09.30 – 12.30
PRECONGRESS WORKSHOP 1: FETAL GROWTH IN TWIN PREGNANCY
09.30 – 12.30
PRECONGRESS WORKSHOP 2: EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS
10.00 – 16.00
PRECONGRESS WORKSHOP 3: MANAGING A NATIONAL MULTIPLE BIRTH ORGANISATION (FOR ICOMBO MEMBERS)
13.30 – 17.00
PRECONGRESS WORKSHOP 4: FETAL THERAPY IN MULTIPLE PREGNANCY
13.30 – 17.00
PRECONGRESS WORKSHOP 5: BIRTH COHORTS WORKING GROUP
13.30 – 17.00
PRECONGRESS WORKSHOP 6: SIMULATION: TWIN VAGINAL DELIVERY
18.00 – 21.00
OPENING CEREMONY & WELCOME RECEPTION
OPENING LECTURE:
Evolutionary aspects of twinning
The ceremony will be followed by a welcome cocktail that will be held in the exhibition area
08.30 – 09.30
PARALLEL SESSION 1A: PERINATAL MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY IN MULTIPLE PREGNANCY
- Perinatal mortality in twins
- The placenta in complicated twin pregnancy
- FIGO guidelines on the management of twin pregnancy
08.30 – 09.30
PARALLEL SESSION 1B: EMERGING METHODS IN TWIN RESEARCH
- Estimating (unbounded) Variance Components ACE Models: a change to methodology
- Insights into parenting: Using Non-transmitted genotypes/virtual-parent method
- Using twin studies to make inference about causation from examination of familial confounding (ICE FALCON) and its relationship to Mendelian randomisation
09.30 – 10.00
KEYNOTE LECTURE OBG&YN
- TBA
10.00 – 10.30
COFFEE BREAK & POSTER WALK
10.30 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSION 2A: PERICONCEPTIONAL ASPECTS OF MULTIPLE PREGNANCY
- IVF and twinning: what are the real risks? How to avoid?
- Do we need more biomedical and biophysical tests to follow a twin pregnancy?
- Optimal nutrition in twin pregnancy
- Pitfalls in assessing chorio-amnionicity
- Outcome of IVF pregnancy and the DOHAD concept
10.30 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSION 2B: TWIN-RELATED COMPLICATIONS
- Counselling in MFPR and selective termination
- Outcome of complicated twin pregnancy: how to counsel parents?
- The IUGR features in twins
- Twins and neurodevelopmental outcomes: the effect of IVF, fetal growth restriction and preterm birth
- All complicated twins should have long term follow-up
10.30 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSION 2C: LARGE COLLABORATIVE STUDIES IN TWIN BIRTH COHORTS
- GEMINI twin birth cohort: a UK twin birth cohort with focus on early childhood weight trajectories
- Causes and consequences of birth size in an international context: the CODATwins project
- Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study of childhood behaviour disoders
- A word-wide collaboration of twin birth cohorts and other studies on childhood aggression: the ACTION project
- Twin birth cohorts and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)
- Conclusions. The future of birth cohort studies.
12.30 – 13.30
LUNCH BREAK & POSTER WALK
13.30 – 15.30
PARALLEL SESSION 3A: OBSTETRICAL ISSUES IN TWIN PREGNANCY: PRENATAL SCREENING AND DIAGNOSIS
- NIPT in twin pregnancy
- First trimester prediction in twins
- Ultrasound in twins in first trimesters
- MCDA twins with discordant genotypes
- Functional and acquired cardiovascular anomalies in monochorionic twins
- Prediction and prevention of major obstetrical syndromes in twin pregnancy
13.30 – 15.30
ICOMBO BUSINESS MEETING
13.30 – 15.30
PARALLEL SESSION 3B: GENOMIC STUDIES OF COMPLEX TRAITS: THE VALUE OF TWINS
- Cognitive impairment and schizophrenia
- Using large scale twin studies and biobanks to investigate the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)
- Genomics and Epigenomics of Obesity and Obesity-related Traits in Chinese Twins’
- Contributions of twin and SNP based heritability estimates in the genetics of common disease
15.30 – 16.30
LUNCH BREAK & POSTER WALK
16.30 – 18.30
PARALLEL SESSION 4A: PRETERM BIRTH AND PREMATURITY IN TWINS – PREIS School Academy Session
- Screening for preterm birth in twin pregnancy
- Progesterone for the prevention of preterm birth in twins
- Cerclage or pessary for the prevention of preterm birth in twins?
