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SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015

8:00am-4:30pm
SW1
Experimental Design and Sample Collection: Best Practices for Metabolomics and Proteomics
Location: Room 100
Organizer: Sixue Chen
Associate Professor/Director of Proteomics Facility
Interdiscplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida

8:00am-4:30pm
SW2
Image Processing and Analysis with Open Source FIJI/ImageJ
Location: Room 101
Organizer: Richard Cole
Director: Advanced Light Microscopy & Image Analysis Core
New York State Dept. of Health, Wadsworth Center

 
 
 
  
Organizer: Claire Brown
Assistant Professor
McGill University

 
 
 
  
Organizer: Teng-Leong Chew
Janelia Research Campus HHMI

8:00am-4:30pm
SW3
Next-Generation Sequencing of Microbial Communities: Strategies for Project Design, Exexcution and QIIME Analysis
Location: Room 102
Organizer: Chris L. Wright
Assistant Director, DNA Sequencing
W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

12:00pm-5:30pm
SW4
Enhancing Efficiency of Research Core Facilities
Location: Room 105
Organizer: James M. Anderson
Deputy Director for Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
NIH

 
 
 
  
Organizer: William Hendrickson
President
ABRF

4:30pm-5:30pm
New Member/First Time Attendee Welcome & Orientation Meeting
 
Location: Room 220
 

4:45pm-5:45pm
Research Group/Committee Chair Orientation
 
Location: Room 101
 

6:00pm-8:00pm
Opening Reception
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2015

8:00am-8:15am
Opening Remarks-Announcements
 
Location: America’s Ballroom
 

8:15am-9:15am
P1
Plenary Session
Location: America’s Ballroom
Title: Proteogenomics in Cancer: Understanding Dysfunctional Genomics
Speaker: Daniel C. Liebler
Professor of Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

9:30am-10:30am
SA1
Intercore Partnerships: Enhancing Research Support
Location: Room 100
Organizer: Amy Wilkerson
Associate Vice President, Research Support
The Rockefeller University

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Kathryn C. Stallcup
Executive Director
Chicago Biomedical Consortium

 
 
 
  
Title: Intra-Institutional Core Facility Cooperation and Synergy
Speaker: Agnes Viale
Core Facility Head, Integrated Genomics Operation
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

 
 
 
  
Title: Developing Inter-Core Synergies
Speaker: Cynthia Loomis
Director, Experimental Pathology Shared Resources, Histopathology Core
NYU Langone Medical Center

9:30am-10:30am
SI1
Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM)
Location: Room 101
Organizer: Richard Cole
Director: Advanced Light Microscopy & Image Analysis Core
New York State Dept. of Health, Wadsworth Center

 
 
 
  
Title: Multi-scale “Microscopy”
Speaker: Christopher Gilpin
Director Life Science Microscopy Facility
Purdue University

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Josh Rappoport
Director of the Center for Advanced Microscopy and the Nikon Imaging Center
Northwestern University

9:30am-10:30am
SP1
Antibody Discovery and Characterization
Location: Room 102
Title: Strategies for Analyzing Serum Derived Human Polyclonal Antibodies and Therapeutic Antibodies
Speaker: Beatrix Ueberheide (Organizer)
Assistant Professor
New York University Langone Medical Center

 
 
 
  
Title: Combining Affinity Mass Spectrometry and RNA-Seq to Sequence Single Chain Llama Antibodies
Speaker: David Fenyo
Associate Professor
New York University Langone Medical Center

 
 
 
  
Title: Innovative Instrumentation and Methods for Sequence Analysis of Antibodies and Postranslationally-Modified Intact Proteins on a Chromatograpic Timescale
Speaker: Donald F. Hunt
Professor
University of Virginia

9:30am-10:30am
SG1
Single-Cell Genomics
Location: Room 104
Title: Gene Expression in Single Human Immune Cells
Speaker: Timothy Niewold (Organizer)
Associate Professor
Mayo Clinic

 
 
 
  
Title: Single Cell Exomes in Cancer
Speaker: Jiannis Ragoussis
Head of Genome Sciences
McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre

9:30am-10:30am
MS1
Clinical Lab
Location: Room 105
Speaker: Joshua Hyman (Organizer)
Director, UWBC DNA Sequencing Facility
University of Wisconsin

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Elizabeth Worthey
Director of Genomic Informatics, Human and Molecular Genetics Center
Medical College of Wisconsin

10:00am-5:00pm
Exhibit Hall Open
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

10:30am-11:00am
AM Break
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

11:00am-11:30am
RG8
Genomics Research Group (GRG)
Location: Room 100
Title: Atlantic Oyster Genomic Resources to Elucidate Mixture Effects
Speaker: Natalia Reyero (Organizer)
Research Biologist
US Army ERDC

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Don Baldwin
Chief Scientific Officer
Signal Biology, Inc.

