, Russian Federation P09 OVERVIEW OF POST-TRANSPLANT MONITORING IN PATIENTS AFTER HAPLOIDENTICAL ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION Hana Cechova, Kristyna Pegova, Lucie Pavlatova, Radka Zizkova, Pavla Hrabakova, Renata Prerovska, Martina Stankova, Dagmar Brezinova Institut of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic P0 IMPACT OF ANTI-HLA ANTIBODIES ON EARLY COMPLICATIONS AND OUTCOME AFTER UNRELATED HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION Arturas Jakubauskas, Rita Cekauskiene, Beatrice Valatkaite-Rakstiene, Laimonas Griskevicius 2 State Research Institute Center for Innovative Medicine & Vilnius University Hospital, Vilnius, Lithuania - 2 Clinics of Internal, Family Medicine and Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, & Vilnius University Hospital, Vilnius, Lithuania P ANALYSIS OF THE KIR GENES IMPACT ON HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION OUTCOME ACCORDING TO THREE DIFFERENT PREDICTIVE MODELS FROM LITERATURE Marija Kamenaric Burek, Katarina Stingl Jankovic, Zorana Grubic, Marija Maskalan, Ranka Serventi Seiwerth, Mirta Mikulic, Renata Zunec University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia P2 IMPACT OF NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING IN THE TYPING OF DONORS IN BULGARIAN BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY Tsvetelin Lukanov, Lyudmila Quin, Antoaneta Nedyalkova, Bushra Al Hadra 2, Milena Ivanova 2, Elissaveta Naumova 2 University Hospital Alexandrovska, Sofia, Bulgaria - 2 Medical University Sofia, University Hospital Alexandrovska, Sofia, Bulgaria POSTER 7

72 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 P3 AN AUDIT OF THE VOLUNTEER UNRELATED DONOR SEARCH PROCESS IN SUPPORT OF ALLOGENEIC HSCT OVER A 5 YEAR PERIOD Deborah A. Sage, Shahram Hemmatpour, Debbie Richardson 2, Kim Orchard 2 NHS Blood and Transplant, Tooting, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 2 Southampton University Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain) P4 ANTI-HLA-DP ANTIBODIES Pedro Cano, Jennifer Wendel, Crystal Iozzino, Rachel Boasi, Yasmill Ramirez, Kathy Blaney Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, United States of America P5 LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY IN THE HLA REGION AND SENSITIVITY OF HLA TYPING METHODS FOR DETECTING UNDER-REPRESENTED ALLELES Eszter Lazar-Molnar, Lori Ellinger 2, Kevin Williams 2, Ann Poles 2, Erica Andersen, Tracie Profaizer 3, Jamie L. Duke 4, Deborah Ferriola 4, Julio Delgado, Dimitri Monos 4 University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States of America - 2 Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, United States of America - 3 ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Salt Lake City, United States of America - 4 The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, United States of America IMMUNOTHERAPY, GENE THERAPY & CELLULAR THERAPY P6 MODIFICATION OF CD8+ T CELLS WITH T CELL RECEPTOR SPECIFIC FOR MINOR ANTIGEN ACC-Y Artem M. Pilunov, Anna A. Kuchmiy, Savely A. Sheetikov, Nadezhda A. Bykova, Sergey Y. Filkin, Dmitry S. Romaniuk, Grigory A. Efimov National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow, Russian Federation P7 EXPRESSION OF THE HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN G MOLECULE IN ERYTHROID PRECURSORS FROM AN IN VITRO CULTURE MODEL OF HUMAN CORD BLOOD CD34+ ERYTHROID PROGENITORS Aurélie Lopasso, Monique Silvy 2, Julie Di Cristofaro 2, Pascal Bailly 2, Christophe Picard 2 EFS PACAC, Marseille, France - 2 UMR7268 AMU CNRS EFS, Marseille, France BIOINFORMATICS P8 A PRECISION MEDICINE APPLICATION: PERSONALIZED CONTEXTUALIZATION OF PATIENTS AFTER SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION Estelle Geffard, Pauline Scherdel, Sophie Limou, Sophie Brouard, Adrien Tissot Colt investigators, Divat Investigators, Antoine Magnan, Magali Giral, Gilles Blancho, Nicolas Vince, Pierre-Antoine Gourraud INSERM, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France POSTER P9 APPLICATION OF EASY-HLA TO 2,260 SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANT DONOR-RECIPIENT PAIRS FROM 2 COHORTS: STATISTICALLY UPGRADED HLA TYPING FOR RESEARCH USE Estelle Geffard, Alexandre Walencik 2, Sophie Limou, Pauline Scherdel, Adrien Tissot, Divat investigators, Colt investigators, Gilles Blancho, Magali Giral, Antoine Magnan, Anne Cesbron 2, Nicolas Vince, Pierre-Antoine Gourraud INSERM, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France - 2 EFS Centre - Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France 72

73 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P20 INTRODUCING ONLINE TOOLS TO FACILITATE HLA-RELATED RESEARCH Ö. Orkun Sürel, Ömer Korkmaz 2, Jacob L. McCauley 3, Mehmet Tevfik Dorak 4, Mustafa Dogan 5 EPROM Electronic Project & Microwave Ind. Ltd. Co., Ankara, Turkey - 2 Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey - 3 University of Miami, John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Miami, FL, United States of America - 4 Kingston University London, Kingston, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 5 Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey P2 TYPELOADER FOR WINDOWS: AUTOMATED SUBMISSION OF NOVEL ALLELES IN FULL LENGTH Bianca Schöne, Markus Fuhrmann, Vineeth Surendranath, Julia Phieler, Alexander H. Schmidt 2, Gerhard Schöfl, Vinzenz Lange DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany - 2 DKMS, Tübingen, Germany P22 SNP-HLA REFERENCE CONSORTIUM: HLA AND SNP DATA SHARING FOR PROMOTING HLA- CENTRIC ANALYSES IN GENOMICS Nicolas Vince, Venceslas Douillard, Estelle Geffard, Sophie Limou, Pierre-Antoine Gourraud INSERM, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France NEW TECHNOLOGIES P23 FULL LENGTH CLASS I GENE SEQUENCING TO PREDICT THE CLASS I PROTEIN SEQUENCES AND RULE OUT NULL ALLELES OR ALTERED PROTEIN EXPRESSIONS Nezih Cereb, Eunsil Kim, Vijayaragavan Seshadri, Sungkyu Kim, Soo Young Yang HistoGenetics, Ossining, New York, United States of America P24 PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF AN NGS-BASED HLA TYPING METHOD Manuela Testi, Manuela Catalano, Alessandra Moscetti, Lorenza Fenici, Lara Florean, Maria Rita Gallone, Paola Grammatico Medical Genetics Lab, Sapienza University, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy P25 VALIDATION OF NGS HLA TYPING BEFORE ITS INTRODUCTION IN THE LABORATORY ROUTINE ACTIVITY Marco Andreani, Manuela Testi 2, Rossella Condello, Giuseppe Testa, Mariarosa Battarra Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplant Biology - IME Foundation at Polyclinic of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy - 2 San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy P26 HLA HAPLOTYPES IN A GREEK POPULATION BY NGS TECHNOLOGY Katerina Tarassi, Amanda Willis 2, Vasiliki Kitsiou, Kazutoyo Osoegawa 3, Diamanto Kouniaki, Theofilos Athanassiades, Marcelo Fernández-Viña 3, Medhat Askar 2, Alexandra Tsirogianni Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece - 2 Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, United States of America - 3 Stanford Medical School Blood Center, Palo Alto, United States of America P27 HLA-B*27 TYPING WITH A TRIPLEX REAL TIME PCR IN A ROUTINE LABORATORY Alice P. Pedersen, Menaka Andersen, Tore Jensen, Marte K. Viken Department of Immunology, Oslo, Norway P28 EVALUATION OF THE NXTYPE KIT FOR HLA-TYPING WITH THE S5 IONTORRENT PLATFORM Marine Cargou, Charlene Bouthemy, Mamy Ralazamahaleo, Gwendaline Guidicelli, Jonathan Visentin Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France POSTER 73

74 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 POSTER P29 AUTOMATION OF THE NGSGO LIBRARY PREPARATION WORKFLOW FOR HLA TYPING ON THE BIOMEK 4000 WORKSTATION Bram Luiken, Debby G.M. Krom 2, Gayatri C. Tetar 2, Elena Tavkin 3, Shilpa Parakh 4, Joseph Lu 4, Alisa Jackson 4, Maarten T. Penning, Wendy T. Swelsen 2, Neubury M. Lardy 2, Sake van Wageningen GenDx, Utrecht, Netherlands - 2 Sanquin, Amsterdam, Netherlands - 3 Beckman Coulter, Krefeld, Germany - 4 Beckman Coulter, Indianapolis, United States of America P30 STREAMLINING NGS HLA DATA ANALYSES USING NGSIGNITION AND NGSSERVER Raul Kooter, Job Geerligs, Frans-Paul Ruzius, Pieter Meulenberg, Joris Albers, Maarten T. Penning, Hanneke W.M. van Deutekom, Erik H. Rozemuller GenDx, Utrecht, Netherlands P3 EVALUATION OF THREE LABORATORY METHODS FOR DETECTING PREFORMED HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN ANTIBODIES Luyanda Laura Kwofie, Pieter W. Meyer University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa P32 HIGH RESOLUTION HLA TYPING STRATEGIES: A SINGLE CENTER S EXPERIENCE Francesco Ingrassia, Valentina Cappuzzo, Maria Igea Vega, Maria Blando, Rosalba Bavetta, Serena Mistretta, Floriana Bruno, Raimondo Marcenò Laboratorio di Tipizzazione Tessutale ed Immunologia dei Trapianti, Medicina Trasfusionale e dei Trapianti, Palermo, Italy P33 AN AUTOMATED WORKFLOW FOR HLA TYPING USING GenDx NGSGO ON THE TECAN FREEDOM EVO NGS WORKSTATION Reinhard Kelsch, Hanne Grawe, Bram Luiken 2, Daniel Mathow 2, Sake van Wageningen 2, Malte Heyer 3, Benjamin Vogel 3, Rafael Alvarez 3, Sirak Kifle 3 Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplantation Immunology, Münster, Germany - 2 GenDx, Utrecht, Netherlands - 3 Tecan, Männedorf, Switzerland P34 DEVELOPMENT OF FULL-GENE HLA-DPB NGS TYPING ON THE MISEQ AND ION S5 PLATFORMS Winnie Chong, Sandra G. Guerra, Siobhan Hamilton-Jones, Colin J. Brown, Cristina V. Navarrete NHS Blood and Transplant, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) P35 FROM THE SAMPLE TO DONOR/RECIPIENT COMPATIBILITY: A COMPREHENSIVE RANGE OF LABORATORY REAGENTS AND EQUIPMENT FOR NGS-BASED GENOTYPING OF CLASSICAL AND NON-CLASSICAL HLA GENES Mehdi Alizadeh, Christophe Picard 2, Alexandre Walencik 3, Eric Perrot 4, Florence Bennasar, Sterenn Fraboulet, Franck Verite, Gilbert Semana Etablissement Français du Sang ETS-Bretagne, Rennes, France - 2 Etablissement Français du Sang PACA-Corse, Marseille, France - 3 Etablissement Français du Sang Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France - 4 Etablissement Français du Sang, La Plaine Saint -Denis, France P36 DEFINING HLA LOCI IN A DIVERSE CORD BLOOD BANK USING THE ION S5 Sandra G. Guerra, Siobhan Hamilton-Jones, Colin J. Brown, Cristina V. Navarrete, Winnie Chong NHS Blood and Transplant, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) 74

75 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P37 A LONG-RANGE WHOLE-GENE AMPLIFICATION APPROACH FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL KIR ALLELES Marie Günther, Kathrin Lang, Kuntal Worah, Steffen Klasberg, Gerhard Schöfl, Alexander H. Schmidt 2, André P. Mäurer, Vinzenz Lange DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany - 2 DKMS, Tübingen, Germany P38 ANALYSIS OF CLASS II GENES (DRB, DQB, AND DPB): IN-PHASE LONG RANGE SEQUENCING DATA PRODUCED BY USING 3RD GENERATION SEQUENCING PACBIO SMRT TECHNOLOGY Nezih Cereb, Eunsil Kim, Jaejun Ryu, Vijayaragavan Seshadri, Sungkyu Kim, Soo Young Yang HistoGenetics, Ossining, New York, United States of America P39 A NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING BASED GENOTYPING STRATEGY FOR MICA AND MICB Jens Pruschke, Daniel Schefzyk, Kathrin Lang 2, Bianca Schoene 2, Christine Gnahm, Vinzenz Lange 2, Alexander H. Schmidt, Jan Hofmann, Jürgen Sauter DKMS, Tübingen, Germany - 2 DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany P40 HLA TYPING TO THE 3RD AND 4TH FIELD RESOLUTION: RESULTS FROM THE UK NEQAS FOR H&I PILOT EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT SCHEME Deborah L. Pritchard, M T. Rees Welsh Transplantation and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Pontyclun, United Kingdom (Great Britain) P4 NGS-BASED KIR TYPING AT HIGH RESOLUTION: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR THE KIR FRAMEWORK GENES Loes A.L. van de Pasch, Sanne Vendelbosch, Karin van Ham, Hanneke W.M. van Deutekom, Maarten T. Penning, Erik H. Rozemuller GenDx, Utrecht, Netherlands P42 HAPLOTYPE RESOLUTION OF MHC IN CATTLE THROUGH TARGETED ENRICHMENT AND SMRT SEQUENCING Dorothea Harrison, John C. Schwartz, Derek M. Bickhart 2, Tim P L. Smith 3, John A. Hammond The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 2 Cell Wall Biology and Utilization Research, Madison, United States of America - 3 Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, United States of America P43 MAPPING THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF AN HLA NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING WORKFLOW Vicky Van Sandt, Aleksandar Senev, Johan Kerkhofs, Ming Li 2, Tommy Liu 2, Heylen Christine 3, Marie-Paule Emonds Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, Mechelen, Belgium - 2 Immucor, 96 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States of America - 3 Immucor Transplant Diagnostics, Nijlen, Belgium P44 BENEFITS OF AN AUTOMATED NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING PROTOCOL FOR HLA TYPING Sue Davey, Dimitra Niokou, Zareen Deplano, Monica Kyriacou, Trevor Green, Vasnti Jesani-Hethcoat, Thusa Sathananthan, Colin Brown NHS Blood and Transplant, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) P45 A NOVEL NGS-BASED HIGH-RESOLUTION GENOTYPING STRATEGY FOR HLA-E Loes A.L. van de Pasch, Michelle van Heck, Remco Malestein, Maarten T. Penning, Erik H. Rozemuller GenDx, Utrecht, Netherlands POSTER 75

76 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 P46 DEFINITIVE RESOLUTION OF HLA TYPING ERRORS AND AMBIGUITIES BY NGS TYPING Amalia Dinou, Maria Spyropoulou-Vlachou 2, Vasiliki Vrani 3, Efstathios Michalopoulos, Catherine Stavropoulos-Giokas Hellenic Cord Blood Bank-Biomedical Research Foundation Of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece - 2 Alexandra General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece - 3 General Hospital of Athens G.Gennimatas, Athens, Greece P47 CONQUERING THE EFI NGS STANDARDS WITH HOLOTYPE AND TWIN Libor Kolesar, Efi Melista 2, Nora Nagy, Dorrotya Berki 3, Peter Meintjes 2 Omixon Biocomputing Ltd., Budapest, Hungary - 2 Omixon Inc., Cambridge, United States of America - 3 Omixon Biocomputing Kft., Budapest, Hungary POSTER MHC EVOLUTION, ANTHROPOLOGY & POPULATION GENETICS P48 HLA GENES IN BARRANQUILLA (NORTH COLOMBIA): SEARCHING FOR CRYPTIC AMERINDIAN GENES Antonio Arnaiz Villena, Brayan Bayona 2, Jose Palacio-Gruber, Ennio Hernandez 2, Ester Muñiz, Cristina Campos, Ignacio Juarez, Eduardo Gomez-Casado, José Manuel Martín-Villa, Carlos Silvera 2 University Complutense,The Madrid Regional Blood Center (Centro de Transfusion), Madrid, Spain - 2 Immunogenetics, Universidad del Norte., Barranquilla, Colombia P49 FREQUENCIES OF HLA GENES AND FIVE-LOCUS HAPLOTYPES OF THE OSSETIANS IN NORTH CAUCASUS Elena P. Kuzminova, Ekaterina G. Khamaganova, Regina S. Chapova National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow, Russian Federation P50 THE ASSOCIATION OF GENOTYPES HLA-DQ2 AND HLA-DQ8 WITH CELIAC DISEASE (CD) IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS OF SLOVAK POPULATION Sona Penickova, Vladimir Bosak 2 BAG Health Care GmbH, Praha 8, Czech Republic - 2 Trnava University, Trnava, Slovakia P5 NEONATAL LYMPHOPENIA SCREENING FOR DIAGNOSIS OF COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY: A SINGLE CENTER STUDY Turkan Patiroglu, Murat Cansever, Aykut Poyraz Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey P52 THE MOST FREQUENT HLA ALLELES AND HAPLOTYPES IN RUSSIAN POPULATIONS OF SAMARA AND CHELYABINSK REGIONS Dmitry Y. Klyuchnikov, Mikhail N. Vavilov 2, Larisa M. Trusova, Tatiana A. Suslova 2, Olga V. Tyumina The Clinical Centre of Cell Technologies, Samara, Russian Federation - 2 Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation P53 ASSOCIATION OF HLA CLASS I AND II ALLELES WITH SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME INFECTION IN NORTH CHINA Dongmei Li, Yan Qiu, Tao Wu 2, Dongjing Liu 2, Yi Zhang, Wei Li Beijing Red Cross Blood Center, Beijing, China - 2 School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China P54 CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL HLA-DRB*2 ALLELE, HLA-DRB*2:57 Qiang Chen, Xingjie Li 2, Hai Zou 2, Mengdan Li 2 Institute of Blood Transfusion, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences And Sichuan Cord Blood Bank, Chengdu, China - 2 Sichuan Cord Blood Blank, Chengdu, China 76

