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The theme for ESBB’s 2015 Annual Conference will be «Biobanking for the environment, nature and clinical medicine». It will take place at the

Olympia Conference Centre in London from Tuesday 29th September to Friday 2nd October.

This unique conference will contain a very strong combination of contributions from both clinical and enviro-bio domains of biobanking. Supporting this theme, the conference has two prestigious local hosts : (1) Imperial College represented by Professor of Molecular Pathology, Gerry Thomas, and (2) the Natural History Museum represented by Molecular Collections Manager, Jackie Macken-zie Dodds.

A pre-conference event on Tuesday will be a meeting on «The Role of the UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre». This UK-focussed event, organised by Anne Carter is expected to attract large numbers of UK participants.

«Networking the Networks» is the title of the main plenary session of the conference-proper with speakers including Hans-Peter Deigner, Erik Steinfelder, Jan-Eric Litton, David Smith and Eileen Graham. Additional sessions will include : Nature & Society ; Biobanking Education ; Ethical, legal and social issues in Biobanking; Interdisciplinary Cryobiology for Culture Collections, Biobanks and Genebanks; Archival DNA : Bringing Dead Collections to Life ; Big Data ; Pathology & Biospecimen Science. The 40 invited speakers include Rob Etches, Barry Fuller, Thomas Leya, Gregor Larson, Uwe Oelmueller, Christina Schroeder, Chris Lyal, Giorgio Stanta, Gunnel Tybring, and many more.

Satellite meetings include : (1) The Chernobyl Tumour Bank and use of its materials organised by Angela Galpine and Gerry Thomas, and (2) Data Enrichment in Biobanking organised by Chris Tomlinson and Gerry Thomas. There will also be contributed paper sessions where talks are selec-ted from submitted abstracts as well as poster viewing and discussion sessions, with prizes for the best posters. In addition, interactive discussion sessions using audience response technology and numerous working group discussions will be held. Exciting Public Lectures sessions on Friday afternoon include : (1) «Ownership of personal genetic information» with speakers including Alastair Kent will take

place at the Olympia Conference Centre. This is particularly relevant following the launch of 23 andme’s full service in the UK last December.

(2) «Use of stem cells to conserve species» with speakers including Rob Etches will take place at the Royal Geographic Society (close to the Natural History Museum). These Public Lectures will be supported by the public relations departments of Imperial College and the Natural History Museum and will attract members of the general public as well as conference participants who will have first priority for admission.

The sessions represent an important opportunity for public engagement in the biobanking field.

Purpose-built conference facilities at Olympia Conference Centre include an auditorium, reception, exhibition area, break-out rooms, all on one level. At the conference exhibition, vendors from around the world will demonstrate the latest products in the 1,768 m2 of exhibition space. The programme allows time for attendees to visit the exhibits: each day from Wednesday to Friday there will be a 1.5 hour lunch break and two 30 minute refreshment breaks, and on Wednesday there will be an evening welcome reception in the exhibition area.

As usual for ESBB conferences there will be a Gala Dinner on Thursday evening for attendees to unwind and enjoy themselves. It goes without saying that London is an exciting destination. To quote the famous English writer, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), «When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life». So Friday evening has been left free for delegates to plan as they choose.

We hope you will join us in London at the end of September for this unique and exciting conference event !

Important deadlines :> Call for abstracts: 1st July 2015> Early Registration: 1st July 2015> Exhibitor Application & Contract: 20th July 2015> For further information please visit: www.esbb.org/london

Olympia LondonHammersmith Road, Kensington, London W14 8UXT: +44 (0)20 7385 1200www.olympia.co.uk

ESBB PresidentProfessor Dr Hans-Peter Deigner

ESBB Executive OfficerDr Robert Hewitt

Local HostsProfessor Gerry Thomas of Imperial College, London and Jackie Mackenzie-Dodds of the Natural History Museum, London

ESBB Programme CommitteeJackie Mackenzie-Dodds (Chair/Local Host)Gerry Thomas (Local Host)Hans-Peter Deigner (ESBB President)Alice MatimbaBalwir Matharoo-BallEmmanuelle GormallyJens HabermannLaura KuijpersErica BensonKeith HardingMaimuna MendyNapavarn NoparatnarapornPeter Riegman

Reinhard ThaslerRonny BaberRosita KammlerDevarajan SriramanErik SteinfelderYeonhee LeeZisis KozlakidisAidan EmeryAngela GalpineChris TomlinsonFrank EmmrichKatie BarkerTherese Koal

