Each year, the ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology® presents at more than 200 conferences, workshops, annual meetings, and symposiums for several national and international organizations. Recent posters and presentations are listed below.

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Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists (ACLPS)
Atlanta, GA, May 29—31, 2025

Harris HT, Shakir SM—Presentation
Harris HT, Shakir SM. Comparative Analysis of the Diagnostic Performance of Vaginitis Molecular Assays.

In-person LIVE Global Health Course—University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, May 19—20, 2025

Mathison BA—Presentation
Pritt BS, Mathison BA. Stool Parasites Laboratory.

Mathison BA—Presentation
Pritt BS, Mathison BA. Blood Parasites Laboratory.

Mathison BA—Presentation
Mathison BA, Pritt BS. Ectoparasites Laboratory.

Mathison BA—Presentation
Mathison BA. Case Studies in Medical Entomology: A Field Guide to Arthropods of the Human Body.

American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Louisville, KY, May 10, 2025

Miles RR—Presentation
Miles RR, Schwartz L, Stokke J, Welch J. When N=1, Diagnosing and Treating Rare Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas.

International Society for Laboratory Hematology (ISLH)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 7—10, 2025

Moser KA, Smock KJ—Poster
Moser KA, Smock KJ. HIT ELISA OD values demonstrate significant variability.

Smock KJ—Presentation
Smock KJ. Update on laboratory diagnosis of von Willebrand Disease.

Smock KJ—Presentation
Smock KJ. Changes impacting laboratory developed tests, a perspective.

Fairview Health Services Webinar
MN, May 5, 2025

Mathison BA—Presentation
Mathison BA. Morphologic Identification of Plasmodium and Babesia.

Rocky Mountain Section ALDM Spring Meeting
Salt Lake City, Utah, May 1—2, 2025

Boyd JM, Smith D, Hughs M, McMillin GA—Poster
Boyd JM, Smith D, Hughs M, McMillin GA. Quantitation of Perfluoroalkyl Compounds in Human Serum/Plasma by LC/MS/MS.

Pasquali M, Saffary Y, Ingoglia F, Hobert J—Poster
Pasquali M, Saffary Y, Ingoglia F, Hobert J, Ames E, Fisher R, Maegawa G, Botto L, Longo N. Challenges in the diagnosis of mucopolysaccharidosis type 4A.

Nelson HA—Presentation
Nelson HA. Evolving Biomarker Testing Landscape in Alzheimer’s Disease.

Lu J, La'ulu S, Doyle K—Poster
Lu J, La'ulu S, Doyle K. Evaluation of an In-House Cholinesterase Assay for Serum, Plasma, and Whole Blood.

Law RN, Wyness SP, La'ulu SL, Pandya V—Poster
Law RN, Wyness SP, La'ulu SL, Pandya V. Evaluation of Stanbio Laboratory B-Hydroxybutyrate using the Abbott Alinity c Analyzer.

Allison TA, La'ulu SL, Hunsaker JJH, Doyle K, Nelson HA—Poster
Allison TA, La'ulu SL, Hunsaker JJH, Doyle K, Nelson HA. Validation of Alzheimer’s Disease Markers in CSF.

Villanueva MG, Law R, La'ulu SL, Wyness SP, Pandya V—Poster
Villanueva MG, Law R, La'ulu SL, Wyness SP, Pandya V. Evaluation of Activated Aspartate Aminotransferase (A-AST) Assay using the Abbott Alinity c and Architect c4000.

Jackson AN, La’ulu SL, Rudolf JW, Johnson-Davis KL, Boyd JM—Poster
Jackson AN, La’ulu SL, Rudolf JW, Johnson-Davis KL, Boyd JM. Evaluation of Immunalysis Carisoprodol Metabolite / Meprobamate Urine Homogeneous Enzyme Immunoassay (HEIA) on the AU5800.

European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ECCMID)
Vienna, Austria, April 11—15, 2025

Grams TR, Shakir S—Poster
Grams TR, Shakir S. Evaluation of a novel media for susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium avium intracellular complex isolates.

Haas AL, Shakir SM—Presentation
Haas AL, Ma A, Pham J, Verma P, Malhotra U, Church EC, Narita M, Escuyer V, Shakir SM. Limitations of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay: a series of four clinical cases.

Haas AL, Hanson KE—Presentation
Haas AL, Hanson KE. Implementation and performance of a universal Mucorales PCR assay for diagnosis of mucormycosis.