- Corticosteroids and magnesium sulphate in twins: where is the evidence?
- The different outcome of twins according to chorionicity
- Problem of preterm twin newborns and how to cope with them
16.30 – 18.30
PARALLEL SESSION 4B: ‘OMICS’ TWIN STUDIES
- Microbiomes
- DNA methylation in monozygotic twins concordant or discordant for aggressive behavior
- Metabolomics
18.30 – 19.30
ISTS GENERAL MEETING
08.30 – 09.30
PARALLEL SESSION 5A: CARE IN PREGNANCY AND LABOUR
- Fetal growth restriction in twin pregnancy
- Intrapartum monitoring in twins
- Intrapartum care in twins
08.30 – 09.30
PARALLEL SESSION 5B: BULMER SESSION ON NEW DEVELOPMENTS WITH THE BIOLOGY AND GENETICS OF TWINNING
- Genetics of MZ twinning
- Genetics of DZ twinning and new genes from a massive GWAS study
- New insights into the biology of MZ twinning
09.30 – 10.00
KEYNOTE LECTURE ISTS
- Phenotypic difference in a scientifically studied pair of conjoined twins
10.00 – 10.30
COFFEE BREAK & POSTER WALK
10.30 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSION 6A: SPECIAL ISSUES: US DOPPLER ANOMALIES, TTTS, TAPS, MCMA
- Management of MCMA twins
- The management of TAPS
- TTTS in triplets
- Techniques of laser photocoagulation of communicating vessels for managing TTTS
- Debate: All twins and multiple pregnancies should be looked after in multiple pregnancy specialist clinics
10.30 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSION 6B: NEUROIMAGING & THE BRAIN: ROLE OF TWIN STUDIES
Topics and Speakers will be announced soon
10.30 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSION 6C: PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF TWINS
- CSU Fullerton–Twin Family study of social closeness
- The psychology of twins: a glimpse into the hearts and minds of our twin research subjects
- Causes of difference in childhood well-being; the effects of parental ratings
- Are twins different?
- Twin studies and the developmental origins of physical aggression: A bio-psycho-social perspective
- Language Development
12.30 – 13.30
LUNCH BREAK & POSTER WALK
13.30 – 15.30
PARALLEL SESSION 7A: DELIVERY OF TWINS: CESAREAN DELIVERY, PPH
- Optimal timing of delivery of twins
- Doppler studies before induction in twins
- Induction of labour in twins
- Management of PPH
- Mode of delivery for monochorionic twins: should have all CS?
13.30 – 15.30
PARALLEL SESSION 7B: COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN TWINS AND RESEARCHERS
- Research for twins & families
- The priority setting partnership for twin research
- Empirical studies on class room sharing
- Discussion – All twins should be offered zygosity testing
15.30 – 15.45
ISTS PRIZES AND CLOSING REMARKS
ISTS Award Presentations:
- The Shields Award
- The Gedda Prize for best student poster
- The Galton Prize for best student presentation
Closing Remarks
Aris Antsaklis
Greece
Jon Barret
Canada
Jose Luis Bartha
Spain
Vincenzo Berghella
United States
Linda Booij
Canada
Juliet Butler
United Kingdom
Ming Chen
China
Richard Choy
Hong Kong
Roland De Vlieger
Belgium
David Evans
Australia
Eduardo Fonseca
Brazil
L.Scott Forbes
Canada
Bianka Forgó
Hungary
Joan Friedman
United States
Sandro Gerli
Italy
Kaushalya Jayaweera
Sri Lanka
Simon Lam
Hong Kong
Tak Yeung Leung
Hong Kong
Carolyn Lister
New Zeland
Hamdi Mbarek
Qatar
Nir Melamed
Canada
Anton Mikhailov
Russia
Mike Neale
United States
Monica Rankin
Australia
Richard Saffery
Australia
Haruiko Sago
Japan
Suresh Seshadri
India
Karri Silventoinen
Sweden
Claudio Stern
United Kingdom
Athula Sumathipala
Sri Lanka
Luming Sun
China
Weijing Wang
China
Tuangsit Wataganara
Thailand
Hye Sung Won
South Korea
Chloe Wong
United Kingdom
More international Speakers will be announced soon
- Friday, Jul 3
09.30 – 12.30
PRECONGRESS WORKSHOP 1: FETAL GROWTH IN TWIN PREGNANCY
09.30 – 12.30
PRECONGRESS WORKSHOP 2: EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS
10.00 – 16.00
