Annual Meeting 1 July 2019
PROGRAMME
08.30 – 09.00 Registration / tea and coffee on arrival
09.00 – 09.10 Welcome, Paresh Vyas
Session 1: HAEMOPOIESIS Chair: Claus Nerlov
09.10 – 09.35 Trista North, Harvard
Extrinsic regulation of haematopoietic stem cell production in the vertebrate embryo
09.35 – 10.00 Leïla Perié, Institut Curie
Family matters: the role of single cell families in haematopoiesis
10.00 – 10.25 Peter Campbell, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Somatic mutations in normal tissues
10.25 – 10.40 Mario Buono, Oxford
Membrane Kit ligand is required for in vivo progression of triple negative breast cancer: a lesson from the thymus
10.40 – 11.10 Coffee
Session 2: NON-MALIGNANT HAEMATOLOGY Chair: Nicola Curry
11.10 – 11.35 William Lane, Harvard
bloodTyper: Blood Group Genotyping From SNP Arrays to Whole Genomes
11.35 – 12.00 Anindita Roy, Oxford
Discovery of a CD10 negative B-progenitor in human fetal life identifies unique ontogeny - related developmental programs
12.00 – 12.25 Edward Tuddenham, Royal Free Hospital
Gene therapy for Haemophilia
12.25 – 12.40 Andrew King, Oxford
The regulation of ζ-globin expression
12.40 – 13.00 Dr Dilys Neill – Our patients – In their own words
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch (Dining Hall)
Session 3: MALIGNANT HAEMATOLOGY AND TRANSPLANTATION Chair: Bethan Psaila
14.15 – 14.40 Louis Staudt, National Cancer Institute
Precision therapy of lymphoma guided by genomics
14.40 – 15.05 Anjali Kusumbe, Oxford
Age-related angiocrine signals in bone homeostasis and disease
15.05 – 15.30 Ronjon Chakraverty, University College London
Graft-versus-host disease and horror autotoxicus
15.30 – 15.45 Catherine Garnett, Oxford
Transforming mutations in Myeloid Leukaemia of Down Syndrome
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee
GUEST LECTURE
16:15 - 17:00 Benjamin Ebert, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
The biology of myeloid neoplasia: from clonal hematopoiesis to acute leukemia
17:00 Networking reception