International Molecular Pathology Symposium – IMPS 2018

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Provisional Programme

Wednesday 27 June 2018
09.00 - 09.15         Registration, Tea & Coffee

09.15 - 09.45         

Keynote : Jo Martin (President, Royal College of Pathologists) (Chair: Simon Herrington)

Welcome and Introduction : Molecular Pathology in the Post-genome Era

09.45 - 13.00 Digital Pathology
Session 1: (Chair : Simon Herrington)

09.45 - 10.05

Kevin Dhaliwal, The University of Edinburgh - Optical Imaging
10.05 - 10.25 Peter Bankhead, Queen’s University, Belfast - QuPath: Open Source Software for Digital Pathology Image Analysis
10.25 - 10.45 Stefan Hamann, BioGen - Image Analysis in Translational Pathology and Drug Discovery
10.45 - 11.15    Coffee
Session 2: (Chair : Mark Arends)
11.15 - 11.45 Keynote: David Snead , University of Warwick / Coventry - Digital Pathology for Clinical Practice
11.45 - 12.15 Open session with speaker panel/Q&A (Chair : tbc)
12.30 - 13.30    Lunch and posters
13.30 - 17.00 Genomics in Pathology
Session 3(Chair : Margaret Frame)
13.30 - 14.00 Keynote: Caroline Dive - Liquid Biopsy for Cancer Detection 
14.00 - 14.20 Genome Sequencing in Cancer - tbc
14.20 - 14.40 Howard Jacob, Abbvie - Genome Sequencing for Clinical Diagnostics and Drug Discovery
14.40 - 15.10    Coffee
Session 4: (Chair : Tim Aitman)
15.10 - 15.30 Damian Mole - Pancreatitis - Disease Stratification
15.30 - 16.00 Keynote: John Mattick - Genome Sequencing in Health and Disease
16.00 - 16.30 Open session with speaker panel/Q&A (Chair : tbc)
16.30 - 18.00 Close followed by Drinks Reception - tbc