PRECONGRESS WORKSHOP 3: MANAGING A NATIONAL MULTIPLE BIRTH ORGANISATION (FOR ICOMBO MEMBERS)
13.30 – 17.00
PRECONGRESS WORKSHOP 4: FETAL THERAPY IN MULTIPLE PREGNANCY
13.30 – 17.00
PRECONGRESS WORKSHOP 5: BIRTH COHORTS WORKING GROUP
13.30 – 17.00
PRECONGRESS WORKSHOP 6: SIMULATION: TWIN VAGINAL DELIVERY
18.00 – 21.00
OPENING CEREMONY & WELCOME RECEPTION
OPENING LECTURE:
Evolutionary aspects of twinning
The ceremony will be followed by a welcome cocktail that will be held in the exhibition area
- Saturday, Jul 4
08.30 – 09.30
PARALLEL SESSION 1A: PERINATAL MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY IN MULTIPLE PREGNANCY
- Perinatal mortality in twins
- The placenta in complicated twin pregnancy
- FIGO guidelines on the management of twin pregnancy
08.30 – 09.30
PARALLEL SESSION 1B: EMERGING METHODS IN TWIN RESEARCH
- Estimating (unbounded) Variance Components ACE Models: a change to methodology
- Insights into parenting: Using Non-transmitted genotypes/virtual-parent method
- Using twin studies to make inference about causation from examination of familial confounding (ICE FALCON) and its relationship to Mendelian randomisation
09.30 – 10.00
KEYNOTE LECTURE OBG&YN
- TBA
10.00 – 10.30
COFFEE BREAK & POSTER WALK
10.30 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSION 2A: PERICONCEPTIONAL ASPECTS OF MULTIPLE PREGNANCY
- IVF and twinning: what are the real risks? How to avoid?
- Do we need more biomedical and biophysical tests to follow a twin pregnancy?
- Optimal nutrition in twin pregnancy
- Pitfalls in assessing chorio-amnionicity
- Outcome of IVF pregnancy and the DOHAD concept
10.30 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSION 2B: TWIN-RELATED COMPLICATIONS
- Counselling in MFPR and selective termination
- Outcome of complicated twin pregnancy: how to counsel parents?
- The IUGR features in twins
- Twins and neurodevelopmental outcomes: the effect of IVF, fetal growth restriction and preterm birth
- All complicated twins should have long term follow-up
10.30 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSION 2C: LARGE COLLABORATIVE STUDIES IN TWIN BIRTH COHORTS
- GEMINI twin birth cohort: a UK twin birth cohort with focus on early childhood weight trajectories
- Causes and consequences of birth size in an international context: the CODATwins project
- Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study of childhood behaviour disoders
- A word-wide collaboration of twin birth cohorts and other studies on childhood aggression: the ACTION project
- Twin birth cohorts and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)
- Conclusions. The future of birth cohort studies.
12.30 – 13.30
LUNCH BREAK & POSTER WALK
13.30 – 15.30
PARALLEL SESSION 3A: OBSTETRICAL ISSUES IN TWIN PREGNANCY: PRENATAL SCREENING AND DIAGNOSIS
- NIPT in twin pregnancy
- First trimester prediction in twins
- Ultrasound in twins in first trimesters
- MCDA twins with discordant genotypes
- Functional and acquired cardiovascular anomalies in monochorionic twins
- Prediction and prevention of major obstetrical syndromes in twin pregnancy
13.30 – 15.30
ICOMBO BUSINESS MEETING
13.30 – 15.30
PARALLEL SESSION 3B: GENOMIC STUDIES OF COMPLEX TRAITS: THE VALUE OF TWINS
- Cognitive impairment and schizophrenia
- Using large scale twin studies and biobanks to investigate the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)
- Genomics and Epigenomics of Obesity and Obesity-related Traits in Chinese Twins’
- Contributions of twin and SNP based heritability estimates in the genetics of common disease
15.30 – 16.30
LUNCH BREAK & POSTER WALK
16.30 – 18.30
PARALLEL SESSION 4A: PRETERM BIRTH AND PREMATURITY IN TWINS – PREIS School Academy Session
- Screening for preterm birth in twin pregnancy
- Progesterone for the prevention of preterm birth in twins
- Cerclage or pessary for the prevention of preterm birth in twins?
