8:00 - 17:00

Registration Open

12:00 - 18:30   

Exhibit Hall Open

8:30 - 11:30

Biobank Site Visit (Pre-Registration Required)

11:30 - 12:30

Lunch

12:30 -15:20  

Session 1: In Vivo Preanalytics

• Welcome and Introduction 
• Keynote: Putting Biospecimen Best Practices in Action for the Cancer Moonshot - H. Moore
• Circadian Rhythms and Biospecimens     
• Diet, exercise, and DNA methylation; "Body Time" from a single blood test - A. Kramer

14:00 - 14:30

Networking Break with Exhibits

• Thanatotranscriptomics - M. Aguirre
• Biological variability and plant transcriptomics - M. Castellanos

15:20 - 16:35

Session 2A: Ex Vivo Preanalytics

• Impact of ex vivo RNA degradation on RNAseq
• Standardization on exosome research, Exosomics - D. Zocco
• Protein Extraction methods and proteomics

16:35 - 17:00 

Networking Break with Exhibits

17:00 - 18:00

Poster Reception and Exhibition Tour

18:00 - 19:00 

Networking Dinner

8:00 - 17:00

Registration Open

9:30 - 16:30

Exhibit Hall Open

9:00 - 10:15

Session 2B: Ex Vivo Preanalytics

•  Long term storage of FFPE and IHC     

• PERM, a new QC metric for FFPE - S. Hewitt

• DNA preservation in degraded insect specimens - I. Barnes

10:15 - 10:50

Networking Break with Exhibits

10:50 - 12:30

Session 3: Microbiome

• Diet design and reporting for studies of intestinal microbiota - D. Klurfeld

• Temporal and technical variability of human gut matagenomes - P. Costea

• Stool metagenomics       

• Quantitative metagenomics - J. Raes

12:30 - 13:30

Networking Lunch with Exhibits

13:30 - 15:30

Debate/Workshop

15:30 - 16:30

Oral Abstract Presentations

16:30 - 16:40

Poster Awards Ceremony

16:40 - 17:00

Closing Remarks