Haas AL—Poster
Haas AL, Couturier MR. Evaluation of the BioFire Global Fever Panel compared to laboratory-developed PCR for malaria diagnostics.

Mathison BA—Poster
Bergstrand T, Bäckström F, Forsell J, Rohan Z, Davidson L, Lier T, Tappe D, Mathison BA, Pritt BS, Pettke A. Zoonotic Onchocerca, an emerging pathogen in Sweden.

Mathison BA, Knight KA, Hymas W, Couturier MR—Poster
Mathison BA, Knight KA, Potts JR, Markow F, Wood AE, Dixon KW, Walker JF, Bess DL, Hymas W, Couturier MR. Development & validation of an artificial intelligence model for detection of gastrointestinal parasites from concentrated wet-mount stool examinations.

American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
San Diego, CA, April 5—9, 2025

Smith TL, Peterson LK—Poster
Pascoe J, Smith TL, Wong K-H, Peterson LK, Clardy SL. Shooting in the Dark? A Single-Center Experience of Neural Autoantibody Panel Testing.

Smith TL, Peterson LK—Poster
Hoshina Y, Smith TL, Wong K-H, Peterson LK, Zekeridou A, Aboseif A, Coffey C, Wright MA, Banwell B, Dialino-Felix A, Flavin S, Dill L, Cho HJ, Josep Dalmau J, Titulaer M, Day GS, Clardy SL. The Urgent Need for Evidence Over Anecdote: Equipoise in the ExTINGUISH Clinical Trial in Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis.

ARUP LabMind Podcast
Salt Lake City, UT, April 1, 2025

Openshaw AS—Presentation
Openshaw AS. LabMind Podcast: An Interview With Amanda Openshaw: The Laboratory Is a Mystery Machine of Diagnostics.

APHL ID LAB CON 2025
Pasadena, CA, March 25—27, 2025

Bennett MS, Hymas WC, Shakir SM—Poster
Bennett MS, Hymas WC, Shakir SM. Validation of the single target Aptima Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae assays for adult and pediatric samples on the Hologic Panther System.

Hymas WC, Fisher MA, Shakir, SM—Presentation
Hymas WC, Fisher MA, Shakir, SM. Mycoplasma genitalium and macrolide resistance detection rates in urogenital samples at a National Reference Laboratory.

Pyne MT, Hymas WC, Couturier MR, Bradley BT—Poster
Pyne MT, Hymas WC, Couturier MR, Bradley BT. Validation of a Dual-target H5 Influenza Real-time RT-PCR Assay.

United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP)
Boston, MA, March 22—27, 2025

Wang CH—Poster
Wang CH, Hale GL. An Investigation of Granulomatous Liver Injury in Immunocompetent and Immunocompromised Patients at a Tertiary Care Center.

Wilcock DM, Zhao J, Anderson E, Coleman JF, Gulbahce HE—Poster
Wilcock DM, Zhao J, Anderson E, Coleman JF, Gulbahce HE. Resolving HER2 Status in Breast Carcinoma Patients with Complete Deletion of Chromosome 17 Centromere (CEP17) in Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization (FISH) Assays.

Wilcock DM, Jedrzkiewicz J, Beech C, Cleary A, Gulbahce HE—Poster
Wilcock DM, Jedrzkiewicz J, Beech C, Cleary A, Gulbahce HE. Breast Cancers with Discordant HER2 Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) Positive (Group1) and Immunohistochemistry (IHC) Negative (0/1+) Results Following 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists (ASCO/CAP) Guidelines.

American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)
Los Angeles, CA, March 18—22, 2025

Reich DR, Lasher R, Semler C, ZoBell S, Rudd MK—Presentation
Reich DR, Lasher R, Semler C, ZoBell S, Rudd MK. Challenged in copy number variant interpretation.

Zhang C, O’Shea J, Mao R, Bayrak-Toydemir P—Poster
Zhang C, O’Shea J, Baldwin EE, Andrews A, Boyden SE, Nicholas TJ, Botto L, Mao R, Bayrak-Toydemir P. Novel De Novo KAT6A Variant in a Pediatric Patient with Multisystem Involvement.

