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Programme 2007

CAPA 2007 took place at the Royal Holloway College, 16 – 20 September 2008.

The programme is listed below. The majority of the speakers have generously allowed us to make their presentations available for download. To request access to this area of the site please email us stating your name, organisation and reason for access.

Sunday 16th September 2007

Time

Event

Speaker

Afternoon

ARRIVAL & REGISTRATION

Evening

DINNER

Monday 17th September 2007

Time

Event

Speaker

09.15 - 09.30

Welcome and house keeping

Dr Joanna Sheldon

09.15 - 10.10

Proteomics

Prof Gerard Siest

10.10 - 10.50

Free light chains

Prof Giampaolo Merlini

10.50 - 11.30

TEA

11.30 - 12.15

Influenza

Dr. Dennis Alexander

12.15 - 13.00

Vaccines for today and tomorrow

Prof David Lewis

13.00 - 14.30

LUNCH

14.30 – 17.30

Workshops

W1 Paraproteins (Sue Martin & Robert Beetham)
W2 ANA and ANCA (Bob Lock & Chris Bunn)
W3 IgE and Allergy (Graeme Wild & Bill Egner)
W4 Immune deficiency (Cathy Cale & Sarah Linstead)
W7 Cell Markers (Berne Ferry & Liz Hodges)
W10 CSF (Geoff Keir & Pam Riches)
W11 QC and QA (Peter White)

Evening

DINNER

Tuesday 18th September 2007

UK NEQAS participants' Meeting

Time

Event

Speaker

09.15 - 10.10

Functional Complement - C1 Esterase Inhibitor

 09.15 – 09.40

Assay anomalies

Alice Wiltshire

 09.40 – 10.00

Clinical utility

Bob Lock

 10.00 – 10.10

Review of EQA data

Peter White

10.10 – 10.45

Alpha 1 Antitryspin Phenotyping

 10.10 – 10.30

Methodology unravelled

Graeme Wild

 10.30 – 10.45

Progress with the pilot EQA Schemes

Dina Patel

 10.45 – 11.15

TEA

11.15 – 11.45

Specific Microbial Antibodies

 11.15 – 11.45

EQA of Pneumococcal antibody serotype specific assays

Daniel Harrison

11.45 – 12.45

Antibodies ot Citrullinated Proteins

 11.45 – 12.00

Review of EQA data

Dina Patel

 12.00 – 12.45

Utility of the assays and requesting strategy in clinical practice

Gerry Wilson

12.45 – 14.00

LUNCH

14.00 – 15.30

Tumour Markers

 14.00 – 14.50

Clinical and analytical aspects of the CA markers

Kristina Hotakainen

 14.50 – 15.15

CA19-9 - a laboratory perspective

Ian Barlow

 15.15 – 15.30

Summary and discussion

Peter White

15.30 – 16.00

TEA

16.00 – 18.00

Clinical Workshops

C1 Autoimmune endocrine (Prof. Steve Nussey)
C2 Autoimmune rheumatic (Dr. Anderew Keat)
C3 B cell malignancy (Dr. John Parker Williams)
C4 Skin diseases (Dr. Bob Sarkany)
C5 Immune deficiency (Dr. Bridget Heelan)
C6 Renal disease (Dr. Ian McPhee)
C7 Respiratory disease and allergy (Dr. Sarah Deacock)
C8 Neurological diseases (Dr. Michael Lunn)
C9 Gut and liver diseases (Dr. Ron Zeegen)

Evening

DINNER

Wednesday 19th September 2007

Time

Event

Speaker

09.00 – 10.00

Autoantibiodies – more than diagnostics: predictors of autoimmunity

Prof Yehuda Shoenfeld

10.00 – 10.45

Problems with pregnancy

Dr. BaskyThilaganathan

10.45 – 11.15

TEA

11.15 – 12.00

Investigation and management of anaphylaxis

Dr. Lawrence Youlten

12.00 – 13.00

When to suspect immune deficiency

Dr. Richard Herriot

13.00 – 14.30

LUNCH

14.30 – 17.30

Workshops

W1 Paraproteins (Sue Martin and Robert Beetham)
W2 ANA and ANCA (Bob Lock and Chris Bunn)
W3 IgE and Allergy (Graeme Wild and Bill Egner)
W4 Immune deficiency (Cathy Cale and Sarah Linstead)
W5 Managerial matters (Alan Thorne)
W8 Complement (Anthony Rowbottom)
W9 Immunology Puzzles (Geoff Keir and Pam Riches)
W11 QC and QA (Peter White)

Evening

DINNER

Thursday 20th September 2007

Time

Event

Speaker/leader

09.00 – 12.00

Workshops

W1 Paraproteins (Sue Martin and Robert Beetham)
W2 ANA and ANCA (Bob Lock and Chris Bunn)
W7 Cell Markers (Berne Ferry & Liz Hodges)
W8 Complement (Anthony Rowbottom)
W9 Immunology Puzzles (Geoff Keir and Pam Riches)

Followed by

LUNCH & DEPARTURE