PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, March 8   —  1:00 PM   —  Room 12


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Section H - TECHNIQUES
Chaired by: Henry Frierson and Kumarasan Cooper



1:00 Improved Detection of Human Papillomavirus DNA in Cervical and Breast Tissues by Hot Start, Touchdown General Primer PCR, and Optimized Sample Dna Concentration (1496)
MF Evans, CS Adamson, K Cooper - University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1:15 Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Detection of t(X;18)(p11.2;q11.2) in a Synovial Sarcoma Tissue Microarray (1531)
J Terry, DE Horsman, C Salskie, M He, FD Hsu, DG Huntsman, TO Nielsen - Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre, University of BC, Vancouver, Canada; BC Cancer Agency
1:30 Initial Experience with a Novel Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) Assay for Detection of Ewing's Sarcoma (EWS) Gene (22q12) Translocation in Paraffin-Embedded Tissue (1511)
WW Liu, M Skacel, DG Hicks, JK Trupiano, RR Tubbs, JR Goldblum - Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
1:45 Comparison of SELDI-TOF MS Generated Protein Profiles between Fresh and Formalin Fixed Samples (1489)
DC Chhieng, E Miller, S Meleth, WE Grizzle - University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
2:00 Use of Spectral Imaging Analysis for Evaluation of Multi-Color Immunohistochemistry (1481)
TS Barry, AM Gown, HE Yaziji, RW Levenson - PhenoPath Laboratories, Seattle, WA; CRI, Woburn, MA
2:15 Immunohistochemical Analysis of Routine Paraffin Embedded Tissue Using Rabbit Monoclonal Antibodies (1527)
S Rossi, E Orvieto, S Chinellato, A Furlanetto, L Laurino, F Facchetti, AP Dei Tos - Hospital of Treviso, Treviso, Italy; Brescia University School of Medicine, Brescia, Italy
2:30 New Detection System for Immunohistochemistry (1515)
J Minyard, A Knoll, K Weckworth, U Lovborg, R Welcher - DakoCytomation, Carpinteria, CA
2:45 Longterm Preservation of Antigenicity on Tissue Microarrays (1486)
LA Charette, KA DiVito, DL Rimm, RL Camp - Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
3:00 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION II
4:30 NATHAN KAUFMAN TIMELY TOPICS LECTURE
Dr. David Walker
Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: A Critical Opportunity for Pathology in the Era of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections
Hall A