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Welcome and Official Conference Opening |
Ms Lisa Devereux
Australasian Biospecimen Network - Oncology |
Biobanking: Reflections of the Past and Future; an International and Australian perspective |
Dr Marienne Hibbert - ‘BioGrid Australia: Health through information’
Project Director, BioGrid Australia |
Dr Anna DeFazio - ‘Biobanking: reflections of the past, glimpses of the future – Australasian perspective’
Head, Gynaecological Oncology Research Group, Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, Westmead Hospital , Sydney |
Biobanking Present |
Dr Anne Thompson - ‘The Victorian Cancer Biobank three years on - successes and challenges’
Executive Officer, Victorian Cancer Biobank
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Professor Margaret Otlowski - ‘NHMRC Biobank Information Paper’
Deputy Director of the Centre for Law and Genetics, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania , Hobart , Tasmania
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Talks from Abstracts Session |
Andrew Hallahan - ‘Eph & ephrin expression in paediatric cancer: application of a tumour bank resource’
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J. Pereira - ‘CELL LINE MIS-IDENTIFICATION AND CONTAMINATION: AUSTRALIAN CELL CULTURE CONTAMINATION RATES’ |
J. Carpenter - ‘DEVELOPMENT OF THE eBAS (ELECTRONIC BIOREPOSITORY APPLICATION SYSTEM). A WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION AND PROCESSING OF APPLICATIONS TO THE BREAST CANCER TISSUE BANK’ |
| Biobanking: Future |
Dr Robyn Woods - ‘Biobus - taking the laboratory to the people’
Study Director, Australia 's Healthy Ageing Biobank, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne
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Dr Anthony Gill - ‘International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC)’
Surgical pathologist, Royal North Shore Hospital , University of Sydney and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney
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Professor David Bowtell - ‘Molecular subtype analysis of ovarian cancer’
Head, Cancer Genetics and Genomics Laboratory and Director of Research Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria |
Mr Gavin Wright - ‘Translational research: Yesterday's Tissue, Tomorrow's Treatment’
Director of Surgical Oncology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne , Victoria
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| Whole Genome Sequencing and SNP analysis: Important considerations for Biobanks – Panel Discussion |
Chairs – Ms Heather Thorne kConFab, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne
Dr Jenn Fleming Princess Alexandra Hospital , Queensland
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| Lawyer – Professor Dianne Nicol University of Tasmania , Hobart |
| Researcher – Dr Jeremy Jowett Baker IDI, Melbourne |
| Ethicist – Mr Jeremy Kenner Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne |
| Consumer Advocate – Heather Drum Breast Cancer Network Australia , kConFab |
