Highlights of the 33rd annual scientific meeting of the Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists (AMLI)

The annual meeting of the Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists (AMLI) was convened virtually over the month of August. Prior to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, AMLI's scientific committee had chosen the following topics as the focus of its 2020 meeting: Histocompatibility Testing and Transplant Immunology; Secondary Immunodeficiency and Immunotherapy Monitoring; ANA Update; and Emerging Infectious Diseases and New Algorithms for Testing. Given the central role of the discipline in the evaluation of the host response to infection, it was apt to add a separate session on antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 infections to the original program. The current report provides an overview of the subjects discussed in the course of this meeting.

Automated summary

The AMLI annual meeting was held virtually in August with topics covering histocompatibility testing, immunotherapy monitoring, and more. To address the COVID-19 pandemic, a session on antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 infections was added to the program.