Full Schedule

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST

AMP Reference Materials Forum

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM EST

Attendee, Speaker and Exhibitor Registration and Check-In

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST

Attendee, Speaker and Exhibitor Registration and Check-In

7:30 AM - 11:30 AM EST

Board of Directors Meeting (Invitation Only)

7:30 AM - 5:30 PM EST

Coat & Bag Check

8:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST

GetAMPed! (Separate Registration)

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST

Corporate Workshops

12:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST

GetAMPed! (Separate Registration)

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

AMP Committee Meetings (Invitation Only)

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

2025 Program Committee Meeting

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

2026 Global Organizing Committee Meeting

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

2026 Program Committee Meeting

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Awards Committee Meeting

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Clinical Practice Committee Meeting

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Economic Affairs Committee Meeting

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Membership Affairs Committee Meeting

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Nominating Committee Meeting

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Professional Committee Meeting

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Publications Committee Meeting

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

SD Leadership Committee Meeting (ALL)

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

T & E Committee Meeting

5:15 PM - 6:15 PM EST

Attendee Happy Hour

5:45 PM - 7:00 PM EST

Volunteer Welcome Reception

6:30 AM - 8:00 AM EST

Poster Set-Up

6:45 AM - 5:00 PM EST

Attendee, Speaker and Exhibitor Registration and Check-In

7:30 AM - 9:15 AM EST

Poster Set-Up

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM EST

Break

8:00 AM - 7:00 PM EST

Coat & Bag Check

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM EST

AMP Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics: Presentation and Lecture

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM EST

Break

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Advocacy Breakout Session

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Beyond the Genome: Innovative Approaches to Molecular Diagnostics

Program Committee Moderator: – University of Utah

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM EST

Transcriptomics

Breakout Speaker: – Yale University

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM EST

TBD

Breakout Speaker: – Greenwood Genetic Center

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Proteomics

Breakout Speaker: – Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory at Mayo Clinic

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Developing Robust Bioinformatic Pipelines and Regulatory Requirements

Program Committee Moderator: – Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Development of Bioinformatic Validation Best Practices

Breakout Speaker: – Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Emerging Public Health Threats: Avian Influenza A(H5N1) and the Return of Vaccine-preventable Diseases

Program Committee Moderator: – Indiana University Health and Indiana University School of Medicine

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Emerging Public Health Threats - Avian Influenza A(H5N1)

Breakout Speaker: – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Emerging Public Health Threats - Re-Emerging Vaccine-Preventable Infectious Diseases

Breakout Speaker: – Stanford University

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Transforming Cancer Care with Cell-Free DNA Testing

Program Committee Moderator: – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Advancing Cancer Care with Non-Blood-Based Cell-Free DNA Testing

Breakout Speaker: – University of Washington Medical Center

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Current Clinical Applications of Blood-Based Cell-Free DNA Testing in Oncology

Breakout Speaker: – Princess Margaret Cancer Centre / Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

11:15 AM - 7:00 PM EST

Expo Hall Open

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EST

General Lunch — Visit Expo Hall and View Posters

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EST

International Members' Luncheon

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EST

New to AMP? First Time at the Annual Meeting? – New Member and First Timers Lunch

12:00 PM - 6:45 PM EST

Innovation Spotlight

Location: Expo Hall

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM EST

Plenary HemePath

Program Committee Moderator: – Cleveland Clinic Florida

Program Committee Moderator: – University of Vermont

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM EST

Genomic Classification and Individualized Prognosis in Multiple Myeloma

Plenary Speaker: – University of Miami, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM EST

Break

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Molecular Testing Standards and Guidelines for Measurable Residual Disease Testing in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report of the AMP (PLACEHOLDER)

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Platform Presentations of Selected Informatics Abstracts

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Platform Presentations of Selected Solid Tumor Abstracts

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Platform Presentations of Selected Technical Topic Abstracts

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST

Coffee Break — Visit Expo Hall and View Posters

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM EST

Plenary Infectious Diseases

Program Committee Moderator: – Indiana University Health and Indiana University School of Medicine

Program Committee Moderator: – Cleveland Clinic-Lerner Research Institute

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM EST

Small Game Hunting

Plenary Speaker: – Columbia University Mailman school of Public Health

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST

Welcome Reception

Location: Expo Hall

6:45 AM - 5:00 PM EST

Attendee, Speaker and Exhibitor Registration and Check-In

6:45 AM - 6:30 PM EST

Coat & Bag Check

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM EST

Case Study Presentations

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM EST

Break

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM EST

Plenary Informatics

Program Committee Moderator: – Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

