Events
2022
BGC Educational Session 002
Date: Thursday 10th February 2022
Time: 15:00 - 16:30 GMT
Link: BGC-E 002
Hosts: Dr. Ute Jentsch & Dr. Barbera Veldhusien
Speakers:
- Dr. Jeremy Gollub
- Dr. Nicholas Gleadall
- Dr. William Lane
Our second educational session will focus on the bioinformatics component of the BGC's work. We aim to give an overview of how we infer blood types from array genotyping data and will cover: Genotype Calling, Quality Control, and Genomic Blood Typing.
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15:00 – Welcome
Dr Ute JentschSouth African National Blood Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
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15:05 – What is a CEL file? What data is recorderd? How are genotypes called?
Dr Jeremy GollubThermo Fisher Scientific, Santa Clara, California, USA
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15:20 – Quality Control: Contamination, Ancestry, Sex, and Genotype Comparisons
Dr Nicholas GleadallCambridge University and NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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15:35 – Questions
Dr Barbera VeldhuisenSanquin, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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15:45 – From Genotype to Blood Group
Dr William LaneAssistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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16:00 - Questions
Dr Ute JentschSouth African National Blood Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 16:30 - Close
2021
BGC Educational Session 001
Date: Thursday 23rd September 2021
Time: 15:00 - 16:30 BST
Link: BGC-E 001
Hosts: Dr. Celina Montemayor & Prof. Ellen van der Schoot
Speakers:
- Prof. Willem H. Ouwehand
- Dr. Robert Liwski
Our inaugural educational session will first provide an overview of the BGC’s central aims, then we will take a focused look at the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) system and inference of these antigens from genotyping data.
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15:00 – Welcome
Dr Celina MontemayorCanadian Blood Services, Ontario, Canada
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15:05 – The Blood transfusion Genomics Consortium: Its main aims
Professor Willem H OuwehandCambridge University Hospitals, University College London Hospitals and NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge/London, UK
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15:20 – The HLA system: An introduction
Dr Robert LiwskiMedical and Scientific Director HLA Laboratory, Canadian Blood Services & President Elect for the American Society for Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics, Ontario, Canada
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15:45 – Questions
Prof Ellen van der SchootSanquin and University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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16:20 - Questions
Dr Celina MontemayorCanadian Blood Services, Ontario, Canada
- 16:30 - Close