77 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P55 HIGH-RESOLUTION CHARACTERIZATION OF ALLELIC AND HAPLOTYPIC HLA FREQUENCIES DISTRIBUTION IN A SPANISH POPULATION USING HIGH-THROUGHPUT NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING Gonzalo Montero-Martin, Lisa E. Creary, Kalyan Mallempati 2, Sridevi Gangavarapu 2, Tamara Vayntrub 2, Dolores Planelles 3, Carlos Vilches 4, Jose Luis Caro 5, Maria Jose Herrero-Mata 5, Francisco Sanchez-Gordo 6, Maria Francisca González-Escribano 7, Manuel Muro 8, Maria R. Moya-Quiles 8, Rafael Gonzalez-Fernandez 9, Florentino Sanchez-Garcia 0, J. Gonzalo Ocejo-Vinyals, Antonio Balas 2, Jose Luis Vicario 2, Luis Marin 3, Marcelo A. Fernández-Viña Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Palo Alto, United States of America - 2 Stanford Blood Center, Palo Alto, United States of America - 3 Centro de Transfusiones de Valencia, Valencia, Spain - 4 H. U. Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain - 5 Banc de Sang y Teixits, Barcelona, Spain - 6 Centro de Transfusión de Málaga, Malaga, Spain - 7 H. U. Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain - 8 H. U. Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain - 9 Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Cordoba, Spain - 0 Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Dr Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain - 2 Centro de Transfusión de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain - 3 University Hospital of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain P56 HLA DP ALLELES AND HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB, -DQB, -DPB HAPLOTYPES BASED ON A FAMILY STUDY IN NORTH GREECE Anna Boukla, Asimina Fylaktou, Theodoros Karampatakis, Aikaterini Anastasiou, Despoina Asouhidou, Efthimia Evgenikaki, Evangelia Sidira, Georgia Chatzika, Fani Makrovasili National Peripheral Histocompatibility Center, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece P57 DIFFERENT HLA-DPB ALLELE FREQUENCIES AMONG EARLY-ONSET AND ADULT-ONSET MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PATIENTS AND HEALTHY CONTROLS, IN A HELLENIC COHORT Maria Anagnostouli, Serafeim Katsavos, Artemios Artemiadis Medical School of Athens National and Kapodistrian University, Aeginition Hospital, Athens, Greece P58 GENETIC HLA STUDY OF KURDS IN IRAQ, IRAN AND TBILISI (CAUCASUS, GEORGIA): RELATEDNESS AND MEDICAL IMPLICATIONS Antonio Arnaiz-Villena, Jose Palacio-Gruber, Ester Muñiz, Cristina Campos, Javier Alonso-Rubio, Ignacio Juarez, Jorge Nieto, Shadallah Fareq Salih 2, José Manuel Martín-Villa, Rawand Al-Qadi 2 University Complutense,The Madrid Regional Blood Center (Centro de Transfusion), Madrid, Spain - 2 Dohuk Specialized Laboratory Center, Dohuk, Iraq P59 ORIGIN OF AZERIS (IRAN) ACCORDING TO HLA GENES Antonio Arnaiz Villena, Jose Palacio-Gruber, Ester Muñiz, Diego Rey, Behrouz Nikbin 2, Hosein Nickman 2, Cristina Campos, Rawand Al-Qadi 3, José Manuel Martín-Villa, Ali Amirzargar 2 University Complutense,The Madrid Regional Blood Center (Centro de Transfusion), Madrid, Spain - 2 Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran - 3 Dohuk Specialized Laboratory Center, Dohuk, Iraq P60 HLA-G~A HAPLOTYPES IN AMERINDIANS (ECUADOR): HLA-G*0:05N WORLD DISTRIBUTION Antonio Arnaiz Villena, Jose Palacio-Gruber, Mercedes Enriquez de Salamanca, Ignacio Juarez, Cristina Campos, Jorge Nieto, Ester Muñiz, Rawand Al-Qadi 2, José Manuel Martín-Villa University Complutense,The Madrid Regional Blood Center (Centro de Transfusion), Madrid, Spain - 2 Dohuk Specialized Laboratory Center, Dohuk, Iraq P6 NEW AND RARE ALLELES IN SOUTH TYROLS BONE MARROW REGISTRY DONORS Cinzia Vecchiato, Evi Lochmann, Ivo Gentilini Ospedale di Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy POSTER 77

78 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 POSTER P62 DETECTION OF A RARE ALLELIC VARIANT OF HLA-C*06 (C*06:76:02) IN A SPANISH PATIENT Cristina Abad-Molina, Mario Cárdaba-Arranz, Antonio Balas 2, Jose Luis Vicario 2, Antonio Orduña-Domingo Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain - 2 Centro de Transfusión de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain P63 SUSPECTED UNEQUAL CROSSING OVER AT THE HLA-DPB LOCUS: A CASE REPORT Caterina Fusco, Carla Cervelli 2, Raffaella Azzarone 2, Roberta Penta de Vera Aragona, Mario Toriello, Giovanna Maisto, Laura Auriemma, Mimmo Ripaldi, Franco Papola 2 AORN Santobono-Pausilipon Dipartimento Oncologia SSD BaSCO, Napoli, Italy - 2 Centro Regionale di Immunoematologia e Tipizzazione Tissutale ASL, L Aquila, Italy P64 STUDY OF THE ALLELIC FREQUENCIES OF A POPULATION OF BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA Carlos H. Parga Lozano, Franklin Torres 2, Aracely Garcia 2 Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia - 2 Universidad Libre, Barranquilla, Colombia P65 A NEW UNUSUAL HLA-DQA ALLELE: DQA*0Q:NEW Thomas M.C. Binder, Wolfgang Peter 2, Tobias Roth 2, Lena Krammes 2, Sikder N.I. Rabbi 3, Reinhard Kelsch 4, Matthias Marget, Marco Schäfer 2 Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany - 2 Stefan Morsch Foundation (SMS), Birkenfeld, Germany - 3 Labaid Diagnostic limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh - 4 University Clinics Münster, Münster, Germany P66 AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW HLA-B*3 ALLELE Thomas M.C. Binder, Wolfgang Peter 2, Tobias Roth 2, Peter Trojok 2, Nicole Siebert 2, Lena Krammes 2, Reinhard Kelsch 3, Marco Schäfer 2 Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany - 2 Stefan Morsch Foundation (SMS), Birkenfeld, Germany - 3 University Clinics Münster, Münster, Germany P67 ASSOCIATION OF INTERLEUKIN-28B GENE POLYMORPHISMS AND HEPATITIS B CHRONIC INFECTION IN AN IRANIAN POPULATION Sadaf Asaei, Marzieh Jamalidoust, Mazyar Ziyaeyan, Maryam Zare, Mandana Namayandeh Professor Alborzi Clinical Microbiology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran P68 HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB, -DQA, -DQB AND -DPB ALLELE AND HAPLOTYPE FREQUENCIES DEFINED BY NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING IN A POPULATION OF EAST CROATIA BLOOD DONORS Stana Tokić, Veronika Žižková 2, Mario Štefanić, Saška Marczi 3, Katerina Sikorova 2, Marina Samardžija 3, Ljubica Glavaš-Obrovac, Martin Petrek 2 Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia - 2 Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University and University Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic - 3 Clinical Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Osijek University Hospital, Osijek, Croatia P69 GENETIC DISTANCES BASED ON HLA GENE FREQUENCIES BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN DONORS OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS FROM MOSCOW AND OTHER RUSSIAN AND WORLDWIDE POPULATIONS Ekaterina G. Khamaganova, Elena P. Kuzminova, Alena R. Abdrakhimova, Regina S. Chapova, Konstantin V. Vasyukov, Tamara P. Chugreeva, Tatiana V. Gaponova, Valeriy G. Savchenko National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow, Russian Federation 78

79 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P70 HLA CLASS I ASSOCIATION STUDY WITH ALLOPURINOL INDUCED SCAR IN THE SOUTH TUNISIAN POPULATION Aida Charfi, Nadia Mahfoudh, Arwa Kamoun, Kamilia Ksouda 2, Hanen Affes 2, Amal Hriz 2, Khaled Zeghal 2, Hafedh Makni Immunology department, University Hospital Hedi Cheker, Sfax, Tunisia - 2 Pharmacology department,university of Medicine, Sfax, Tunisia P7 NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING REVEALS HLA-DPB DIVERSITY IN BRITISH BONE MARROW REGISTRY VOLUNTEERS FROM DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS Juliette Brown, Sue Davey, John Ord, Dimitra Niokou, Winnie Chong and Colin J Brown Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, NHSBT, Colindale, UK NHSBT, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) P72 HLA-DRB*03:24 - A DRB*03:0-LIKE EXON 2 SEQUENCE IN TYPICAL DRB*3:02- HAPLOTYPE Thomas M.C. Binder, Wolfgang Peter 2, Corinna B. Koehn 3, Lena Krammes 2, Tobias Roth 2, Christine Neuchel 4, Daniel Fuerst 4, Joannis Mytilineos 4, Kaimo Hirv 5, Reinhard Kelsch 6, Marco Schäfer 2, Thomas H. Eiermann Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany - 2 Stefan Morsch Foundation (SMS), Birkenfeld, Germany - 3 University Clinics Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany - 4 German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Baden-Wuerttemberg Hessen, Ulm, Germany and Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany - 5 Center for Human Genetics and Laboratory Diagnostics, Martinsried, Germany - 6 University Clinics Münster, Münster, Germany P73 NGS BASED HIGH-THROUGHPUT MICA AND MICB GENOTYPING OF 400,000 SAMPLES Carolin Massalski, Kathrin Lang, Jens Pruschke 2, Daniel Schefzyk 2, Jan Hofmann 2, Jürgen Sauter 2, André P. Mäurer, Alexander H. Schmidt 2, Vinzenz Lange DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany - 2 DKMS, Tübingen, Germany P74 IMMUNOGENETICS OF AGEING: NEW DATA IN THE NGS ERA Milena Ivanova, Bushra Al Hadra, Tsvetelin Lukanov 2, Antoaneta Nedilakova 2, Reem Ameen 3, Michela Mazzoco 4, Nicoletta Sacchi 4, Velizar Shivarov 5, Elissaveta Naumova Medical University, University Hospital Alexandrovska, Sofia, Bulgaria - 2 University Hospital Alexandrovska, Sofia, Bulgaria - 3 Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait - 4 Ospedale Galliera, Genova, Italy - 5 University Hospital SofiaMed, Sofia, Bulgaria P75 A PATIENT CASE WITH SIMULTANEOUS GENE EXPRESSION OF THREE HLA-B ALLELIC VARIANTS DUE TO POINT MUTATION OBSERVED AT THE CO-EXPRESSED HLA-B*07:02 ALLELE Chrysanthi Tsamadou, Daniel Furst, Christine Neuchel, Hubert Schrezenmeier, Joannis Mytilineos German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Baden-Wuerttemberg Hessen, Ulm, Germany and Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany P76 EXPLORATION OF VERY LONG-RANGE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM WITHIN THE EXTENDED HLA REGION Umut Özbek, Sandeep K. Singh 2, Amy E. Kennedy 3, M. Alejandro Barbieri 4, Johannes Dapprich 5, Ioanna Konidari 6, Jacob L. McCauley 6, Mehmet Tevfik Dorak 7 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Tisch Cancer Institute, New York, NY, United States of America - 2 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America - 3 National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States of America - 4 Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America - 5 Generation Biotech, Lawrenceville, NJ, United States of America - 6 University of Miami, John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Miami, FL, United States of America - 7 Kingston University London, Kingston, United Kingdom (Great Britain) POSTER 79

80 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 POSTER P77 QUANTIFICATION OF HLA-C SURFACE EXPRESSION IN 400 HEALTHY GERMAN BLOOD DONORS Chrysanthi Tsamadou, Daniel Furst, Markus Rojewski 2, Christine Neuchel, Sixten Körper 3, Hubert Schrezenmeier, Joannis Mytilineos German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Baden-Wuerttemberg Hessen, Ulm, Germany and Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany - 2 Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany - 3 Institute of Clinical Transfusion Medicine and Immunogenetics Ulm, German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Baden Wuerttemberg Hessen, Ulm, Germany P78 BW4 AND BW6 EPITOPE DISTRIBUTION ON MHC CLASS I MOLECULES OF OLIVE BABOONS Nanine de Groot, Marit K.H. van der Wiel, Gaby G.M. Doxiadis, Nel Otting, Natasja G. de Groot, Nicolas Poirier 2, Antoine Blancher 3, Ronald E. Bontrop Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, Netherlands - 2 INSERM UMR 064, Nantes, France - 3 Laboratoire d immunologie - Laboratoire d Immunogénétique moléculaire EA CHU de Toulouse -Faculté de médecine de Purpan, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France P79 CONFIRMED OR WELL-DETERMINED (CWD) HLA HAPLOTYPES IN EUROPE: A PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE EFI POPULATION GENETICS WORKING GROUP Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, José M. Nunes, Marco Andreani 2, Zorana Grubic 3, Derek Middleton 4, Stéphane Buhler 5, Katharina Fleischhauer 6 University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland - 2 Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplant Biology - IME Foundation at Polyclinic of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy - 3 University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia - 4 Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 5 Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland - 6 Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany P80 BUILDING A HIGH RESOLUTION HAPLOTYPE DATABASE FOR HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN LOCI FROM FAMILY TRIOS Evan Kountouris, Douglas Levinson 2, Marcelo A. Fernández-Viña 3, Hanna Ollila Emmanuel Mignot 4, Ming Tsuang 5, Stephen Glatt 6, Ming Li, Michael Mindrinos Immucor, Mountain View, United States of America - 2 Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States of America - 3 Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, United States of America - 4 Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, Palo Alto, United States of America - 5 University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States of America - 6 SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, United States of America P8 MARKOV CHAIN MODELLING BRINGS NEW CLUES ON HLA EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY Thomas Goeury, Jose M. Nunes, Alicia Sanchez-Mazas University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland P82 HLA-C ALLELE SPECIFIC EXPRESSION IN CHINESE HAN POPULATION Jiang Li, Wang Jue 2, Qiang Chen Institute of Blood Transfusion, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences And Sichuan Cord Blood Bank, Chengdu, China - 2 Institute of Blood Transfusion, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, China P83 ANALYSIS OF NEW, VERY RARE AND RARE HLA ALLELES AMONG VOLUNTEER HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL DONORS IN CROATIAN BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY Marija Kamenaric Burek, Zorana Grubic, Marija Maskalan, Katarina Stingl Jankovic, Danijela Clekovic, Renata Zunec University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 80