Program Committee Moderator: – Weill Cornell Medicine

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM EST

Ethical frontiers: The promise and perils of healthcare AI in a socially connected world

Plenary Speaker: – Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center/ University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST

Expo Hall Open

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM EST

Coffee Break — Visit Expo Hall and View Posters

9:30 AM - 3:30 PM EST

Innovation Spotlight

Location: Expo Hall

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

(Fusion 1) Advances in Oncogenic Evaluation and Nomenclature of Gene Fusions in Solid Tumors

Program Committee Moderator: – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM EST

Gene Fusions in Cancers: Challenges in Detection and Interpretation

Breakout Speaker: – Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM EST

Standards for classifying fusion oncogenicity and its applications

Breakout Speaker: – Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Standards for gene fusion nomenclature and reporting

Breakout Speaker: – Institute for Genomic Medicine/Nationwide Children's Hospital

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Advancing Acute Leukemia Diagnosis: The Role of Methylation Sequencing for Rapid Classification

Program Committee Moderator: – Cleveland Clinic Florida

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Rapid Epigenomic Classification of Acute Leukemia

Breakout Speaker: – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Assessment of tumor burden using image analysis and NGS data

Program Committee Moderator: – Weill Cornell Medicine

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Digital Whole-slide Image Analysis to Optimize the Molecular Pre-analytical Workflow

Breakout Speaker: – Tempus AI

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Integrating Absolute Copy Number Analysis into the Clinical NGS Workflow: Estimating Purity, Ploidy, and Cancer Cell Fraction

Breakout Speaker: – University of Michigan

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Optimizing Diagnostic Stewardship: Clinician and Lab Director Perspectives on Effective Test Utilization

Program Committee Moderator: – Cleveland Clinic-Lerner Research Institute

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Optimizing Diagnostic Stewardship: Clinician and Lab Director Perspectives on Effective Test Utilization

Breakout Speaker: – University of Maryland

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EST

General Lunch — Visit Expo Hall and View Posters

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EST

Technologist Networking Luncheon

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EST

Trainee Luncheon: Networking + Molecular Pathology Trivia

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM EST

A Refresher in R: Using R in Validations in the Clinical Pathology Lab

Program Committee Moderator: – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM EST

Title TBD

Breakout Speaker: – Unity Health Toronto/University of Toronto

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM EST

Epigenetic Signatures in B-Cell Lymphoma: Insights that Advance Classification and Clinical Outcomes

Program Committee Moderator: – University of Vermont

1:15 PM - 2:00 PM EST

DNA Methylation-Based Classification of Hairy Cell Leukemia and Splenic B Cell Lymphoma

Breakout Speaker: – The Ohio State University

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM EST

Fluctuating DNA methylation and evolutionary history in lymphoid cancers

Breakout Speaker: – Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM EST

From Targeted NGS Panels to Virtual Panels in the Era of Exome Sequencing

Program Committee Moderator: – Stanford University

1:15 PM - 1:45 PM EST

Experience of MayoComplete Organ Specific Panels - Including a Lung Cancer-Specific Panel

Breakout Speaker: – Mayo Clinic

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM EST

Interpreting Virtual Panels from Broad Cancer Sequencing Data

Breakout Speaker: – University of Chicago Medicine

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM EST

Clinical Implementation of Joint Exome/Transcriptome Sequencing

Breakout Speaker: – Dartmouth Hitchcock and Medical Center

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM EST

Implementing Pre-emptive Germline Genomic Testing for Preventive Medicine

Program Committee Moderator: – University of Utah

1:15 PM - 1:45 PM EST

Opportunities and challenges with implementing ACMG secondary findings

Breakout Speaker: – Boston Children's Hospital

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM EST

Navigating ethical issues in implementing polygenic risk score screening

Breakout Speaker: – Brigham and Women's Hospital

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM EST

Opportunities and challenges with implementing polygenic risk score testing to assess common disease risks

Breakout Speaker:

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM EST

Integrated Genomics Viewer Workshop

Program Committee Moderator: – Weill Cornell Medicine

1:15 PM - 2:00 PM EST

One talk providing overview of IGV and a few short examples on the screen

Breakout Speaker: – MD Anderson Medical Center

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM EST

How to win friends and influence people, all with IGV

Breakout Speaker: – University of Pennsylvania

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

Coffee Break — Visit Expo Hall and View Posters

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM EST

Plenary Genetics

Program Committee Moderator: – University of Utah

Program Committee Moderator: – Stanford

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM EST

Confronting the Variants of Uncertain Significance (VUS) Conundrum

Plenary Speaker: – Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Break

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM EST

Business Meeting and Awards Session

7:00 PM - 10:30 PM EST

Amazing Molecular Party (Separate Registration)

