Xiao Liu, Xiaoqiong Duan, Jacinta A. Holmes, Wenting Li, Sae Hwan Lee, Zeng Tu, Chuanlong Zhu, Shadi Salloum, Anna Lidofsky, Esperance A. Schaefer, Dachuan Cai, Shilin Li, Haoju Wang, Yongfu Huang, Yongju Zhao, Ming‐Lung Yu, Zhiwen Xu, Limin Chen, Jian Hong, Wenyu Lin, Raymond T. Chung – 10 September 2018 – Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a critical role in the regulation of many important cellular processes. However, the mechanisms by which lncRNAs regulate viral infection and host immune responses are not well understood.

Sarah Raevens, Isabelle Colle, Anja Geerts, Hans Van Vlierberghe – 8 September 2018

Carlos Benítez, Rodrigo Wolff – 8 September 2018 – Liver transplantation (LT) was performed for the first time in Chile in 1969, but only since the 1990s has it been systematically performed. Our health system is strongly centralized, which is a severe limitation for the patients who need to be evaluated and subsequently listed.

Jin Dong Kim, Eun Ju Cho, Choonghyun Ahn, Sue K. Park, Jong Young Choi, Han Chu Lee, Do Young Kim, Moon Seok Choi, Hee Jung Wang, In Hee Kim, Jong Eun Yeon, Yeon Seok Seo, Won Young Tak, Moon Young Kim, Heon Ju Lee, Yun Soo Kim, Dae Won Jun, Joo Hyun Sohn, So Young Kwon, Sang Hoon Park, Jeong Heo, Sook‐Hyang Jeong, Jeong‐Hoon Lee, Nobuaki Nakayama, Satoshi Mochida, Akio Ido, Hirohito Tsubouchi, Hazime Takikawa, Shalimar, Subrat Kumar Acharya, William Bernal, John O’Grady, Yoon Jun Kim – 8 September 2018 – Acute liver failure (ALF) caused by hepatitis A is a rare but fatal disease.

Claudia Campani, Maria Guido, Stefano Colagrande, Francesca Bartoli, Umberto Arena, Fabio Marra – 8 September 2018

Claudia Campani, Maria Guido, Stefano Colagrande, Francesca Bartoli, Umberto Arena, Fabio Marra – 8 September 2018

Chronic hepatitis C infection remains a major public health burden with substantial morbidity and mortality. In this program, expert hepatologists will provide a state-of-the-art update on the evolving epidemiology, natural history, and evidence-based management of hepatitis C infection in women of child-bearing age, pregnancy, and children.Dawn S. Harrison (Moderator) Dawn S. Harrison is a Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at The University of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Carrie R. Wong, Joseph K. Lim – 7 September 2018

Ahmer M. Hameed, Tony Pang, Peter Yoon, Glenda Balderson, Ronald De Roo, Lawrence Yuen, Vincent Lam, Jerome Laurence, Michael Crawford, Richard D. M. Allen, Wayne J. Hawthorne, Henry C. Pleass – 7 September 2018 – There is lack of consensus in the literature regarding the comparative efficacy of in situ aortic‐only compared with dual (aortic and portal venous) perfusion for retrieval and transplantation of the liver.

Leonard Kaps, Jonathan G. Stine, Jessica Mellinger, Silvia Vilarinho – 7 September 2018 – A functioning mentor–trainee relationship is of high importance in academia. Discrepancies in expectations between principal investigators (PIs) and trainees are a source of misunderstandings and conflicts, endangering scientific progress and career advancement.