81 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P84 APPROXIMATING ADMIXTURE IN LATIN AMERICAN POPULATIONS USING ANALYSIS OF HIGH-RESOLUTION HLA EXTENDED HAPLOTYPES: DIFFERENTIAL ADMIXTURE PROPORTIONS IN NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES Esteban Arrieta-Bolaños, Víctor Acuña-Alonzo 2, Rodrigo Barquera 3, Juan José Madrigal-Sánchez 4, Jeremy E. Stein 5, Priscilla Órlich-Pérez 6, María José Moreira-Espinoza 7, Edel Paredes-Carias 7, Yondra Vanegas-Padilla 7, Lizbeth Salazar-Sánchez 4, J. Alejandro Madrigal 8, Steven G.E. Marsh 8, Bronwen E. Shaw 9 Institute for Experimental Cellular Therapy, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany - 2 Laboratorio de Genética Molecular, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México City, Mexico - 3 Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany - 4 Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica - 5 Anthony Nolan Research Institute, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 6 División de Banco de Células Madre, Laboratorio Clínico, Hospital San Juan de Dios, San José, Costa Rica - 7 Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, León, Nicaragua - 8 Anthony Nolan Research Institute & UCL Cancer Institute, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 9 Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States of America P85 THE EFFECT OF HLA AND SNPS ON ESRD DEVELOPMENT IN IGAN PATIENTS Cigdem Kekik, Sonay Temurhan, Sebahat U Akgul, Yasar K Caliskan, Yasemin Ozluk, Serra Ertan, Erol Demir, Figen Abatay, Halil Yazici, Aydin Turkmen, Kilicarslan Isik, Mehmet S Sever, Fatma Oguz Savran Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey P86 MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX ALLELE PERSISTENCE IN EURASIA AND AMERICA IN THE GENUS CARDUELIS (GOLDFINCHES) DURING MILLION YEARS Antonio Arnaiz-Villena, Valentín Ruiz-del-Valle, Ester Muñiz, Jose Palacio-Gruber, Cristina Campos, Eduardo Gomez- Casado, José Manuel Martín-Villa, Ignacio Serrano-Vela University Complutense, The Madrid Regional Blood Center (Centro de Transfusion), Madrid, Spain P87 HLA GENES IN ATLANTIC CELTIC POPULATIONS: ARE CELTS IBERIANS? Antonio Arnaiz-Villena, Ana Carballo, Ignacio Juarez, Ester Muñiz, Cristina Campos, Rawand Al-Qadi 2, Jorge Nieto, José Manuel Martín-Villa, Jose Palacio-Gruber University Complutense, The Madrid Regional Blood Center (Centro de Transfusion), Madrid, Spain - 2 Dohuk Specialized Laboratory Center, Dohuk, Iraq P88 MICA AND NKG2D DISEASE-COMMON VARIANTS IN A FRENCH COHORT OF PATIENTS WITH SPONDYLOARTHRITIS Marie Fechtenbaum, Judith Desoutter, Vincent Goeb, Nicolas Guillaume Amiens University Medical Center, Amiens, France P89 HIGH RESOLUTION HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB AND -DQB ALLELE AND HAPLOTYPE FREQUENCIES FOR ARAB DONORS IN THE HADASSAH BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY Amal Bishara, Michael Halagan 2, Chaim Brautbar, Shoshana Israel, Martin Maiers 2, Abeer Madbouly 2 Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel - 2 National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America P90 THE RELEVANCE OF NGS TYPING IN UNRAVELING THE DIVERSITY OF HLA LOCI TYPED IN THE MEXICAN MESTIZOS FROM OAXACA, MEXICO Andrea Munguia, Lisa E. Creary 2, Marcelo A. Fernández-Viña 2, Betsy González 3, Hilario Flores-A 3, Clara Gorodezky 3 Instituto de Diagnóstico & Referencia Epidemiológicos-InDRE, Secretary of Health, México City, Mexico - 2 Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America - 3 Instituto de Diagnóstico & Referencia Epidemiológicos-InDRE, Secretary of Health & Fundación comparte Vida A.C., México City, Mexico POSTER 8

82 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 P9 THE IMMUNOGENETIC FINGERPRINT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE ITALIAN CALABRIA REGION: DISTRIBUTION OF HLA-A, -B, -C ALLELES IN FOUR PROVINCES COMPARED TO ELEVEN MODERN DESCENDANTS OF THEIR INVADERS Cristina Capittini, Marina Francone 2, Valeria Calantoni 2, Rita E. Saladino 2, Annalisa De Silvestri, Carmine Tinelli 3, Giuseppa Romeo 2 IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy - 2 A.O. Bianchi Melacrino Morelli, Reggio Calabria, Italy - 3 IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy P92 DISTRIBUTION OF HLA-DRB ALLELES ASSOCIATED WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS IN SPLIT- DALMATIA COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CROATIA Ivanka Marinovic, Sonja Jaman, Esma Cecuk-Jelicic, Duska Martinovic-Kaliterna, Jela Mratinovic-Mikulandra University Hospital Centre Split, Split, Croatia P93 IMPACT OF HLA-A~B~DRB HAPLOTYPE POLYMORPHISMS ON DONOR SELECTION IN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION PROGRAM IN CROATIA Marija Maskalan, Zorana Grubic, Marija Burek Kamenaric, Danijela Svilicic, Katarina Stingl Jankovic, Renata Zunec University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia P94 HLA PROFILES IN THE POPULATION OF MOLDOVA Vera Sali, Corina Cianga 2, 3, Natalia Isac, Elena Cuiban, Daniela Constantinescu 2, 3, Camelia Mihaila 3, Petru Cianga 2, 3 HLA Laboratory, Republican Clinical Hospital Timofei Mosneaga, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova - 2 Department of Immunology, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania - 3 Laboratory of Immunology and Genetics, Sf. Spiridon Hospital, Iasi, Romania NK & NON-MHC P95 A CONFIRMATIVE STUDY TO VERIFY THE ACCURACY OF OUR NGS BASED WORKFLOW AND SOFTWARE FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION KIR GENOTYPING Bianca Heyn, Jill A. Hollenbach 2, Paul J. Norman 3, Annett Heidl, Alexander H. Schmidt 4, Jürgen Sauter 4, Vinzenz Lange DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany - 2 University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, United States of America - 3 University of Colorado, Denver, CO, United States of America - 4 DKMS, Tübingen, Germany P96 ROLE OF TELOMERIC INHIBITOR KIR GENES IN ALCOHOL CIRRHOSIS Isabel Legaz, José M. Bolarin 2, José A. Campillo 2, Maria R. Moya-Quiles 2, Lourdes Gimeno 2, Ana M. Garcia-Alonso 2, Maria Rocio Alvarez-Lopez 2, Alfredo Minguela 2, Manuel Muro 2 University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain - 2 Clinic University Hospital Virgen Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain P97 IDENTIFICATION OF MHC CLASS IB LIGANDS FOR STIMULATORY AND INHIBITORY LY49 RECEPTORS AND INDUCTION OF POTENT NK ALLORESPONSES IN RATS Ke-Zheng Dai, John Torgils Vaage, Christian Naper Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway POSTER P98 KIR 3DL-EDU, HLA GENOTYPES AND KIR HAPLOTYPE INFLUENCE CLINICAL OUTCOME OF HIGH-RISK YOUNG MULTIPLE MYELOMA PATIENTS TREATED UP-FRONT WITH NOVEL AGENTS Sebastiana Toscano, Fabrizio Puglisi 2, Alessandra Romano 2, Etta Conticello 2, Marina Parisi 2, Valeria Calafiore 2, Enrica Martino 2, Salvatore Leotta 2, Francesco Di Raimondo 2, Grazia Sortino, Maria Pia Azzaro Tissue Typing Laboratory - Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Units - Policlinico Vittorio Emanuele, Catania, Italy - 2 UOC Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Units - AOU Policlinico Vittorio Emanuele, Catania, Italy 82

83 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P99 ASSOCIATION OF KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN-LIKE RECEPTOR KIR2DS WITH PSORIASIS IS INDEPENDENT OF HLA-C*06:02 Sandro Orrù, Maria Antonietta Montesu 2, Nicola Orrù 3, Erika Giuressi 3, Rosanna Satta 2, Giuliana Onnis 2, Paola Ragatzu, Daniela Diana, Selene Cipri, Roberto Littera 3, Alberto Cauli 4, Carlo Carcassi Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy - 2 Dermatology Unit, Department of Surgical, Microsurgical and Medical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy - 3 Medical Genetics, R. Binaghi Hospital, ASSL Cagliari, ATS Sardegna, Cagliari, Italy - 4 Chair of Rheumatology and Rheumatology Unit, AOU University Clinic of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy P200 KILLER-CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN-LIKE RECEPTOR GENES AND HLA IN RELAPSING- REMITTING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Eleonora Cocco, Elena Congeddu 2, Selene Cipri 2, Paola Ragatzu 2, Sara Lai 3, Rita Porcella 3, Francesco Alba 3, Valentina Loi 3, Maria Serra 3, Roberta Maddi 3, Cristina Melis 4, Lucia Schirru 4, Daniela Corongiu 4, Stefania Tranquilli, Jessica Frau, Roberto Cusano 5, Maurizio Melis 2, Roberta Murru 3, Carlo Carcassi 2 Multiple Sclerosis Center, Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy - 2 Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy - 3 Medical Genetics, R. Binaghi Hospital, ASSL Cagliari, ATS Sardegna, Cagliari, Italy - 4 Multiple Sclerosis Center, R. Binaghi Hospital, ASSL Cagliari, ATS Sardegna, Cagliari, Italy - 5 Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development (CRS4), Pula, Italy P20 KIR3DL/S NATURAL KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTORS (KIR) DISTRIBUTION AND THEIR HLA CLASS I LIGANDS IN MEXICAN MESTIZOS FROM MEXICO CITY Betsy González, Guadalupe Sánchez 2, Andrea Munguia 3, Miriam Valencia 3, Hilario Flores-A, Clara Gorodezky Instituto de Diagnóstico & Referencia Epidemiológicos-InDRE, Secretary of Health & Fundación comparte Vida A.C., México City, Mexico - 2 Fundación Comparte Vida, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico - 3 Instituto de Diagnóstico & Referencia Epidemiológicos-InDRE, Secretary of Health, México City, Mexico P202 DIVERSITY OF C, C2, BW4, A3/ AND BW6 AMINO ACID MOTIFS IN WHOLE HLA:KIR INTERFACE Slawomir Gwozdowicz, Klaudia Nestorowicz, Urszula Szlendak, Jacek Nowak Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland P203 EVALUATION OF NK CELL CYTOTOXICITY BIOMARKERS OF TUMOR PROGRESSION IN BREAST CANCER Angelica Canossi, Anna Aureli, Tiziana Del Beato, Giorgio Novelli 2, Oreste Buonomo 2, Giuseppe Sconocchia 3 CNR Translational Pharmacology, L Aquila, Italy - 2 Department of Systems Medicine, Rome, Italy - 3 CNR Translational Pharmacology, Rome, Italy P204 THE HYBRID GENE KIR2DS2*005 IS CARRIED BY TWO HAPLOTYPES DIFFERING IN THE TELOMERIC REGION Maria Bono, Alice Bertaina 2, Edoardo Lanino, Marco Zecca 3, Daniela Pende 4, Alessandro Moretta 5, Franco Locatelli 2, Lorenzo Moretta 6, Cristina Bottino 5, Michela Falco Institute Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy - 2 IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy - 3 IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy - 4 IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy - 5 Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy - 6 Ospedale Pedriatico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy P205 IDENTIFICATION AND EXPRESSION OF NOVEL IMMUNOGLOBULIN-LIKE GENES ENCODED BY THE LEUKOCYTE RECEPTOR COMPLEX (LRC) IN PIGS John C. Schwartz, John A. Hammond The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom (Great Britain) POSTER 83

84 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 P206 INFLUENCE OF KIR2DL2/L3 GENES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALCOHOLIC CIRRHOSIS Isabel Legaz, José M. Bolarín 2, José A. Campillo 2, Maria R. Moya-Quiles 2, Lourdes Gimeno 2, Ana M. Garcia-Alonso 2, Maria Rocio Alvarez-Lopez 2, Alfredo Minguela 2, Manuel Muro 2 University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain - 2 Clinic University Hospital Virgen Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain REPRODUCTION, AUTOIMMUNITY, INFECTION & CANCER P207 ANALYSIS OF THE FREQUENCIES OF HLA-C LOCUS IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATIC DISEASES Cristina Abad-Molina, Miriam Vilches-Moreno 2, Mario Cárdaba-Arranz, Mercedes Nocito-Colón, Antonio Orduña- Domingo, Jesús Ontañón-Rodríguez 3 Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain - 2 Hospital Puerta del Mar, Cádiz, Spain - 3 Hospital General Albacete, Albacete, Spain P208 HLA ALLELE INVESTIGATION IN PSORIASIS AS A POSSIBLE TRANSLATIONAL APPROACH Sara Autolitano, Valeria Calantoni, Giuseppa Romeo, Marina Francone, Natale Imbesi, Francesco Turiano, Silvia Cafarelli, Anna Maria Verduci, Rita E. Saladino A.O. Bianchi Melacrino Morelli, Reggio Calabria, Italy P209 TNF-ALPHA GENE POLYMORPHISMS IN ROMANIAN PATIENTS WITH CROHNS DISEASE M. Olivia Popa, Cristian Tieranu 2, Mihai Bojinca, Monica I. Dutescu 3, Ioana Tieranu, Constantin Bara, Mircea Diculescu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania - 2 Elias University Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania - 3 Prof. Dr. C. T. Nicolau National Institute of Blood Transfusion, Bucharest, Romania P20 HLA CLASS I MOLECULES AS KIR LIGANDS IN PSORIASIS SUSCEPTIBILITY Marco Guarene, Vittorio Bolcato, Adriana Piccolo, Ilaria Sbarsi, Cinzia Pizzochero, Rosalia Cacciatore, Paola Bergamaschi, Annamaria Pasi, Valeria Brazzelli IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy P2 COMPARISON OF HLA-DQA, DQB, AND DRB ALLELES BETWEEN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND CELIAC PATIENTS Tulay Kilicaslan Ayna, Asli Ozkizilcik Kocyigit, Asli Eldem, Derya Gulec, Murat Kilicoglu, Mustafa Soyoz Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey P22 HLA AND NEFRIT TUBULES- INTERSTITIAL AND UVEITE Rita D Auria, Antonella Manzo, Marika Petrillo, Antonio Vitale 2, Maria Majorana 2, Michele Cirella, Agata De Feo, Paolo di Maio, Antonio De Sapio, Anna Elisa Laserra A.O.R.N. San G. Moscati SIMT, Avellino, Italy - 2 A.O.R.N. San G. Moscati Pediatria, Avellino, Italy POSTER P23 INVESTIGATION OF HLA-B*5 SUB-ALLELES IN TURKISH PATIENTS WITH BEHCETS DISEASE Sinem Topcu, Tulay Kilicaslan Ayna, Handan Kelekci 2, Murat Kilicoglu, Burcu Cerci Gurbuz, Asli Ozkizilcik Kocyigit, Mustafa Soyoz Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey - 2 İzmir Katip Celebi University Atatürk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey 84

85 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P24 ASSOCIATIONS OF CYTOKINE POLYMORPHISMS AND CYTOGENETIC PROFILES IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA PATIENTS FROM THE NORTH-WEST REGION OF RUSSIA Anastasia Pavlova, Irina Pavlova 2, Ludmila Bubnova 2, Stanislav Bessmeltsev 2, Elizaveta Kleina 2, Andrey Gariffulin 2, Irina Martynkevich 2, Sergey Voloshin 2, Aleksandr Chechetkin 2 Russian Institute of Haematology and Transfusion; Saint-Petersburgs Multidisciplinary Medical Center named after I.P. Pirogov, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation - 2 Russian Institute of Haematology and Transfusiology, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation P25 GENETIC DIVERSITY OF INTERLEUKIN-6 AND ITS RECEPTOR AND PLASMA INTERLEUKIN-6 LEVELS IN BIPOLAR DISORDER: AN INDO-FRENCH STUDY Aparna Sundaresh, José Oliveira, Raj Kumar Chinnadurai 2, Ravi Philip Rajkumar 2, Lylia Hani 3, Rajagopal Krishnamoorthy 3, Marion Leboyer, Vir Singh Negi 2, Ryad Tamouza Inserm U955, Créteil, France - 2 Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India - 3 Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France P26 MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF HUMAN PARVOVIRUS B9 NON-STRUCTURAL PROTEIN GENE EXPRESSION IN TRANSFECTED HEK-293T EPITHELIAL CELL LINE AND ITS CORRELATION WITH ACTIVATION OF INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE Sedigheh Jalali, Abbas Behzad-Behbahani, Gholam-Reza Rafiei-Dehbidi, Shirin Farjadian, Ali Farhadi Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran P27 SCHIZOPHRENIA AND HLA: WORK IN PROGRESS ABOUT HLA TYPING USEFULNESS AND DIAGNOSTIC THERAPEUTIC OUTLOOKS Rita E. Saladino, Giuseppa Romeo, Marina Francone, Valeria Calantoni, Sara Autolitano, Alessia Stranges, Silvia Cafarelli, Anna Maria Verduci, Manuel Mercurio, Natale Imbesi, Michele Zoccali 2, Giuseppe Libri 2, Carmela Palumbo 2, Filomena Salvadori 2 A.O. Bianchi Melacrino Morelli, Reggio Calabria, Italy - 2 Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale n. 5, Reggio Calabria, Italy P28 GENETIC VARIABILITY IN TLR0 GENE MAY MODULATE THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND RESPONSE TO TREATMENT WITH ITNF-ALPHA Barbara Wysoczanska, Marta Puchala, Jerzy Swierkot 2, Katarzyna Kolossa 3, Slawomir Jeka 3, Katarzyna Bogunia-Kubik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland - 2 Wroclaw Medical University, Wrocław, Poland - 3 Hospital University Number 2 Jana Biziela, Bydgoszcz, Poland P29 HLA-I-NEGATIVE/PD-L-POSITIVE NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER HAS MORE AGGRESSIVE PHENOTYPE AND A LOW GRADE OF IMMUNE INFILTRATION Francisco Perea, Abel Sánchez-Palencia, Mercedes Gómez-Morales 2, Míguela Méndez García, Ángel Concha 3, Amanda Rocío González-Ramírez 4, Teresa Cabrera 5, Federico Garrido, Francisco Ruiz-Cabello, Natalia Aptsiauri 5 Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain - 2 Universidad de Granada,, Granada, Spain - 3 Complejo Hospitalario Universitario, La Coruña, Spain - 4 Fundación de Investigación Biosanitaria Alejandro Otero, Granada, Spain - 5 Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain P220 ALLELE C07 AND PSORIASIS Rita D Auria, Antonella Manzo, Marika Petrillo, Raffaele Iandoli 2, Michele Cirella, Antonio Bottone, Paolo di Maio, Mattia Verosimile, Vito Colacurcio, Anna Elisa Laserra A.O.R.N. San G. Moscati SIMT, Avellino, Italy - 2 A.O.R.N. San G. Moscati Dermatologia, Avellino, Italy POSTER 85

