Scientific Program

March 20-21, 2026 • Kostis Palamas Building, Athens

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Session Topics

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1 Unsolved Cases & Difficult Case Types
2 FFPE Proteomics: Research and Perspectives
3 Novel Subtypes: Discovery & Validation
4 New Technologies, Advances and Challenges
5 Role of PTMs in Amyloidosis
6 Quality & Validation of the Assay
20
MAR

Day 1 — Friday

08:20 ☕ Registration & Welcome Coffee
Session 1 — Chair: Amélie Dendooven
08:50

Introduction by Organisers

Local Organising Committee

09:00

Per Westermark

Uppsala, Sweden

Amyloid diagnosis and typing with different modalities

4
09:20

Greta Bindi

Milan, Italy

A one-slide approach for renal amyloid detection and typing

4
09:35

Christophe Sirac

Limoges, France

Detecting and Sequencing Immunoglobulin Variable Domains: A MS Beginner's Perspective

4
09:50

Anas Kamleh

Sponsor Presentation

Standardizing High-throughput LC-MS based proteomics for actionable insights; Examples from amyloid research

Sponsor
10:05

Paulina Czaplewska

Gdańsk, Poland

Beyond Canonical FASTA: Variant-Aware Proteomics Revealed by ALICE-DB

4
10:20

Graham Taylor

London, UK

Thoughts on variant searches

4
10:35 ☕ Coffee Break
Session 2 — Chair: Dario Di Silvestre
11:05

Juliane Jordan

Kiel, Germany

Canonical Disease Progression in Cardiac Amyloidosis

2
11:25

Naya Nikolaou

Athens, Greece

Proteomic Profiling Deciphers the Mechanisms of Cardiotoxicity in Light Chain Amyloidosis

2
11:40

Hans Christian Beck

Odense, Denmark

Diagnostic Amyloid Proteomics in Practice: Insights from the Odense Amyloidosis Center, DK

General
11:55

Julie Courraud

Athens, Greece

Discussing needs and resources of the network to ensure quality and perform validation of proteomic amyloid typing assays

6
12:10

Francesco Greco

Pisa, Italy (Online)

AmiloProteo v1.0.0 — Implementation and certification of a software for automated diagnosis and quality control

6
12:30 🍽️ Seated Lunch
Session 3 — Chair: Francesca Lavatelli
13:50

Graham Taylor

London, UK

Heavy Chain in Amyloid

1
14:10

Fenia Theodorakakou

Athens, Greece

Clinical cases in Athens

1
14:25

Jessica Chapman

New York, USA

Incidental amyloid findings during joint replacement – difficulty with typing, clinical significance, next steps

1
14:40

Amélie Dendooven

Gent, Belgium

Unsolved and difficult cases

1
14:55

Yukako Shintani

Tokyo, Japan

Amyloid typing in Japan: AL and light chain deposition disease

1
15:10

Surendra Dasari

Rochester, USA

Dual amyloidoses – discussion of recently published manuscript, with emphasis on importance of careful and selective microdissection

1
15:30 ☕ Coffee Break
Session 4 — Chair: Christoph Roecken
16:00

Francesca Lavatelli

Pavia, Italy

Amyloid heterogeneity: how much do we miss upon fibril extraction and proteomic analysis?

5
16:20

Patrizia Polverino De Laureto

Padova, Italy

Role of alpha-synuclein truncations in Parkinson disease

5
16:35

Gareth Morgan

Boston, USA

N-glycosylation of antibody light chains in AL amyloidosis

5
16:50

Surendra Dasari

Rochester, USA

Mayo Clinic experience with discovery and validation of new amyloid types (ALECT2, AEnf, AEFEMP1, AApoCII, ASom (Somatostatin), AIL1RAP (Anakinra)) – what is sufficient evidence?

3
17:05

Gareth Morgan

Boston, USA

Gelsolin domain 4 variants associated with potentially novel forms of AGel amyloidosis

3
20:00 🍷 Conference Dinner in the City Center
21
MAR

Day 2 — Saturday

08:30 ☕ Registration & Coffee
Session 1 — Panel Discussion — Chair: Julie Courraud
09:00

Panel Discussion

All Speakers & Attendees

Interactive discussion on key topics, challenges, and future directions in amyloid proteomics

11:00 ☕ Coffee Break
Session 2 — Closing Remarks & Next Steps
11:30

Closing Remarks & Next Steps

All Participants

12:30

Closing Remarks

Local Organising Committee

12:35 🥡 Lunch to Go
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