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Session 1: Fetal Therapy
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Session 2: The Downstream Impact of Genetic Testing on Obstetric Practice
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Session 3: Prenatal Counseling
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Session 4: The expanding scope of Non-invasive prenatal testing
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Session 5: Novel approaches to understanding adverse fetal outcomes
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Session 6: Implementation of Exome/Genome Sequencing Into Prenatal Care
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Friday
, July 6
Radisson Blu Hotel - Orlov 3
15:00 •
Board of Directors Meeting
Saturday
, July 7
Atrium
16:00 •
Registration Desk Open
Radisson Blu Hotel - Orlov 3
09:00 •
Board of Directors Meeting
Sunday
, July 8
Atrium
08:00 •
Registration Desk Open
Atrium - ZOOgallery
10:45 •
Networking Beverage Break
13:00 •
Lunch
15:45 •
Networking Beverage Break
Gorilla Room 1
09:00 •
Course 4 - Genomic Technologies 101 for Non-geneticists
11:15 •
Course 4 - continued
14:00 •
Course 6 - Navigate cfDNA Test Options: Technical, biological and quality aspects of different cfDNA testing technologies
16:15 •
Course 6 - continued
Gorilla Room 4
14:00 •
Course 7 - Fetal Heart: Outflow tract anomalies
16:15 •
Course 7 - continued
Gorilla Room 5
09:00 •
Course 2 - Fetal Therapy Interventions: Current status
11:15 •
Course 2 - continued
Okapi Room 1
09:00 •
Course 1 - International Context-Sensitive Practice in Prenatal Counseling and Clinical Practice
11:15 •
Course 1 - continued
14:00 •
Course 8 - Congenital CMV: Current burden and controversies
16:15 •
Course 8 - continued
Okapi Room 2&3
09:00 •
Course 3 - Ultrasound and Genetic Syndromes
11:15 •
Course 3 - continued
14:00 •
Course 5 - Extending Prenatal Diagnosis of Monogenic Disorders: What we can do, what we will be able to do, dealing with the counseling challenges for implementation
16:15 •
Course 5 - continued
Various - see sign up
19:30 •
Dine Around with Experts - Sign-up required
Monday
, July 9
Atrium
07:00 •
Registration Desk Open
10:30 •
Exhibits Open
10:30 •
Posters Available for Viewing
10:30 •
Beverage Break with Posters and Exhibitors
12:00 •
Attended Poster Session 1
12:00 •
Lunch with Posters and Exhibitors
12:05 •
Exhibitor Showcase - Roche
16:00 •
Beverage Break with Posters and Exhibitors
17:30 •
Welcome Reception
Gorilla Room 4
13:00 •
Laboratory Techniques SIG Meeting
Gorilla Room 5
07:15 •
2019 Planning Meeting
13:00 •
Imaging in Pregnancy SIG Meeting
Okapi Room 2&3
11:00 •
Oral Poster Presentations: Imaging/FMF
14:00 •
Session 1 | Fetal Therapy Invited Presentation: How to identify the fetus in need for fetal therapy
14:30 •
Session 1 | Fetal Therapy Invited Presentation: Maternal risks of fetal therapy
15:00 •
Session 1 | Fetal Therapy: 1-1 The combinative effect of testosterone treatment and the timing of diagnosis on neurocognitive abilities and ADHD in 47,XXY (Klinefelter Syndrome)
15:15 •
Session 1 | Fetal Therapy: 1-2 Neurodevelopmental effects of maternal uterine artery Ad.VEGF-A165 treatment for fetal growth restriction in fetal guinea pigs
15:30 •
Session 1 | Fetal Therapy: 1-3 Set up an amniotic fluid stem cell-derived induced pluripotent stem cells disease model and in utero therapy for spina bifida
15:45 •
Session 1 | Fetal Therapy: 1-4 Preliminary Results of a Long-Term Follow-Up Study in Spontaneous Twin Anemia-Polycythemia Sequence
Queen Elisabeth Hall
08:25 •
Opening Ceremony and Welcome Address
08:30 •
Plenary Presentation by Glenn Cohen: Law and Ethics at the Cutting Edge of Reproductive Medicine
09:00 •
Top Abstract: T-1 Which fetuses benefit most from exome sequencing? Results from the Prenatal Assessment of Genomes and Exomes (PAGE) study
09:15 •
Top Abstract: T-2 The impact of additional anomalies on head growth in fetuses with congenital heart defects
09:30 •
Top Abstract: T-3 Evaluating individual laboratory performance for cffDNA NIPT for aneuploidies: report of the first international external quality assessment