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Sridar Chittur
Director
SUNY Albany

11:00am-11:30am
RG17
Proteome Informatics Research Group (iPRG)
Location: Room 101
Organizer: Henry Lam
Associate Professor
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Olga Vitek
Associate Professor
College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

11:00am-12:00pm
RG10
Light Microscopy Research Group (LMRG)
Location: Room 102
Organizer: Claire Brown
Assistant Professor
McGill University

 
 
 
  
Title: 3D Standard for the Evaluation of Confocal Microscopes
Speaker: Erika Wee
Manager, Advanced BioImaging Facility (ABIF)
McGill University

 
 
 
  
Title: An Automated Protocol for Perfomance Benchmarking a Widefield Fluorescence Microscope
Speaker: Michael Halter
National Institute of Standards (NIST)

11:30am-12:00pm
RG7
Genomics Bioinformatics Research Group (GBIRG)
Location: Room 100
Organizer: Nadereh Jafari
Research Associate Professor
Northwestern University

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Sarah Munro
Biomedical Engineer
National Institute of Standards and Technology

11:30am-12:00pm
RG19
Proteomics Standards Research Group (sPRG)
Location: Room 101
Speaker: Gordana Ivosev (Organizer)
Research Scientist
AB Sciex

12:00pm-1:00pm
Lunch
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

1:00pm-2:00pm
Poster Session I: Odd Poster Numbers
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

2:00pm-3:00pm
P2
Plenary Session
Location: America’s Ballroom
Title: Scientific and economic drivers of successful cores in the era of ‘omic analyses: Moving beyond technology to fostering collaboration and applications
Speaker: Lynn Bry
Associate Professor of Pathology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

3:00pm-4:00pm
Innovations & Technology Spotlight I
 
  
 

3:00pm-3:15pm
Title: Integrating the Analysis of Nucleic Acid Data across Multiple Platforms on the Cloud

 
Location: America’s Ballroom
Mike Lelivelt, Sr. Director of Bioinformatic Products, Life Sciences Group of ThermoFisher Scientific
Life Technologies-Thermo Fisher Scientific
 

3:15pm-3:30pm
Title: New Technologies for Genomic and Proteomic Research at Single-Cell Resolution

 
Location: America’s Ballroom
Carolyn Conant
Fluidigm, Inc.
 

3:30pm-3:45pm
Title: Incorporating SMART Technology for Both Low- and High-Input RNA-Seq

 
Location: America’s Ballroom
Magnolia Bostick
Clontech Laboratories, Inc.
 

3:45pm-4:00pm
Title: Novel Solutions for Challenging DNA and RNA Samples for NGS

 
Location: America’s Ballroom
Fiona Stewart
New England Biolabs, Inc.
 

4:00pm-4:30pm
PM Break
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

4:30pm-5:30pm
WA1
Federal Compliance and Considerations for Development of Research Services Cost Models and Rate Calculations
Location: Room 100
Title: Umass Lowell Rate Calculation Model and Guidelines
Speaker: Teri Hamelin (Organizer)
Director, Core Research Facilities and Industry Projects
University of Massachusetts Lowell

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Wendy Meister
Director
Huron Consulting

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Jennifer (Wei) Mitchell
Director of Cost Studies & Effort Reporting
Northwestern University

4:30pm-5:30pm
WI1
Seeing Deeper with Clarity – Sample Clearing Techniques
Location: Room 101
Organizer: Lisa Cameron
Director of Confocal and Light Microscopy
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

 
 
 
  
Title: Whole-mount Immunostaining and Volume Imaging of Adult Mouse Organs and Embryos
Speaker: Nicolas Renier
Fellow
Marc Tessier-Lavigne Lab; The Rockefeller University

 
 
 
  
Title: Basic Concepts and Considerations for Cleared Tissue Imaging
Speaker: Douglas Richardson
Director of Imaging, Harvard Center for Biological Imaging
Harvard University

