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Conference Agenda
This is the agenda for this year's BCLF conference.
Conference Agenda
| Wednesday October 3rd, 2018 | |
| 12:00 - 17:30 | Registration |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Opening Ceremony |
| Welcome Addresses | |
| Opening Lecture: THE CHALLENGES OF POC TESTING Sverre Sandberg, Norway |
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| 20:00 - 22:00 | Welcome Reception |
| Thursday, October 4th, 2018 | |
| 08.30 - 10.30 SESSION 1 | |
| 08.30 - 09.00 | THE EFLM STRATEGY FOR HARMONIZATION OF THE PREANALYTICAL PHASE Guiseppe Lippi, Italy |
| 09.00 - 09.30 | CAUSES OF INDIVIDUAL ANALYTICAL ERRORS AND MECHANISMS FOR THEIR DETECTION Vera Luki?, Serbia |
| 09.30 - 10.00 | STANDARDIZATION AND HARMONIZATION OF LABORATORY DIAGNOSTICS OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN CROATIA Vanja Radiši? Biljak, Croatia |
| 10.00 - 10.15 | ACCREDITATION OF MEDICAL LABORATORIES: ISO STANDARD 15189-BENEFITS. Irena Lemoni, Greece |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | CLINICAL CHEMISTRY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA WHERE DO WE STAND? Jasna Bogdanska , Macedonia |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION & POSTER VISITING |
| 11.00 - 12.00 | SIX SIGMA QC DESIGN AND RISK ASSESSMENT FOR QC FREQUENCY Sten Westgard, USA |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | Lectures proposed by sponsors |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | LUNCH BREAK & POSTER DISSCUSION |
| 14.00 - 16.30 SESSION 2 | |
| 14.00 -14.30 | CARBAMYLATION OF PROTEINS: PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND BIOMARKERS Phillipe Gillery, France |
| 14.30-15.00 | BIOMARKERS IN AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION (AMD) Christos Kroupis |
| 15.00-15.30 | ST2 AS A NOVEL PROGNOSTIC MARKER IN END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE PATIENTS ON HEMODIAFILTRATION Evgenija Homsak,Slovenia |
| 15.30-15.45 | ASSOCIATION OF RESISTIN AND ITS RECEPTOR ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1 WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE Jelena Munjas, Serbia |
| 15.45-16.00 | URINARY NEPHRIN - BIOMARKER FOR EARLY DETECTION OF DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY Irena Kostovska, Makedonija |
| 16.00-16.15 | INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF SODIUM FLUORIDE (NAF) ON THE EXPRESSION OF NECROTIC GENES IN THE RENAL CELL LINE Semiha Dede,Turkey |
| 16.15-16.30 | DETERMINATION OF METHYLGLYOXAL LEVELS VIA ULTRA-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY Abdullah Sivrikaya, Turkey |
| 16.30-17.00 | COFFEE BREAK & POSTER VISITING |
| 17.00 - 18.30 SESSION 3 | |
| 17.00-17.15 | LUTEIN AND VITAMIN E LOADED PLGA NANOPARTICLES - A PROMISING ANTIOXIDANT DEFENSE Daniela Miricescu, Romania |
| 17.15-17.30 | ?ATERNAL THROMBOCYTOPENIA IN PREGNANCY Milena Velizarova, Bulgaria |
| 17.30-17.45 | THYROID FUNCTION TESTS IN PREGNANCY: THE IMPORTANCE OF SPECIFIC REFERENCE RANGES ESTABLISHMENT. Sonja Kuzmanovska, Macedonia |
| 17.45-18.00 | CALCIUM, PARATHYROID HORMONE, AND BONE MINERAL DENSITY IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM Nela Rašeta, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 18.00-18.15 | CROSSTALK BETWEEN ADIPOKINES AND INSULIN RESISTANCE IN WOMEN WITH POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME Aleksandra Atanasova Bosku, Macedonia |
