AMP 2017 Global Congress: Meeting Presentations and Handouts

The AMP 2017 Global Congress (April 3-5, 2017 in Berlin, Germany) highlighted a multi-disciplinary scientific program showcasing molecular technology with clinical applications in oncology, genetics, and infectious diseases. The emphasis was on modern, user-friendly laboratory analytics supported by informatics tools to facilitate interpretation of actionable genomic test results.

 

The purchase of this product provides you with downloadable PDF slides of many of the presentations given during the AMP 2017 Global Congress. See the "topics" tab for a list of all the presentations with slides available.

 

 

 

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Course Information
Course Date:
April 03, 2017
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Monday April 3, 2017
AMP Global Congress 2017 - Program Book and Opening Remarks
Short Courses in Informatics: Practical Informatics: Interpretation

Somatic Variant Interpretation and Reporting - The Informatics Underpinning in the Light of Recent AMP Guidelines  
Somak Roy, MD, Molecular and Genomic Pathology Laboratory UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

 

Complexities in the Analysis and Interpretation of NGS Data for Inherited Disorders
Avni B. Santani, PhD, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Short Courses in Informatics: Practical Informatics: Pipeline

Methods for Calling and Prioritzation of Somatic Variants from Panel, Exome and Genome Sequencing   
Dieter Beule, PhD, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

 

Validation of NGS Bioinformatics Pipelines: The AMP Working Group Guideline
Alexis B. Carter, MD, FCAP, FASCP, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA

Short Courses in Informatics: Practical Informatics: Mining Databases

Linking Whole-Exome Cancer Sequencing Analysis with Therapeutics and Other Datasources
Aik Choon Tan, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

 

What Have Public Databases Taught Us about Clinical Variant Classification
Stephen E. Lincoln, Invitae, San Francisco, CA, USA

General Session: Mining Clinical Information from Big Data

Molecular Pathology Informatics - Infrastructures and Toolsets for Distributed and Scalable Cancer Genomics in Clinical Practice   
Mark J. Routbort, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

 

ClinGen Allele Registry, Pathogenicity Calculator, and the Emerging Computational Knowledge Resources for Clinical Genomics
Aleksandar Milosavljevic, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Tuesday April 4, 2017
General Session: Cancer Diagnostics: Therapeutic Resistance and Minimal Residual Disease

Cancer Evolution as a Therapeutic Target
Mariangela Russo, PhD, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

 

Molecular Diagnostics in Myeloid Malignancies in the Era of NGS - Changing Paradigms
Christian Thiede, MD, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany

Breakout Session: Profiling ctDNA, CTC and Cell Free DNA

Circulating Tumor DNA in the Real World: Challenges and Opportunities    
Christina Lockwood, PhD, DABCC, DABMGG, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

 

The Clinical Applications and Validation of Cell-free DNA-based Digital PCR Assays
Maria E. Arcila, MD, Memorial Sloan Kattering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Breakout Session: Advanced Diagnostics for Hematopoietic Neoplasms

Next Generation Sequencing and Leukemia Diagnosis
Manja Meggendorfer, MD, MBA, MML Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany

 

Impact of NGS Data on Lymphoma Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment
Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, MD, PhD, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Breakout Session: Economic Considerations in Genomic Testing & Panel Design

Choose Wisely: Comprehensive vs Targeted Genetic Tumor Profiling
Albrecht Stenzinger, MD, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

 

Syndromic Infectious Disease Testing: Advantages, Challenges and Opportunities   
Melissa B. Miller, PhD, D(ABMM), UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

General Session: Small & Degraded Samples

Circulating Tumor Cells, Cell Free DNA, Liquid Biopsies    
Klaus Pantel, MD, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany

 

Targeted Sequencing in Small Tissue Biopsy Specimens
Mike Hubank, PhD, The Centre for Molecular Pathology, Royal Marsden Hospital, Surrey, United Kingdom

Breakout Session on Tissue Specimens: Clonal Evolution and Heterogeneity in Solid Tumors

Molecular Prostate Cancer Heterogeneity
Peter J. Wild, MD, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

 

Intratumoral Heterogeneity: Inferring How Human Tumors Grow
Darryl K. Shibata, MD, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Breakout Session on Tissue Specimens: New Aspects in Immunotherapy & Epigenetics

