Two, two-day workshops, one for 12 beginners and one for 12 advanced immunohematology students will be presented with the titles “Beginning Antibody Identification” and “Preparing In-House Panels, Antisera, and PEG for Antibody Identification”. Faculty include Martha Rae Combs, MT(ASCP)SBB, Susan Tiulzi Johnson, MT(ASCP)SBB, and Jim Perkins, MD. To sign up for the workshops contact Mr. Satish Kumar via his email satish@transcon2010.com.  We hope to see you there!

This four and a half day wet workshop was held at the Rotary ttk Blood Bank, hosted by Drs. Latha Jaganathan and Ankit Mathur, and taught by Ms. Janis Hamilton and Dr. Jim Perkins.  The 12 participating  technicians, technical supervisors, and blood bank physicians came from as far away as Ahmedabad.  The workshop covered immunohematologic procedures from reading tube agglutination tests to autoadsorption to discover alloantibodies underlying an autoantibody.  We hope to come back to this excellent facility!

This five-day wet workshop for 12 students hosted by Jeevan Blood Center in Chennai covered techniques ranging from basic tube agglutination testing technique to RBC elution and autoadsorption.  The workshop was taught by Martha Rae Combs and Dr. Jim Perkins with assistance from Dr. Anila Mathan and Kavitha.

Hands-on workshops were conducted for Prathama Blood Center physician and technical staff on investigation of autoantibodies, donor antigen phenotyping, and selection of panel cells.  Faculty included Sue Johnson, Jan Hamilton, and Dr Jim Perkins.

Two, two day workshops, beginner and advanced, each for 12 students were conducted before the 2007 ISBTI conference in Bhopal, hosted by Dr. Manisha Shrivastava. The beginner workshop covered basic tube agglutination testing techniques and their use in antibody identification using cell panels. The advanced workshop focussed on investigation of autoantibodies, both cold- and warm-reactive. Faculty included Janis Hamilton, Sue Johnson, and Dr. Jim Perkins.

This five-day wet workshop for 12 students was hosted by Dr. P. Srinivasan at Jeevan Blood Center in Chennai.  Exercises ranged from basic tube agglutination testing technique to RBC elution and autoadsorption.  The workshop was taught by Marilyn Moulds and Dr. Jim Perkins.

A three-day workshop for 25 physicians and technicians, “TransQ ‘06″ was held at Prathama Blood Center before the 2006 ISBTI conference in Ahmedabad, hosted by Dr. Nabajyoti Choudhury.  Techniques covered included tube agglutination testing, use of antibody identification panels, and preparation and testing of RBC eluates.  Faculty included Ms. Sue Johnson and Drs. Jim Perkins and Graeme Woodfield.