86 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 P22 THE ASSOCIATION OF IL-7 GENE POLYMORPHISMS AND THE RISK OF BLADDER CANCER IN A POLISH POPULATION: PRELIMINARY DATA Anna Tomkiewicz, Wojciech Krajewski 2, Anna Kolodziej 2, Romuald Zdrojowy 2, Janusz Dembowski 2, Anna Partyka, Irena Frydecka, Lidia Karabon Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland - 2 Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland P222 ROLE OF HLA-G EXON 8 POLYMORPHISM IN CONFERRING GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY TO TYPE DIABETES AMONG NORTH INDIANS Uma Kanga, Manish Mourya, Nikhil Tandon 2, Poonam Coshic 3 Transplant Immunology and Immunogenetics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India - 2 Endocrinology and Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India - 3 Transfusion Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India P223 IL-23R GENE POLYMORPHISMS CONFERS SUSCEPTIBILITY TO BLADDER CANCER IN A POLISH POPULATION: A PRELIMINARY DATA Anna Tomkiewicz, Anna Partyka, Wojciech Krajewski 2, Anna Kolodziej 2, Janusz Dembowski 2, Romuald Zdrojowy 2, Irena Frydecka, Lidia Karabon Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland - 2 Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland P224 BTLA GENE POLYMORPHISMS IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA IN A POLISH POPULATION Anna Partyka, Dariusz Woszczyk 2, Marek Kielbinski 3, Irena Frydecka, Lidia Karabon Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland - 2 State Hospital, Opole, Poland - 3 Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland P225 LOH AND DOWNREGULATION OF THE APM COMPONENTS ARE THE KEY MECHANISMS OF THE LOSS OF HLA CLASS I EXPRESSION IN LUNG CANCER Francisco Perea, Martin Kerick 2, Monica Bernal, Javier Martin 2, Abel Sánchez-Palencia, Teresa Cabrera 3, Federico Garrido, Natalia Aptsiauri 3, Francisco Ruiz-Cabello Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain - 2 Instituto de Parasitology Biomedicina López Neyra, CSIC, Granada, Spain - 3 Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain P226 C4 COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS IN PSYCHIATRIC AND AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS Christina Mary Mariaselvam, Aparna Sundaresh, Céline Manier, Ravi Philip Rajkumar 2, Rajagopal Krishnamoorthy 3, Marion Leboyer, Vir Singh Negi 2, Ryad Tamouza Henri Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France - 2 Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India - 3 Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, France P227 PREVALENCE OF HLA B*57 AMONG HIV- POSITIVE PATIENTS IN THE AEGEAN REGION OF TURKEY Murat Kilicoglu, Derya Gulec, Tulay Kilicaslan Ayna, Mustafa Soyoz, Sukran Kose Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey POSTER 86

87 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P228 ROLE OF HLA-G IN AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS Roberto Littera, Sara Lai, Elena Congeddu 2, Paola Ragatzu 2, Selene Cipri 2, Maria Donatella Valentini, Luisella Cappai, Rita Porcella, Francesco Alba, Maria Serra, Valentina Loi, Roberta Maddi, Maurizio Melis 2, Roberto Cusano 3, Marcello Trucas, Sandro Orrù 2, Luchino Chessa 5, Simona Onali 5, Francesco Figorilli 5, Carlo Carcassi 2 Medical Genetics, R. Binaghi Hospital, ASSL Cagliari, ATS Sardegna, Cagliari, Italy - 2 Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy - 3 Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development (CRS4), Pula, Italy - 4 School of Clinical Pathology, Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy - 5 Center for the Study of Liver Diseases, Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy P229 THE ASSOCIATION OF ERAP AND ERAP2 SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS WITH RECURRENT SPONTANEOUS ABORTION Karolina Wilczyńska, Andrzej Wiśniewski, Aleksandra Bylińska, Ewa Barcz 2, Andrzej Malinowski 3, Jacek Wilczyński 4, Piotr Kuśnierczyk, Izabela Nowak Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland - 2 Medical University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland - 3 Polish Mothers Memorial HospitalResearch Institute, Łódź, Poland - 4 Medical University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland P230 DISTRIBUTION OF HLA CLASS I AND CLASS II ALLELES IN IGA DEFICIENCY PATIENTS FROM CANTABRIA (NORTHERN SPAIN) Laura Riesco Dávila, Fernando Ausín Ortega, Marcos López Hoyos, J. Gonzalo Ocejo-Vinyals Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain P23 CAN WE WIN OR CAN'T WIN CANCER? RESEARCH SHOWS US A REAL HOPE Anna Maria Berghella, Anna Aureli, Angelica Canossi, Ida Anna Contasta, Giuseppe Marulli 2, Roberto Lattanzio 3, Giancarlo Di Gregorio 4, Tiziana Del Beato, Enzo Secinaro 5, Patrizia Pellegrini Institute of Translational Pharmacology, L'Aquila, Italy - 2 L'Aquila Hospital, l'aquila, Italy - 3 Popoli-Pescara Hospital, Popoli, Italy - 4 Popoli-Pescara Hospital, Italy - 5 Chieti-Hospital, Italy P232 HLA-DQ GENOTYPE AND RISK FOR COELIAC DISEASE IN NORTHERN GREEK PATIENTS Panagiota Lazidou, Maria Fotoulaki, Alexandra Fleva, Fotini Sotiriadou, Maria Markopoulou, Christina Aggelopoulou, Athanasios Dardas, Anastasia Giannakou Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece P233 BEHCET LIES IN THE EYE OF THE B-HOLDER Sally Elfishawi, Ghada Mossallam, Mohanad Elfishawi 2, Helma Bruin 3 Loes A.L. van de Pasch 3 Erik H. Rozemuller 3, Khaled Abdelmonen Zaky 4, Marcelo A. Fernández-Viña 5 National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt - 2 Kasr Alaini School of Medicine & Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Egypt - 3 GenDx, Utrecht, Netherlands - 4 Faculty of Medicine, Azhar university, Egypt - 5 Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States of America P234 ICOS GENE POLYMORPHISMS IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA IN A POLISH POPULATION Anna Partyka, Dariusz Woszczyk 2, Marek Kielbinski 3, Irena Frydecka, Lidia Karabon Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland - 2 State Hospital, Opole, Poland - 3 Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland P235 ASSOCIATION OF HLA-DRB*5 ANTIGEN WITH ENDOTHELIAL DAMAGE IN RELAPSING- REMITTING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PATIENTS J. Gonzalo Ocejo-Vinyals, Laura Riesco Dávila, Vicente González Quintanilla, María Toriello Suárez, Sara Pérez Pereda, Fernando Ausín Ortega, Agustín Oterino Durán Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain POSTER 87

88 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 POSTER P236 GWAS IDENTIFIED STRONG ASSOCIATION OF HLA-DR/DQ WITH CHILDHOOD STEROID- SENSITIVE NEPHROTIC SYNDROME IN THE JAPANESE POPULATION Katsushi Tokunaga, Xiaoyuan Jia, Tomoko Horinouchi 2, Yuki Hitomi, Akemi Shomo 2, Seik-Soon Khor, Yosuke Omae, Kaname Kojima 3, Yosuke Kawai 3, Masao Nagasaki 3, Kandai Nozu 2, Kazumoto Iijima 2 University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan - 2 Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan - 3 Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Sendai, Japan P237 POLYMORPHISMS AND EXPRESSION OF PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS Joanna Wielińska, Marta Dratwa, Jerzy Swierkot 2, Lucyna Korman 2, Monika Chaszczewska-Markowska, Barbara Wysoczańska, Katarzyna Bogunia-Kubik 3 Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland - 2 Wroclaw Medical University, Wrocław, Poland - 3 Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland P238 KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN-LIKE RECEPTOR AND HLA-C POLYMORPHISMS IN RECURRENT IMPLANTATION FAILURE Karolina Wilzyńska, Paweł Radwan 2, Michał Radwan 2, Jacek Wilczyński 3, Andrzej Malinowski 4, Ewa Barcz 5, Rafał Płoski 5, Piotr Kuśnierczyk, Izabela Nowak Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland - 2 Gameta Hospital, Rzgów Poland - 3 Medical University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland - 4 Polish Mothers Memorial Hospital Research Institute, Łódź, Poland - 5 Medical University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland P239 HLA HAPLOTYPE DISTRIBUTION AND RISK OF CELIAC DISEASE IN PATIENTS FROM CANTABRIA (NORTHERN SPAIN) Laura Riesco Dávila, Fernando Ausín Ortega, Marcos López-Hoyos, J. Gonzalo Ocejo-Vinyals Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain P240 THE ASSOCIATION OF KIR2DL4, LILRB HAPLOTYPES AND THEIR LIGAND HLA-G WITH ENDOMETRIOSIS Aleksandra Bylińska, Karolina Wilczyńska 2, Andrzej Wiśniewski 2, Jacek Malejczyk 3, Łukasz Milewski 3, Marta Wagner 2, Monika Jasek 2, Wanda Niepiekło-Miniewska 2, Rafał Płoski 4, Ewa Barcz 5, Piotr Roszkowski 6, Paweł Kamiński 7, Andrzej Malinowski 8, Jacek Wilczyński 9, Paweł Radwan 0, Michał Radwan 0, Piotr Kuśnierczyk, Izabela Nowak Politechnika Wrocławska, Wrocław, Poland - 2 Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland - 3 Medical University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland - 4 Department of Medical Genetics, Centre of Biostructure Research, Warszawa, Poland - 5 First Chair and Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Warszawa, Poland - 6 Second Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Warszawa, Poland - 7 Department of Gynecology and Gynecological Oncology, Military Medical Institute, Warszawa, Poland - 8 Department of Surgical, Endoscopic and Oncologic Gynecology, Łódź, Poland - 9 Department of Surgical and Oncological Gynecology, Łódź, Poland - 0 Department of Reproductive Medicine, Rzgów Poland - Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Tissue Immunology, Wrocław, Poland P24 INCREASED FREQUENCY OF THE 4-BP INSERTION IN HLA-G Moniek H.C. Craenmehr, Iris Nederlof, Milo Cao, Jacqueline D.H. Anholts, Jos J.M. Drabbels, Frans H.J. Claas, Sebastiaan Heidt, Michael Eikmans LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands P242 DIAGNOSTIC TESTING OF HLA-DQ IN CELIAC DISEASE Katarina Stingl Jankovic, Danijela Svilicic, Marija Maskalan, Marija Burek Kamenaric, Renata Zunec, Zorana Grubic University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 88

89 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P243 DISTINCT TYPES OF MYASTHENIA GRAVIS DIFFER BY ASSOCIATION WITH HLA CLASS II ALLELES Manuela Testi, Giulia Greco 2, Maria Troiano 3, Emanuele Rastelli 2, Eugenio Pompeo 4, Giovanni Antonini 5, Marco Andreani 3, Roberto Massa 2 San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy - 2 Neuromuscular Unit, Rome, Italy - 3 Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplant Biology - IME Foundation at Polyclinic of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy - 4 Thoracic Surgery Unit, Rome, Italy - 5 Department NESMOS, Rome, Italy P244 THE CD47 C>G SUBSTITUTION AFFECTS SURVIVAL IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA Piotr Łacina, Aleksandra Butrym 2, Grzegorz Mazur 2, Katarzyna Bogunia-Kubik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland - 2 Wroclaw Medical University, Wrocław, Poland P245 CRITICAL APPRAISAL ON THE PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF HLA TYPING IN 8 IMMUNE- MEDIATED PATHOLOGIES BASING ON A SERIES OF META-ANALYSES Cristina Capittini, Marco M. Guarene, Chiara Rebuffi, Rosalia Cacciatore, Annalisa De Silvestri, Annamaria A. Pasi, Carmine Tinelli, Miryam Martinetti IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy P246 THE ASSOCIATION OF SOLUBLE HLA-G LEVELS AND 3 UNTRANSLATED REGION HAPLOTYPES OF THE HLA-G GENE WITH THE CLINICAL PROFILE OF EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CANCER PATIENTS REGARDING DISEASE STAGE, CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS AND OVERALL SURVIVAL Esther Schwich, Sabine Kasimir-Bauer 2, Rafael T. Michita 3, Hana Guberina 4, Peter A. Horn, Rainer Kimmig 2, Paul Buderath 2, Vera Rebmann Transfusion Medicine, Essen, Germany - 2 Gynecology and Obstetrics, Essen, Germany - 3 Genetics Department, Porto Alegre, Brazil - 4 Department of Nephrology, Essen, Germany P247 INFLUENCE OF CYTOKINE GENE POLYMORPHISMS ON HIV INFECTION IN NORTH INDIANS Gaurav Sharma, Gurvinder Kaur, Narinder Kumar Mehra, Surendra Kumar Sharma All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India P248 ASSOCIATION OF ANXA AND TGFB2 GENE VARIANTS WITH PULMONARY SARCOIDOSIS IN THE GREEK POPULATION Amit Kishore, Angeliki Rapti 2, Katerina Sikorova, Veronika Zizkova, Maria Charikiopoulou 2, Krzysztof Rebala 3, Milan Buc 4, Martin Petrek 5 Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic - 2 General Hospital for Chest Diseases, Athens, Greece - 3 Medical University of Gdañsk, Gdañsk, Poland - 4 Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia - 5 Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University and University Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic P249 IMPLICATION OF HLA CLASS II ALLELES IN CD4/CD8 RATIO NORMALIZATION Kalliroi Tsalimalma, Kalliopi Adam, Athanasios Kontos 2, Dimitris Maltezas 2, Nikolitsa Kafassi General Hospital Athens Laiko, Athens, Greece - 2 National University of Athens, Athens, Greece P250 EVALUATION OF HLA GENOTYPES IN PATIENTS REFERRED FOR CELIAC DISEASE TESTING: A TERTIARY CARE CENTER EXPERIENCE Monika Jain, A. Sawhney, I. C. Verma Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India POSTER 89

90 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 P25 HLA ASSOCIATED DISEASES. WHAT SHOULD BE ANALYZED? Kirsten Kronenberg, Stela Radojska, Melanie Stoermer, Birgit Gathof University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany MISCELLANEOUS P252 BETA-2-MICROGLOBULIN: A POTENTIAL BIOMARKER FOR BIPOLAR DISORDER AND SCHIZOPHRENIA? Romain Sayous, Céline Manier, Nora Hamdani 2, Alix Romier, Aparna Sundaresh, Christina Mariaselvam, Rémi Gadel 3, Céline Hebbache 3, Jean-Romain Richard 3, Marion Leboyer 2, Ryad Tamouza 2 Inserm U955, Créteil, France - 2 Inserm U955 / FondaMental Foundation / AP-HP, Créteil, France - 3 Inserm U955 / FondaMental Foundation, Créteil, France P253 LACK OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE PROTECTION FROM RED BLOOD CELL ALLOIMMUNIZATION AND HLA-CLASS II VARIANTS IN THE CZECH POPULATION Alena Maluskova, Frantisek Mrazek 2, Renata Kozelska, Jitka Rudinska Faculty Hospital Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic - 2 Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University and University Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic P254 IMPROVEMENT OF THE PRIMARY SOURCE FOR MHC SEQUENCING DATA OF NON-HUMAN PRIMATE SPECIES (IPD-MHC NHP 2.0) Natasj G. de Groot, Nel Otting, Giuseppe Maccari 2, James Robinson 3, Steven GE. Marsh 3, John A. Hammond 2, Ronald E. Bontrop Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, Netherlands - 2 The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom (Great Britain) - 3 Anthony Nolan Research Institute, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) P255 AN EXTERNAL PROFICIENCY TEST (EPT) FOR SINGLE ANTIGEN FLOW BEAD (SA) ASSAYS ORGANIZED BY THE FRANCOPHONE SOCIETY FOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY AND IMMUNOGENETICS (SFHI) Isabelle Jollet, Jérémy Siemowski 2, Valérie Dubois 3, Nicolas Pignon, Elodie Sorin, Nicolas Congy 4, Pascale Loiseau 2, Jean-Luc Taupin 2 EFS Nouvelle Aquitaine, Poitiers, France - 2 Hal Saint Louis, Paris, France - 3 EFS Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, France - 4 CHU de Toulouse - Faculté de Médecine de Purpan, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3, Toulouse cedex 9, France P256 WHAT ROLE DOES IL-BETA CYTOKINE PLAY IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY? Anna Aureli, Pierluigi Sebastiani, Tiziana Del Beato, Anna Marimpietri 2, Enzo Sechi 2, Silvia Di Loreto Institute of Translational Pharmacology, L Aquila, Italy - 2 University of L Aquila, ASL n. 4, L Aquila, Italy P257 THE ACCURACY OF HFE TESTING IN UK NEQAS FOR H&IS EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT SAMPLES Deborah L. Pritchard, M T. Rees Welsh Transplantation and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Pontyclun, United Kingdom (Great Britain) POSTER P258 HLA POLYMORPHISM AND METHOTREXATE RESPONSES IN SLOVENIAN PATIENTS WITH PSORIASIS Jasna Grzelj, Tanja Gmeiner 2, Pij B. Marko 3, Irena Mlinaric-Rascan 2, Sabina Kunilo-Jamnik 4, Blanka Vidan-Jeras 4 Krka, d.d., Novo mesto, Novo mesto, Slovenia - 2 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ljubljana, Slovenia - 3 Univeristy Medical Centre Maribor, Department of Dermatology, Maribor, Slovenia - 4 Blood Transfusion Center of Slovenia, Tissue Typing Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia 90

