Invited Papers

Name

Affiliation

Lecture

Thomas Arzberger 

Ludwig-Maximilians University, DE

Brain Net Europe – a Network of European Brain Tissue Biobanks (short talk) 

Roger Bjugn

Ulleval University Hospital, NO

Turning hospitals into biobanks

Paul Burton 

University of Leicester, UK

Design and specifications of biobanks 

Anne Cambon-Thomsen   

INSERM, FR

Promoting the use of biobank resources: the challenges of exchanges and openness policies

Alejandra Contreras   

National Institute of Genomic Medicine, MX

A DNA bank to track back population genomics: the INMEGEN biobank

Julie Corfield   

AstraZeneca R&D Charnwood, UK

Relevance of biobanking to sustain R&D activities of the Pharmaceutical Industry (in Europe)

Collet Dandara

University of Witwatersrand, ZA

Genetic diversity in African populations with respect to pharmacogenetically relevant genes (short talk)

Isabel Fortier 

Université de Sherbrooke, CA

Towards harmonization of biobanking initiatives, a comparative analysis of population-based biobanks

Andres Garcia-Montero

University of Salamanca, ES

The Spanish National DNA bank infrastructure: promoting disease-oriented genetic/genome research 

Herbert Gottweis 

Universität Wien, AT

Publics and images of biobanks  

David Gurwitz

National Laboratory for the Genetics of Israeli Population, IL

Public biobanks: involvement of children  

Pierre Hainaut

International Agency for Research on Cancer, FR

Biobanks for epidemiologic studies: the EPIC/IARC experience  

Robert Hewitt 

NUH-NUS Tissue Repository, SG

Biobank networks in Asia  

Jaakko Kaprio

University of Helsinki, FI

The Genome EU Twin Project: a tool for genetic/lifestyle environmental research  

Jane Kaye 

University of Oxford, UK

Intellectual property and commercial issues around biobanking 

Bartha Maria Knoppers  

Université de Montréal, CA

Laws and regulations on biobanks: present status and future directions

Juha Kononen    

University of Tampere, FI

Creation of integrated data mining environment linking individual data to clinical cellular and molecular information

Sandra Lee   

Stanford University Medical Center, US

Community-based genetic studies: experiences from donor recruitment to social impact

Jan-Eric Litton   

Karolinska Institutet, SE

Harmonization of IT infrastructure across countries

Rikke Lund 

Copenhagen University, DK

Life course influences on Biomarkers in Midlife? The Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank (short talk) 

Catherine McCarty

Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, US

Community engagement for a population-based biobank: the Marshfield Clinic Personalized Medicine Research Project experience

Joe McPartlin  

Trinity College Dublin, IE

Public Response to Request for a DNA Sample For Research (short talk) 

Andres Metspalu 

University of Tartu, EE

The Estonian population-based genome biobank project

Joseph Mintzer 

Coriell Institute for Medical Research, US

Global centers for biological resources: the Coriell/BioRep experience 

J.J. Nietfeld 

University Medical Center Utrecht and INTRESCO, NL

Software codes versus biocodes for sample and data traceability 

Carla Nisii 

National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IT

The biobank of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘L. Spallanzani’: a facility at the service of research on infectious diseases (short talk) 

Bill Ollier  

University of Manchester, UK

From the sample to the researcher: types of samples, sample preparation, manipulation and archiving

Alison Parry-Jones   

Cardiff University, UK

Patient Involvement (short talk)

Rivka Ravid

Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences

Biobanking for diagnostic markers in neurological disorders
(short talk)

Ramon Risko

University of Sevilla, ES

Innovative technologies for cryopreservation of cancer-relevant samples for biobanking (short talk) 

Kharlampi Tiras 

Russian Academy of Sciences, RU

General biology in 21 century: from museums of "mortified" samples to electron images of living biological objects (short talk) 

GertJan van Ommen 

Leiden University Medical Centre, NL

Advances in sample analysis: complex molecular phenotyping and whole genome sequencing 

Jim Vaught

National Cancer Institute, US

Development and implementation of a quality control/quality assurance for biological resources: the NCI experience 

Susan Wallace

Université de Montréal, CA

CARTaGENE Governance Mechanism: Past, Present and Future (short talk)  

Erich Wichmann

Helmholtz Center, DE

Phenotypic and genetic information associated to a biobank  

Kurt Zatloukal 

Medical University of Graz, AT

The BBMRI European project