Course Agenda

	THURSDAY, May 16
	7:00 am	Registration and Breakfast Opens
	8:00 am	Welcome & Agenda Overview	Gregory Tsongalis, PhD Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
	8:15 am	Technology: Nucleic Acid Biochemistry and Isolation	*Gregory Tsongalis, PhD*
	8:45 am	Technology: Microarray	Joel A. Lefferts, PhD Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
	9:15am	Technology: Sanger Sequencing	*Gregory Tsongalis, PhD*
	9:45 am	Q&A
	10:00 am	Break
	10:15 am	Technology: NGS	Honey V. Reddi, PhD The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
	11:00 am	Technology: NGS Informatics	Honey V. Reddi, PhD
	11:45 am	Q&A
	12:00 pm	Lunch
	1:00 pm	Case Discussions	Joel A. Lefferts, PhD; Honey V. Reddi, PhD
	1:30 pm	FISH	Gail Vance, MD Indiana University School of Medicine
	2:00 pm	Cytogenetics	Gail Vance, MD
	2:45 pm	Q&A
	3:00 pm	Break
	3:15 pm	Emerging Technologies	Gregory Tsongalis, PhD
	3:45 pm	Identity Testing HLA	John Butler, PhD National Institute of Standards and Technology
	4:30 pm	Q&A
	4:45 pm	Case Discussions	Gail Vance, MD; John Butler, PhD
	5:30 pm	Adjourn
	6:00-7:00	Welcome Reception

FRIDAY, May 17
	7:00 am	Breakfast Opens
	8:00	HLA Genetics	*Lawrence Jennings, MD, PhD, D(ABHI)* Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
	8:45 am	Inherited Conditions I	Elaine Lyon, PhD Hudson Alpha
	9:30 am	Inherited Conditions II	Elaine Lyon, PhD
	10:15 am	Break
	10:30 am	Case Discussions	Elaine Lyon, PhD; Lawrence Jennings, MD, PhD, *D(ABHI)*
	11:15 am	Pharmacogenetics	*Ted E. Schutzbank, PhD* Quantigen Genomics Services
	12:00 pm	Lunch
	1:00 pm	Lab Management	Gregory Tsongalis, PhD
	1:30 pm	Molecular Oncology: Part 1	Laura J. Tafe, MD Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System
	2:15 pm	Molecular Oncology: Part 2	Laura J. Tafe, MD
	3:00 pm	Q&A
	3:15 pm	Break
	3:30 pm	Case Discussions	Ted E. Schutzbank, PhD; Laura J. Tafe, MD
	4:30 pm	QA/ Assay Validation	Gregory Tsongalis, PhD
	5:00 pm	Adjourn

SATURDAY, May 18
	7:00 am	Breakfast Opens
	8:00 am	Hematopathology I	*Charles E. Hill, MD, PhD* Emory University Hospital
	8:45 am	Hematopathology II	*Charles E. Hill, MD, PhD*
	9:30 am	Case Discussions	Charles E. Hill, MD, PhD
	10:00 am	Break
	10:15 am	Infectious Disease I	Ted E. Schutzbank, PhD
	11:00 am	Infectious Disease II	Ted E. Schutzbank, PhD
	11:45 am	Q&A
	12:00 pm	Lunch
	1:00 pm	Case Discussions	*Ted E. Schutzbank, PhD: Joel A. Lefferts, PhD*
	2:00 pm	Emerging Biomarkers	Gregory Tsongalis, PhD
	2:45 pm	Break
	3:00 pm	Technology Bloopers	Faculty
	4:00 pm	Challenging Cases	*Faculty*
	5:00 pm	Adjourn

SUNDAY, May 19
	7:00 am	Breakfast Opens
	8:00 am	Audience Participation and Test Review: Part I	*Faculty*
	10:00 am	Break
	10:15 am	Audience Participation and Test Review: Part II	*Faculty*
	11:15 am	Wrap-Up & Evaluations
	11:30 am	Adjourn
		NOTE: Check-out time for your hotel room is 12:00pm

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