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