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101. Red Cells and Erythropoiesis, Structure and Function, Metabolism, and Survival, Excluding Iron: Poster III

Red Cells and Erythropoiesis, Structure and Function, Metabolism, and Survival, Excluding Iron Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Poster
Monday, December 7, 2015: 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Hall A, Level 2 (Orange County Convention Center)

Brian M. Dulmovits, MS1, Yue Zhao, PhD2*, Luanne L. Peters, PhD2 and Lionel Blanc, PhD3

1Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY
2The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
3The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY

Stephen Huang, B Sc (Hons)1*, Kevin R. Gillinder, PhD2*, Melissa Ilsley, BSc2*, Graham Magor, MB BS (Hons)2*, Michael Tallack, MD PhD2*, Anabel Sorolla, B Sc PhD3*, Harald Oey, BSc PhD4*, Sarah Harten, BSc PHD5*, Lucia Clemens-Daxinger, BSc PhD5*, Emma Whitelaw, BSc PhD6* and Andrew C Perkins, MD PhD7

1Mater Research, University fo Queensland, Woollongabba, Australia
2Mater Research, University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Australia
3Queensland Institute for Medical Resaerch, Herston, Australia
4Diamantina Institute, Univeristy of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Australia
5Queensland Institute for Medical Research, Herston, Australia
6La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
7Translational Research Institute, University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Australia

Thiyagaraj Mayuranathan, BSc, MSc, MPhil1*, Janakiram Rayabaram, BSc, MSc1*, Aneesha Nath, BSc., MSc2* and Shaji R Velayudhan, PhD1,2*

1Department of Hematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
2Centre for Stem Cell Research, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Harold Pimentel, MA, BS1, Marilyn Parra2*, Sherry Gee2*, Narla Mohandas, D.Sc.3, Lior Pachter1* and John G. Conboy, PhD2

1University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
3Red Cell Physiology Laboratory, New York Blood Center, New York, NY

Tsewang Tashi, MD1, N. Scott Reading, Ph.D.2*, Anna Shestakova, MD, PhD3*, Tatiana Burjanivova, PhD4*, Tanna Uran, MD, PhD5*, Felipe R Lorenzo V, M.D., PhD6, Hao Hu, PhD7*, Chad Huff, PhD8*, Lorna Moore, PhD9*, Parvaiz Koul, MD10*, Carl T Wittwer, MD, PhD11*, Victor R. Gordeuk, MD12, Re-Li Ge, MD, PhD5* and Josef T. Prchal, MD1

1Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT
3University of Utah, Department of Pathology, Salt Lake City, UT
4Department of Molecular Biology, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Martin, Martin, Slovakia
5Research Center for High Altitude Medicine, Qinghai University, Xining, China
6Hematology Division, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
7Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
8Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
9Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
10Department of Internal medicine, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, India
11Department of Pathology, University of Utah and ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT
12Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Elisa Fermo, PhD1*, Anna Yu. Bogdanova, Dr PhD2*, Polina Petkova-Kirova, PhD3*, Anna Zaninoni, BSc, PhD1*, Anna Paola Marcello, PhD1*, Asya Makhro, PhD2*, Pascal Hänggi, PhD2*, Laura Hertz, PhD3*, Jens Danielczok3*, Nadia Mirra, M.D.4*, Alberto Zanella, M.D.1, Wilma Barcellini, MD5*, Kaestner Lars, PhD3* and Paola Bianchi, PhD1*

1Oncohematology Unit - Physiopathology of Anemias Unit, Foundation IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
2Vetsuisse Faculty and the Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, Institute of Veterinary Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
3Research Center for Molecular Imaging and Screening, Medical School, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany
4Pediatric Unit, Foundation IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
5Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Slim Azouzi1*, Emmanuel Collec1*, Narla Mohandas, DSc2, Xiuli An, MD, PhD3, Yves Colin Aronovicz1 and Caroline Le Van Kim1*

1UMR_S1134, University Paris Diderot/Inserm/INTS, Paris, France
2New York Blood Center, New York, NY
3Laboratory of Membrane Biology, New York Blood Center, New York, NY

Jihyun Song, MS1*, Barbora Kralova2*, Monika Horvathova, PhD2, Donghoon Yoon, PhD3, Josef T. Prchal, M.D.4,5 and Vladimir Divoky, PhD2

1Division of Hematology, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
3Myeloma Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
4Departments of Medicine and Pathophysiology, Charles University School of Medicine,, Prague, Czech Republic
5Division of Hematology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Kha Le, PhD1*, Marvin Cohen1,2*, Yue Chen1*, Hyeryun Kim1*, Bruce Silver3*, Sam Agresta, MD1, Elizabeth Merica1*, Charles Kung1*, Penelope Kosinski1*, Lee Silverman1*, Scott Biller1* and Hua Yang, PhD1*

