International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium
10th InterLymph Meeting - Cagliari, Italy - June 10-13, 2011
Members of the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph) and other interested individuals are invited to attend the 2011 Annual Meeting in Cagliary, Italy on June 10-13, 2011.
The 2011 Annual Meeting is made possible due to the support of the National Cancer Institute (NCI); the Rector of the University of Cagliari; the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Cagliari; the Province of Cagliari; and CACIP, Cagliari.
Registration
Registration for the 2011 InterLymph Annual Meeting is now officially open. To register, you will first need to create a profile in the Mayo Medical Laboratories Website
. Once you have created a profile, then you can go to the actual Interlymph Annual Meeting registration site.
The registration fee for the conference is $150 if registering on or before May 20, 2011. If you register after May 20th, the registration fee will be $200. Please plan to register promptly to facilitate the final meeting planning. On-site registration and fee payment will not be accepted. Please contact Aaron Norman, Research Study Coordinator, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, if you have any questions regarding the registration portal.
Travel
Attendees will be responsible for making their own travel arrangements and hotel reservations. The conference will be held at the T-Hotel in Cagiliari, Italy. A block of rooms has been reserved for conference attendees. Limited funding is available to support hotel costs and per diem for a limited number of participants. To request the hotel reservation form or to learn how to request funding support, contact Aaron Norman.
Meeting Organizing Committee
The Meeting Organizing Committee for the 2011 Annual Meeting consists of the following individuals:
Pierluigi Cocco, Adele Seniori Costantini, Wendy Cozen, Rao Divi, Maria Grazia Ennas, Giovanni Ferri, Emanuele Angelucci, Attilio Gabbas, Henrik Hjalgrim, Giorgio La Nasa, Lucia Miligi, Marco Rais, Nat Rothman, Aldo Scarpa, Christine Skibola, and John Spinelli.
For general questions regarding the 2011 InterLymph Annual Meeting, contact Dr. Perluigi Cocco.
Abstract Submission Guidelines
If you plan to submit an abstract for the meeting, the submission form will be sent to you automatically with your registration confirmation e-mail.
Agenda
Note: Registration for the Sunday Plenary Sessions will be open to a limited number of participants. Continuous education credits will be certified.
| Friday June 10, 2011 | |
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| 9:00-13:30 | Hodgkin Lymphoma Working Group and GWAS Meeting |
| 9:00-9:10 | Introduction Pierluigi Cocco and Henrik Hjalgrim |
| 9:10-10:00 | Results of Pooled Studies: Familial Risk, Sun Exposure Sally Glaser |
| 10:00-10:45 | Discussion |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:15 | GWAS Results Wendy Cozen and Ruth Jarrett |
| 12:15-12:30 | Breaking News: New Results Pierluigi Cocco |
| 12:30-13:00 | What’s next? Sally Glaser |
| 13:00-13:30 | Business Meeting and Wrap-Up Henrik Hjalgrim |
| 13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-18:30 | International Multiple Myeloma Consortium (IMMC) Meeting |
| 14:30-14:40 | Introduction Pierluigi Cocco and Wendy Cozen |
| 14:40-15:10 | Brief Description of New Studies, Breaking News, and New Results Brian Chiu |
| 15:10-15:30 | Environmental/Lifestyle Risk Factors Brenda Birmann and Mark Purdue |
| 15:30-15:45 | Break |
| 15:45-16:15 | Occupational and Chemical Exposures Pierluigi Cocco, Adele Costantini, Lucia Miligi |
| 16:15-17:00 | Pooled Proposal Grant Status and Discussion Anneclaire DeRoos |
| 17:00-17:30 | Genetic Risk Factors, Including GWAS Beth Brown and Celine Vachon |
| 17:30-18:00 | Opportunities for Pooled Studies and Discussion John Spinelli and Wendy Cozen |
| 18:00-18:30 | Business Meeting and Wrap-Up John Spinelli |
| Saturday, June 11, 2011 | |
| 8:30-12:00 | Meeting of the Benzene and Tricloroethylene Team of Occupational Experts Pierluigi Cocco, Nat Rothman, Qing Lan, Roel Vermeulen, Trish Stewart, Lucia Miligi, Geza Benke, Andrea ‘t Mannetje, Laurent Orsi |
| 9:00-10:30 | Meeting of the Pathology and Survival Working Group Lindsay Morton, Adele Seniori Costantini, Jim Cerhan |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-12:15 | Meeting of the Immunology and Infection Working Group Claire Vajdic |
| 12:15-13:30 | Meeting of the Lifestyle and Environment Working Group Anne Kricker |
| 13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-18:30 | Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma International GWAS meeting Nat Rothman |
| 20:30 | Social Dinner |
| Sunday June 12, 2011 Plenary Sessions |
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| 9:00-9:15 | Introduction and Welcome from the University of Cagliari, the Authorities, and the Italian Society of Hematology Pierluigi Cocco |
| 9:15-10:45 | Beyond GWAS: Translational Applications of the Epidemiological Findings to Prevention and Treatment of the Various Lymphoma Subtypes Riccardo Dalla Favera and Fabrizio Pane |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Beyond GWAS: Translational Applications of the Epidemiological Findings to Prevention and Treatment of the Various Lymphoma Subtypes Chris Skibol and David Conti |
| 12:00-13:15 | The InterLymph Subtypes Project Lindsay Morton and Dennis Weisenberger |
| 13:15-13:30 | Cohort Interaction with InterLymph Daniela Seminara |
| 13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-15:30 | Discussion of morning topics speaker panel |
| 15:30-15:45 | Break |
| 15:45-16:15 | Reports from Hodgkins Lymphoma Working Group (preliminary findings, new proposals for pooled analyses, discussion) Henrik Hjalgrim |
| 16:15-16:45 | Reports from International Multiple Myeloma Consortium (preliminary findings, new proposals for pooled analyses, discussion) Wendy Cozen |
| 16:45-17:00 | Break |
| 17:00-18:00 | Poster Session |
| Monday June 13, 2011 | |
| 8:30-10:30 | Discussion of Preliminary Findings, New Proposals for Pooled Analyses from the Pathology and Survival, Lifestyle and Occupation, and Immunity and Infection Working Groups Jim Cerhan, Anne Kricker, and Claire Vajdic |
| 10:30-11:00 | InterLymph Data Coordinating Center presentation and discussion, InterLymph 2012 and Wrap Up Susan Slager |
| 11:00-11:15 | Break |
| 11:15-13:00 | InterLymph Business Meeting |
| 13:00 | Lunch |