Immunotherapy From the Pathologist's Perspective (PD-L1)   
Janis M. Taube, MD, MSc, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Open Access PERSONAL Genomics and Epigenomics
Stephan Beck, PhD, FMedSci, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Breakout Session on Tissue Specimens: Tissue Specimens: Viral Carcinogenesis

HPV-Induced Carcinogenesis and Viral Integration
Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz, MD, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

 

Viral Carcinogenesis in Polyomavirus-Induced Carcinogenesis and Viral Integration
Axel zur Hausen, MD, PhD, Maastricht UMC+, Maastricht, Netherlands

Abstract Sessions

Oral presentations of selected abstracts.

 

Infectious and Heritable Disease Presentations

New Syndrome: First Patient with Heterozygous Deleterious PIG-Q Mutations Causing a GPI-anchor Biosynthesis Deficiency
Lois J. Starr (Omaha, USA)

 

Simultaneous Detection and Typing of Alpha, Beta and Gamma HPV Using Target Enrichment and Whole Genome Sequencing
Tengguo Li (Atlanta, USA)

 

Rapid Detection and Identification of Uveitis Pathogens by Qualitative Multiplex Real Time PCR followed by High Resolution Melting
Paulo J. M. Bispo (Boston, USA)

 

Oncology and Drug Resistance Presentations

Clinical Evaluation of a Novel NGS-Based HIV-1 Drug Resistance Monitoring Test
Charlie Lee (Singapore, Singapore)

 

Targeted Bisulfite NGS of a DNA-methylation Multimarker Panel for Cancers of the Urinary Tract in Liquid Biopsies
Stefan Karst (Berlin, Germany)

 

Detect 0.1% Low Frequency Somatic Variants in Cell-free DNA Using Oncomine<sup>TM</sup> cfDNA Assays and Ion Torrent Sequencing
Jeff Schageman (Austin, USA)

 

Multi Institutional Evaluation of a High Sensitive NGS Assay for Liquid Biopsy Mutation Detection in Lung Cancer
Claudia Vollbrecht (Berlin, Germany)

 

Hematopathology Presentations

Small Customizable Next-Generation Sequencing Based Target Capture Panels in a Clinical Environment Can Detect Variant Mutations at Frequencies as Low as 0.5%
Lisa M. Chamberlain (San Diego, USA)

 

B- and T-Cell Immune Repertoire Characterization by Anchored Multiplex PCR and Next-Generation Sequencing
Jens Eberlein (Boulder, USA)

Wednesday April 5, 2017
General Session: New Applications in Clinical Microbiology and Oncology

The Triumph of MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry and New Developments in Tandem Mass Spectrometry for Clinical Microbiology   
Haroun N. Shah, PhD, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

Short Courses: Updates in Molecular Tumor Pathology

Updates on the Guidelines for Lung Cancer Testing
Neal I. Lindeman, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

 

Classification of Brain Tumors by Methylation Analysis   
Andreas von Deimling, MD, University Heidelberg and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

 

HER2 in Gastric Cancer    
Josef R&#252schoff, MD, Institute of Pathology Nordhessen, Targos Molecular Pathology GmbH, Kassel, Germany

Short Courses: Interface Between Infectious Agents and the Human Genome

The Human Gastrointestinal Microbiome and Advances in Metagenomic Medicine
James Versalovic, MD, PhD,  Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

 

Update on the Use of Human Gene Expression for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
Gregory A. Storch, MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Short Courses: Liquid Specimens: Prenatal and Urine

NIPT Beyond Aneuploidy Screening
Rossa W.K. Chiu, MBBS, PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 

Molecular Testing of Urine for Detection of Cancer
Per Guldberg, PhD, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

General Session: Quality Assurance in Molecular Diagnostics

Quality Assurance in Pathology: The QuiP Experience
Manfred Dietel, University Hospital Charité, Berlin, Germany
 

Good or Bad Sequencing Data?  Setting a Benchmark for the Quality of NGS in the Diagnostic Lab
Simon Patton, PhD, European Molecular Genetics Quality Network (EMQN), Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom

Closing Remarks
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