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Monday 12th April 2010

 

Session 1: Trainee Presentations – Technical

Chair: Dr Gemma Monaghan & Nicola Wolstenholme

 

11.00

SP1 - Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: LIPOchip experience

 

Laura Yarram – Bristol Genetics Laboratory

11.15

SP2 - Introducing next generation sequencing into the molecular genetics diagnostic service

 

James Tellez – Northern Genetics Service, Newcastle

11.30

SP3 - Proof of Principle for the Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis of Fetal Trisomy 21

 

Sarah Fielding – North East Thames Regional Genetics Laboratory

11.45

SP4 - High density array comparative genomic hybridisation (aCGH) for dosage analysis and rapid breakpoint mapping in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)

 

Victoria Cloke – DNA Laboratory GSTS Pathology, Guy’s Hospital

12.00

SP5 - Validation of Methylation Specific PCR for the detection of large FMR-1 expansion mutations in males and females

 

Stacey Mutch – East Midlands Regional Molecular Genetics Service, Nottingham

12.15

SP6 - Mutation detection by massively parallel resequencing of solution-captured human genomic loci.

 

Frances Smith –  DNA Laboratory GSTS Pathology, Guy’s Hospital

12.30

SP7 - Identification of gross deletions in TCOF1: Use of MLPA in the diagnosis of Treacher Collins-Franceschetti syndrome.

 

Michael Bowman – Oxford Molecular Genetics Laboratory

 

 

 

 

Session 2: Trainee Presentations – Cancer

Chair: Dr Penny Clouston

 

14.00

SP8 - SDHB and SDHD Mutation Analysis in Renal Oncocytomas and Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinomas

 

Joanne Ramsay – East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Dundee

14.15

SP9 - Validation of diagnostic and minimal residual disease monitoring assays for mutations in nucleophosmin (NPM1) in a cytogenetically-normal acute myeloid leukaemia (CN-AML) patient cohort.

 

Rachel Coleman – West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratories, Birmingham

14.30

SP10 - A Study of Genetic Susceptibility to Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in a Cohort of Families

 

Abigail Rousseau – Cheshire and Merseyside Regional Molecular Genetics and Cytogenetics Laboratories, Liverpool

14.45

SP11 - Development of Molecular Methodologies for the Enhanced Detection of Tumour Biomarkers

 

Michelle Wood – Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff

15.00

SP12 - Development of an EGFR/KRAS testing service for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

 

Joel Tracey – Department of Medical Genetics, Aberdeen

 
 
Session 3: Guest Speaker

 

15.45 – 16.30

DNA sequencing: a generation game

 

Dr John Milton - Oxford Nanopore

 

 

Session 4: Next Generation Sequencing
Chair: Dr Jenny Taylor

 

16.30

SP13 - The Locus Reference Genomic (LRG) DNA sequence format for LSDBs

 

Dr Raymond Dalgleish – Department of Genetics, University of Leicester

16.45

SP14 - Genetic Diagnosis Using Clonal Sequencing

 

Dr Graham Taylor – Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds

17.00

SP15 - Sample preparation for next generation sequencing – a molecular diagnostics perspective

 

Jonathan Coxhead – Newgene Limited, Newcastle

17.15

SP16 - A 454 Next Generation Sequencing Diagnostic Test for Mutations Predisposing for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Dilated Cardiomyopathy

 

Kulvinder Kaur – Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford

17.30

SP17 - Presentation on Next Generation Sequencing

 

Roche Diagnostics Limited

 
Tuesday 13th April 2010

 

 
Session 5: Trainee presentations – Service Related
Chair: Dr Sarah Warburton

9.15

SP18 - Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome - A New UKGTN Service

 

Kenneth Smith – Bristol Genetics Laboratory

9.30

SP19 - Validation of a novel mutation screening strategy for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia:  LIPOchipฎ, a DNA-array based system

 

Jonathan Callaway – Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory

9.45

SP20 - The development of a diagnostic service for familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR)

 

Eilidh Jackson – Yorkshire Regional DNA Laboratory, Leeds

10.00

SP21 - Identification of mutations in a novel gene for Micro syndrome in a cohort of international patients

 

Frances Bond – West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratories, Birmingham

10.15

SP22 - Analysis of the Glucocerebrosidase (GBA) and GTP Cyclohydrolase-1 (GCH1) genes in a UK cohort of familial Parkinson’s disease patients

 

Piers Fulton – West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratories, Birmingham

10.30

SP23 - Evaluation of the genetic impact on inflammatory bowel disease

 

Natalie Bibb – North West Thames Genetics Laboratory (KGC)

 

 

 

 

Session 6: Service related
Chair: Roger Mountford

 

11.15

SP24 - Expanded PLA2G6 Copy Number Variant Analysis in Patients with Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)

 

Danielle Crompton – West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratories, Birmingham

11.30

SP25 - A review of the Wilson Disease service over the past 15 years.