91 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) P259 UK NEQAS FOR H&IS EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT SCHEME FOR KIR GENOTYPING Deborah L. Pritchard, M T. Rees Welsh Transplantation and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Pontyclun, United Kingdom (Great Britain) P260 CLASSICAL HLA HAPLOTYPE DIVERSITY: A POSSIBLE LINK WITH PRO-INFLAMMATORY PROCESSES IN BIPOLAR DISORDER Ryad Tamouza, José Oliveira, Céline Manier, Christina Mariaselvam, Aparna Sundaresh, Rajagopal Krishnamorthy, Dominique Charron, Marion Leboyer Henri Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France P26 HD-HLA TYPING: COMPARISON BETWEEN LABTYPE SSO AND HISTO SPOT EXTEND KITS Valeria Miotti, Chiara Sindici, Donatella Londero, Vincenzo De Angelis ASUIUD, Udine, Italy POSTER 9

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94 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Speakers - Chairs Amit Ido, Rehovot - Israel Amoroso Antonio, Torino - Italy Andreani Marco, Roma - Italy Bardy Beatrice, Grenoble - France Bengtsson Mats, Uppsala - Sweden Blasczyk Rainer, Hannover - Germany Bonini Chiara, Milano - Italy Bontadini Andrea, Bologna - Italy Carcassi Carlo, Cagliari - Italy Claas Frans H.J., Leiden - The Netherlands Cozzi Emanuele, Padova - Italy Cucca Francesco, Sassari - Italy Fernández-Viña Marcelo A., Stanford - USA Fleischhauer Katharina, Essen - Germany Foeken Lydia, Leiden - The Netherlands Gourraud Pierre-Antoine, Nantes - France Gregori Silvia, MIlano - Italy Harmer Andrea, Sheffield - United Kingdom Heinemann Falko, Essen - Germany Howell Martin, Newcastle - United Kingdom Hurley Carolyn Katovich, Washington D.C - USA Ivanova Milena, Sofia - Bulgaria Keskin Derin, Boston - USA Latham Katy, London - United Kingdom Le Blanc Katarina K., Stockholm - Sweden Legendre Christophe M.F., Paris - France Löffler Markus, Tübingen - Germany Lombardi Giovanna, London - United Kingdom Lombardo Angelo, Milano - Italy Luznik Leonido, Baltimore - USA Marani Pietro Cesare, Milano - Italy Marsh Steven G.E., London - United Kingdom Martinho Antonio, Coimba - Portugal Mascaretti Luca, Trieste - Italy 94

95 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Mazzi Benedetta, Milano - Italy Mele Lia, Alessandria, Italy Miotti Valeria, Udine - Italy Miseferi, Reggio Calabria, Italy Morelli Adrian E., Pittsburgh - USA Mytilineos Joannis, Ulm - Germany Nanni Costa Alessandro, Roma - Italy Naumova Elissaveta, Sofia - Bulgaria Papola Franco, L Aquilla - Italy Peacock Sarah Patricia, Cambridge - United Kingdom Piazza Antonina, Roma - Italy Querol-Giner Sergio Luis, Barcelona - Spain Quintieri Francesca, Roma, Italy Rombolà Giovanni, Firenze, Italy Roelen Dave L., Leiden - The Netherlands Sacchi Nicoletta, Genoa - Italy Sanchez-Mazas Alicia, Genève - Switzerland Sarwal Minnie M., San Francisco - USA Sawcer Stephen James, Cambridge - United Kingdom Spierings Eric, Utrecht - The Netherlands Spits Hergen, Amsterdam - The Netherlands Surendranath Vineeth, Dresden - Germany Süsal Caner, Heidelberg - Germany Tafulo Sandra, Porto - Portugal Testi Manuela, Roma - Italy Tilanus Marcel G.J., Maastricht - The Netherlands Tran Hien, Heidelberg - Germany Trowsdale John, Cambridge - United Kingdom Turner David, Edinburgh - United Kingdom Vago Luca, Milano - Italy Villard Jean, Geneva - Switzerland Voorter Christien, Maastricht - The Netherlands Wieten Lotte, Maastricht - The Netherlands 95

96 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Authors' index A Abad-Molina, Cristina... P2,P24,P62,P207 Abatay, Figen... P85 Abdel Fattah, Raafat... P74,P9 Abdrakhimova, Alena R... P69 Abdrakhmanova, Saniya... P7,P6 Abdulle, Abdul... P5 Acuña-Alonzo, Víctor... P84 Adam, Kalliopi... P249 Affes, Hanen... P70 Aggelopoulou, Christina... P232 Ahn, Kwang Woo... P0 Akgul, Sebahat U... P38,P39,P85 Al Baz, Nabeela... P3,P4,P80 Al Hadra, Bushra... P2,P74 Al Malki, Monzr... O6 Al Suraihi, Osama... P4,P80 Alba, Francesco... P200,P228 Albergoni, Maria Paola... P88 Albers, Joris... P30 Alexander, Suceena... P62 Alfaro, Rafael... P8,P63 Alizadeh, Mehdi... P35 Alizzi, Silvia... P6,P58 Alkorta, Aitziber... P86 Allebes, W.A... P40 Almendral, Jesus... P42 Alonso-Rubio, Javier... P58 Al-Qadi, Rawand... P58,P59,P60,P87 Alter, Idan... O3 Alvarez, Cristian M... O44 Alvarez, Rafael... P33 Alvarez-Lopez, Maria Rocio... P96,P206 Alves, Helena... P44 Alzate, Daniel... O44 Amato, Antonio... P4 Ambrosi, Alessandro... O40 Ambruzova, Zuzana... O30 Ameen, Reem... P74 Amirzargar, Ali... P59 Amokrane, Kahina... P73 Amoroso, Antonio... O8,P6,P58,P60,P65 Anagnostouli, Maria... P57 Anastasiou, Aikaterini... P8,P56 Andersen, Erica... P5 Andersen, Menaka... P27 Anderson, Alison... O55 Andreani, Marco... P00,P25,P79,P243 Anholts, Jacqueline D.H... P24 Anthias, Chloe... O33 Antonelli, Antonella... O27 Antonini, Giovanni... P243 Antonova, Anzhela... P20 Antovich, Zachary... P45 Apostolaki, Maria D... P67 Aptsiauri, Natalia... P29,P225 Aragon, Larraitz... P86 Arcese, William... O6 Arnaiz Villena, Antonio... P48,P58,P59,P60,P86,P87 Arnold, Marie-Luise... P9 Arnold, Renate... O37 Arrieta Bolaños, Esteban... O35, P0,P84 Artemiadis, Artemios... P57 Aruldoss, Sam... P62 Asaei, Sadaf... P67 Askar, Medhat... O8,P26 Asouhidou, Despoina... P56 Assanelli, Andrea... O40 Atanasova, Valentina... O46,P20 Atarod, Sadaf... O38 Athanassiades, Theofilos... P26 Aureli, Anna... P203,P23,P256 Auriemma, Laura... P63 Ausín Ortega, Fernando... P230,P235,P239 Autolitano, Sara... P208,P27 Aydin, Filiz... P38 Azzaro, Maria Pia... P98 Azzarone, Raffaella... P63 96

97 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) B Baas, M.C... P40 Bacchetta, Rosa... P00 Bach, Christian... P9 Bade-Doeding, Christina... O,O56 Bailly, Pascal... P7 Baimukasheva, Dana... P7,P6 Baker, Richard... P4 Balas, Antonio... P55,P62 Baldomero, Helen... P03 Balen, Sanja... P66 Baran, David... P42 Barbieri, M. Alejandro... P76 Barcz, Ewa... P229,P238,P240 Bardy, Beatrice... P0 Barnes, Kathleen... O60 Barquera, Rodrigo... P84 Barwell, Jamie... P26 Basire, Agnes... P2,P90 Batarelo, Mirica... P22 Battarra, Mariarosa... P25 Battle, Richard... P5 Bavetta, Rosalba... P3,P4,P78,P32 Bayona, Brayan... P48 Beaty, Terri... O60 Beecham, Ashley H... O57 Beelen, Dietrich W... O6,O35 Beelen, Nicky... O26 Behzad-Behbahani, Abbas... P26 Bellot, Sidonie... O7 Bemelman, F.J... P40 Benecchi, Magda... P27 Benedek, Gil... O62 Benichou, Jennifer... O22 Bennasar, Florence... P35 Berardi, Gabriela... P07 Berg, Randi... P43 Bergamaschi, Paola... P20 Berghella, Anna Maria... P23 Berki, Dorrotya... P47 Bernal, Monica... P225 Berrino, Monica... O8,P58 Bertaina, Alice... P204 Bertinetto, Francesca E... P60 Bertol, Bruna C... P46 Bertola, Denise... P Bertrand, Dominique... P68 Bessmeltsev, Stanislav... P24 Betjes, M.G.H... P40 Bhalla, Anil K... P56 Bhargava, Vinant... P56 Bianculli, Antonio Giuseppe... P28 Bibby, Louis A... O38 Bicalho, Maria da Graça... P46 Bickhart, Derek M... P42 Biderman, Bella V... P77 Binder, Thomas M.C... P65,P66,P72 Binns-Roemer, Elisabeth... O5 Biongiovanni, Daniela... P65 Bishara, Amal... P89 Blaise, Didier... O6 Blancher, Antoine... P78 Blancho, Gilles... P8,P9 Blando, Maria... P3,P4,P78,P32 Blaney, Kathy... P92,P4 Blasczyk, Rainer... O,O3,O56 Bloor, Adrian J... O33 Boasi, Rachel... P92,P4 Bochenska, Jolanta... O29 Boffini, Massimo... P58 Bogacz, Anna... P85 Bogunia-Kubik, Katarzyna... O64,P6,P28,P237,P244 Boix, Francisco... P8,P63 Bokhari, Ahmad... P3,P4,P80 Bokos, Ioannis... P67 Bolarín, José M... P96,P206 Bolcato, Vittorio... P20 Boletis, John N... P67 Bologov, Andrey Anatol evich... P83 97

98 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Authors' index Bonaca, Orjeta... P36 Bonda, Avinash... P98 Bondanza, Attilio... O27 Bonini, Chiara... O27 Bono, Maria... P204 Bontrop, Ronald E... O2,O4,O9,O52,P78,P254 Boorer, Linda... P26 Bordasco, S... P06 Bornhauser, Martin... O6 Borst, Eric... O2 Bos, Gerard M. J... O25,O26,O28 Bosak, Vladimir... P50 Bossi, Grazia... O5 Boswijk, Kim... P26 Bots, M.L... P40 Bottino, Cristina... P204 Bottone, Antonio... P220 Boukla, Anna... P8,P56 Bourdette, Dennis... O62 Bouthemy, Charlene... P35,P28 Bouwmans, Evelien... O40 Bovo, Daniela... P88 Brambilla, Caterina... P Brand-Schaaf, Simone... P34 Braund, Henny... O33 Brautbar, Chaim... P89 Brazzelli, Valeria... P20 Brezinova, Dagmar... P09 Brooks, Andrew G... O2,O4 Brouard, Sophie... P8 Brown, Colin J... P34,P36,P44 Brown, Juliette... P7 Bruijnesteijn, Jesse... O52 Bruin, Helma... P233 Brunet, Nicolino... P90 Bruno, Benedetto... O6,O8 Bruno, Floriana... P3,P4,P78,P32 Bubnova, Ludmila... P24 Buc, Milan... P248 Bucala, Richard... O62 Budde, Klemens... O45 Buderath, Paul... P246 Buhler, Stéphane... O34,P03,P79 Bukowska, Alicja... P85 Bultitude, Will P... O33 Bungener, L.B... P40 Bunjes, Donald... O37 Buonomo, Oreste... P203 Burek Kamenaric, Marija... P96,P,P83,P93,P242 Burkitbaev, Zhandos... P7,P6 Butrym, Aleksandra... P244 Bykova, Nadezhda A... P6 Bylińska, Aleksandra... P229,P240 C Cabrera, Teresa... P29,P225 Cacciatore, Rosalia... P20,P245 Cafarelli, Silvia... P208,P27 Cagni, Nicoletta... P Caillard, Sophie... P47 Caillat Zucman, Sophie... P73 Cailler, Stacy... O57 Calafiore, Valeria... P98 Calantoni, Valeria... P9,P208,P27 Caliskan, Yasar K... P38,P39,P85 Calýskan, Kader... P89 Camisa, Barbara... O27 Campillo, José A... P96,P206 Campos, Cristina... P48,P58,P59,P60,P86,P87 Cannavò, Antonino... P3 Cano, Pedro... O5,P92,P4 Canossi, Angelica... P203,P23 Cansever, Murat... P75,P5 Cao, Milo... P24 Caorsi, Cristiana... P6,P60 Capittini, Cristina... O3,O5,P9,P245 Cappai, Luisella... P228 Cappuzzo, Valentina... P3,P4,P78,P32 98

99 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Caputo, Flavia... P4 Car, Helena... P34 Carballo, Ana... P87 Carcassi, Carlo... P99,P200,P228 Cárdaba-Arranz, Mario... P24,P62,P207 Cardillo, Massimo... P,P3 Carey, Sean B... P26 Cargou, Marine... P28 Caro, Jose Luis... P55 Carvalho-Oliveira, Marco... O3 Castrillon, Marlon... O44 Castro-Henriques, António... P49 Catalano, Manuela... P24 Cauli, Alberto... P99 Cebeci, Egemen... P38 Cechova, Hana... P09 Cecuk-Jelicic, Esma... P92 Cekauskiene, Rita... P0 Celik, Alexander A... O,O56 Cerci Gurbuz, Burcu... P7,P23 Cereb, Nezih... P23,P38 Cerna, Marie... O9 Cervelli, Carla... P76,P63 Cesana, Daniela... O27 Cesbron, Anne... P04,P9 Chacko, Mary P... P9 Chalandon, Yves... O34,P03 Chang, Chia-Jung... O Chang, Chialing... P72 Chapova, Regina S... P49,P69 Charfi, Aida... P70 Charikiopoulou, Maria... P248 Charron, Dominique... P260 Chaszczewska-Markowska, Monika... P237 Chatzika, Georgia... P56 Chechetkin, Aleksandr... P24 Chen, Qiang... P97,P54,P82 Chen-Wacker, Chen... O3 Chernova, Natalia G... P77 Chessa, Luchino... P228 Chinnadurai, Raj Kumar... P25 Chmel, Martin... O9 Chologitas, Evaggelos... P29 Chong, Winnie... P34,P36 Chowdhry, Mohit... P32 Christiaans, M... P40 Christiansen, Mette... P30,P48 Christine, Heylen... P43 Chronis, Theodoros... P8 Chugreeva, Tamara P... P69 Chuva de Sousa Lopes, Susana M... O7 Ciceri, Fabio... O6,O27,O40 Cidral, Ana L... P46 Cipri, Selene... P99,P200,P228 Cirella, Michele... P22,P220 Claas, Frans H.J... O7,O4,O43,O50,P34,P40,P53,P24 Clahsen, Marian C... O43 Clark, Andrew... O33 Clark, Brendan... P4 Claus, Rainer... O6 Clekovic, Danijela... P83 Cocco, Eleonora... P200 Colacurcio, Vito... P220 Colasante, Damiano... P28 Collin, Matthew... O38 COLT... P8,P9 Concha, Ángel... P29 Condello, Rossella... P25 Congeddu, Elena... P200,P228 Congy, Nicolas... P255 Connor, Andrew... P26 Consortium on Asthma among African-ancestry Populations in the Americas, (CAAPA)... O60 Constantin, Bara... P209 Contasta, Ida Anna... P23 Conticello, Etta... P98 Corongiu, Daniela... P200 Corti, Consuelo... O40 Coshic, Poonam... P222 Cossu, Irene... O42 99