Verheijen J, O’Shea J, Bayrak-Toydemir P, Mao R—Poster
Verheijen J, O’Shea J, Boyden S, Nicholas T, Baldwin E, Andrews A, Botto L, Viskochil D, Butterfield R, Bayrak-Toydemir P, Mao R. Premature termination codon variants in CHD1 and SF3B2 in a complex pedigree with phenotypic variability.

O’Shea JM, Lewis RG, Rangel A, O'Fallon B, Dixon A, Glenzel C, Hirschi M, Clyde E, Bayrak-Toydemir P, Mao R—Poster
O’Shea JM, Lewis RG, Rangel A, O'Fallon B, Dixon A, Glenzel C, Hirschi M, Clyde E, Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), Andrews A, Baldwin E, Botto LD, Bayrak-Toydemir P, Mao R. Investigating the diagnostic yield of long read sequencing in a selected cohort of families with undiagnosed disease.

Lewis RG, Wen T, O’Shea J, Zhao J, Chapin Alexander, Bayrak-Toydemir Pinar, Mao R—Poster
Lewis RG, Wen T, O’Shea J, Zhao J, Boyden SE, Hocutt CM, Baldwin EE, Vagher J, Andrews A, Nicholas TJ, Chapin A, Fan EM, Meznarich JA, Viskochil DH, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Botto LD, Bayrak-Toydemir P, Mao R. Introns to Insights: The Transformative Power of RNA Sequencing in the Diagnosis of Rare Genetic Disorders.

Annual Park City Anatomic Pathology Update
Park City, UT, February 10, 2025

Kikuchi A—Presentation
Kikuchi A. Primary Liver Carcinomas: Challenges, Tools, and Diagnostic Considerations.

New Pathways in Advanced Systemic Mastocytosis
London, United Kingdom, February 7, 2025

George TI—Presentation
George TI. Suspecting Advanced Systemic Mastocytosis: from histopathology to molecular profiling.

We’re Organizing Research on Lysosomal Diseases
San Diego, CA, February 3—7, 2025

Pasquali M, Saffary Y, Ingoglia F, Hobert J—Poster
Pasquali M, Saffary Y, Ingoglia F, Hobert J, Ames E, Fisher R, Maegawa G, Botto L, Longo N. Challenges in the diagnosis of mucopolysaccharidosis type 4A.

Utah Valley University—Physician Assistant Program
Salt Lake City, UT, January 22, 2025

Mathison BA—Presentation
Mathison BA. Introduction to Parasitology.

American Society of Hematology (ASH)
San Diego, CA, December 7—10, 2024

Smock, KJ—Poster
Kanack A, Roberge G, Mauch E, Splinter N, Wool GD, George G, Abou-Ismail MY, Smock KJ, Green DL, Gundabolu K, Coker J, Kohlhagen M, Murray D, Pabmanabhan A. Clonal persistence of Anti-PF4 antibodies in VITT represents an MGTS-like state.

Miles RR—Presentation
Newman H, Uppuluri L, Shraim R, Allen CE, Davis KL, Devidas M, Diorio C, Dunsmore KP, Elhachimi A, Frank D, Gore L, Gross T, Hayashi RJ, Horton TM, Hughes A, Hunger SP, Kim J, Li Y, Lim SS, Loh ML, Mullighan CG, Olshen AB, Pölönen P, Rau RE, Shi G, Tan K, Vincent T, Winter SS, Wistinghausen B, Wood BL, Xu J, Yang JJ, Miles RR, Hermiston ML, Teachey DT. Genomic biomarkers of poor outcome in patients with T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma.

Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society
San Diego, CA, December 4—5, 2024

Smock, KJ—Presentation
Smock KJ. Pre-analytical variables in coagulation testing.

Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP)
Vancouver, Canada, November 19—23, 2024

Goold EA, Ferguson D, Reading NS, Fredrickson E, Hunt L, Li P—Poster
Goold EA, Ferguson D, Reading SN, Fredrickson E, Hunt L, Stubben C, Li P. Lessons Learned in CNS DNA methylation profiling: a pilot study conducted at a national reference lab.

Mallory MA, Hymas WC, Simmon KE, Henrie KJ, Lloyd JS, Rawal M, Hanson KE, Hillyard DR, Bradley BT—Presentation
Mallory MA, Hymas WC, Simmon KE, Henrie KJ, Lloyd JS, Rawal M, Hanson KE, Hillyard DR, Bradley BT. Predicting Cytomegalovirus viral load from next-generation sequencing data: a machine learning approach.

