Wednesday, 19th October Biobanking - Blue Sky Horizons (ABNA 19th Annual Conference)

12-12:30 Conference Opening 

Welcome to Country

Olman Walley is traditional owner of the Whadjuk Noongar region who has dedicated his career to sharing and promoting Noongar culture locally and internationally through performance, tourism and education. As a small business owner, educator and performing artist, Olman is passionate about improving the awareness, revival and maintenance of Noongar culture here in the South West. 

Welcome from ABNA President

12:30 - 13:15  Keynote Address

Professor Dominic Mallon - How biobanks have transformed my understanding of disease; left us better prepared to understand the Western Australian covid-19 pandemic; and a proposed framework of how clinical researchers may engage future biobank services in Western Australia

13:15 - 14:00  Panel 1 – Industry collaborators: From Foe to Friend

Affirmative: Dr Jugnu Jain

Negative: Professor Georgina Hold

• How Biobanks have transformed my understanding of disease; Left us better prepared to understand the Western Australian COVID-19 pandemic; and a proposed framework of how clinical researchers may engage future biobank services in Western Australia. - Dominic Mallon
• Industry – friend or foe? - Jugnu Jain
• Industry – friend or foe? - Georgina Hold

14:30 - 16:00

Accreditation Seminar 4 (Workshop 1): Climbing the Accreditation Spiral Staircase

- ABNA Seminar 1-3 recap:

• Introduction to ISO 20387 and QMS
• Key concepts & terminology
• Accreditation Success Stories
• Pathways: Accreditation vs Certification

- Breaking down IS20387 clauses

• Mission statement / Ethics (Section 4)
• Governance Structures (Section 5)
• Competency (Section 6)
• Equipment records (Section 6)
• Transport of materials (Section 7)

- QMS requirements

- Resources

16:00 - 16:30 Speaker 1

Professor Simon Jarman - Biobanking in Environmental Genomics 

16:30 - 17:00 Speaker 2

Dr Greta Frankham -ShellBank: Development of a DNA Database and forensic toolkit to trace the illegal Tortoiseshell Trade 

17:00- 17:15 Gold Sponsor Presentation

Lisa Simmons Bio-Strategy: Fast Freezing & Temporary Storage

• Biobanking in Environmental Genomics - Simon Jarman
• ShellBank: Development of a DNA Database and forensic toolkit to trace the illegal Tortoiseshell Trade - Greta Frankham

1. Amanda Rush – Costs and publication outputs of an academic cancer biobank cohort  
2. Kim Powell – A population-wide, representative pregnancy and childhood biobank in Victoria, Australia 
3. Dan Catchpole – A Demonstration of Immersive Analytics of Biospecimen Derived Data: Introducing Virtual Reality for the Observation of Oncology Models (VROOM) 
4. Jennie Hui – Using archived serum samples to understand historical human exposure trends of Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)  

• Costs and publication outputs of an academic cancer biobank cohort - Amanda Rush
• A population-wide, representative pregnancy and childhood biobank in Victoria, Australia - Kim L Powell
• Using archived serum samples to understand historical human exposure trends of Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) - Jennie Hui
• A Demonstration of Immersive Analytics of Biospecimen Derived Data: Introducing Virtual Reality for the Observation of Oncology Models (VROOM) - Daniel R Catchpoole