100 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Authors' index Cox, Steven T... O53 Craenmehr, Moniek H.C... P24 Creary, Lisa E... O,O8,P55,P90 Crespiatico, Loretta... P Cristian, Tieranu... P209 Crivello, Pietro... O35,P0 Crossland, Rachel E... O38 Cucca, Francesco... P6 Cusano, Roberto... P200,P228 D da Silva Nardi, Fabiola... O48 Dada, Ashraf... P3,P4,P80 Dai, Ke-Zheng... P97 Dametto, Ennia... P60 Damotte, Vincent... O57 Danby, Robert... O33,O53 Dandekar, Ravi... O57 Daniel, Dolly... P9,P62 Dantin, Carole... O34 Daoudaki, Maria... P29 Dapprich, Johannes... O7,O59,O63,P76 Dardas, Athanasios... P232 Darema, Maria... P67 Dassa, Sarah... P90 D Auria, Rita... P22,P220 Davey, Sue... P44 Davì, Giuseppe... P3,P4,P78 David, Gaelle... O49 David, Vinoi G... P62 Davis, Kristina A... P5 Daya, Michelle... O60 Dayanand, Deo... P42 De Angelis, Vincenzo... P94,P26 De Feo, Agata... P22 de Fijter, Hans W... O43 de Fijter, J.W... P40 de Groot, Nanine... P78 de Groot, Natasja G... O2,O4,O9,O52,P78,P254 de Hoop, Talitha... O2 De Juan, Maria Dolores... P86 De Sapio, Antonio... P22 De Silvestri, Annalisa... O3,O5,P9,P245 De Silvestro, Giustina... P88 de Vaal, Yvonne J.H... O4 de Vos-Rouweler, Annemiek J. M... O52 Deaglio, Silvia... O8,P6,P65 Del Beato, Tiziana... P203,P23,P256 Delgado, Julio... P5 Dembowski, Janusz... P22,P223 Demerle, Clémence... P90 Demir, Erol... P38,P39,P59,P85 Deplano, Zareen... P44 Desoutter, Judith... P88 Destro, Roberta... P88 Devillier, Raynier... O6 Di Cristofaro, Julie... P2,P7 Di Gregorio, Giancarlo... P23 Di Loreto, Silvia... P256 Di Maio, Paolo... P22,P220 Di Raimondo, Francesco... P98 Di, Da... O0 Diana, Daniela... P99 Dias, Leonídio... P49 Dick, Andrea... P9 Dickinson, Anne M... O38 Didonna, Alessandro... O57 Digvijay, Kumar... P56 Dinou, Amalia... O54,P46 DIVAT... P8,P9 Dogan, Mustafa... P20 Dolff, Sebastian... O48 Donadi, Eduardo A... P46 Dongmei, Wang... P7 Dorak, Mehmet Tevfik... O7,O59,O63,P20,P76 D Orsogna, Lloyd... O50 Doss R, Sam A... P9 Douillard, Venceslas... P22 00

101 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Doxiadis, Gaby G.M... O52,P78 Doxiadis, Ilias... P33 Drabbels, Jos J.M... P24 Draghi, Eleonora... O27 Dratwa, Marta... O64,P237 Dubois, Valérie... P255 Dubreuil, Léa... O49 Duhovic, Marijana... P66 Duke, Jamie L... P5 Duquesnoy, Rene J... P54 Dutescu, Monica, I... P209 Duygu, Burcu... P57 Dziopa, Joanna... O36 E Efimov, Grigory A... P6 Ehlers, Femke... O25,O26 Eiermann, Thomas H... P72 Eikmans, Michael... O43,P24 Einsele, Hermann... O37 Eisner, Sigal... P50 El kaaoui El band, Jaouad... P63 Eldem, Asli... P7,P2 Elferink, Diënne... O52 Elfishawi, Mohanad... P233 Elfishawi, Sally... P9,P233 Ellinger, Lori... P5 Emmi, Giacomo... O3 Emonds, Marie-Paule... P43 Enriquez de Salamanca, Mercedes... P60 Ertan, Serra... P39,P85 Espadas de Arias, Alejandro... P3 Evgenikaki, Efthimia... P56 F Faé, Ingrid... P23,P99 Falco, Michela... O42,P204 Falkenburg, Frederick... O35 Farce, Fabienne... P68 Fareq Salih, Shadallah... P58 Farhadi, Ali... P26 Farjadian, Shirin... P8,P26 Favero, Roberta... P88 Fazio, Maria Rosaria... P28 Fechtenbaum, Marie... P88 Felipe, Claudia R... P69 Fenici, Lorenza... P24 Fernandez Escobar, Nicolas... P07 Fernandez-Viña, Marcelo A.... O,O8, P26,P55,P80,P90,P233 Ferraresso, Mariano... P3 Ferrari-Lacraz, Sylvie... O34,P03 Ferreira, Virginia... P90 Ferreiro, Jose Javier... P86 Ferriola, Deborah... P5 Field, Nell... P5 Figorilli, Francesco... P228 Figueiredo, Constanca... O3 Filkin, Sergey Y... P6 Fingerson, Stephanie... O3 Finke, Jurgen... O6 Finocchi, Martina... O3 Fischer, Gottfried F... P23,P99 Fleischhauer, Katharina... O6,O35,P0,P79 Fleva, Alexandra... P232 Florean, Lara... P24 Flores-A, Hilario... P90,P20 Fogel, Samantha... P5 Foster, Ruth... P4 Fotoulaki, Maria... P232 Fouzas, Ioannis... P29 Fraboulet, Sterenn... P35 Franceschetto, Genny... P88 Francone, Marina... P9,P208,P27 Franks, Thomas... P5 Frassati, Coralie... P2 0

102 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Authors' index Frau, Jessica... P200 Froelich, Nadine... P47 Frydecka, Irena... P22,P223,P224,P234 Fuhrmann, Markus... P2 Fürst, Daniel... O37, P72,P75,P77 Fusco, Caterina... P63 Füssel, Monika... P93 Fylaktou, Asimina... P8,P29,P56 G Gäckler, Anja... O48 Gadel, Rémi... P252 Gagne, Katia... O49 Gaidano, Gianluca... O8 Galaverna, F... P06 Galenic, Davorka... P22 Galian, Jose Antonio... P8,P63 Gallone, Maria Rita... P24 Galluccio, Tiziana... P00 Gambacorta, Valentina... O40 Gandolfini, Ilaria... P25 Gangavarapu, Sridevi... O,O8,P55 Gaponova, Tatiana V... P69 Garcia, Aracely... P64 Garcia-Alonso, Ana M... P96,P206 Gariffulin, Andrey... P24 Garino, Elena... P58 Garrido, Federico... P29,P225 Gathof, Birgit... P25 Gatin, Marine... P68 Gautier Vargas, Gabriella... P47 Gebura, Katarzyna... P6 Geerligs, Job... P30 Geffard, Estelle... O60,P04,P8,P9,P22 Gelens, M... P40 Gendzekhadze, Ketevan... O6 Geneugelijk, Kirsten... O2 Gentilini, Ivo... P6 Gentner, Bernard... O27 Genzano Besso, Federico... O8 Georgieva, Atanaska... O46 Gerbase-DeLima, Maria... P69 Gesheva, Nevena... P20 Giachino, Daniela F... P65 Giannakou, Anastasia... P232 Giglio, Fabio... O40 Gimeno, Lourdes... P96,P206 Giral, Magali... P8,P9 Giuliodori, Silvia... P27 Giuressi, Erika... P99 Giustiniani, P... P06 Glatt, Stephen... P80 Glavaš-Obrovac, Ljubica... P68 Gmeiner, Tanja... P258 Gnahm, Christine... P39 Goeb, Vincent... P88 Goedert, James J... O5 Goeury, Thomas... P8 Gokarn, Anant... P98 Gomez, Carine... P2 Gomez-Casado, Eduardo... P48,P86 Gómez-Morales, Mercedes... P29 Gönen, Sevim... P52 González Quintanilla, Vicente... P235 González-Ramírez, Amanda Rocío... P29 González, Betsy... P90,P20 González-Escribano, María Francisca... P24,P55 Gonzalez-Fernandez, Rafael... P55 Gonzalez-Martinez, Gema... P8 Gopalakrishnan, Muralidhar T... P5 Góralski, Michał... P85 Gorodezky, Clara... P90,P20 Gourraud, Pierre-Antoine... O5,O60,P04,P8,P9,P22 Gracheva, Liudmila Alexandrovna... P83 Graczyk-Pol, Elzbieta... O36 Gragert, Loren... O3 Gramatzki, Martin... O37 Grammatico, Paola... P24 02

103 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Gras, Stephanie... O50 Grawe, Hanne... P33 Greco, Giulia... P243 Greco, Raffaella... O40 Green, Heftziba... P50 Green, Trevor... P44 Gregori, Silvia... P00 Griskevicius, Laimonas... P0 Groeneweg, Mathijs... O28 Gronkowski, Mariusz... P85 Grubic, Zorana... P22,P96,P,P79,P83,P93,P242 Grunz, Fabian... O7 Grzelj, Jasna... P258 Guarene, Marco... P20,P245 Guberina, Hana... O48,P246 Gucyener, Emel... P89 Guengoer, Tayfun... P03 Guerra, Sandra G... P34,P36 Guidicelli, Gwendaline... P35,P28 Guillaume, Nicolas... P88 Guimarães, Tiago... O47 Gulbas, Zafer... P89 Gulec, Derya... P7,P2,P227 Günther, Marie... O23,P37 Guntz, Philippe... P47,P05 Gupta, Anurag... P56 Gupta, Ashwani... P56 Gwozdowicz, Slawomir... O36,P202 H Haasnoot, Geert W... O43,P53 Hack, C.E... P40 Haddad, Rania... P45 Halaburda, Kazimierz... O36 Halagan, Michael... O39,P89 Halter, Joerg... P03 Hamdani, Nora... P252 Hamilton-Jones, Siobhan... P34,P36 Hammond, John A... O9,P42,P205,P254 Hani, Lylia... P25 Harpur, Christopher M... O2 Harrison, Dorothea... P42 Hasçuhadar, Medine... P89 Hau, Françoise... P68 Hauer, Vanessa... P46 Hauser, Steven L... O57 Haverich, Axel... O3 Hayhurst, James D... O33 Hebbache, Céline... P252 Heckel, Simon... O32 Heidl, Annett... P95 Heidt, Sebastiaan... O7,O4,P34,P40,P53,P24 Heijmans, Corrine M.C... O2,O4 Heikkinen-Eloranta, Jenni... O58 Heim, Dominik... P03 Heinemann, Falko M... O32,O48,P9 Heinold, Andreas... O6 Helsen, Philippe... O4 Helvacı, Özant... P52 Hemmatpour, Shahram... P3 Henderson, Lorna... P5 Hepkema, Bouke G... P40 Hernandez, Diana... O53 Hernandez, Ennio... P48 Herrero-Mata, Maria Jose... P55 Heyer, Malte... P33 Heyn, Bianca... P95 Hiemisch, Wiebke... O56 Hilbrands, L.B... P40 Hirv, Kaimo... P72 Hitomi, Yuki... P236 Hò, Gia-Gia T... O Hoang, Kevin... O5 Höffler, Klaus... O3 Hoffmeier, Klaus... O7 Hofmann, Jan... P39,P73 Hoitsma, A.J... P40 Hollenbach, Jill A... O57,O60, P95 03

104 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Authors' index Höllt, Thomas... O7 Hönger, Gideon... P54 Honsova, Eva... P Horinouchi, Tomoko... P236 Horn, Peter A... O6,O32,O35,O48,P246 Hösli, Irene... P54 House, Justin L... P70 Hrabakova, Pavla... P09 Hristova, Luisa... O46 Hriz, Amal... P70 Hsu, Katharine C... O6, P0 Hudec, Michael... O9 Hughes, Pamela... P4 Huyton, Trevor... O,O56 I Iandoli, Raffaele... P220 Ianniello, Alice... P65 Iijima, Kazumoto... P236 Illing, Patricia... O50,O55 Imbesi, Natale... P208,P27 Ingrassia, Francesco... P3,P4,P78,P32 Iniotaki, Aliki G... P67 Innocente, Annalisa... P,P3 Iozzino, Crystal... P,92,P4 Irure, Juan... P2,P55 Isik, Kilicarslan... P85 Isildak, Esra... P89 Isobe, Noriko... O57 Israel, Shoshana... P89 Israeli, Moshe... P50,P95 Ivanova Derin, Rayna... P73 Ivanova, Milena... P2,P74 Ivanova-Shivarova, Milena... P20 Iwaszko, Milena... O64 J Jackson, Alisa... P29 Jaimovich, Gregorio... P07 Jain, Monika... P56,P250 Jakovija, Arnolda... O27 Jakubauskas, Arturas... P0 Jalali, Sedigheh... P26 Jamalidoust, Marzieh... P67 Jaman, Sonja... P92 Janin, Anne... O38 Janssen, Johanna W. H... O25 Jansson, Katharina... O3 Jaramillo, Andrés... P70 Jasek, Monika... P240 Jaskuła, Emilia... O29 Jeka, Sławomir... O64,P28 Jensen, Tore... P27 Jesani-Hethcoat, Vasnti... P44 Jia, Xiaoyuan... P236 Jie, Wang... P7 Jollet, Isabelle... P255 Joosten, Irma... P40 Jopek, Karol... P85 Juarez, Ignacio... P48,P58,P60,P87 Jude, John... P62 Jue, Wang... P82 K Kafassi, Nikolitsa... P249 Kalhs, Peter... P99 Kamburova, Elena G... P40 Kamel, Hossam... P74 Kaminska, Malgorzata... P6 Kamiński, Paweł... P240 Kamoun, Arwa... P70 Kanagarajah, Abbie R... O2 Kandula, Praveen... P42 04

105 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Kandur, Yaşar... P52 Kanga, Uma... P222 Kannan, Sadhana... P98 Kapsenberg, Hanneke J.M... O7 Karabon, Lidia... P22,P223,P224,P234 Karadeniz Savran, Meltem... P59 Karahan, Gonca E... O4,P34 Karakukcu, Musa... P75 Karampatakis, Theodoros... P8,P29,P56 Kasimatis, Efstratios... P8 Kasimir-Bauer, Sabine... P246 Katalinic, Natasa... P66 Katsavos, Serafeim... P57 Katsimpoulas, Michalis... O54 Kaur, Gurvinder... P247 Kawai, Yosuke... P236 Kedzierska, Katherine... O2 Kekik, Cigdem... P38,P39,P85 Kelekci, Handan... P23 Keles, Sevgi... P75 Kelsch, Reinhard... P33,P65,P66,P72 Kennedy, Amy E... P76 Kerick, Martin... P225 Kerkhofs, Johan... P43 Khamaganova, Ekaterina G... P77,P08,P49,P69 Khamash, Hasan A... P70 Khattry, Navin... P98 Khor, Seik-Soon... P236 Kielbinski, Marek... P224,P234 Kifle, Sirak... P33 Kilicarslan, Isin... P39 Kilicaslan Ayna, Tulay... P7,P2,P23,P227 Kilicoglu, Murat... P2,P23,P227 Kim, Daehwan... O60 Kim, Eunsil... P23,P38 Kim, Isaac... P45 Kim, Sungkyu... P23,P38 Kimmig, Rainer... P246 Kishore, Amit... P248 Kitsiou, Vasiliki... P26 Klasberg, Steffen... O6,O23,P37 Klein, Tirza... P50,P95 Kleina, Elizaveta... P24 Kleyman, Lena... P5 Klyuchnikov, Dmitry Y... P52 Kobbe, Guido... O6 Köcher, Stefanie... O7 Kocyigit Ozkizilcik, Asli... P7 Koefoed-Nielsen, Pernille B... P30,P43,P48 Koehn, Corinna B... P72 Kojima, Kaname... P236 Kolasiński, Michał... P85 Kolesar, Libor... P87,P47 Kolodziej, Anna... P22,P223 Kolossa, Katarzyna... O64,P28 Konidari, Ioanna... P76 Koning, Frits... O7 Kontos, Athanasios... P249 Kooreman, Loes... O26 Kooter, Raul... P30 Kopic, Kristina... P22 Koren, Daniela... P23 Korkmaz, Ömer... P20 Korman, Lucyna... O64,P237 Körper, Sixten... P77 Kose, Sukran... P227 Koster, Johan... P53 Kotsimbos, Tom... O50 Kouba, Noura... P90 Kouniaki, Diamanto... P26 Kountouris, Evan... P80 Kovacevic Cuculic, Tjasa... P66 Kovandova, Barbora... P Kozelska, Renata... P253 Krajewski, Wojciech... P22,P223 Kramer, Cynthia S.M... P34,P53 Krammes, Lena... P65,P66,P72 Krasteva, Yana... O46 Krezdorn, Nicolas... O7 Kribben, Andreas... O48 05