OrganisationEtienne Jarry, ejarry@comnco.comBenjamin Richier, brichier@comnco.com12, boulevard Fellen, 13016 Marseille, FranceTel.: (+33) 4 91 09 70 53 - Fax: (+33) 4 96 15 33 08www.comnco.com

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ESBB CONFERENCE MEETING - 29 September - 02 October 2015ESBB

Tuesday 29th September12:00 The Role of the UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination

Centre - Satellite meeting

Wednesday 30th September08:00 REGISTRATION

09:00 OPENING SPEECHES

09:30 SESSION 1. KEYNOTE PLENARY

• Hilde Schroeven-Deceuninck, European Space Agency (ESA), Harwell, UK. Astrobiology sample return and terrestrial biorepositories: how far does the synergy go?

10:15 Refreshments

10:45 SESSION 2A. NATURE & SOCIETY

• Andreas Fath, Furtwangen University, Germany. Human effects on water quality in the river Rhine.

• Julie Russell, Public Health England, Colindale, UK. The NCTC 3000 Project (more info).• Badara Gueye, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria.

Plant genetic resource conservation and use at IITA.• Graham Stone, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Building a UK

pollinator archive.

10:45 SESSION 2B. EDUCATING THE WORKFORCE IN A NEW DISCIPLINE

• Cheryl Gillett, King’s College, London, UK. Reflections on establishing a masters degree in research biobanking.

• Alice Matimba, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe. Biobanking education - strengthe-ning capacity for biomedical research and clinical applications in Africa.

• Gunnel Tybring, Karolinska Inst, Sweden. Biobanks as a resource for biomedical re-search; a post graduate course at Karolinska Institutet for better use of biobank samples.

• Giuseppina Bonizzi, IEO Biobank and Biomolecular Resource Infrastructure (IBBRI), Milan, Italy. A trust-based pact in research biobanks. From theory to practice: to the education.

12:30 Lunch

14:00 SESSION 3A. INTERDISCIPLINARY CRYOBIOLOGY FOR CULTURE COLLECTIONS, BIOBANKS AND GENEBANKS.

• Barry Fuller, UCL Medical School, London, UK. Biopreservation strategies : tales of ice floes, dry deserts and where the water goes to stop biological time.

• Jiri Zamecnik, Crop Research Institute, Prague, The Czech Republic. Analytical aspects of plant cryopreservation: thermal analysis and its importance for long-term stability of stored samples.

• Thomas Leya, Fraunhofer IZI-BB, Potsdam-Golm, Germany. The culture collection of cryophilic algae (CCCryo): a biobank connecting field work with industrial photobioreactors.

• Matt Ryan, CABI, Egham, Surrey, UK. Development of cryopreservation methods for the long- term storage of CABI’s microbial collection.

• Steve Kemp, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya. Building a robust repository of tropical livestock variation.

14:00 SESSION 3B. ARCHIVAL DNA: BRINGING DEAD COLLECTIONS TO LIFE.

• Uwe Oelmueller, QIAGEN, Hilden, Germany. Standardized improved pre-analytical workflows: the bridge to valid and reliable analytical test results.

• Greger Larson, Wellcome Trust Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network (Palaeo-BARN), Oxford, UK. Understanding the evolution, phylogeography and domestication of pigs using genetic and morphometric approaches.

• Tim Fulcher, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. GGBN: a global network of collections of genomic tissue samples from across the Tree of Life.

• Robin Allaby, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Archaeogenomics and the evolution of plants under domestication.

15:45 Refreshments

16:15 SOCIETY FORUMSociety business, news and presentation of various awards. All conference attendees are encouraged to attend.

17:30 POSTER DISCUSSION SESSIONPresenters stand beside their posters during specified 30 minute periods.

19:00 WELCOME RECEPTION

Thursday 1st October08:30 SESSION 4A. BIG DATA: VOLUME, VELOCITY AND VARIETY.

• Christina Schroeder, Fraunhofer IZI-BB, Potsdam-Golm, Germany. From metabiobanks to translational research platforms: integrating Big Data through CRIP tools.

• Jim Dowling, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Managing Big Geno-mic Data with BiobankCloud.

• Steve Kelly, AstraZeneca, UK. AstraZeneca Biobank Application (ABBA): Increasing the utility of human biological samples through standardised characterisation data.