Haas AL, Couturier, MR—Poster
Haas AL, Couturier, MR. Prospective comparison of the BioFire® Global Fever Panel to laboratory-developed PCR for diagnosis of suspected malaria patients.

Tardif KD, Pyne MT, Hymas WC, Hillyard DR—Poster
Tardif KD, Pyne MT, Hymas WC, Scarr N, McKenzie M, Hillyard DR. Validation of Hepatitis D virus testing on the Roche cobas 5800 system.

Mallory MA, Hymas WC, Simmon KE, Henrie KJ, Lloyd JS, Rawal M, Hanson KE, Hillyard DR, Bradley BT—Poster
Mallory MA, Hymas WC, Simmon KE, Henrie KJ, Lloyd JS, Rawal M, Hanson KE, Hillyard DR, Bradley BT. Predicting Cytomegalovirus viral load from next-generation sequencing data: a machine learning approach.

Illinois Society for Microbiology Fall Meeting
Oak Brook, IL, November 8, 2024

Mathison BA—Presentation
Mathison BA. Case studies in Zoonotic Parasitic Diseases.

American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
Denver, CO, November 5—9, 2024

Rudd K, Zhao J, Lewis ZK, Hong B, Andersen E—Poster
Rudd K, Zhao J, Lewis ZK, Hong B, Andersen E. Downgrading partial duplications of Haploinsufficient genes from VUS to likely benign.

O’Shea JM, Rudd MK, Andersen EF, Hong B—Poster
O’Shea JM, Rudd MK, Andersen EF, Hong B. How to gain a sex chromosome: Monosomy X to the rescue.

Pizzo L, Lewis T, Bolia A, Krueger C, O’Fallon B, Kellogg A, Fredrickson E, Andersen EF, Best DH—Poster
Pizzo L, Lewis T, Bolia A, Krueger C, O’Fallon B, Kellogg A, Fredrickson E, Andersen EF, Best DH. Integrating algorithms to optimize clinical identification of structural variation using whole-genome sequencing.

Reich DP, ZoBell S, Lewis ZK, Andersen EF, Rudd MK—Poster
Reich DP, ZoBell S, Lewis ZK, Andersen EF, Rudd MK. Autosomal recessive variant reporting in clinical CMA, a three-year retrospective analysis.

Pathology Visions
Orlando, FL, November 3, 2024

English P, Morrison M, Enrico, E, Shean R, Knight K, O'Fallon B, Rupp D, Rangel A, Gilivary J, Vance A, Hatch H, Mathison B, Lin L, Ng D, Shakir S—Poster
English P, Morrison M, Enrico, E, Shean R, Knight K, O'Fallon B, Rupp D, Rangel A, Gilivary J, Vance A, Hatch H, Mathison B, Lin L, Ng D, Shakir S. Automated detection of acid-fast bacilli in Kinyoun-stained digital slide images.

American Thyroid Association
Chicago, IL, October 30—November 3, 2024

Nelson HA, Doyle K, Straseski JA—Presentation
Nelson HA, Doyle K, Barbour LA, Straseski JA. Discordance of TSI and TRAb assays used in pregnancy to predict risk of fetal and newborn Graves’ Disease.

College of American Pathologists (CAP)
Las Vegas, NV, October 19—22, 2024

Ornstead M, Albertson D, Mahlow J—Poster
Ornstead M, Sirohi D, Albertson D, Greenberg SE, Mahlow J. Succinate Dehydrogenase B immunohistochemical staining is variable and frequently partially retained in tumors with known succinate dehydrogenase mutations: a review of SDH-B IHC on 57 cases with known SDHx mutations.

Spies NC—Poster
Perkins GA, Spies NC. Improving the performance of large language models on microbiology question-answering using retrieval augmented generation.

ASCP Virginia Chapter Mike Korbe Educational Seminar
Virginia Beach, VA, October 16, 2024

Mathison BA—Presentation
Mathison BA. Case studies in Zoonotic Helminths.

Mathison BA—Presentation
Mathison BA. AI for the detection of intestinal parasites.

Quantitative Health Sciences (QHS) Meeting, Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, October 15, 2024

Kushnir MM—Poster
Liang Z, Wu Y, Kushnir MM, Yang YK. Glycosylation profiling of targeted circulating proteins in liver disease patients by Intact Protein Mass Spectrometry.