106 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Authors' index Kriegova, Eva... O30 Krishnamoorthy, Rajagopal... P25,P226,P260 Kroeger, Nicolaus... O6 Krom, Debby G.M... P29 Kronenberg, Kirsten... P25 Krop, Juliette... O4 Krydel, Michalina... O29 Ksouda, Kamilia... P70 Kuba, Adam... O30 Kuchmiy, Anna A... P6 Kuhn, Joachim... O Kühnel, Marc... O3 Kulikov, Sergey M... P08 Kunilo Jamnik, Sabina... P02,P258 Kurtovic, Helena... P66 Kuśnierczyk, Piotr... P229,P238,P240 Kuzmina, Larisa A... P08 Kuzminova, Elena P... P08,P49,P69 Kuzminova, Zhanna... P82 Kwan, Patrick... O55 Kwofie, Luyanda Laura... P3 Kyriacou, Monica... P44 L Lachmann, Nils... O24,O45 Łacina, Piotr... P244 Lai, Sara... P200,P228 Laivuori, Hannele... O58 Lamanna, Roberta... P27 Lambeck, A.J... P40 Landgraf, Ramona... P33 Lane, William J... P45 Lang, Kathrin... O6,O20,O23,P37,P39,P73 Lange, Andrzej... O29 Lange, Janusz... O29 Lange, Kathrin... O6 Lange, Leslie... O60 Lange, Vinzenz... O6,O6,O20,O23,P93,P2, P37,P39,P73,P95 Langer, Mona... O35 Lanino, Edoardo... P204 Lardy, Neubury M... O52,P40,P29 Laserra, Anna Elisa... P22,P220 Latham, Katy... O33 Lattanzio, Roberto... P23 Lauridsen, Karen B... P48 Lazarevic, Dejan... O6 Lazar-Molnar, Eszter... P5 Lazidou, Panagiota... P232 Leboyer, Marion... P25,P226,P252,P260 Ledoux, Marie-Pierre... P05 Lee, Jar-How... P35 Lee, Stephanie J... P0 Legaz, Isabel... P8,P63,P96,P206 Legrand, Nolwenn... O49 Lehmann, Claudia... P33 Lendrem, Clare... O38 Leotta, Salvatore... P98 Levi, Chen-li... P95 Levinson, Douglas... P80 Li, Chi-Cheng... P72 Li, Dongmei... P7,P53 Li, Jiang... P82 Li, Mengdan... P97,P54 Li, Ming... P43,P80 Li, Raymond... P45 Li, Wei... P53 Li, Xingjie... P54 Libri, Giuseppe... P27 Lidija, Orlic... P66 Lima, Bruno A... P44 Limou, Sophie... O5,O60,P04,P8,P9,P22 Lin, Chuen-Ying... P72 Lin, Jie... O4 Lindemann, Monika... O32 Lioure, Bruno... P05 Litniski, Alexandra... O39 06

107 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Littera, Roberto... P99,P228 Liu, Dongjing... P53 Liu, Feiyun... P72 Liu, Tommy... P43 Lizée, Antoine... O60 Llorente, Santiago... P8,P63 Llull, Cintia... P07 Lobato, Luísa... P49 Lobo Pereira, Francisco... O8 Locatelli, Franco... P06,P204 Lochmann, Evi... P6 Loi, Valentina... P200,P228 Loiseau, Pascale... P73,P255 Lokki, A. Inkeri... O58 Lokki, Marja-Liisa... O58,O6 Lombardo, Angelo... O27 Londero, Donatella... P94,P26 Longa, Lucia... P76 Longhi, Elena... P Lopasso, Aurélie... P90,P7 López-Hoyos, Marcos... P2,P55,P230,P239 Lorenzi, Marco... P76 Loundou, Anderson... P2 Louzoun, Yoram... O3,O22,O39 Lu, Joseph... P29 Luiken, Bram... P29,P33 Lukanov, Tsvetelin... O46,P2,P74 Lupo Stanghellini, Maria Teresa... O6,O40 Lyonnet, Luc... P2 M Mabrok, Mazen... P26 Maccari, Giuseppe... O9,P254 Macchiagodena, Mario... P Mack, Steven J... O8,O6 MacKinnon, Stephen... O33 Madbouly, Abeer... O39,P89 Maddi, Roberta... P200,P228 Madrigal, J. Alejandro... O33,O53,P84 Madrigal-Sánchez, Juan José... P84 Magalhães, Maria Conceição... O47 Maggiore, Umberto... P25 Magistroni, Paola... P58,P60,P65 Magnan, Antoine... P8,P9 Mah, Helen... P45 Mahaweni, Niken M... O25,O28 Mahfoudh, Nadia... P70 Maiers, Martin... O3,O39,P89 Maisto, Giovanna... P63 Majorana, Maria... P22 Makni, Hafedh... P70 Makroo, RN... P32 Makrovasili, Fani... P29,P56 Makushik, Kelsey... P5 Malejczyk, Jacek... P240 Malestein, Remco... P45 Malheiro, Jorge... P49 Malik, Manish... P56 Malinowski, Andrzej... P229,P238,P240 Mallempati, Kalyan C... O,O8,P55 Mallis, Panagiotis... O54 Malmberg, Karl-Johan... O2 Maltezas, Dimitris... P249 Maluskova, Alena... P253 Malvezzi, Paolo... P0 Manetta, Sara... O6 Manfreda, Annarita... P28 Maniangou, Bercelin... O49 Manier, Céline... P226,P252,P260 Mannarino, Savina... O5 Mansouri, Marzieh... P8 Manzo, Antonella... P22,P220 Marcenò, Raimondo... P3,P4,P78,P32 Marchesani, Marja... O6 Marchionni, Luigi... O8 Marczi, Saška... P68 Marget, Matthias... P65 Mariaselvam, Christina Mary... P226,P252,P260 07

108 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Authors' index Marimpietri, Anna... P256 Marin, Luis... P55 Marinovic, Ivanka... P92 Marko, Pij B... P258 Markopoulou, Maria... P232 Marks, David I... O33 Marrari, Marilyn... P54 Marsh, Steven G.E... O9,O33, P84, P254 Martin, Javier... P225 Martinetti, Miryam... O5,P245 Martinez, Natalija... P22 Martinez-Garcia, Pedro... P63 Martinez-Gonzalez, Gema... P63 Martino, Enrica... P98 Martinovic-Kaliterna, Duska... P92 Martín-Villa, José Manuel... P48,P58,P59,P60,P86,P87 Martynkevich, Irina... P24 Marulli, Giuseppe... P23 Maschan, Alexei... P84 Maschan, Michael... P82,P84 Maskalan, Marija... P96,P,P83,P93,P242 Massa, Roberto... P243 Massalski, Carolin... P73 Masson, Dominique... P0 Massouridi-Levrat, Stravoula... P03 Maszko-Wodzinska, Iwona... O29 Matern, Benedict M... P57 Mathew, Libin... P98 Mathias, Rasika... O60 Mathow, Daniel... P33 Mäurer, André P... P37,P73 Mayor, Neema P... O33 Mazur, Grzegorz... P244 Mazzoco, Michela... P74 Mazzola, Gina A... P58 McCauley, Jacob L... O57,O59,P20,P76 Medina-Pestana, José O... P69 Meertens, Christel M.H... P57 Mehra, Narinder Kumar... P247 Meintjes, Peter... P47 Melchiorre, Tiziana... P58 Melis, Cristina... P200 Melis, Maurizio... P200,P228 Melista, Efi... P87,P47 Méndez García, Míguela... P29 Mengozzi, Giulio... P65 Mercurio, Manuel... P27 Merli, P... P06 Merli, Roberta... P25,P27 Messa, Piergiorgio... P3 Metzing, Maximilian... O35 Meulenberg, Pieter... P30 Meurer, Thuja... O35 Meyer, Pieter W... P3 Michalopoulos, Efstathios... O54,P46 Michita, Rafael T... P246 Middleton, Derek... P79 Mifsud, Nicole... O50,O55 Migliara, Alessandro... O27 Mignot, Emmanuel... P80 Mihai, Bojinca... P209 Mihaylova, Anastasya... O46,P20 Mihaylova, Snezhina... O46 Mika-Witkowska, Renata... O36 Mikulic, Mirta... P Milewski, Łukasz... P240 Mindrinos, Michael... P80 Mine, Karina L... P69 Mingari, Maria Cristina... O42 Minguela, Alfredo... P8,P63,P96,P206 Miotti, Valeria... P94,P26 Mircea, Diculescu... P209 Mishra, Manoj... P32 Misra, Maneesh K... O57 Mistretta, Serena... P3,P4,P78,P32 Mittal, Siddharth... P9,P62 Mlinaric-Rascan, Irena... P258 Mohapatra, Anjali... P62 Mohty, Mohamad... O6 Molenbroeck, Stefan... O28 08

109 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Møller, Bjarne K... P30 Monos, Dimitri... P5 Montanari, M... P06 Montanič, Sendi... P02 Montero-Martin, Gonzalo... O,P55 Montesu, Maria Antonietta... P99 Montini, Eugenio... O27 Monzón, David... P86 Mor, Eytan... P50 Morath, Christian... O44 Moreira-Espinoza, María José... P84 Moretta, Alessandro... P204 Moretta, Lorenzo... O42,P204 Morikone, Pablo... P07 Moscetti, Alessandra... P24 Moschini, Pamela M... P6,P58,P60,P65 Mossallam, Ghada... P74,P233 Mounsey, Katherine... P4 Mourão, Tuíla B... P69 Mourya, Manish... P222 Moussa, Omar... P5 Moya-Quiles, Maria R... P8,P63,P55,P96,P206 Mratinovic-Mikulandra, Jela... P92 Mrazek, Frantisek... O30,P253 Müberra, Ahci... O6 Mulder, Wietse... O40 Mulgaonkar, Shamkant... P42 Munguia, Andrea... P90,P20 Muñiz, Ester... P48,P58,P59,P60,P86,P87 Muro, Manuel... P8,P63,P55,P96,P206 Murru, Roberta... P200 Mytilineos, Joannis... O37,P72,P75,P77 N Nagasaki, Masao... P236 Nagler, Arnon... O6 Nagy, Marion... O7 Nagy, Nora... P47 Nair, Gayathri... P03 Namayandeh, Mandana... P67 Nane, Ismet... P59 Naper, Christian... P97 Nareiko, Maria V... P77 Nasilowska-Adamska, Barbara... O36 Naumova, Elissaveta... O46,P20,P2,P74 Navaretti, Elena... P60 Navarrete, Cristina V... P34,P36 Nederlof, Iris... P24 Nedilakova, Antoaneta... P2,P74 Negi, Vir Singh... P25,P226 Nelson, George... O5 Nelson, Lora J... P70 Nesher, Eviatar... P50 Nestorowicz, Klaudia... O36,P202 Neuchel, Christine... O37,P72,P75,P77 Nguyen, Thi H.O... O2 Nickman, Hosein... P59 Nicoloso, Grazia... P03 Niederwieser, Dietger... O37 Niemann, Matthias... O24,O45,P54 Nieminen, Markku S... O6 Niepiekło-Miniewska, Wanda... P6,P240 Nieszporek, Artur... P6 Nieto, Antonio... P2 Nieto, Jorge... P58,P60,P87 Nikbin, Behrouz... P59 Nikolaidou, Vasiliki... P8 Niokou, Dimitra... P44 Nocco, Angela... P Nocito-Colón, Mercedes... P207 Nong, Thoa... P35 Norden, Jean... O38 Norman, Paul J... P95 Notaro, Ilaria... P65 Novelli, Giorgio... P203 Nowak, Izabela... P229,P238,P240 Nowak, Jacek... O36,P202 Nozu, Kandai... P236 09

110 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Authors' index Nunes, José Manuel... O0, P03,P79,P8 Nurmohamed, A... P40 O Ocejo-Vinyals, J. Gonzalo... P55,P230,P235,P239 Offner, Halina... O62 Oguz Savran, Fatma... P38,P39,P59,P85 Oksenberg, Jorge R... O57,O62 Olagne, Jerôme... P47 Olbromski, Krzysztof... P85 Olieslagers, Timo I... O28 Olivares, Ivan Rivas... O28 Olivares, Nerea... P86 Olivas-Martínez, Israel... P24 Oliveira, Giacomo... O27 Oliveira, Jeffrey... O2 Oliveira, José Gerardo... O47,P37,P25,P260 Olivia, Popa M... P209 Ollila, Hanna... P80 Omae, Yosuke... P236 Onali, Simona... P228 Onnis, Giuliana... P99 Onozawa, Masahiro... O6 Ontañón-Rodríguez, Jesús... P207 Opelz, Gerhard... O44 Orchard, Kim... P3 Orduña-Domingo, Antonio... P62,P207 O Reilly, Steven... O38 Órlich-Pérez, Priscilla... P84 Orrù, Nicola... P99 Orrù, Sandro... P99,P228 Osoegawa, Kazutoyo... O,O8,P26 Oterino Durán, Agustín... P235 Otten, H.G... P40 Otting, Nel... O9,O52,P78,P254 Ottonello, Selene... O42 Özbek, Umut... P76 Ozcan, Alper... P75 Ozel, Leman... P89 Ozkizilcik Kocyigit, Asli... P2,P23 Ozluk, Yasemin... P39,P85 Ozzella, Giuseppina... P28 P Padros, Karin... P79,P07 Pagliuca, Antonio... O33 Pakos, Helena... O29 Palacio-Gruber, Jose... P48,P58,P59,P60,P86,P87 Palfi, Biserka... P22 Palumbo, Carmela... P27 Papachristou, Marianthi... P8,P29 Papagianni, Aikaterini... P8 Papapanagiotou, Aggeliki... O54 Papola, Franco... P76,P63 Parakh, Shilpa... P29 Paredes-Carias, Edel... P84 Parga Lozano, Carlos H... P64 Parisi, Marina... P98 Parissiadis, Anne... P47,P05 Parkinson, Andrea... P5 Parlavecchio, C... P06 Parolini, Riccardo... O40 Parovichnikova, Elena N... P08 Parren, Paul W.H.I... P34 Partyka, Anna... P22,P223,P224,P234 Pasi, Annamaria A... O5,P20,P245 Paskalev, Emil... O46 Passamonti, Serena Maria... P3 Passweg, Jakob... P03 Pasvoski, Oren... P95 Patiroglu, Turkan... P75,P5 Paul, Pascale... P2 Pavlatova, Lucie... P09 Pavlova, Anastasia... P24 Pavlova, Irina... P24 Pawliczak, Daria... O36 0

111 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Pearce, Kim F... O38 Peccatori, Jacopo... O6,O40 Pedersen, Alice P... P27 Pegova, Kristyna... P09 Peitsch, Cory... P5 Pelardy, Matthieu... P2 Pellegrini, Patrizia... P23 Pende, Daniela... P204 Penickova, Sona... P50 Penning, Maarten T... P29,P30,P4,P45 Penta de Vera Aragona, Roberta... P63 Perea, Francisco... P29,P225 Pérez Pereda, Sara... P235 Pérez-Escobar, Oscar A... O7 Perola, Markus... O6 Perotti, Laura... P76 Perrone, Francesco... P60 Perrot, Eric... P35 Perry, Julia... O33 Peter, Wolfgang... P65,P66,P72 Petrek, Martin... O30,P68,P248 Petrillo, Marika... P22,P220 Petrova, Larisa Vladimirovna... P83 Phieler, Julia... P2 Piazza, Antonina... P28 Piazza, Bruna... P3 Picard, Christophe... P2,P90,P7,P35 Picardi, Alessandra... O6 Piccolo, Adriana... P20 Pidala, Joseph... P0 Pietra, Gabriella... O2,O42 Pignon, Nicolas... P255 Pilunov, Artem M... P6 Pinana, Jose L... O6 Pinelli, David... P5 Pini, Massimo... O6 Pino-Yanes, Maria... O60 Pinto, R. M... P06 Piovano, Federica... P76 Pitzalis, Maristella... P6 Pizzochero, Cinzia... P20 Plaisier, L... P40 Planelles, Dolores... P55 Plesec, Eva... P36 Płoski, Rafał... P238,P240 Poggi, Elvira... P28 Poirier, Nicolas... P78 Poles, Ann... P5 Poles, Anthony... P26 Poli, Francesca... P3 Pompeo, Eugenio... P243 Pons, Jose A... P8 Porcella, Rita... P200,P228 Potter, Michael N... O33 Potter, Victoria T... O33 Poyraz, Aykut... P5 Prerovska, Renata... P09 Pristanskova, Ekaterina Andreevna... P83 Pritchard, Deborah L... P40,P257,P259 Profaizer, Tracie... P5 Prucca, Maristella... P76 Pruschke, Jens... P39,P73 Puchala, Marta... P28 Puglisi, Fabrizio... P98 Punatar, Sachin... P98 Purcell, Anthony... O50,O55 Pymm, Philip... O4 Q Qiu, Yan... P53 Quin, Lyudmila... P2 R Rabbi, Sikder N.I... P65 Rachamimov, Ruth... P50 Radojska, Stela... P25