- Corticosteroids and magnesium sulphate in twins: where is the evidence?
- The different outcome of twins according to chorionicity
- Problem of preterm twin newborns and how to cope with them
16.30 – 18.30
PARALLEL SESSION 4B: ‘OMICS’ TWIN STUDIES
- Microbiomes
- DNA methylation in monozygotic twins concordant or discordant for aggressive behavior
- Metabolomics
18.30 – 19.30
ISTS GENERAL MEETING
- Sunday, Jul 5
08.30 – 09.30
PARALLEL SESSION 5A: CARE IN PREGNANCY AND LABOUR
- Fetal growth restriction in twin pregnancy
- Intrapartum monitoring in twins
- Intrapartum care in twins
08.30 – 09.30
PARALLEL SESSION 5B: BULMER SESSION ON NEW DEVELOPMENTS WITH THE BIOLOGY AND GENETICS OF TWINNING
- Genetics of MZ twinning
- Genetics of DZ twinning and new genes from a massive GWAS study
- New insights into the biology of MZ twinning
09.30 – 10.00
KEYNOTE LECTURE ISTS
- Phenotypic difference in a scientifically studied pair of conjoined twins
10.00 – 10.30
COFFEE BREAK & POSTER WALK
10.30 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSION 6A: SPECIAL ISSUES: US DOPPLER ANOMALIES, TTTS, TAPS, MCMA
- Management of MCMA twins
- The management of TAPS
- TTTS in triplets
- Techniques of laser photocoagulation of communicating vessels for managing TTTS
- Debate: All twins and multiple pregnancies should be looked after in multiple pregnancy specialist clinics
10.30 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSION 6B: NEUROIMAGING & THE BRAIN: ROLE OF TWIN STUDIES
Topics and Speakers will be announced soon
10.30 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSION 6C: PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF TWINS
- CSU Fullerton–Twin Family study of social closeness
- The psychology of twins: a glimpse into the hearts and minds of our twin research subjects
- Causes of difference in childhood well-being; the effects of parental ratings
- Are twins different?
- Twin studies and the developmental origins of physical aggression: A bio-psycho-social perspective
- Language Development
12.30 – 13.30
LUNCH BREAK & POSTER WALK
13.30 – 15.30
PARALLEL SESSION 7A: DELIVERY OF TWINS: CESAREAN DELIVERY, PPH
- Optimal timing of delivery of twins
- Doppler studies before induction in twins
- Induction of labour in twins
- Management of PPH
- Mode of delivery for monochorionic twins: should have all CS?
13.30 – 15.30
PARALLEL SESSION 7B: COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN TWINS AND RESEARCHERS
- Research for twins & families
- The priority setting partnership for twin research
- Empirical studies on class room sharing
- Discussion – All twins should be offered zygosity testing
15.30 – 15.45
ISTS PRIZES AND CLOSING REMARKS
ISTS Award Presentations:
- The Shields Award
- The Gedda Prize for best student poster
- The Galton Prize for best student presentation
Closing Remarks
- Invited Speakers
Aris Antsaklis
GreeceJon Barret
CanadaJose Luis Bartha
SpainVincenzo Berghella
United StatesLinda Booij
CanadaJuliet Butler
United KingdomMing Chen
ChinaRichard Choy
Hong KongRoland De Vlieger
BelgiumDavid Evans
AustraliaEduardo Fonseca
BrazilL.Scott Forbes
CanadaBianka Forgó
HungaryJoan Friedman
United StatesSandro Gerli
ItalyKaushalya Jayaweera
Sri LankaSimon Lam
Hong KongTak Yeung Leung
Hong KongCarolyn Lister
New ZelandHamdi Mbarek
QatarNir Melamed
CanadaAnton Mikhailov
RussiaMike Neale
United StatesMonica Rankin
AustraliaRichard Saffery
AustraliaHaruiko Sago
JapanSuresh Seshadri
IndiaKarri Silventoinen
SwedenClaudio Stern
United KingdomAthula Sumathipala
Sri LankaLuming Sun
ChinaWeijing Wang
ChinaTuangsit Wataganara
ThailandHye Sung Won
South KoreaChloe Wong
United KingdomMore international Speakers will be announced soon
