ACLPS 2023 Program

Wednesday, 7 June 2023

4:00–6:00 PM | Registration Desk Open

4:00–10:00 PM | Shuttles to UVA/Downtown Charlottesville

• Optional 30-minute UVA tour including the Rotunda, the Lawn (Pavilions, Hotels, gardens, student rooms), Edgar Allen Poe’s room, and the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers

• Downtown features many restaurant options, reservations suggested

Thursday, 8 June 2023

7:30 AM–5:00 PM | Registration Desk Open

7:30–8:30 AM | Breakfast

8:30–10:00 AM | Welcome; Scientific Session 1

• Harnessing Microfluidics for a Small Portable, Cost-effective System for Ultrafast DNA Genotyping. James Landers (UVA)

• Immunoglobulin free light chains measurement in CSF as a diagnostic test in multiple sclerosis. Maria Willrich (Mayo)

10:00–10:25 AM | Break

10:25–11:50 AM | Scientific Session 2

• Ex vivo platelet production: Promises, barriers, strategies. Adam Goldfarb (UVA)

• Building better names for lab tests: The TRUU-Lab initiative. Ila Singh (Baylor)

11:50 AM – 1:00 PM | Lunch and Executive Council Lunch

1:00–2:25 PM | Scientific Session 3

• What is metrological traceability and why should you care? Greg Miller (VCU)

• VEXAS syndrome and hematological malignancies: The what, the how, and the why. Ifey Obiorah (UVA)

2:25–2:50 PM | Break

2:50–5:00 PM | Scientific Session 4

• Health is wealth: Designing equitable clinical laboratories for thriving communities. Octavia Peck Palmer (Pittsburgh)

• Chimeric RNA fusions and their implications in cancer. Hui Li (UVA)

• A winning formula for a medical laboratory formulary. Jim Harrison (UVA)

5:00–5:10 PM | ACLPS 2024 Introduction: Columbia University, New York City, June 6 - 8, 2024

6:00–8:00 PM | Welcome Reception, DoubleTree Promenade Ballroom and Terrace

Friday, 9 June 2023

7:00 AM–5:00 PM | Registration Desk Open

7:00–8:00 AM | Breakfast

8:00–9:30 AM | Young Investigator Abstract Presentation Breakouts A

• Coagulation, Toxicology, Microbiology, Immunology, and Hemoglobin and Troponin Testing
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9:30–10:30 AM | Break & Poster Presentations

10:30 AM–12:00 PM | Young Investigator Abstract Presentation Breakouts B

• Young Investigator Award with Distinction, Chemistry, Informatics & Lab Management, Transfusion Medicine, and Molecular
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12:00–1:30 PM | Lunch; ACLPS Business Meeting

1:30–2:30 PM | Ernest Cotlove Lecture and Award

• The "next" pandemic - antibacterial resistance. Amy Mathers (UVA)

2:30–3:00 PM | Break & Poster Presentations

3:00–4:15 PM | Scientific Session 5

• Digital imaging and machine learning for stool parasite detection. Marc Couturier (Utah/ARUP)

• Toward antiracist medicine. Greg Townsend (UVA)

4:15–5:10 PM | Paul E. Standjord Young Investigator Grant Lectures

• Characterizing the clonal structure of primary and secondary B cell responses in the murine KEL alloimmunization model. Edward Lee (Yale)

• Ultrasensitive and minimally invasive diagnostic assay for targeting the oncogenic transcription factor SALL4: Development and validation. Jun Liu (Harvard)

• IgG glycosylation of anti-dsDNA autoantibodies as a novel biomarker for systemic lupus erythematosus. Rebecca Treger (Washington)

5:20–6:00 PM | Shuttles to Awards Banquet at Montalto

6:30–7:30 PM | Social Hour at Banquet at Montalto

7:30–9:00 PM | Awards Banquet at Montalto

9:00–9:45 PM | Shuttles return to DoubleTree hotel

Saturday, 10 June 2023

7:30–11:20 AM | Registration Desk Open

7:30–8:30 AM | Breakfast

8:30–9:30 AM | Ellis Benson Lecture & Award

• Using data to improve laboratory medicine for special populations. Sarah Wheeler (Pittsburgh)

9:30–9:45 AM | Break

9:45–11:10 AM | Scientific Session 6

• High-throughput metabolomics: Towards personalized transfusion medicine. Angelo D’Alessandro (Colorado)

• Variants of patient IgG genes alter results of laboratory testing. Jim Zimring (UVA)

11:10–11:20 AM | Closing Remarks

11:50 AM–1:00 PM | Executive Council Lunch