 

Miranda Durkie – Sheffield Diagnostics Genetics Service

11.45

SP26 - Unexpected de novo mutations – 2 case studies

 

Sheila Palmer-Smith – All Wales Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Cardiff

12.00

SP27 - An elusive expansion at the FRDA locus

 

Claire Healey – Cheshire and Merseyside Regional Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Liverpool

12.15

SP28 - Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome; a polyalanine repeat disorder-the UK cohort.

 

Sarah Burton-Jones – Bristol Genetics Laboratory

12.30

SP29 - Genome wide SNP analysis leads to the identification of compound heterozygous mutations in a pedigree with multiple pregnancies affected with short rib polydactyly type III

 

Professor Sian Ellard – Department of Molecular Genetics, Exeter

12.45

UK NEQAS Participants meeting

To include a debate on “Should Molecular Genetics NEQAS tests be done in ‘real time’ “.

 

 

Session 8: Pharmacogenetics
Chair: Dr Ian Frayling

 

14.45

SP30 - Implementing a K-RAS mutation testing service for colorectal cancer

 

Catherine Faulkes – Molecular Biology Department, Royal Surrey County Hospital

15.00

SP31 - Analysis of a subgroup of patients with uveal melanoma in a Phase II clinical trial of AZD6244 (ARRY-142886) vs temozolomide.

 

Mireille Cantarini – Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals

15.15

SP32 - Temozolamide treatment in Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) correlated with MGMT methylation status. Translation of the EORTC/NCIC trial into routine clinical practice in the UK. A clinical audit of 66 cases

 

Chris Herbert – Bristol Genetics Laboratory

 

 

 

 

Session 9: Bioinformatics and Investigating Pathogenicity
Chair: Dr Steve Abbs

 

16.00

SP33 - Analysis of mis-sense pathogenicity and splicing defect prediction tools for use in the clinical laboratory

 

Elizabeth Hellen – NGRL Manchester

16.15

SP34 - Informatics Projects at NGRL Manchester

 

Glen Dobson – NGRL Manchester

16.30

SP35 - Caf้ for Routine Genetic Data Exchange (Caf้ RouGE)

 

Professor Anthony Brookes – Department of Genetics, University of Leicester

 

 

Session 10: Investigating Mutation Pathogenicity
Chair: Dr David Cockburn

 

16.45

SP36 - Stickler Syndrome: from Research to Diagnostic Service and vice versa

 

Allan Richards – East Anglian Medical Genetics Service, Cambridge

17.00

SP37 - Mitochondrial transfer RNA gene mutations – proving pathogenicity and understanding transmission

 

Emma L Blakely – NCG Rare Mitochondrial Disorders of Adults and Children Service, Newcastle

17.15

SP38 - Genetic analysis of the rare non-HFE genes, Ferroportin, Hemojuvelin, Hepcidin, and Transferrin Receptor 2 in patients negative for the common HFE mutations

 

Patricia Bignell – Oxford Haemophilia & Thrombosis Centre

 

 

Wednesday 13th April 2010

 

Scientific Session
Chair: Dr Fiona Macdonald

 

9.00

JS1 - FLT3 and NPM1 Testing in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML)

 

Louise Stanley – Northern Genetics Service, Newcastle

9.15

JS2 - Implementation of a quantitative/real-time PCR service for the confirmation of copy number changes following array CGH analysis - review of results to date

 

Carol Delaney – SE Scotland Cytogenetics Laboratory, Edinburgh

9.30

JS3 - Process redesign in preparation for the implementation of a laboratory information management system (LIMS)

 

Carolyn Tysoe – Molecular Genetics Department, Exeter

9.45

JS4 - Integrating Molecular Pathology Services in the West Midlands

 

Jennie Bell – W Midlands Genetics Laboratories, Birmingham

10.00

JS5 - Clinical Coding Project at NGRL Manchester

 

Maja Milicic-Brandt – NGRL Manchester

10.15

JS6 - Can Copy Number by Sequencing Replace Array CGH?

 

Kelly Cohen – Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds