Thursday 8 February
Plenary sessions
Evolutions in molecular techniques - Karl Vandepoele (UZ Gent)
Evolutions in flow cytometry - Davide Bruse (UCLouvain)
Evolutions in digital pathology - Glenn Broeckx (ZNA)
Parallel session: Molecular Biology
Epigenetics and response to immunotherapy/methylation analysis - Igor Fijalkowski (UGent)
ddPCR - Wim Trypsteen (UGent)
Parallel session: Flow Cytometry
Spectral flow cytometry for high-parameter analysis - Susan Schlenner (KU Leuven)
Multidimensional flow analysis - Sarah Bonte (UGent, UZ Gent, VIB) Annelies Emmaneel (UGent, VIB)
workshop 1
1.1 Start validation of a novel flowcytometer - Malicorne Buysse (UZ Gent)
1.2 How to: cytometry data preprocessing and quality control in R - Sarah Bonte (UGent, UZ Gent VIB), Annelies Emmaneel (UGent, VIB)
1.3 Digital microscopy of bone marrow and body fluids - Marie Salin (Westmedica), Kathleen Deiteren (UZA)
1.4 Massive Parallel Sequencing - Friedel Nollet (AZ Sint-Jan)
1.5 Interpretation of clonality analyses (IG & TR) - Elke Boone (AZ Delta)
1.6 WHO2022 and ICC guidelines: an overview - Nancy Boeckx (UZ Leuven)
workshop 2
2.1 Panel design: tips & tricks - Gert Van Isterdael, Katrien Van der Borght (VIB-UGent)
2.2 LSC gating - Willemijn Scholten, Jannemieke Carbaat, Daphne den Hartog (VUMC, Amsterdam)
2.3 Bio-informatics for dummies - Cedric Hermans (HOWEST)
2.4 Bionano for dummies - Barbara Dewaele (UZ Leuven)
2.5 RNA sequencing for the detection of fusion transcripts - Marie Le Mercier (UZA)
2.6 Statistical methods in validation reports and QC - Jeremie Gras (IPG)
Friday 9 February
Plenary session
The cell- and gene therapy landscape in Belgium - Nathalie Cools (UA) (no presentation)
Genetic predisposition in oncohematology - Jolien De Bie (UZ Leuven)
Workshop 3
3.1 Blood and bone marrow differentiation by flowcytometry - Barbara Depreter (UZBrussel/AZ Delta)
3.2 Quality assurance in flow cytometry: discussion of guidelines - André Gothot (CHU Liège)
3.3 Experience meets innovation: how the Cytobank platform can benefit your data analysis - Cristina Wolf (Beckman Coulter/Analis)
3.4 Nanopore sequencing - Jozef Dingemans (Jessa)
3.5 IGH hypermutation analysis - Sabine Franke (CHU Liege)
3.6 ISO15189:2022 what's new? - Johan Guns (UZ Brussel)
Workshop 4
4.1 Your pathway to new discoveries: from Spectral Flow Cytometry analysis to Single-Cell Multiomics - Ray van Haaren / Stefano Bonelli (Becton Dickinson)
4.2 Application of EuroFlow standardization for flow cytometric MRD applications in hemato-oncology - Mattias Hofmans (UZ Gent)
4.3 Molecular MRD applications in hemato-oncology - Marleen Bakkus, Emmanuelle Kabongo (UZ Brussel)
4.4 Bioinformatics workshop on sequencing, introducing data formats, analysis and visualization - Paco Hulpiau / Cedric Hermans (HOWEST)
4.5 People management in lab environment - Jeremie Gras (IPG)
Parallel session: Myeloid Malignancies
MB&C of AML (casus based) - Barbara Cauwelier (AZ Sint Jan)
MB&C of MDS/MPN (casus based) - Mohammad Amir (Jessa)
Parallel session: Lymphoid Malignancies
MB&C of B-CLL (casus based) - Steven Weekx (GZA)
MB&C of AITL (casus based) - Karin Van der Heijden (UZA)