1Agios Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
2MBC Pharma Solutions, Newtown, PA
3Bruce A Silver Clinical Science and Development, Dunkirk, MD

Paola Bianchi, BSC, PhD1*, Elisa Fermo, PhD1*, Kimberly Lezon-Geyda, PhD2*, Patrick G. Gallagher, MD2, D Holmes Morton, MD3*, Wilma Barcellini, MD1*, Bertil Glader, MD, PhD4, Stefan W. Eber, MD5, Jenny M. Despotovic, DO, MS6, Christine M. Knoll, MD7, Hassan M. Yaish, MD8*, Peter E. Newburger, MD9, Jennifer Rothman, MD10, Alexis A. Thompson, MD11, Yaddanapudi Ravindranath, MBBS12, Kerri A Nottage, MD, MPH13, Heng Wang, MD14*, Eduard J. van Beers, MD, PhD15, Joachim Kunz, MD16*, Marcin W Wlodarski, MD17*, Mukta Sharma, MD, MPH18, Melissa J. Rose, DO19, Yves D. Pastore, MD20, Patricia J. Giardina, MD21, Melissa Rhodes, MD22, Kevin Kuo, BSc, MD23, Dongjing Guo, MS24*, Wendy B. London, PhD24* and Rachael F. Grace, MD24

1Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
2Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
3Lancaster General Hospital, Clinic for Special Children, Lancaster, PA
4Stanford University, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA
5Schwerpunktpraxis für Pädiatrische Hämatologie- Onkologie and Technical University, Munich, Germany
6Texas Children's Hematology Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
7Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
8Primary Children’s Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
9University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
10Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
11Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL
12Wayne State University School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI
13St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
14DDC Clinic for Special Needs Children, Middlefield, OH
15Van Creveldkliniek, University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands
16Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
17University Children´s Hospital Freiburg, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
18Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
19The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH
20CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, QC, Canada
21Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
22University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
23University of Toronto, University Health Network, Ontario, Canada
24Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorder Center, Boston, MA

Marc Michel, MD,1,2,3*, Louis Terriou, MD4*, Françoise Roudot-Thoraval, MD, PhD5*, Mohamed Hamidou, MD, PhD6*, Mikael Ebbo, MD7,8*, Guillaume Le guenno9*, Sylvain Audia, MD, PhD10*, Bruno Royer, MD11*, anne-Sophie Morin, M.D12*, Jean Marie Michot, MD13*, Arnaud Jaccard, MD, PhD14,15*, Laurent Frenzel, MD, PhD16*, Corinne Haioun, MD, PhD17, Mehdi Khellaf, MD18* and Bertrand Godeau, MD, PhD1*

1Internal Medicine, French referral center for adult's immune cytopenia, Henri Mondor Hospital, AP-HP, UPEC University, Créteil, France
2Hôpital Henri-Mondor, APHP, Créteil, France
3Université Paris Est, Créteil, France
4Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital HURIEZ CHRU Lille, Lille, France
5Department of Biostatistics and Public Health, Henri Mondo University Hospital, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Créteil, France
6Department of Internal Medicine, Hôtel Dieu University Hospital, Nantes, France
7Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France
8Department of Internal Medicine, Timone University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille, Marseille, France
9Service de médecine Interne, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
10Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital, Dijon, France
11Hematology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens, France
12department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Jean Verdier, Bondy, France
13Department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Bicetre, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France
14Department of Hematology, Centre National de Référence Maladies Rares: Amylose AL et Autres Maladies à Dépôts, CHU Limoges, Limoges, France
15HoPital Dupuytren, Limoges Cedex 1, France
16Department of Clinical Hematology, Hopital Necker, AP-HP, Paris, France
17Lymphoid Malignancies Unit, AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Mondor, Créteil, France
18Henri Mondor Hospital, AP-HP, UPEC University, Creteil, France

Mustafa Nuri Yenerel, MD1*, Petra Muus, MD, PhD2, Amanda Wilson, MPH, PhD3* and Jeff Szer, MB, BS, FRACP4

1Dept. of Internal Medicine, Div.of Hematology, Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
2Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands
3Alexion Pharma International, Cambridge, MA
4Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Australia

Antonio Medina Almeida, MD, PhD1*, Camille L. Bedrosian, MD2, Alexander Cole, DSc, MPH3*, Petra Muus, MD, PhD4, Hubert Schrezenmeier, MD5, Jeff Szer, MB, BS, FRACP6, Alvaro Urbano-Ispizua, MD, PhD7 and Wendell F. Rosse, MD8

