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JOINT EFI-AIBT 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 9 40138 Bologna (Italy) Ph. +39 051-300100 Ext. 130 Fax +39 051-309477 e-mail: m.mura@planning.it http://www.planning.it EFI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Elissaveta Naumova (BG), President Joannis Mytilineos (DE) President Elect Mats Bengtsson (SE), Secretary Dave 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) 2 3
JOINT EFI-AIBT ASSOCIATED MEETINGS Tuesday 8 May 2018 8:30-17:30 ESHI diploma examination BUY ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) Wednesday 9 May 2018 8:30-16:00 Standards Committee Meeting ROSSI DRAGO ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) 8:30-9:30 EBTI Assembly meeting 11:30-18:30 IBMDR Meeting CASINÒ ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (1 st FLOOR) CASINÒ ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (1 st FLOOR) 15:00-16:30 Open Meeting of the Population Genetics Working Group (Alicia Sanchez-Mazas) 9:30-17:00 Accreditation Inspectors Workshop PALAZZO CINEMA FOYER Wednesday 9 May 2018 08:30-17:00 EFI Booth PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 8:30-16:00 External Proficiency Testing Committee AMICI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) 10:00-12:00 Scientific Committee Meeting BUY ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) 13:30-17:00 Education Committee BUY ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) MARTINELLI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) 12:15-14:30 Executive Committee and Co-ordinators meeting 8:30-16:30 Executive Committee Meeting MANGANO ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) MARTINELLI ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (2 nd FLOOR) 9:00-16:30 Accreditation Commissioners Meeting 08:30-17:00 EFI Booth 18:00-19:30 EFI General Assembly PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 4 5
JOINT EFI-AIBT PROGRAMME Wednesday 9 May 2018 Opening Ceremony 17:30-18:00 Welcome Addresses Valeria Miotti, Carlo Carcassi, Antonio Amoroso, Elissaveta Naumova 18:00-18:30 In memory of Jon van Rood Frans Claas 18:30-18:55 Julia Bodmer Award Katharina Fleischhauer 18:55-19:00 HLA Award Steven Marsh 19:00-19:30 Ceppellini Lecture Elissaveta Naumova 20:00-21:30 Welcome Reception 9:00-16:00 AIBT Annual Meeting PLENARY SESSION 1 Governance of immune-modulation in transplantation 8:30-9:00 Mesenchimal stem cells in transplantation Katarina Le Blanc 9:00-9:30 Exosome Adrian E. Morelli 9:30-10:00 Innate lymphoid cells Hergen Spits 10:00-10:20 Coffee break & Poster viewing 10:20-11:50 Meet the Expert 1 - ESHI Diploma Marco Andreani, David Turner 12:00-13:00 Luncheon Session I 13:30-14:30 Luncheon Session II CASINÒ ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (1 st FLOOR) 14:40-16:10 Meet the Expert 2 - EPT External proficiency testing Falko Markus Heinemann 6 7
JOINT EFI-AIBT MOSAICI 1 ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 10:20-11:50 Oral Session 1: MHC Evolution - Anthropology - Population Genetics 14:40-16:10 Oral Session 3: Immunotherapy - Gene Therapy - Cellular Therapy 10:20-11:50 Oral Session 2: New Technologies and Bioinformatics 13:30-14:30 Luncheon Session III 14:40-16:10 Oral Session 4: Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation MOSAICI 2 ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) PLENARY SESSION 2 Solid Organ Transplantation 16:30-17:00 T regulatory cell based therapy in promoting tolerance solid organ transplantation Giovanna Lombardi 17:00-17:30 Desensitization in SOT Christophe Legendre 17:30-18:00 Novel Biomarkers for allograft rejection in SOT Minnie M. Sarwal 18:00-19:30 Poster Session (Wine&Cheese) PALAZZO DEL CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 10:20-11:50 Teaching Session 1 How NGS technology is changing the way of HLA typing Joannis Mytilineos, Sarah Peacock 12:00-13:00 Luncheon Session IV 14:40-16:10 Teaching Session 2 Clinical impact of de-novo HLA antibodies in solid organ transplantation Antonina Piazza, David Turner 16:10-16:30 Coffee break & Poster viewing 8 9
JOINT EFI-AIBT PLENARY SESSION 3 HSCT Current clinical perspectives 8:30-9:00 Haplo settings or Impact of non shared haplotype on haplotransplant Leo Luznik 9:00-9:30 Adoptive Immunotherapies in HSCT Chiara Bonini 9:30-10:00 Tregs in HSCT Maria Grazia Roncarolo MOSAICI 1 ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 10:20-11:50 Oral Session 5: Solid Organ Transplantation 12:00-13:00 Luncheon Session V 14:40-16:10 Oral Session 7: Reproduction, Autoimmunity, Infection & Cancer 10:20-11:50 Teaching Session 3 Tools for a successful HSCT: evaluation of HLA allele frequencies, anti-hla antibodies, structural and expression models for permissive mismatches Katharina Fleischhauer, Marcelo A. Fernández-Viña 12:00-13:00 Luncheon Session VI 14:40-16:10 Teaching Session 4 How to prepare for an inspection: demonstrating how quality standards are Met Andrea Harmer, Luca Mascaretti MOSAICI 2 ROOM - PALAZZO CASINÒ (3 rd FLOOR) 10:20-11:50 Oral Session 6: NK and Miscellaneous 10 11
JOINT EFI-AIBT SPECIAL JOINT SESSION WMDA and EFI 14:40-15:10 Past, Present and future of unrelated Donor registries Lidia Foeken 15:10-15:40 Pharma-economics of CB banking in the haplo era Sergio Querol-Giner 15:40-16:10 How to choose the best unrelated HSC donor? Carolyn Katovich Hurley 16:10-16:30 Coffee break & Poster viewing PLENARY SESSION 4 Immunogenetics beyond HLA 16:30-17:00 Immunogenetics in Autoimmunity Francesco Cucca 17:00-17:30 Epigenetic reprogramming in HSCT Angelo Lombardo 17:30-18:00 GWAS in Multiple Sclerosis Stephen Sawcer Saturday 12 May 2018 8:30-10:00 Best Abstract Session 10:00-10:30 17 IHW report The 17 th International HLA & Immunogenetics Workshop Marcelo A. Fernández-Viña 10:30-10:50 Coffee break PLENARY SESSION 5 New Frontiers in Immunogenetics 10:50-11:20 Single Cell Technologies Ido Amit 11:20-11:50 Immunopeptidome Hans-Georg Rammensee 11:50-12:20 Neoantigens in Cancer Immunotherapy Catherine J. Wu Closing Ceremony 12:20-12:50 Closing Lecture Leonardo da Vinci: the prototype of Art & Science man Pietro Cesare Marani 12.50-13.00 Jon van Rood Award and Best Abstract Award Committee Chair: Frans Claas 13.00-13.10 Best Poster Awards Committee Chair: Carlo Carcassi 13.10-13.20 EFI 2019, Lisbon Antonio Martinho 13.20-13.30 Closing Remarks 12 13