112 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Authors' index Radwan, Michał... P238,P240 Radwan, Paweł... P238,P240 Rafaels, Nicholas... O60 Rafiei-Dehbidi, Gholam-Reza... P26 Ragatzu, Paola... P99,P200,P228 Raida, Ludek... O30 Rajadhyaksha, Sunil... P98 Rajkumar, Ravi Philip... P25,P226 Ralazamahaleo, Mamy... P35,P28 Ramilyeva, Indira... P7,P6 Ramirez, Maria... P5 Ramirez, Yasmill... P4 Ramondetta, Miriam... P Rampim, Gisele F... P69 Rampoldi, Luca... P65 Ramzi, Mani... P8 Rana, Devinder S... P56 Rao, Prakash... P42 Rapti, Angeliki... P248 Rastelli, Emanuele... P243 Ratajczak, Philippe... O38 Raykina, Elena... P82,P84 Rebala, Krzysztof... P248 Rebmann, Vera... O48,P246 Rebuffi, Chiara... P245 Rees, M.T... P40,P257,P259 Reinders, Marlies E.J... O43 Retiere, Christelle... O49 Rey, Diego... P59 Reynaud-Gaubert, Martine... P2 Richard, Jean-Romain... P252 Richardson, Debbie... P3 Ridgley, Rose M... P70 Riesco, Laura... P2,P55,P230,P235,P239 Rihova, Adela... O9 Rijnaard, Hans J.H.A... O2 Ripaldi, Mimmo... P63 Robinson, James... O9,O33,P254 Rocchi, Lorenzo... P60 Rodrigo, Emilio... P2,P55 Rodriguez, Joshua M... P45 Rodriguez, Maria Beatriz... P79,P07 Roelen, Dave L... O4,P34,P40,P53 Rogatko-Koros, Marta... O36 Rojewski, Markus... P77 Romagnoli, Renato... P60 Romaniuk, Dmitry S... P6 Romano, Alessandra... P98 Romeo, Giuseppa... P9,P208,P27 Romier, Alix... P252 Roncarolo, Maria Grazia... P00 Roozendaal, C... P40 Rossjohn, Jamie... O4 Rosso, Claudia Maria... P6 Rostaing, Lionel... P0 Roszkowski, Piotr... P240 Rotar, Katja... P36 Roth, Tobias... P65,P66,P72 Rothe, Jessica... O7 Rowntree, Louise... O50 Rozemuller, Erik H... P30,P4,P45,P233 Ruczinski, Ingo... O60 Rudd, Stephen... O7 Rudinska, Jitka... P253 Ruiz-Cabello, Francisco... P29,P225 Ruiz-del-Valle, Valentín... P86 Ruiz-San Millán, Juan Carlos... P2 Russell, Nigel H... O33 Russnak, Roland... P45 Ruzius, Frans-Paul... P30 Ryu, Jaejun... P38 S Sacchi, Nicoletta... P74 Saduakas, Zhazira... P7,P6 Sage, Deborah A... P3 Saglio, Giuseppe... O8 Saif, Imran S... P26 2

113 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Saladino, Rita E... P9,P208,P27 Salazar-Sánchez, Lizbeth... P84 Sali, Vera... P94 Salizzoni, Mauro... P60 Salomaa, Veikko... O6 Salvadori, Filomena... P27 Salzberg, Steven... O60 Samardžija, Marina... P68 Sampaio-Norton, Susana... O47,P37 San Segundo, David... P2,P55 Sánchez, Guadalupe... P20 Sanchez-Garcia, Florentino... P55 Sanchez-Gordo, Francisco... P55 Sanchez-Mazas, Alicia... O0,P03,P79,P8 Sánchez-Palencia, Abel... P29,P225 Sanders, J.S.F... P40 Santaniello, Adam... O57 Santaniello, Francesco... O27 Sanz, Guillermo... O6 Sanz, Jaimie... O6 Sarkar, Subhashis... O25 Sathananthan, Thusa... P44 Satta, Rosanna... P99 Saudemont, Aurore... O53 Saunders, Philippa M... O4 Sauter, Jürgen... P39,P73,P95 Savchenko, Valeriy G... P77,P08,P69 Savran Oguz, Fatma... P89 Sawhney, A... P250 Sayno, Jex-Ray... O33 Sayous, Romain... P252 Sbarsi, Ilaria... P20 Schäfer, Marco... P65,P66,P72 Schaffer, Brian... O6 Schall, Cynthia... P5 Schanz, Urs... P03 Schaub, Stefan... P54 Schauss, Debra... P5 Schefzyk, Daniel... P39,P73 Scherdel, Pauline... P8,P9 Schetelig, Johannes... P93 Schirru, Lucia... P200 Schmidt, Alexander H.... O6,O6,O20,O23,P93,P2,P37,P39,P73,P95 Schneiderova, Petra... O30 Schoene, Bianca... P39 Schöfl, Gerhard... O6,O20,O23,P93,P2,P37 Schoina, Maria... P8 Schöne, Bianca... P2 Schönemann, Constanze... O45 Schrezenmeier, Hubert... O37,P75,P77 Schwartz, John C... P42,P205 Schwich, Esther... P246 Sconocchia, Giuseppe... P203 Sebastiani, Pierluigi... P256 Sechi, Enzo... P256 Secinaro, Enzo... P23 Sedzimirska, Mariola... O29 Seelen, M.A.J... P40 Seitz, Adrienne... P4 Sekerkova, Zuzana... P Sela-Navon, Michal... P95 Semana, Gilbert... P35 Senev, Aleksandar... P43 Senturk Ciftci, Hayriye... P59 Serra, Anna... O8 Serra, Maria... P200,P228 Serrano-Vela, Ignacio... P86 Serventi Seiwerth, Ranka... P Seshadri, Vijayaragavan... P23,P38 Sever, Mehmet S... P39,P85 Sgobba, Valentina... P27 Shan, Xiaoyan... P7 Shargian, Liat... P95 Sharma, Gaurav... P247 Sharma, Surendra Kumar... P247 Sharma, Vandana... P32 Shaw, Bronwen E... O33,P0,P84 Sheetikov, Savely A... P6 Shivarov, Velizar... P74 3

114 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Authors' index Shomo, Akemi... P236 Shragina, Olga... P82,P84 Sidira, Evangelia... P56 Siebert, Nicole... P66 Siemowski, Jérémy... P255 Siffnerova, Vera... P87 Sikorova, Katerina... P68,P248 Silhova, Elena... O9 Silva, Selma D... P98 Silvera, Carlos... P48 Silvestri, Elena... O3 Silvy, Monique... P7 Simac Susanj, Ines... P66 Simmons, Gregory... P5 Simon, Sophie... P90 Simper, Gwendolin S... O,O56 Sindici, Chiara... P26 Singh, Mandhata... P32 Singh, Meenakshi... P98 Singh, Sandeep K... O59,O63,P76 Sinisalo, Juha... O58,O6 Sinopoli, Silvia... P28 Sioli, Viviana... P Siorenta, Alexandra A... P67 Skalisz, Hanna... P85 Skorobogatova, Elena Vladimirovna... P83 Skoumi, Dimitra A... P67 Slavcev, Antonij... P Smith, Tim P.L... P42 Smits, Marjolein... O26 Soonawala, Darius... O43 Sorin, Elodie... P255 Sortino, Grazia... P98 Sotiriadou, Fotini... P232 Sowiński, Mateusz... P85 Söylemezoğlu, Oğuz... P52 Soyoz, Mustafa... P7,P2,P23,P227 Sözen, Hakan... P52 Spano, Lucia... P28 Spellman, Stephen... P0 Spierings, Eric... O2,O24,O45,P40 Spriewald, Bernd M... P9 Spruyt-Gerritse, Marijke J... O43 Spyropoulou-Vlachou, Maria... O54,P46 Stacey, Sara... P26 Staeck, Oliver... O24,O45 Stankova, Martina... P09 Stavropoulos-Giokas, Catherine... O54,P46 Steckel, Nina K... O6 Štefanić, Mario... P68 Stein, Jeremy E... P84 Stein, Jerry... P95 Stempelmann, Karin... O6 Steri, Maristella... P6 Stevens, Jeroen M.G... O4 Stingl Jankovic, Katarina... P96,P,P83,P93,P242 Stoermer, Melanie... P25 Stoll, Scott... P70 Stölzel, Friedrich... O6 Stranges, Alessia... P27 Strano, Aurora... P88 Stratta, Piero... O8 Studer-Bettens, Florence... O34 Stupniko, Aleksei... O8 Sudarikov, Andrey B... P77 Sullivan, Lucy C... O2,O42 Sundaresh, Aparna... P25,P226,P252,P260 Sürel, Ö. Orkun... P20 Surendranath, Vineeth... O20,P2 Süsal, Caner... O44 Suslova, Tatiana A... P52 Svetec, Magdalena... P22 Svilicic, Danijela... P93,P242 Swelsen, Wendy T... O52,P40,P29 Świerkot, Jerzy... O64,P28,P237 Szczepinski, Andrzej... O36 Szlendak, Urszula... O36,P202 Szydlo, Richard M... O33 4

115 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) T Tafulo, Sandra... P49 Talal, Chatila... P75 Tambe, Manisha... P98 Tambur, Anat R... P5 Tamouza, Ryad... P25,P226,P252,P260 Tandoi, Francesco... P60 Tandon, Nikhil... P222 Tang, Ruoping... O6 Tarassi, Katerina... P26 Taub, Margaret... O60 Taupin, Jean-Luc... P35,P255 Tavarozzi, Franco... O33 Tavkin, Elena... P29 Tedeschi, Sara... P25 Tedesco-Silva, Hélio... P69 Tefik, Tzevat... P59 Temurhan, Sonay... P38,P39,P85 Ten Berge, I.J.M... P40 Teshima, Takanori... O6 Testa, Giuseppe... P25 Testi, Manuela... P24,P25,P243 Tetar, Gayatri C... P29 Thakur, Yogita... P32 Thomas, Pascal... P2 Thomson, Kirsty J... O33 Tielens, Kaat... O2 Tieranu, Ioana... P209 Tiercy, Jean-Marie... P03 Tilanus, Marcel G.J... O25,O26 O28,P40,P57 Tinelli, Carmine... O3,O5,P9,P245 Tissot, Adrien... P8,P9 Todaro, Sonia... O6 Toffalori, Cristina... O6,O40 Tokić, Stana... P68 Tokunaga, Katsushi... P236 Tomaszewska, Agnieszka... O36 Tomkiewicz, Anna... P22,P223 Tomoya Michita, Rafael... O48 Topcu, Sinem... P23 Torgerson, Dara... O60 Toriello Suárez, María... P235 Toriello, Mario... P63 Torres, Franklin... P64 Toscanini, Ulises... P79,P07 Toscano, Sebastiana... P98 Tranquilli, Stefania... P200 Trilling, Mirko... O48 Troiano, Maria... P243 Trojok, Peter... P66 Trucas, Marcello... P228 Trunecka, Pavel... P Trusova, Larisa M... P52 Tsalimalma, Kalliroi... P249 Tsamadou, Chrysanthi... O37,P75,P77 Tsirogianni, Alexandra... P26 Tsuang, Ming... P80 Turazzi, Nice... O27 Turganbekova, Aida... P7,P6 Turiano, Francesco... P208 Turkmen, Aydin... P39,P59,P85 Turnbull, Angus... P5 Turner, David M... P5 Turner, Thomas R... O33 Tyumina, Olga V... P52 U Uçan, Gulsah... P75 Ulman, Maayan... O6 Unal, Ekrem... P75 Uyar-Mercankaya, Merve... O7 V Vaage, John Torgils... P97 Vago, Luca... O6,O27,O40 5

116 32nd EUROPEAN IMMUNOGENETICS AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CONFERENCE ART AND SCIENCE: THE EVOLVING PICTURE OF IMMUNOGENETICS VENICE LIDO, MAY 9-2, 208 Authors' index Valatkaite-Rakstiene, Beatrice... P0 Valencia, Miriam... P20 Valentini, Maria Donatella... P228 Valhova, Sarka... P van Balen, Peter... O35 van de Pasch, Loes A.L... P4,P45,P233 van den Heuvel, Heleen... O50 van der Boog, P.J.M... P40 van der Hoorn, Marie-Louise P... O7 van der Meer, A... P40 van der Pant, K.A.M.I... P40 van der Weerd, N.C... P40 Van der Wiel, Marit K.H... O52,P78 van der Zwan, Anita... O7 van Deutekom, Hanneke W.M... P30,P4 van Duijnhoven, E... P40 van Gelder, Michel... O26 van Ham, Karin... P4 van Heck, Michelle... P45 van Ittersum, F... P40 Van Kooten, Cees... P34 Van Laar, Jacob M... O38 van Reekum, F... P40 Van Sandt, Vicky... P43 van Unen, Vincent... O7 van Wageningen, Sake... P29,P33 van Zuilen, A.D... P40 Vandenbark, Arthur A... O62 Vanegas-Padilla, Yondra... P84 Varughese, Santosh... P62 Vasyukov, Konstantin V... P69 Vavilov, Mikhail N... P52 Vayntrub, Tamara... O,P55 Vecchiato, Cinzia... P6 Vega, Maria Igea... P3,P4,P78,P32 Velier, Mélanie... P90 Vendelbosch, Sanne... P4 Verduci, Anna Maria... P208,P27 Verhaar, M.C... P40 Verite, Franck... P35 Verma, I. C... P56,P250 Verneris, Michael R... P0 Verosimile, Mattia... P220 Verzijl, Cristy... O2 Viard, Thierry... P45 Vicario, Jose Luis... P55,P62 Vidan-Jeras, Blanka... P36,P02,P258 Viken, Marte K... P27 Vilches, Carlos... P55 Vilches-Moreno, Miriam... P2,P24,P207 Villard, Jean... O34,P8,P03 Vince, Nicolas... O5,O60,P04,P8,P9,P22 Vinti, Valentina... P4 Visentin, Jonathan... P35,P28 Vitale, Antonio... P22 Vittoraki, Angeliki G... P67 Vivian, Julian P... O4 Vogel, Benjamin... P33 Voloshin, Sergey... P24 Volpin, Monica... O27 Voorter, Christina E.M... O28,P40,P57 Vrana, Milena... P87 Vrani, Vasiliki... P46 W Wagner, Eva... O37 Wagner, Marta... P240 Walencik, Alexandre... O60,P04,P9,P35 Wang, Hai-Lin... P0 Wang, Jue... P97 Wang, Xiao-nong... O38 Warnecke, Gregor... O3 Waterhouse, Miguel... O6 Watson, Harold... O60 Wehmeier, Caroline... O4 Wenda, Sabine... P23,P99 Wendel, Jennifer... P92,P4 Widjaja, Jacqueline M.L... O2,O4 6

117 JOINT CONFERENCE EFI-AIBT 25 th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society for Immunogenetics and Transplantation Biology (AIBT) Wielińska, Joanna... P237 Wieten, Lotte... O25,O26,O28,P40 Wiland, Piotr... O64 Wilczyńska, Karolina... P229,P238,P240 Wilczyński, Jacek... P229,P238,P240 Wilde, Benjamin... O32,O48 Willem, Catherine... O49 Williams, Kevin... P5 Williams, Timothy... P5 Willis, Amanda... P26 Wilson, James... O60 Wilson, Marie C... O33 Winkler, Cheryl... O5 Wiśniewski, Andrzej... P229,P240 Wisse, B.W... P40 Witkowska, Agnieszka... O36 Witzke, Oliver... O32,O48 Wojcik, Michal... O36 Worah, Kuntal... O23,P37 Woszczyk, Dariusz... P224,P234 Wróblewska-Kabba, Sylwia... P85 Wu, Tao Beijing... P53 Wysoczańska, Barbara... O64,P28,P237 X Xavier, Maria Paula DP... O47,P37 Xue, Elisabetta... O40 Y Yahel, Anat... P95 Yakutik, Igor A... P77 Yang, Jianxin... O43 Yang, Soo Young... P23,P38 Yang, Ya-Chien... P72 Yankova, Petiya... P20 Yasmill, Ramirez... P92 Yazici, Halil... P39,P85 Yeshurun, Moshe... P95 Yuanyuan, Jing... P7 Yuen, Vivian... P45 Z Zakharova, Viktoria... P82,P84 Zaky, Khaled Abdelmonen... P233 Zanelli, Paola F... P25,P27 Zanetti, Adele... P25 Zare, Maryam... P67 Zarras, Charalampos... P29 Zavvos, Georgios... P67 Zdrojowy, Romuald... P22,P223 Zecca, Marco... P204 Zeghal, Khaled... P70 Zeier, Martin... O44 Zhang, Yi... P53 Zhongmei, Wang... P7 Zhunus, Perizat... P7,P6 Ziyaeyan, Mazyar... P67 Zizkova, Radka... P09 Žižková, Veronika... P68,P248 Zoccali, Michele... P27 Zou, Hai... P54 Zubala, Marta... O36 Zucker, Mark... P42 Zunec, Renata... P22,P96,P,P83,P93,P242 Zvonkov, Eugene E... P77 7

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