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ABN ANNUAL MEETING

PROGRAMME 2006

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SESSION 1: TISSUE BANKING: DONOR PERSPECTIVES
Margaret Otlowski - ‘Donor Perspectives on Issues Associated with Donation of Samples and Information’
Jennifer Fleming - ‘Perspectives of Donors and the Public towards Tissue Banks and Human Genetic Research Databases’
Bronwen Morrell - ‘Public Perspectives on the Ethics of Tumour Banking’
Natalie Morgan & Helen McKelvie - ‘Donating human tissue for reserch use- what's legal, what's ethical and what's personal’
POSTER SESSION PRESENTATIONS
Powerpoint Slides from Poster Session Presentations Genetic Repositories Australia
SESSION 2: TISSUE BANKS: VALUE ADDING
Gerry Thomas - ‘The Issue of Tissue - Banking for Biomedical Cancer Research in the 21st Century’ (slides pending)
Julie Johns - ‘Bio21:MMIM : A New Life Science Grid’
Donna Sheedy - ‘Data Handling – The Hub of a Tissue Resource Centre’
Ruth Pe Benito - ‘CanSto, an information management system for clinicopathological and molecular pathology data’ (slides not available, for information about CanSto please contact Ruth at r.pebenito@garvan.org.au)
Jane Carpenter - ‘Adoption of a Web Based Data Management System for a Multi Centre Tissue Bank’
Michelle Fleming - ‘The Australasian Biospecimen Network – Maximising a Valuable Tissue Resource for Researchers’
SESSION 3: NEW TECHNOLOGY IN BIOSPECIMEN HANDLING
Stephen Hewitt - ‘Tissue Microarrays: New Tools and New Demands on Biorepositories’
Stephen Fox - ‘The use of tissue microarrays (TMAs) for the analysis of tumours’ (slides not available)
Jane Visvader - ‘The prospective isolation of stem cells from breast tissue’ (slides not available)