4:30pm-5:30pm
WP1
Crash Course in Performing Top-Down Proteomics
Location: Room 102
Speaker: Jeffery Agar (Organizer)
Associate Professor
Northeastern University

 
 
 
  
Title: Top-down Mass Spectrometry on a Chromatographic Timescale
Speaker: Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic
Staff Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

4:30pm-5:30pm
WG1
Adapterama: Making Sample Preparation for Next-Generation Sequencing Faster, Easier, Lower-Cost and More Powerful
Location: Room 104
Speaker: Travis Glenn (Organizer)
Associate Professor
University of Georgia

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Brant C. Faircloth
Assistant Professor
Louisiana State University

4:30pm-5:30pm
MW1
Education and Instrument Standardization in Flow Cytometry
Location: Room 105
Title: The Certified Cytometrist and “CYTO U”
Speaker: Peter Lopez (Organizer)
Director, Flow Cytometry Facility
NYU Langone Medical Center

 
 
 
  
Speaker: James C.S. Wood
Manager, WFU CCC Flow Cytometry Shared Resource
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Mark A. KuKuruga
Manager, CBER Flow Cytometry Core
FDA CBER/OVRR/DBPAP

5:30pm-6:30pm
RTA1
Location: Room 100
Organizer: Teri Hamelin
Director, Core Research Facilities and Industry Pojects
University of Massachusetts Lowell

5:30pm-6:30pm
RTI1
Challenging Sample Preparation
Location: Room 101
Organizer: Lisa Cameron
Director of Confocal and Light Microscopy
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Nicolas Renier
Fellow
Marc Tessier-Lavigne Lab; The Rockefeller University

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Douglas Richardson
Director of Imaging, Harvard Center for Biological Imaging
Harvard University

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Christopher Gilpin
Director of Life Science Microscopy Facility
Purdue University

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Josh Rappoport
Director of the Center for Advanced Microscopy and the Nikon Imaging Center
Northwestern University

5:30pm-6:30pm
RTM1
Education and Instrument Standardization in Flow Cytometry
Location: Room 105
Organizer: Peter Lopez
Director, Flow Cytometry Facility
NYU Langone Medical Center

 
 
 
  
Speaker: James C.S. Wood
Manager, WFU CCC Flow Cytometry Shared Resource
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Mark A. KuKuruga
Manager, CBER Flow Cytometry Core
FDA CBER/OVRR/DBPAP

5:30pm-6:30pm
RTP1
Characterizing Protein Therapeutics Using Top-down and Middle-down Mass Spectrometry: An Open Forum
Location: Room 102
Organizer: Scott A. Shaffer
Research Professor and Director, Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Facility
University of Massachusetts Medical School

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Jeffrey N. Agar
Associate Professor
Northeastern University

 
 
 
  
Panelist: David Blum
Director of Bioexpression and Fermentation Facility
University of Georgia

 
 
 
  
Panelist: David Fenyo
Associate Professor
NYU Langone Medical Center

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Donald Hunt
Professor
University of Virginia

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic
Staff Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Beatrix Ueberheide
Assistant Professor
NYU Langone Medical Center

5:30pm-6:30pm
RTG1
NGS Applications
Location: Room 104
Title: Conserved Sequence Capture Techniques and BioInformatics Solutions
Speaker: Travis Glenn
Associate Professor
University of Georgia

 
 
 
  
Title: Conserved Sequence Capture Techniques and BioInformatics Solutions
Speaker: Brant C. Faircloth
Assistant Professor
Louisiana State University

MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015

8:00am-8:15am
Announcements
 
Location: America’s Ballroom
 

8:15am-9:15am
P3
Plenary Session
Location: America’s Ballroom
Speaker: Susannah Tringe
Metagenome Program Lead
DOE Joint Genome Institute

9:30am-10:30am
SA2
Lean Management: What is it and Outcomes as Applied in a Test Core Setting
Location: Room 100
Speaker: Jay Fox (Organizer)
Professor and Director of Infastructure
University of Virginia School of Medicine

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Sean Jackson
IT Director and CIO
University of Virginia School of Medicine

9:30am-10:30am
SI2
Watching Biology in Action – Live Cell Imaging
Location: Room 101
Organizer: Richard Cole
Director: Advanced Light Microscopy & Image Analysis Center
New York State Dept. of Health, Wadsworth Center

