2023 BROCHURE

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June 20, 2023 – Current Donor Selection Strategies for

Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation – presented by Olga Timofeeva, PhD

July 18, 2023 – Molecular Biology Basics for the HLA Technologist – presented by Carolyn Hurley, PhD

August 15, 2023 – Virtual and Reality: A Close Look at the UCLA Virtual Crossmatch Exchange Results – presented by Jennifer Zhang, PhD

August 22, 2023 – HLA Loss Relapse in HCT Recipients: Insights from Immunobiology – presented by Esteban Arrieta-Bolanos, PhD

August 29, 2023 – Reducing

Serum Background in Solid Phase Antibody Assays – presented by Maneesh Misra, PhD

September 12, 2023 –The Role of Duffy Blood Group Antigens in Renal Transplant and Rejection – presented by Reut Hod Dvorai, PhD

October 3, 2023 – HCT Donor Selection: To Match or Mismatch – presented by Maria Bettinotti, PhD

October 10, 2023 – Overcoming the Prozone Effect in Solid Phase Antibody Assays – presented by Maneesh Misra, PhD

October 24, 2023 – HLA Antibody Analysis: Back to the Basics – presented by Julie Houp, CHS

October 31, 2023 –Acute GVHD in

a Solid Organ Transplant Patient

in the Absence of Peripheral Blood Chimerism – presented by Peter Lalli, PhD

November 7, 2023 – DQA5-DQB2: Is it Me? or is it You! – presented by Jeffrey Kiernan, PhD

November 21, 2023 – Modeling

HLA Antigenicity to Inform Virtual Crossmatch – presented by Loren Gragert, PhD

November 28, 2023 – The HLA Laboratory’s Role in Supporting Platelet Transfusion Refractory Patients – presented by Dong

Li, MD

December 5, 2023 – Laboratory Methods for the Detection of HLA Loss in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients – presented by Paula Arnold, PhD

December 12, 2023 – Allele-Specific Solvent-Accessible Amino Acid Mismatches Are Correlated with Immunizer-Specific HLA Antibodies After Kidney Transplantation or Pregnancy – presented by Matthias Niemann, MS

January 9, 2024 – Calculating Epitope Immunogenicity Through De Novo Donor-Specific Antibody Targets in Renal Transplantation– presented by Jenny Tran, PhD

January 23, 2024 –The Case of

the Deceased Donor with Too

Many HLA Alleles – presented by Matthew Cusick, PhD

January 30, 2024 – Imputation of Complete High Resolution HLA Types Using HaploStats – presented by Abeer Madbouly, PhD, and Martin Maiers, MS

February 6, 2024 – Characterization of Donor Specific Antibodies Following

Solid Organ Transplant – presented by Matthew Najor, PhD

February 13, 2024 – DRB1 Dominance in the Immunopeptidome of Activated Macrophages - presented by Hooman Yari, PhD

All teleconferences in 2023 - 2024 are

held on Tuesdays at 1:00 PM ET.