Program

Evan Eichler, PhD, University of Washington & HHMI, Seattle, WA, USA

The World Health Organization classification of myeloid malignancies: updates in the 5th edition
Joseph Khoury, MD, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA

The International Consensus Classification of myeloid malignancies:  points of divergence from the WHO
Robert Hasserjian, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

NGS Test Development
Birgit Funke, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Newton, MA, USA

The Bioinformatics Pipeline: Principles and Practice Recommendations
Dan Jones, MD, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

Metagenomic Medicine and the Human Microbiome
James Versalovic, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

Microbiome in Health and Disease
Michael Woodworth, MD MSc, Emory University School of Medicine, Cape Elizabeth, ME, USA

Microbiome in Health and Disease
Xin V. Li, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Kenneth Aldape

Laura Tafe, MD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA

Marjorie P. David, MD, MSc, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

ID001 - Clinical Evaluation of the Accelerate Arc™ Module and BC Kit for Isolation of Microorganisms from Positive Blood Culture Broths and Suitability for Maldi-tof Analysis
Blake Buchan, PhD, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Wisconsin, Brookfield, WI, USA

ID014 - Balancing Act in the Face of Variants: Testing Strategies to Minimize Infections and Maximize In-person Learning in Schools
Teddie Proctor, MSN, RN, ThermoFisher Scientific, South San Francisco, CA, USA

ID016 - SARS-CoV-2 Variant Identification in Long Term Viral Shedding and Re-infection Cases at a Tertiary Cancer Center
Krupa Jani, MS, ASCP(iMB), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Jersey City, NJ, USA

ID048 - Detection and Quantification of EBV Transcript in Whole Blood, Plasma and Paraffin Embedded Tissue Samples from Organ Transplant Recipients with Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD)
Ryan Martinez, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

ST052 - The Clinical Utility of DNA Methylation Profiling in Pediatric CNS Tumors: Comparison of Methylation Classification and Integrated Diagnosis in a Cohort of 184 Pediatric CNS Tumors
Luca Pagliaroli, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA

ST077 - Assessing Variability Across HRD Assays: Findings from the Friends’ HRD Harmonization Project
Hillary Stires, PhD, Friends of Cancer Research, Washington, DC, USA

ST081 - Rescuing Low Tumor Cell Content Carcinoma Samples from Formalin-fixed Paraffin-embedded Biopsies for Clinical Next-generation Sequencing by Dielectrophoretic (DEP) Array Sorting
Matija Snuderl, MD, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

ST084 - Reversal of Idh-dependent Global Hypermethylation and Enrichment of TP53 and TERT Mutations Distinguish Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma from Conventional Chondrosarcoma on Integrated Genomic Profiling
Josephine K. Dermawan, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mentor, OH, USA

TT002 - Gene-specific Validation of Copy Number Gains from a Massively Parallel Sequencing Assay
James Corines, DO, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, NY, USA

TT004 - Treatment with DNA Repair Enzyme Removes NGS Variant Call Artifacts in Archival FFPE Tissues
Lisa M. Haley, MS, MB ASCP(CM), Johns Hopkins, Forest Hill, MD, USA

TT006 - Neurodegenerative Disease Differences in Luminex and Lumipulse ATN Categories
Lavanya Jain, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

TT008 - Are We Using the Right Tools to Calculate Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD) Scores?
Nikhil Sahajpal, PhD, Augusta University, Augusta, USA

VITAL Inherited Overview
Madhuri Hegde, PhD, PerkinElmer, Duluth, GA, USA
VITAL Somatic Overview
Marilyn Li, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Eric Duncavage, MD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
Justin Zook, PhD, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD USA

The World Health Organization classification of lymphoid malignancies: updates in the 5th edition
Daphne de Jong, MD, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
The International Consensus Classification of lymphoid malignancies: points of divergence from the WHO
James Cook, MD

Multi-cancer Early Detection Through Multiple Analyte Liquid Biopsy Testing
Frank Diehl, PhD, Exact Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA
Multi-cancer Early Detection
Daniel Duncan, MD, GRAIL, Exact Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA
Genome-wide cfDNA Fragmentation in Patients with Cancer
Timothy McDaniel, PhD, Delfi Diagnostics, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Karen Miga, PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz. CA, USA

Nirali M. Patel, MD, Tempus Labs
2022 Program Chair
Yassmine Akkari, PhD
2023 Program Chair