September 15-16, 2003, Sheraton Colony Square Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia  

Overview
Summary
  

Presentations/Abstracts

• Introduction and Welcoming Remarks -
  Dr. Joe Boone, CDC

• Current Quality Control Materials for Genetic Tests:
  Guidelines, Oversight and Availability -
  Dr. Larry Silverman, Univ. of Virginia

• Stabilized Synthetic Nucleic Acids -
  Dr. Clark Rundell, Maine Molecular Quality Controls, Inc.

• Cell Transformation -
  Dr. Tim Stenzel, Vysis, Inc.

• Genetic Engineering - 
  Dr. Wayne Grody, UCLA School of Medicine

• European QC Materials -
  Dr. Elizabeth Dequeker, Univ. of Leuven, Belgium
  Dr. David Barton, Irish National Centre of Medical Genetics

• Dried Blood Spot Materials -
  Dr. Joanne Mei, CDC

• Multiplex CF Control Materials - 
  Dr. Roger Lebo, Children's Hospital Med. Center of Akron

• Innovative QC - 
  Dr. James Willey, Medical College of Ohio

• Survey of Needs for QC Materials

• Applicability of Research Efforts to Future Needs for QC Materials - Panel Discussion

• Discussion of Practical Issues - Panel Discussions

• Bridging the Gaps and Sustaining a Process for QC Materials - Panel Discussions

• Conference Summary
  Dr. Joe Boone, CDC 

• Establishment of standards and standardized methods for microarrays

• Using Gene Editing to Create SNPs and Point Mutations in Human Genes Contained in Yeast Artificial Chromosomes

• Solving The Problem of Limited DNA samples: Comprehensive Whole Genome Amplification Using Multiple Displacement Amplification   

• The CRMGEN Project: Certified Reference Materials for Genetic Testing   

• Standardized Mixtures of Internal Standards Enable Implementation and Monitoring of Quality Control in Quantitative PCR Molecular  

• Synthesized Multiple Control DNA Sequences Optimize Quality Control