08:30 SESSION 4B. INTERACTIVE SESSION ON ‘FORM VS FUNCTION, MUSEUMS VS BIOBANKS: A COLLECTIONS DEBATE.Chaired by Aidan Emery, Natural History Museum, London, UK.

10:00 Refreshments

10:30 SESSION 5A. ETHICAL ISSUES IN ACCESS AND USE OF BIOLOGICAL AND GENETIC RESOURCES.

• Edward Dove, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK. Towards a culture of sharing: the Global Alliance’s framework for responsible sharing of genomic and health-related data and the International Charter of Principles for Sharing Bio-Specimens and Data.

• Astrid Logo Gajiwal, Tata Memorial Hospital, India. Ethical Issues with Banked Tissues for Research and Transplantation Purposes.

• Chris Lyal, Natural History Museum, London. Provider Country rights over genetic resources – managing risks and improving institutional profile under the Nagoya Protocol.

10:30 SESSION 5B. CHERNOBYL TUMOUR BANK - Satellite meeting.

• Gerry Thomas, Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College, London, UK. Overview and introduction.

• Tania Bogdanov, Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kiev, Ukraine. Turning a disaster to an opportunity - the CTB in Ukraine.

• Sarah Butcher, Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Imperial College, London, UK. Bioinformatic challenges to data enrichment of samples.

• Mark van de Wiel, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Systems biology approches to radiation induced thyroid cancer.

12:15 Lunch

13:45 SESSION 6A. BIOSPECIMEN SCIENCE AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT

• Tilman Rau, Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland. Text-mining pathology reports for Biobanking: strengths, limits and perspectives.

• Anne Carter, UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre, London, UK. NCRI confede-ration of biobanks in UK: medical tissue banks for the UK public health sector.

• Giorgio Stanta, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy. Formalin fixation and paraffin embed-ding as preanalytical conditions of molecular analysis in clinical tissues.

• Therese Koal, BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, Innsbruck, Austria. Impact of sample pre-analytics on the blood and tissue metabolome.

13:45 SESSION 6B. DATA ENRICHMENT - Satellite meeting.

• James Peach, Genomics England, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. Samples and data in the 100,000 Genomes project.

• Brian Shand, NCRS, Public Health England. Biobank linkage to clinical outcomes from the National Cancer Registry Service.

• Yi-Ke Guo, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.

15:30 Refreshments

16:00 SESSION 7A. SHORT PRESENTATIONS OF CLINICAL ABSTRACTS.

16:00 SESSION 7B. SHORT PRESENTATIONS OF ENVIRO-BIO ABSTRACTS.

17:45 WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

20:00 GALA DINNER

Friday 2nd October08:30 INNOVATION AWARD

09:30 Refreshments

10:00 SESSION 8. NETWORKING THE NETWORKS.

• Hans-Peter Deigner, Furtwangen University, Germany & Erik Steinfelder, Thermo-Fisher, NL. ESBB as a vehicle for networking and collaboration.

• Jan-Eric Litton, BBMRI-ERIC, Graz, Austria. BBMRI-ERIC; a new Governance tool for Biobanking in Europe and beyond.

• David Smith, CABI, Egham, Surrey, UK. Microbial Resources Research Infrastruc-ture (MIRRI): common approaches to compliance.

• Henrik Lindberg, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Automated processing for the HUPO biobanking structure.

• Eileen Graham, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. Scientific Collections International: engaging across disciplinary boundaries to combat emerging infectious diseases.

12:00 Lunch

13:00 SESSION 9A. PUBLIC LECTURES AT OLYMPIA ON THE THEME: OWNERSHIP OF PERSONAL (GENETIC) INFORMATION: 23ANDYOU?Chaired by Alastair Kent OBE, Genetic Alliance, UK

13:00 SESSION 9B. PUBLIC LECTURES AT RGS ON THE THEME: BRAVE NEW WORLD OF STEM CELL BANKING AND TECHNOLOGY FOR ENVIRONMENT, NATURE AND HUMAN HEALTH.

• Rob Etches, Crystal Biosciences, CA, USA. «Avian Primordial Germ Cells - bringing back the past, preserving the present and creating the future».

• Oliver Ryder, San Diego Frozen Zoo, CA USA.

• Glyn Stacey, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), Potters Bar, UK.

15:45 Refreshments

16:15 SESSION 10A. SHORT PRESENTATIONS OF CLINICAL ABSTRACTS.

16:15 SESSION 10B. SHORT PRESENTATIONS OF CLINICAL ABSTRACTS.

18:00 END OF CONFERENCE