Second EuroGentest Symposium on Reference Materials for Genetic Testing (WP1.6)

Tuesday 15^th May, 2007

12:30

Arrivals and Lunch

2:00

Welcome and introductions - David Barton, National Centre for Medical Genetics, Dublin

EuroGentest activities

2:10

Overview of EuroGentest work in supporting RM development - David Barton

2:30

Which RMs to develop? The EuroGentest Priority Score - Christine Brady

2:45

Field trials of MMQCI materials for CF - Sarah Berwouts

3:00

Development of guidelines for the use of RMs in Genetic testing - David Gancberg

3:15

Coffee

Presentations from Reference Material producers

3:45

The GeT-RMs Program (file2) - Lisa Kalman

4:10

Acrometrix - Mona Shahbazian

4:30

Gentris - Michael Murphy

4:50

LGC - Carole Foy

5:10

NGRL Wessex - Helen White

5:30

Close

Wednesday 16^th May, 2007

Updates from RM producers continued

9:00

NGR Manchester - Ann O'Grady

9:20

NIBSC – Ross Hawkins

9:40

MMQCI – Joan Gordon

10:00

Molecular Controls – Todd Christensen

10:20

NIST – Kristy Richie

10:40

SAFE NoE – Stan Urbaniak and Evelyn Tait

11:00

Coffee

Regulation of RMs

11:30

EuroGentest workshop on the IVD Directive and Genetic Testing – David Barton

11:45

CE Marking – Ross Hawkins

11:55

FDA Approval – Joan Gordon

12:05

Discussion on regulatory issues

Routes to “Higher Order”

12:20

CRM Production – David Gancberg

12:40

JCTLM – Helen Parkes

1:00

Lunch

RMs for Other areas of genetic testing

2:00

Microarrays: CLGGS Initiative – TBA

3:00

Future Plans and Sustainability – Open discussion

3:30

Coffee & Close