Tuesday, 14th November Asia-Pacific Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Association Meeting 2023

Rhonda Holdsworth - Induction to APHIA Life Membership and presentation 8:15 - 8:30

Effie Pedersdorf - 8:30 - 9:15
Immunogenetics of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

Esteban Arrieta-Bolanos (Virtual presentation) - 9:15 - 9:40
HLA-DPB1 Immunopeptidome in unrelated HCT

Duncan Purtill 9:40 - 10:00
Measuring and preventing GVHD – an ANZ perspective

Prof Rajiv Khanna - 10:30 - 11:10
Adoptive Cellular Immunotherapy for Post-transplant Viral Complications

Dr David Sayer -11:10 - 11:30
How mismatched are matched unrelated donors and what does this mean for future donor selection and typing strategies

Abstract Session: 

• Standardization of NK cell expansion and in-vitro cytotoxicity assay for adoptive NK cell therapies - Selma Z D'Silva
• HLA-DPB1 protein expression - 3’UTR rs9277534A/G SNP and exon 3 sequence correlation in the New Zealand population. - Heather Dunckley
• Changing laboratory requirements in the era of haploidentical transplants - Lyudmila Kostenko
• The chimerism percentage of HLA eplet mismatched unrelated donor-recipient pairs undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplant - Hsing-chi Tseng

Wietse Mulder & Erik Rozemuller
NGS data results in accurate HLA typing and reveals more subtle DNA variations, like LOH and silencing mutations, which can be elucidated by sophisticated software

Prof James McCluskey - Induction to APHIA Life Membership -13:30 - 13:35

Prof James McCluskey 13:35 - 14:10
Mucosal Associated Invariant T cells-adaptive immunity working at the Innate Immunity interface

Prof Stephanie Gras -14:10 - 14:40
Molecular insights into COVID19 Infection and Immunity

Dr Mina John - 14:40 - 15:00
HLA and ERAP epistasis in viral immunity 

A/Prof Lloyd D'Orsogna - 15:00 - 15:15
Molecular insights into HLA-B57 mediated HIV control

Session Sponsor - GenDx (Gold Sponsor) - Vendor Pitch

Prof Andrew Brooks - 15:45 - 16:20
Polymorphism in Killer cell immunoglobulin-like Receptor genes diversifies Natural Killer Cell responses.

Jonathan Downing -16:20 - 16:30 
KIR haplotypes in the Busselton Health Study Cohort 

Dr Dianne De Santis - 16:30 - 16:50
Buccal registry typing: The WA experience

Prof Ilias Doxiadis - 16:50 - 17:15
The Malcolm Simons Lecture- Think different: From bioinformatics to bedside

• Assay Validation Performed in Establishment of  a H&I Standalone laboratory in India. - Mahendra N Mishra
• Evaluation of the Single Antigen Histo Spot HLA Antibody System as a comparison tool against existing single antigen bead assays - Melanie Duck
• Association between HLA variation and disease with data from Chang Gung Research Database and Taiwan Biobank - Jang-Jih Lu
• Factors affecting wait time for deceased donor kidney transplants in Thailand   - Nuchjarnaun Choktaweesak
• HLA Common Null Allele Detection Using a Fast and Easy Crispr-Cas Assay   - Wietse Mulder
• The utility of lysate cross match versus single antigen bead assay in pre-transplant screening - Rajesh Dr Sawant
• HLA DPB1 T-Cell Epitope analysis predicting for Kidney transplantation outcome - Younhee Park
• Monitoring the Prevalence of Anti-HLA Antibodies for Comparatively Advantageous Medical Policy: Retrospective data from January 2021 to April 2023 - Chin-Min Wang
• Can we increase PE-conjugated IgG concentration in HLA Antibodies detection without compromising results? - Woan Jiun Annette Tang
• Assessing the utility of single antigen chip array (HISTO SPOT® HLA AB) for interpreting HLA antibody profiles compared with Luminex-based platforms - Tim Emery
• HLA Alleles, Drug Hypersensitivity Reactions and Drug Efficacy - Venkat Doddi
• Extraction of DNA from COPAN Dry Buccal Swabs using the Maxwell® HT 96 gDNA Blood Kit - ARCHANA YOGENDRA RAUT