Scientific Information

PRECONGRESS COURSE 1: Monitoring during pregnancy and labour

Coordinators: G.H.A. Visser, Nir Melamed
Speakers : Yariv Yogev, Israel Gerry H.A. Visser, NL Natalia Makatsarya, Russia , Rasha Kamel, Egypt Igor Kogan, Russia Jon Barrett, Canada, Jose L. Bartha Rasero, Spain

PRECONGRESS COURSE 2: Consensus: Twin management terminology: a consensus conference

Coordinators: R. Quintero, M Kilby
Discussants: Ramen Chmait, USA Dick Oepkes, the Netherlands Kurt Hecher, Germany Graziano Clerici, Italy Valentina Tsibizova, Italy Liezbeth Lewi, Belgium Enrico Lopriore, the Nether lands, Mahesh Choolani, Singapore

PRECONGRESS COURSE 3: A workshop on how to effective manage a national multiple birth organisa tion (for ICOMBO members)

Coordinators: Monica Rankin, Australia
Chairperson, International Council of Multiple Birth Organisations (ICOMBO)

PRECONGRESS COURSE 4: Update on TTTS, its variations and its management

Coordinators: Tuangsit Watanagara, Ramen Chmait
Speakers : Ramen H Chmait, USA Kurt Hecher, Germany Enrico Lopriore, NL Mark Kilby, UK Ruben Quintero, USA Seshandri Suresh, India Valentina Tsibizova, Russia Yves Ville, France Tuangsit Watanagara, Thailand Mahesh Choolani, Singapore

ISTS WORKSHOP 1.
Microbiome and Health Workshop

Co-organisers: Chika Honda, Helga Szabo, Rie Tomizawa

ISTS WORKSHOP 2.
Do it with twins: tips for twin studies and registers. Twin Birth Cohorts

Co-organisers: Dorret Boomsma, Jeff Craig, Sonia Brescianini, Adam Domonkos Tarnoki, David Laszlo Tarnoki, Emanuela Medda, Veronika Odintsova

ISTS WORKSHOP 3.
Twin Statistics. More than heritability: Diverse designs, outcomes and statistical approaches for data from twins

Co-organisers:Márton Piroska, Levi Littvay, Jacob Hjelmborg (remote), Katrina Scurrah (remote)

ISTS WORKSHOP 4.
Imaging methodological workshop

Co-organisers: Adam Domonkos Tarnoki, David Laszlo Tarnoki, Bianka Forgo

ISTS WORKSHOP 5.
Epigenetics

Co-organisers: Jordana Bell, Jenny van Dongen, Jose Morosoli Garcia (advisor: Jeff Craig)

ISTS BOARD MEETING

Coordinators: Adam & David Tarnoki

OPENING CEREMONY & WELCOME RECEPTION

Chairpersons: Gian Carlo Di Renzo, Italy, Ruben Quintero, USA, Adam & David Tarnoki, Hungary Special Guest: Prof Zoltan Papp

Opening lecture: Mysteries of monozygotic twins
Introduced by Nancy Segal, USA

Jenny van Dongen, NL

PARALLEL SESSION 1A: Twins: a challenge for maternal fetal medicine

Coordinators: Dick Oepkes, Jose Luis Bartha
Speakers: Eduard Gratacos, Ruben Quintero, Jose L Bartha

PARALLEL SESSION 1B: New twin registries and studies

Coordinators: Yoon-Mi Hur, Bianka Forgo, Athula Sumathipala

KEYNOTE LECTURE: The Prevention of Spontaneous Preterm Labor in Twins Roberto Romero introduced by Gian Carlo Di Renzo

introduced by Gian Carlo Di Renzo

COFFEE BREAK

PARALLEL SESSION 2A: : Periconceptional aspects of multiple pregnancy

Coordinators: Roland Devlieger, Mark Kilby
Speakers: Lucilla Poston, Yariv Yogev, Roland Devlieger, Huixia Yang

PARALLEL SESSION 2B: Bulmer session: The Biology of Twinning

Coordinators: Nils Lambalk, Catherine Derom, Nick Martin

LUNCH BREAK

PARALLEL SESSION 3A: Obstetrical issues in twin pregnancy : prenatal non invasive and invasive test ing

Coordinators: Liona Poon, Mahesh Choolani
Speakers: Katia Bilardo, Maria Gil Mar, Liona Poon, Alexandre Vivanti. Aris Antsaklis

PARALLEL SESSION 3B: Behaviour: twin studies including behavioral genetics & psychology Coordinators: Nancy L. Segal, Maria Antonietta Stazi

Coordinators: Nancy L. Segal, Maria Antonietta Stazi

TEA BREAK

SPECIAL SESSION: Recent books about twins

Coordinators: Nancy L. Segal, Jeffrey Craig

PARALLEL SESSION 4A: Preterm birth and prematurity prevention ( a PREIS School Academy session) Coordinators: Roberto Romero, Eduardo Fonseca

Coordinators: Roberto Romero, Eduardo Fonseca
Speakers: Giuseppe Rizzo, Roberto Romero, Eduardo Borges Fonseca,

PARALLEL SESSION 4B: Twin studies on chronic diseases and cancer

Coordinators: Wendy Cozen, John Hopper

SOCIAL EVENT FOR ALL

PARALLEL SESSION 5A: Management of labour

Coordinators: Gerry H Visser, Jon Barrett
Speakers: Eftichia Kontopoulos, Nir Melamed, Teung Y Leung

PARALLEL SESSION 5B: Twin research on clinical genetics, COVID-19, infectious diseases and microbi ome

Coordinators: John Hopper, Chika Honda, Petra Zwijnenburg

KEYNOTE LECTURE: TBA introduced by Adam & David Tarnoki

COFFEE BREAK

PARALLEL SESSION 6A: Role of ultrasound: chorionicity and beyond

Coordinators: Katia Bilardo, Valentina Tsibizova
Speakers: Rasha Kamel, Eduard Gratacos, Liezbeth Lewi, Cristoph Berg

PARALLEL SESSION 6B: Longitudinal birth cohorts

Coordinator: Jeff Craig, Sonia Brescianini

LUNCH BREAK

PARALLEL SESSION 7A: Special issues 1: Monochorionic twins

Coordinators: Kurt Hecher, Y Ville
Speakers: Kurt Hecher, Enrico Lopriore, Asma Khalil, Yves Ville

PARALLEL SESSION 7B: Twin studies on cognition & neurodevelopmental disorders Coordinators: Jaakko Kaprio, Ida Karlsson

Coordinators: Eero Vuoksimaa, Malin Ericsson

PARALLEL SESSION 7C: ICOMBO Business meeting

Chaired by Monica Rankin

TEA BREAK

Special lecture Alloimmunization in twin pregnancy: the Rh factor Gerry H Visser introduced by Dick Oepkes

PARALLEL SESSION 8A: Special issues 2: Twins and DOHAD

Coordinators:TBA

PARALLEL SESSION 8B: Joint session ISTS/Maternal-fetal medicine/ICOMBO: ‘Why are identical twins born different?’ - fetal development, twin splitting and ‘omic’ differences

Coordinators: Asma Khalil, Monica Rankin, Jeff Craig

SPECIAL SESSION: Twin film screening

Coordinator: Nancy L. Segal
With the participation of Melissa Hogenboom (UK) and Myrthe Buitenhuis (the Netherlands), film directors

CLOSING CEREMONY

FACULTY DINNER

ISTS Award Presentations:

• The Shields Award
• The Gedda Prize for best student poster
• The Galton Prize for best student presentation
• ICOMBO early career researcher prize