| 18.15-18.30 | ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS OF GENETIC VARIANTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES RISK AND RELATED TRAITS IN POPULATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Tamer Bego, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 18.30-19.30 | BCLF EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING JOZO CORIC, BCLF President , Bosnia and Herzegovina, |
| Friday, October 5th, 2018 | |
| 08.30 - 10.30 SESSION 4 | |
| 08.30 - 09.00 | LIQUID BIOPSY Tomris Ozben, Turkey |
| 09.00 - 09.30 | LANDSCAPE OF BREAST CANCER GENES Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska, Macedonia |
| 09.30-9.45 | ELEVATED SERUM ISCHEMIA MODIFIED ALBUMIN LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH BREAST CANCER Ali Unlu, Turcija |
| 09.45-10.00 | TELOMERASE TARGETED THERAPY IN CANCER Zeliha Günnur Dikmen,Turkey |
| 10.00- 10.15 | ACTIVITIES OF LECITHIN: CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE, CHOLESTERYL ESTER TRANSFER PROTEIN AND PARAOXONASE-1 IN COLORECTAL CANCER Marija Mihajlovic, Serbia |
| 10.15-10.30 | HOW BENEFICIAL ARE MULTI-MARKER PANELS FOR OVARIAN CANCER DIAGNOSIS? Veselina Koleva Bulgaria |
| 10.30-11.00 | COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION & POSTER VISITING |
| 11.00 - 13.00 SESSION 5 | |
| 11.00-11.30 | PHARMACOGENETICS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: WHERE DO WE STAND? Sanja Stankovic, Serbia |
| 11.30-12:00 | CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS AND LABORATORY DISORDERS IN EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS Nevena Terzic Stanic, Montenegro |
| 12.00-12.15 | DEXA AND BONE BIOMARKERS IN THE EVALUATION OF BONE DISEASES IN THALASSEMIA AND HEMOGLOBINOPATHY PATIENTS Elena Refatllari, Albania |
| 12.15-12.30 | THE EVALUATION OF SERUM SURFACTANT PROTEIN A AND D AS BIOMARKERS OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE Regina Hasa, Albania |
| 12.30-12.45 | BLOOD PROFICIENCY TESTING STUDY-OUR EXPERIENCE Tanja Makarovska, Macedonia |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lectures proposed by sponsors |
| 14.00-15.00 | LUNCH BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION |
| 15.00 - 16.30 SESSION 6 | |
| 15.00-15.30 | ENHANCING PRECISION MEDICINE THROUGH CLINICAL MASS SPECTROMETRY PLATFORM Dobrin Svinarov, Bulgaria |
| 15.30-15.45 | MASS SPECTROMETRY: THE NEAR FUTURE. Fehime Benli Aksungar, Turkey |
| 15.45-16.00 | DETERMINATION OF SERUM HOMOARGININE IN PREGNANCY WITH LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY Sedat Abusoglu, Turkey |
| 16.00-16.30 | COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION & POSTER VISITING |
| 16.30 - 17.30 SESSION 7 | |
| 16.30-16.45 | OXIDATIVE STRESS AND MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY Emina ?olak, Serbia |
| 16.45-17.00 | SEASON VARIABILITY OF SERUM 25-HYDROXY-VITAMIN D LEVELS IN BILECIK PROVINCE: A FOLLOW-UP STUDY FROM TURKEY Saadet Celik, Turkey |
| 17.00-17.15 | ANALYSIS OF HEMOGLOBIN ELECTROPHORESIS DATA ON THALASSEMIC CARRIERS Selma Dyca, Albania |
| 17.15-17.30 | OBESITY-RELATED BONE METABOLISM ALTERATIONS Aylin Sepici-Dinçel, Turkey |
| 17.30-17.45 | RISK MANAGEMENT IN BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSES LABORATORY Katerina Tosheska-Trajkovska |
| 17.45-18.15 | CLOSING CEREMONY - Closing Remarks - 27th BCLF Meeting, Antalya, October 2019 |
| 20.30-01.00 | GET TOGETHER PARTY |
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