Saturday, May 31, 2008

Full Day Pre-meeting Symposia

Half Day Pre-meeting Symposia

Opening Reception & Exhibits Open

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Sunrise Symposia

• Renal Transplant Clinical Pathology
• mTOR and Vascular Biology: Discovery to Transplantation
• Pancreas Alone Vs. Islet Transplantation – Current Controversies
• Assessment and Clinical Considerations of New Histocompatibility Tests for Antibody Identification (HLA/Non- HLA) and Crossmatching

Early Morning Workshops

1. Immunologic Monitoring: Ready for Primetime?
2. New Tools for the Transplantologist: Gene Silencing and Conditional Gene Expression
3. NK and NKT Cells in Tolerance and Rejection
4. Composite Tissue Allografts: Challenges and Opportunities
5. Management of Medical Co-Morbidities in the Long-term Adult and Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipient
6. Rehabilitation and Exercise for Transplant Recipients
7. New Interventions for the Metabolic Syndrome: Are They for Solid Organ Transplant Recipients?
8. Pulsatile Perfusion of Donor Organs: Hype or Real Advance?

Joint Plenary Session

State-of-the-Art Address

Beyond the T-cell Receptor - Defining Molecular Signaling in Transplant and Cancer
Tak Mak, PhD

Concurrent Symposia

• Living Donation: A Critical Analysis
• Nanomedicine: Can Tiny Devices Solve Big Problems in Transplantation?
• Regulatory T Cells and the Control of Immunity
• Modifying Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury for Graft Survival

Concurrent Sessions

Poster Session II

Presenters in attendance with beer and wine reception

Monday June 2, 2008

Sunrise Symposia

• Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Liver Transplantation
• Assessing Cardiovascular Risk Before and After Transplantation
• Innate Immunity in Transplantation
• Basic Science of New Therapeutic Targets in Posttransplantation Malignancies

Early Morning Workshops

9. Therapeutic Prospects of Alternate Co-stimulation Pathways
10. Update on Dendritic Cells
11. Memory T Cells
12. Extended Donors in Liver Transplantation
13. Combined Kidney/Liver Transplantation
14. Long-term Quality of Life for Pediatric Transplant Recipients
15. Paired Kidney Donation
16. Minority Access to Transplantation:Why Still a Problem in 2008?

Joint Plenary Session and Canadian Anniversary Celebration

Concurrent Symposia

• Micro RNAi and Control of Lymphocyte Development
• Progress in Moving Transplantation Tolerance to the Clinic
• Pre-emptive Kidney Transplantation
• Hepatitis C: Are We Really Making Progress?

Concurrent Sessions

Poster Session III

Presenters in attendance with beer and wine reception

AST Business Meeting

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Sunrise Symposia

• Update in B-Cell Tolerance
• Pediatrics: Are Children Suitable Candidates for Tolerance Regimens?
• Fellowship Training of the Transplant Specialist
• Lung Transplantation: Hot Topics

Early Morning Workshops

17. Mechanistic Insights into Chronic Allograft Vasculopathy
18. Therapeutic Potential of T Regulatory Cells
19. Innate Immunity: Towards Clinical Translation
20. Pregnancy in Transplantation
21. MELD/PELD Inequities: Can the Recipe be Improved?
22. Vaccination and Prophylaxis Recommendations for Adult and Pediatric Organ Transplant Recipients
23. PTLD: Therapies Beyond Reduced Immunosuppression
24. Autoimmunity and Alloimmunity after Islet and Pancreas Transplantation

Joint Plenary Session

State-of-the-Art Address

Issues in Globalization of Transplantation
Luc Noel

Presidential Addresses

ASTS and AST Distinguished Achievement Awards

Concurrent Sessions

Poster Session IV

Presenters in attendance with beer and wine reception

ASTS Business Meeting

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Sunrise Symposia

• Canadian Perspectives on Clinical Transplantation
• Randomized Clinical Trials (RCT’s) in Heart Transplantation
• Polyomavirus
• Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Early Morning Workshops

25. Xenotransplantation: Are We Getting Closer?
26. B Cells: Barrier or Path to Graft Acceptance?
27. Chemokines: Clinical Targets
28. Retransplantation of Thoracic Organs – Reaching Consensus
29. Non-medical Causes of Renal Allograft Loss
30. Intestinal and Multi-visceral Transplantation: Are We Still Making Progress?
31. Approach to Parasitic Infections in Transplant Recipients and Donors
32. Pediatric Renal Transplantation: Dealing with Recurrent Disease

Joint Plenary Session

Concurrent Sessions

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