LABCON 2017 - Updated Information
LABCON 2017 - Friday 31st March and Saturday 1st April 2017. Bookings can be made through Conference Connections: http://www.ccevents.ie/labcon
Many Congratulations to the candidates that have been selected for short paper oral presentations at the individual sessions are listed below
Clinical Chemistry
MEASURING GLUCOSE IN NEONATES. O’Kelly R, Stapleton M, O’Donnell A, O’Sullivan A, White M. Clinical Chemistry, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8.
VERIFICATION OF ABBOTT 25-OH-VITAMIN D ASSAY ON THE ARCHITECT ci8200. O’Mahony,A. B.O’Dea, A,Kehir, K. Hutchinson
Department of Clinical Chemistry, Biomnis Ireland, Dublin.
Haematology/Transfusion/Transplantation
ABO INCOMPATIBLE BLOOD TRANSFUSION
Croke, EC, Whitney, EW, Flynn, OF, Pathology Department, St. Luke’s Hospital Kilkenny
TYPE I GAUCHER DISEASE PRESENTING AS PERSISTENT THROMBOCYTOPENIA, ASSOCIATED FACTOR XI DEFICIENCY AND EMERGENT MYELOMA Hyland, T, Reidy, N, Brodie, R, Duggan, C Haematology Department, Cork University Hospital, Cork.
HAEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS O’Donnell, N, Reidy, N. Haematology Department, Cork University Hospital.
PATIENT WITH CONGENITAL NEPHROTIC SYNDROME AND ANTITHROMBIN DEFICIENCY-IMPLICATIONS FOR MONITORING
Pillion, C, Regan, I, Riordan, M. Haematology Department, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin.
Medical Microbiology
A CASE OF MENINGITIS DUE TO LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES Armstrong, L. & Hickey, K. Microbiology Department, Sligo University Hospital
INVESTIGATION OF A MULTI-SPECIES OUTBREAK OF SHIGELLOSIS ASSOCIATED WITH MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN
De Lappe,N, Maguire, M, King, J. and Cormican, M. National Salmonella, Shigella & Listeria Reference Laboratory, Medical Microbiology Department, University Hospital Galway.
A LESSON FROM FALSE POSITIVE E. COLI K1 DNA Chan, G, Donnachie, K, Doyle, M Microbiology Department, University Hospital Waterford.
BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CO2 DEPENDENT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR INFECTION CONTROL Looby, D, Bennett, D, Cleary, J, Cunney, R, Drew, R. Microbiology Department, Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin.
Immunology
INTRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL COMMENTS TO THE PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS REPORT Hooley, K. Caverley, H, Duncliffe, T, Owens, S, Stapleton, M, Cadogan, S, Cahill, M, Gilligan, O. Immunology Department, Cork University Hospital.
CLONING OF ßETA-DEFENSIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES FROM S. SALAR (ATLANTIC SALMON)
Gomes, VL, Kelly, J, O’Keeffe, J, Slattery, O. Department of Biopharmaceutical & Medical Science and Marine & Freshwater Centre, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.
INVESTIGATION OF ß-DEFENSIN GENE EXPRESSION IN SALMON
KellyJ1,Slattery,O1,Marcos,M1,2, Scholz,F1,2, O’Keeffe,J1
1 Department of Biopharmaceutical & Medical Science and Marine & Freshwater Centre, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Dublin Road, Galway and 2 Vet-Aqua International, Oranmore, Galway.
Virology
A SYSTEMATIC AND DOCUMENTED LITERATURE REVIEW OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS OF EUROPEAN SCHOOL- ATTENDING ADOLESCENTS OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES.
O’ Shea, C, Phelan, A, Walsh, C, Cotter, L. Cork Institute of Technology and University College Cork