6:45 AM - 2:00 PM EST

Attendee, Speaker and Exhibitor Registration and Check-In

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM EST

Break

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST

Coat & Bag Check

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM EST

Plenary Tech Topic

Program Committee Moderator: – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Program Committee Moderator: – Palmetto GBA

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM EST

Automation for Tumour Sequencing at Scale.

Plenary Speaker: – Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at BC Cancer

9:00 AM - 1:30 PM EST

Expo Hall Open

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM EST

Coffee Break — Visit Expo Hall and View Posters

9:30 AM - 1:10 PM EST

Innovation Spotlight

Location: Expo Hall

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Applications of AI and Machine Learning for Clinical Implications

Program Committee Moderator: – Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Accelerating antibiotic discovery using AI

Breakout Speaker: – University of Pennsylvania

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Multi-modal Foundation AI for Precision Oncology

Breakout Speaker: – Stanford University

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Expectations Implementing Automation and Liquid Handlers

Program Committee Moderator: – Palmetto GBA

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Bots on the Bench: Real-World Lessons from Custom Automation in Molecular Diagnostics

Breakout Speaker: – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST

The Rise of The Machines – Important Considerations in Migrating Molecular Workflows to Laboratory Automation

Breakout Speaker: – Nucleus Automation Partners

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Optimizing Molecular Testing and Reporting for Myeloid Malignancies: Bridging Oncologist Expectations with Laboratory Practicalities

Program Committee Moderator: – Cleveland Clinic Florida

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Optimizing Molecular Testing and Reporting for Myeloid Malignancies: Bridging Oncologist Expectations with Laboratory Practicalities (Panel discussion)

Breakout Speaker: – University of Michigan

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Panel

Breakout Speaker: – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Self-Collection: Navigating the Variables and Balancing the Pros and Cons

Breakout Speaker: – Quest Diagnostics

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST

Self-Collection: Navigating the Variables and Balancing the Pros and Cons

Breakout Speaker: – University of Washington

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EST

Exhibitor Appreciation Lunch—Visit Expo Hall and View Posters

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EST

Poster Removal

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM EST

Platform Presentations of Selected Genetics Abstracts

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM EST

Platform Presentations of Selected HemePath Abstracts

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM EST

Platform Presentations of Selected Infectious Diseases Abstracts

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM EST

Break

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST

(Fusion 2) Uncovering Clinically Significant and Novel Gene Fusions: Challenges and Innovations

Program Committee Moderator: – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Specialized informatics for specialized fusion detection from RNA-based sequencing assays

Breakout Speaker: – Boston Children's Hospital

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Fusion 2

Breakout Speaker: – NYU Langone Health

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST

Fusion 2

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST

Applications of Large Language Models in Molecular

Program Committee Moderator: – Weill Cornell Medicine

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM EST

Foundation Models for Molecular Pathology

Breakout Speaker: – Emory University School of Medicine

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM EST

The evolution of state-of-the-art LLMs

Breakout Speaker:

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST

Best Practices and Future Directions in Paired Tumor-normal Molecular Profiling for Solid Tumors

Program Committee Moderator: – Stanford

Program Committee Moderator: – Stanford University

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM EST

TBD

Breakout Speaker: – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

TBD

Breakout Speaker: – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST

TBD

Breakout Speaker: – MD Anderson Cancer Center

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST

Women in Molecular Pathology: Career Perspectives from Technologists and Pathologists

Program Committee Moderator: – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Imposter Syndrome and Personal Development: Perspective from Laboratory Technologists

Breakout Speaker: – n/a

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

The effect of Gender Bias and the Pathway to Department Chair

Breakout Speaker: – Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST

Technologist Session

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM EST

Break

4:15 PM - 5:15 PM EST

Plenary Solid Tumors

Program Committee Moderator: – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Program Committee Moderator: – Stanford University

4:15 PM - 5:15 PM EST

Leveraging RNA Sequencing for Splice Variant Discovery and Somatic Variant Prioritization in Precision Oncology

Plenary Speaker: – Washington University

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Closing Remarks