09:45 •
Top Abstract: T-4 Simultaneous detection of fetal chromosome aneuploidy and monogenic diseases by a novel noninvasive prenatal testing method: Targeted And Genome-wide simultaneous sequencing (TAGs-seq)
10:00 •
Plenary Presentation by Kypros Nicolaides: Past and future of prenatal diagnosis
11:00 •
Oral Poster Presentations: Genetics
14:00 •
Session 2 | The Downstream Impact of Genetic Testing on Obstetric Practice Invited Presentation: Impact of PGS
14:25 •
Session 2 | The Downstream Impact of Genetic Testing on Obstetric Practice Invited Presentation: Impact of NIPT
14:50 •
Session 2 | The Downstream Impact of Genetic Testing on Obstetric Practice: Replacing mosaic embryos after PGT
15:15 •
Session 2 | The Downstream Impact of Genetic Testing on Obstetric Practice: 2-2 Fetal fraction (FF) characterization by zygosity in twin gestation using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)- based noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT)
15:30 •
Session 2 | The Downstream Impact of Genetic Testing on Obstetric Practice: 2-3 Implementing NIPT as part of a national prenatal screening program: The Dutch TRIDENT studies
15:45 •
Session 2 | The Downstream Impact of Genetic Testing on Obstetric Practice: 2-4 A single workflow for concurrent PGT-M, PGT-SR and PGT-A on blastomere and trophectoderm biopsies
16:30 •
Debate 1 - MRI should be performed on all fetuses with mild ventriculomegaly
Tuesday
, July 10
Atrium
07:00 •
Registration Desk Open
10:00 •
Exhibits Open
10:00 •
Posters Available for Viewing
10:00 •
Beverage Break with Posters and Exhibitors
12:00 •
Attended Poster Session 2
12:00 •
Lunch with Posters and Exhibitors
12:05 •
Exhibitor Showcase - PerkinElmer
15:30 •
Beverage Break with Posters and Exhibitors
Gorilla Room 1
17:30 •
Illumina Industry Symposium and Reception
Gorilla Room 4
13:00 •
Fetal Therapy SIG Meeting
Gorilla Room 5
07:30 •
ISPD Global Outreach Meeting
13:00 •
Genetic Counseling SIG Meeting
17:30 •
ISPD Education Committee Meeting
Okapi Room 2&3
10:30 •
Session 3 | Prenatal Counseling Invited Presentation: Educating professionals on delivering NIPT to meet patient needs
10:55 •
Session 3 | Prenatal Counseling Invited Presentation: Prenatal decision-making aids
11:20 •
Session 3 | Prenatal Counseling: 3-1 Assessment of Patient Understanding of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing Following Introduction of Three Systematic Patient Counselling Models
11:34 •
Session 3 | Prenatal Counseling: 3-2 Use of a novel tablet-based decision aid for prenatal aneuploidy screening and testing: A randomized controlled trial
11:48 •
Session 3 | Prenatal Counseling: 3-3 Accessibility of conflict of interest disclosures for professional medical societies of relevance to the practice of prenatal diagnosis
Queen Elisabeth Hall
08:30 •
Debate 2 - NIPT results suggesting maternal cancer should always be disclosed
09:30 •
Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Award: Germline mosaicism is a pitfall in PGD for X‐linked disorders. Single sperm typing detects very low frequency paternal gonadal mosaicism in a case of recurrent chondrodysplasia punctata misattributed to a maternal origin
09:45 •
Prenatal Diagnosis Journal Report
10:30 •
Session 4 | The expanding scope of Non-invasive prenatal testing Invited Presentation: Alternative approaches towards NIPT: Cervical cells
10:55 •
Session 4 | The expanding scope of Non-invasive prenatal testing Invited Presentation: Pushing the envelope in NIPT of single gene diseases through haplotyping
11:20 •
Session 4 | The expanding scope of Non-invasive prenatal testing Invited Presentation: 4-1 Pan-ethnic expanded carrier testing for branched chain amino acid disorders
11:34 •
Session 4 | The expanding scope of Non-invasive prenatal testing Invited Presentation: 4-2 Haplotyping and copy number profiling of single cells by using extended family members: broadening the applicability of PGD
11:48 •
Session 4 | The expanding scope of Non-invasive prenatal testing Invited Presentation: 4-3 Restricting NIPT for fetal fraction only, does it still make sense?
14:00 •
Best Early Career Investigator Finalist: E-1 The BElgian PREnatal MicroArray consortium: towards relating prenatally detected CNVs, prenatal phenotype and postnatal clinical data
14:15 •
Best Early Career Investigator Finalist: E-2 Improving uptake of perinatal autopsy: Lessons learned from parents and key stakeholders
14:30 •
Best Early Career Investigator Finalist: E-3 Sensitivity of non-invasive prenatal testing for cancer detection and treatment monitoring in pregnant women
14:44 •
Joe Leigh Simpson Award for Best Early Career Investigator
14:45 •
Plenary - Do You Agree with the Experts?
16:00 •
Plenary - Big data and A.I.
16:30 •
Late-breaking Abstract: LB-1 The potential diagnostic yield of Whole Exome Sequencing in 391 pregnancies complicated by fetal ultrasound anomalies and with normal chromosomal microarray results
16:45 •
Late-breaking Abstract: LB-2 A new era in aneuploidy screening for multifetal gestations: Clinical laboratory experience screening >30,000 cell-free DNA samples
17:00 •
ISPD General Business Meeting
Wednesday
, July 11
Atrium
07:00 •
Registration Desk Open
10:15 •
Exhibits Open
10:15 •
Beverage Break with Exhibitors
12:45 •
Lunch with Exhibitors
Gorilla Room 4
07:30 •
Early Career Breakfast with ISPD Leaders
12:45 •
Reproductive Screening SIG Meeting
16:00 •
2018 Debrief/2019 Planning Committee Meeting
Gorilla Room 5
12:45 •
Ethics of Reproductive Testing and Fetal Therapy SIG Meeting
Okapi Room 2&3
10:45 •
Session 5 | Novel approaches to predict adverse fetal outcome Invited Presentation: Early prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes
11:15 •
Session 5 | Novel approaches to predict adverse fetal outcome Invited Presentation: Novel approaches to investigation of fetal death: Still Birth Alliance
11:45 •
Session 5 | Novel approaches to predict adverse fetal outcome: 5-1 Predicting fetoplacental chromosomal mosaicism during non-invasive prenatal testing
12:00 •
Session 5 | Novel approaches to predict adverse fetal outcome: 5-2 Is cell-free DNA testing appropriate in fetuses with increased nuchal translucency?
12:15 •
Session 5 | Novel approaches to predict adverse fetal outcome: 5-3 Early delivery in fetal gastroschisis: A randomized controlled trial of elective 34 week delivery versus routine obstetrical care
12:30 •
Session 5 | Novel approaches to predict adverse fetal outcome: 5-4 ASPRE trial: incidence of preterm preeclampsia in patients fulfilling ACOG and NICE criteria according to risk by the FMF algorithm
Queen Elisabeth Hall
08:30 •
Debate 3 - Gene Editing should replace embryo selection following PGD
09:30 •
Plenary - ISPD Pioneer in Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy Award
10:45 •
Session 6 | Implementation of Exome/Genome Sequencing Into Prenatal Care Invited Presentation: Exome/genome sequencing
11:15 •
Session 6 | Implementation of Exome/Genome Sequencing Into Prenatal Care Invited Presentation: Value/modes of data-sharing
11:45 •
Session 6 | Implementation of Exome/Genome Sequencing Into Prenatal Care: 6-1 Clinical application of targeted next-generation sequencing on fetuses with congenital heart defects
12:00 •
Session 6 | Implementation of Exome/Genome Sequencing Into Prenatal Care: 6-2 Implementing fast whole exome sequencing (WES) as diagnostic test for fetal multiple congenital anomalies on ultrasound
12:15 •
Session 6 | Implementation of Exome/Genome Sequencing Into Prenatal Care: 6-3 The ethics of clinical applications of germline genome modification: A systematic review of reasons
12:30 •
Session 6 | Implementation of Exome/Genome Sequencing Into Prenatal Care: 6-4 Prenatal diagnosis for single gene disorders in Victoria, Australia, 1977-2015
14:00 •
Closing Plenary Presentation: Intellectual disabilities and understanding genetic risk
14:45 •
Closing Plenary Presentation: Bioengineering and stem cell therapy
15:30 •
Closing Remarks
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, July 6
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, July 9
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, July 10
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, July 11
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All
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Session 2: The Downstream Impact of Genetic Testing on Obstetric Practice
All
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Session 3: Prenatal Counseling
All
Concurrent Session
Session 4: The expanding scope of Non-invasive prenatal testing
All
Concurrent Session
Session 5: Novel approaches to understanding adverse fetal outcomes
All
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Session 6: Implementation of Exome/Genome Sequencing Into Prenatal Care
All
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Atrium - ZOOgallery
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Radisson Blu Hotel - Orlov 3
Various - see sign up