ERNDIM meeting at ICIEM, 3rd September 2013.

Programme for ERNDIM Workshop 2013

Educational Oligosaccharide Kit Now Available!

An educational kit containing 6 common oligosaccharidoses samples is now available to purchase on a not-for-profit basis from MCA Laboratories in the Netherlands.  MCA Laboratories (a sub-section of SKML) organise some of ERNDIM's EQA schemes on our behalf.

The samples included in the educational kit are:  GM1 gangliosidosis, GM2 gangliosidosis, M. Pompe (infantile), Aspartylglucosaminuria, alpha-mannosidosis and Schindler disease.

A protocol for qualitative TLC oligosaccharide analysis and also a picture of a TLC separation of the Oligosaccharide kit are both available on the ERNDIM website under Training/ Educational Documents.

Further details of the Educational Oligosaccharide kit are available from MCA Laboratories

http://cms.erndimqa.nl/Educational-Panels.aspx

Workshop on interpretation of diagnostic genetic results (biochemical, cytogenetics and molecular)
Friday 7th June 2013 ESHG Conference – Satellite meeting Paris, France

The European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) is organising a workshop on Nomenclature and Interpretation of diagnostic genetic results (biochemical, cytogenetics and molecular). The meeting will take place on Friday 7th June 2013 as a satellite meeting of the ESHG Conference in Paris, France

Goal of the meeting:
Genetic laboratories will be more aware of how to use the outcome from EQA scheme, actions to be taken, the various nomenclatures, improvement in the accuracy of the content and interpretation of reports.

Purpose of the course:

To address

• learning points from the different EQA scheme providers in the different field (cytogenetics, biochemical genetics and molecular genetics)
• the reason why it is important to participate to EQA schemes, to motivate laboratories to step in the process some of the frequent nomenclature and interpretation errors identified when laboratories participate in EQA

https://www.eshg.org/satmeetings2013.0.html