Biobanking sample and data management: Automation and best practice - 18th Feb 2014

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Cineworld: The O2, London, SE10 0DX, UK

www.regonline.co.uk/bankauto2014

This new event will discuss all aspects of sample and data management within the biobanking sector.

Looking at automation protocols and equipment, use of IT and obtaining and maintaining ethical consent, this will bring together biomedical and biopharmaceutical researchers, regulators, biorepository managers, and practitioners to establish best methods for effective management of biospecimens

This event has CPD accreditation and is part of BioBanking 2014 - www.biobanking2014.com

Who Should Attend

Academic and Research Institutes: Group and Lab Heads, Postdoctoral Scientists and Research Students, Technical staff

Biotech and Pharma Industry: CEOs, Chief Scientists, Group Heads, Senior and Junior Scientists, Research

Biobank Staff and Managers

From the following departments:

The Deadline for abstract submissions for oral presentation is November 10th 2013

Abstracts for poster presentation only can be submitted up to two weeks before the event

You can download the instructions for authors at www.euroscicon.com/AbstractsForOralAndPosterPresentation.pdf

Talk times include 5 – 10 minutes for questions

9:00 – 9:45 Registration

9:45 – 10:00 Introduction by the Chair

10:00 – 10:30 Talk title to be confirmed

Professor Joseph Schenker, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:30 – 11:00 Talk title to be confirmed

Mr Philip Quinlan, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

11:00 – 11:30 Speakers’ photo then mid-morning break and poster exhibition and trade show

11:30 – 12:00 Don’t forget to share! Data access in the new data economy

Professor Madeleine Murtagh, University of Leicester, Health Sciences Population Sciences

12:00 – 12:30 ORAL PRESENTATIONS

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch, poster exhibition and trade show

13:30 – 14:30 Discussion Panel

14: 30 – 15:00 Treating male infertility: why do we need a biobank for testicular biopsies?

Professor Davor Jezek, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Infertility affects 15% couples within EU and is, therefore, a major health problem. Incidence of male infertility is rising due to various genetic, infectious and environmental factors. The most difficult patients to treat are those presenting with azoospermia (no spermatozoa in the ejaculate). Approximately 8% of infertile man are diagnosed either with obstructive (OA) or non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) and are frequently subjected to (micro)surgical spermatozoa retrieval (testicular biopsy) known as testicular sperm extraction (TESE). TESE can be divided into “classical” (“open” testicular biopsy) or micro-TESE. In both cases, obtained testicular tissue can be frozen for future in vitro fertilization procedure/s

15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Tea, last poster session and trade show

15:30 – 16:00 Mining Epidemiological Archives - Some Lessons from NMR-based Metabonomics

Dr Richard H Barton, Research Fellow, Imperial College London, UK

Experiences in split sample analysis, and in mining of some established biosample archives has provided useful lessons and caveats with regard to sample integrity. Issues such as reliable sample ID, sample acquisition and handling practices prior to storage, and sample aliquoting and archiving practices are all shown to be important. The presence of drug metabolites can also introduce some challenges. The likelhood that archives currently being established will be later analysed by techniques which are not yet established, presents challenges for preserving sample integrity in the face of the unknown methods of the future.

16:00 – 16:30 Talk title to be confirmed

16:30 - 17:00 Chairman’s summing up

Registration Website: www.regonline.co.uk/bankauto2014

About the Speakers

Madeleine Murtagh

research comprises social studies of transdiciplinary bioscience, biomedical and public health communities of practice, bringing a social ‘lens’ to knowledge generation and translation in population science and technology, particularly in relation to population biobanks, birth cohort studies and randomised controlled trials.

• This research focuses on three areas of work:

• The Data Economy: data sharing and data access in the bioknowledge economy.

• Epistemic Values in data governance, interpretation and knowledge-making.

• Collaborative Intelligence in the development of bioknowledge communities of practice and stakeholder engagement

Davor Ježek is a full professor at Dept. of Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He acquired his postdoctoral training at Dept.of Pathology, University of Innsbruck, and Dept. of Andrology, University in Hamburg. Dr. Ježek´s areas of research are male infertility, testicular biopsy processing and cryostorage, testicular biobanking and reproductive medicine, electron microscopy, immunohistochemical and morphometric analysis. He published a number of research papers in CC/ISI indexed journals and several books/chapters on male infertility. Dr. Jezek is currently involved in one FP7 EU project and several other international and national research projects.

Richard H Barton: Following the PhD which identified 3 enzymes and characterized their catalytic properties using quantitative 13C NMR spectroscopy, Richard worked in the UK Biotech industry, before freelancing in France. Subsequently he took a position in the (now) Computational and Systems Medicine division of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, where he is a Research Fellow. He has been involved in the development of spectral editing and data filtering techniques to enhance information recovery from high-field NMR data from biofluids. These metabonomic techniques have been applied to “fingerprinting” the repertoire of metabolic markers associated with the pathogenesis of type II diabetes, models of aging, microbial metabonomics, human disease processes, and the molecular epidemiology of human populations. He is also associated with the Centre for Integrated Systems Biology Imperial College (CISBIC), and is involved in a major EU FP7 initiative on the role of the microbiome in fatty liver disease..

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