Wednesday, 15th November Asia-Pacific Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Association Meeting 2023

Session Sponsor - Thermo Fisher (Platinum sponsor) and vendor pitch

Anat Tambur - 8:30 - 9:10
In search of permissible and unacceptable HLA-DQ mismatching

Borae Park - 9:10 - 9:40
Efforts Towards Harmonization of Histocompatibility Results and Optimization of Tests for Deceased Donor Transplant in Korea: Past, Present, and Future

Narelle Watson - 9:40 - 10:00
Impact of the new Kidney matching and allocation algorithm on transplant rates of Highly sensitised patients in Australia

Session Sponsor - ParagonCare (Silver + sponsor) and vendor pitch

Prof Jill Hollenbach - 10:30 - 11:10
Ask Me Anything: HLA Insights Through Donor Registry Surveys

Prof Katsushi Tokunaga - 11:10 - 11:40
Genome diversity and disease associations

Dr Silvana Gaudieri - 11:40 - 12:00
Human genetic diversity: an immunological advantage but a technical challenge 

Abstract Session 12:00 - 12:10 

• MHC Conserved extended haplotypes in families from the Middle East: implications for disease association and transplantation in an admixed population. - Halima Alnaqbi

David Lowe
Defining HLA-specific antibody epitopes using adsorption-elution Techniques

Prof Rob Liwski - 13:30 - 14:10
From Halifax to AXE, Developing Cutting Edge Protocols for HLA Antibody Detection

Prof Michaela Lucas -14:10 - 14:40
Tissue resident immunity in solid organ transplantation

Lloyd D'Orsogna -14:50 - 15:00
C3d-binding assay for the detection of complement activating HLA antibodies: A useful tool for allocation to highly sensitised recipients in the post-CDC era?

Wai Lim - 14:50 - 15:00
HLA, Alleles and Antibodies: A Clinician's Perspective

Dr Fredrick Mobegi - 15:30 - 15:40
Harnessing the power of third-generation sequencing and cloud computing to enhance immunogenetics.

Opportunity, anecdote, or pseudo-sci-tech?

David Lowe - 16:00 - 16:10
Defining the crucial residues for HLA antibody binding using site-directed mutagenesis

Melinda Jasper - 16:50 -17:00
Development of a method to sequence homologous chromosomes from a single cell 

Abstract Session: 

• 15:40 - 15:50 Linda Smith Award - Development and validation of non-classical HLA genotyping assay targeting HLA-E, -F, -G, -H, MICA and MICB using 48 International Histocompatibility Workshop (IHW) samples - Naser El-lagta
• 15:50 - 16:00 HLA-TYPING USING A LONG-READ HLA CAPTURE METHOD COMBINED WITH ONT OR PACBIO SEQUENCING - Erik Rozemuller
• 16:10 - 16:20 Bioinformatic tool to assist unacceptable antigen analysis for solid organ transplant patients - Linh Truong
• 16:20 - 16:30 EPLET and PIRCHE II scores in Northern Territory Renal Transplant Recipients from 2012-2022 from Indigenous and Non-indigenous backgrounds - Kushan Wathsala Munasinghe
• 16:30 - 16:40 Development and evaluation of an HIV-1 full length pol PCR and NGS pipeline. - Alison Castley
• 16:40 - 16:50 Evaluation of a digital droplet PCR method for the detection of α and beta tryptase gene copy number associated with hereditary α-trypasemia - Renee Berry