Meet at Hotel Reception - 8am to walk to Shark Bay
9:00 - 9:20 - Dean Miller – “Reef”
9:20 - 9:40 - Kylie Pitt – “In the Jellyfish’s Garden”: Biobanking jellyfish for ecological, biomedical, and taxonomic studies
9:40 - 10:00 - Dale Arvidsson – “Let it Grow”: Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha ‘s role in conserving threatened flora.
10:00 - 10:10 - Rapid fire - Rose Upton – Towards Integrating Biobanks into the Conversation Landscape
10:10 - 10:20 - Gold Sponsor - Bio-Strategy/Hamilton Storage – Kim Powell - Working 9 to 5: Generation Victoria’s High Throughput Biosample Processing
10:50 - 11:10 – Daniel Morgan – “Ice, Ice…Baby??” Effective cryopreservation in IVF.
11:10 - 11:30 – Andres Gambini - “Life on Mars?” Drying for a Cause: The potential of Lyophilized sperm and somatic cells for in vitro embryo production.
11:30 - 11:50 – Eden Robertson - “Like a bridge over troubled waters”: Bereaved parents’ experience of donating their child’s tumor postmortem
11:50 - 12:10 – Rapid Fire Presentations
1:10 - 1:30 – “Loyal”: Partnerships in Biobanking for Aotearoa New Zealand
1:30 - 1:50 – Ashleigh Lin and Xander Bickendorf – “Body Was Made”: Ethical and moral considerations in biobanking the data of trans and gender diverse people
1:50 - 2:10 – Chris Richards – “With a Little Help from OurDNA”: Biobanking on Diversity
2:10 - 2:50 Harnessing Diversity in Biobanking – ensuring equal representation and building participant partnerships
3:20 - 3:35 - Platinum Sponsor Presentation – Srikanth Adiga - OpenSpecimen and ‘Waltzing Matilda’ - The Australian Journey
3:35 - 3:45 - Launch of Special Interest groups
3:45 - 4:15 - ABNA Past Presidents – reflection and panel
4:15 - 4:30 - Platinum Sponsor Presentation pre dinner – David Felici – Thermo Fisher Scientific: “How far we’ve come”
16:30 -16:50 – Alison Parry-Jones and Wayne Ng – “Imagine” biobanking beyond the borders through ISBER lens