PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, February 28   —  1:00 PM   —  Convention Center Room 203


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Section H - TECHNIQUES
Chaired by: A. Julian Garvin and Joseph Geradts



1:00 Multiple Displacement Amplification and the Detection of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Physical State (1525)
MF Evans, CS-C Adamson, GM von Walstrom, K Cooper - University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1:15 Analytic Validation of Molecular Analysis of Pancreaticobiliary Brushing Cytology Specimens (1529)
OE Gologan, S Finkelstein, O Lapkus, YL Liu, PA Swalsky, M Wilson, JF Silverman - Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA; Redpath Integrated Pathology, Pittsburgh, PA
1:30 Quantitative Assay of Hepatitis C Virus in Liver Biopsy Tissue (1538)
C Liu, C Soldevila, H Zhu, M Butera, R Forpi, A Hemming, DR Nelson - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1:45 Application of Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization (CISH) in the Differential Diagnosis of Renal Tumors (1545)
MA Palau, R Ronchetti, WM Linehan, EM Li Ning, C Torres-Cabala, MJ Merino - National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
2:00 Strategy for Resolution of Pathology Specimen Quality Control Issues, Including a Novel mtDNA Hybridization Test (1517)
ZM Budimlija, DA Popiolek, P Illei, BA West, M Prinz - The NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York, NY; New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
2:15 Sensitive Method for KRAS Mutation Detection by Pyrosequencing™ (1543)
S Ogino, T Kawasaki, M Brahmandam, L Yan, M Cantor, C Namgyal, E Giovannucci, M Mino, G Lauwers, M Loda, CS Fuchs - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Biotage, Westborough, MA; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
2:30 Mutational Analysis of CEBPA in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: An Integrated Approach Using Denaturing and Non-Denaturing Capillary Electrophoresis and Direct Sequencing (1511)
B Barkoh, D Jones, M Jaju, K Vadlamudi, E Lopez-Alvarez, E Estey, H Kantarjian, R Luthra - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
2:45 Detection of B-RAF Activating Mutations in Malignant Melamona by High Resolution Amplicon Melting Analysis (1560)
C Willmore-Payne, JA Holden, LJ Layfield - University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT
3:00 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION II
4:30 NATHAN KAUFMAN TIMELY TOPICS LECTURE
Dr. Phillip A. Sharp
The Biological and Potentially Therapeutic Activities of Short RNAs
Convention Center, Ballroom B