1Instituto Portugues de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil, Lisbon, Portugal
2Alexion Pharma International, Cheshire, CT
3Alexion Pharma International, Cambridge, MA
4Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands
5Institute of Clincial Transfusion Medicine and Immunogenetics, German Red Cross Blood Service Baden-Wüerttemberg - Hessen, University of Ulm, Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Ulm, Germany
6Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Australia
7Institute of Research Josep Carreras, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
8Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Alvaro Urbano-Ispizua1*, Petra Muus, MD, PhD2, Hubert Schrezenmeier, MD3,4,5, Antonio Medina Almeida, MD, PhD6*, Amanda Wilson, MPH, PhD7* and Russell E. Ware, MD, PhD8

1Hematology Department, Institute of Hematology and Oncology, University of Barcelona, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain
2Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands
3German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Baden-Württemberg–Hessen and Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Ulm, Germany
4German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Baden-Württemberg-Hessen, Germany
5Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
6Instituto Portugues de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil, Lisbon, Portugal
7Alexion Pharma International, Cambridge, MA
8Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Lionel Karlin1*, Jean-Philippe Metges2*, Nataliya Khobta3*, Gilles Boschetti4*, Alain Toledano5*, Camille Aubron-Olivier6*, Domitille Fernet6* and Olivier Fitoussi7*

1Service d'Hématologie, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Pierre Bénite, France
2Institut de Cancérologie et d’Hématologie, CHU Morvan, Brest, France
3Centre Hospitalier de Castelluccio, Ajaccio, France
4Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre Bénite, France
5Hôpital Américain de Paris, Neuilly Sur Seine, France
6Sandoz Biopharmaceuticals, Levallois-Perret, France
7Polyclinique Bordeaux Nord-Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France

Ahmar Urooj Zaidi, MD1,2, Miguel Herrera-Martinez, BS1,2*, Gerard W. Goyette Jr., BS1,2*, Steven Buck, MS1,2*, Manisha Gadgeel, MBBS1,2*, Arathi Mohan2*, Bulent Ozgonenel, MD1,2, Michael U Callaghan, MD1,2, Robert M. Johnson, PhD1* and Yaddanapudi Ravindranath, MBBS1,2

1School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI

Omar Niss, MD1, Satheesh Chonat, MD1, Karol Kerr, MD2*, Patrick T. McGann, MD, MS1, Marya Obaid Almansoori, MD3*, Maa-Ohui Quarmyne, MBChB MS4, Kejian Zhang, MD, MBA5* and Theodosia A. Kalfa, MD, PhD1

1Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
2SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse
3Latifa Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
4Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
5Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Ashwani K Gupta, MD1*, Ravneet Bajwa1*, Olivia Prosper, PhD2* and Maia Marchetva, PhD3*

1University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL
2Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM), Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
3University of Flordia, Gainesville, FL

Zachary Gowanlock, BASc1*, Swetha Sriram, MD1*, Alison Martin, MD2*, Anargyros Xenocostas, MD, FRCPC3 and Alejandro Lazo-Langner, MD, MSc4,5

1University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
2Western University, London, ON, Canada
3Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada
4Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Western University - London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada
5Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

Qute Choi, MD1*, Jung Ah Kim2*, Kyong Ok Im, MT3*, Si Nae Park3*, Yoomi Park4*, Ju Han Kim4*, Hye Lim Jung, MD, PhD5*, Seon Young Kim, MD, PhD2*, Hee Young Shin6* and Dong Soon Lee2

1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea
2Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
3Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
4Division of Biomedical Informatics, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
5Department of Pediatrics, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
6Department of Pediatrics, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Jihyun Song, MS1*, Krishna Sundar, MD2*, Perumal Thiagarajan, MD3 and Josef T. Prchal, M.D.4

1Division of Hematology, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2Sleep-Wake Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
3Department of Medicine and Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
4Division of Hematology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Harry Lesmana, MD1, Lisa Dyer, Ph.D1*, Ping Zhou2*, Xia Li, Ph.D1*, James Denton, MS1*, Satheesh Chonat, MD2, Kejian Zhang, MD, MBA1*, Robert J. Hopkin, MD1* and Theodosia A. Kalfa, MD, PhD2

1Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
2Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Andre Lebrun, MD1, Julie Rousseau, MD2, Jessica Constanzo Yanez3*, Carole Éthier3* and Maryse St-Louis3*

1Blood Bank, Hema-Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada
2Hematology, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
3Blood Bank, Héma-Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada

*signifies non-member of ASH