 
 
 
  
Title: High Speed Imaging and Novel Probes to Study Cystic Fibrosis
Speaker: Simon Watkins
Professor
University of Pittsburgh

 
 
 
  
Speaker: David Piston
Chair Cell Biology and Physiology
Washington University School of Medicine

9:30am-10:30am
SP2
Single Cell Mass Spectometry
Location: Room 102
Speaker: Jonathan V. Sweedler (Organizer)
Professor of Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 
 
 
  
Title: Massively Multiplexed Single Cell Analysis in Human Health and Disease
Speaker: Sean Bendall
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Stanford University

9:30am-10:30am
SG2
Revealing microbial community structure and function through environmental -omics
Location: Room 104
Organizer: Samantha Joye
Professor
University of Georgia

 
 
 
  
Title: Using targeted metabolomics to explore bacteria-virus interactions in seawater
Speaker: Alison Buchan
Associate Professor
University of Tennessee

 
 
 
  
Title: Oil degradation in deep sea mussels of the genus Bathymodiolus: physiological insights from metagenomics
Speaker: Matthew Saxton
Senior Post Doctoral Research Associate
University of Georgia

9:30am-10:30am
MS2
Integrative Technologies for Advancing Scientific Cores
Location: Room 105
Speaker: Pratik Jagtap (Organizer)
Managing Director
University of Minnesota

 
 
 
  
Title: Use of Genomics Visualization Methods within Galaxy Platform
Speaker: Aysam Guerler
Software Engineer
Emory Healthcare in Atlanta

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Ravi Madduri
Software Engineer & Project Manager
Argonne National

10:00am-5:00pm
Exhibit Hall Open
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

10:30am-11:00am
AM Break
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

11:00am-11:30am
RG4
Biomedical ‘Omics’ Research Group (BORG)
Location: Room 100
Organizer: Lisa White
Director, Genomic & RNA Profiling Core
Baylor College of Medicine

11:00am-11:30am
RG6
Flow Cytometry Research Group (FCRG)
Location: Room 101
Speaker: Monica DeLay (Organizer)
Core Manager
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

 
 
 
  
Title: Evaluating the Effects of Cell Sorting on Gene Expression
Speaker: Kathleen Brundage
Core Director
West Virginia University

11:00am-11:30am
RG16
Protein Sequencing Research Group (PSRG)
Location: Room 102
Title: N-Terminal Identification of a Standard Protein at Low Picomole Levels by Dimethyl Labeling and Bottom-Up Mass Spectometry (Part 2)
Speaker: Sara McGrath (Organizer)
Chemist
FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Hediye Erdjument-Bromage
Manager, Proteomics and Microchemistry Core
Rockefeller Research Laboratories, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

11:30am-12:00pm
RG1
Location: Room 101
Organizer: David Blum
Director, Bioexpression and Fermentation Facility
University of Georgia

11:30am-12:00pm
RG12
Metagenomics Research Group (MGRG)
Location: Room 100
Speaker: Scott Tighe (Organizer)
Core Lab Manager
Unviersity of Vermont

11:30am-12:00pm
RG18
Proteomics Research Group (PRG)
Location: Room 102
Title: Identification of Low Abundance Proteins in a Highly Complex Sample
Speaker: Yan Wang (Organizer)
Director, Proteomics Core Facility
University of Maryland

 
 
 
  
Title: Identification of Low Abundance Proteins in a Highly Complex Sample
Speaker: Pratik Jagtap
Managing Director, Center for Mass Spectometry and Proteomics
University of Minnesota

12:00pm-1:00pm
Lunch
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

1:00pm-2:00pm
Poster Session II: Even Poster Numbers
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

2:00pm-3:00pm
ABRF Award & Lecture – Presented by: John G. White, PhD., Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin
 
Location: America’s Ballroom
Title: “Adventures with Confocal Microscopy”
Awardees: Drs. William Bradshaw Amos and John G. White
 

3:00pm-4:00pm
Innovations & Technology Spotlight II
 
  
 

3:00pm-3:15pm
Title: Next Generation Flow Cells: Sequencing Results from Illumina’s Patterned Nanowell Flow cells

 
Location: America’s Ballroom
Steve Gross, Scientist, Applications
Illumina Corporation, Inc.
 

3:15pm-3:30pm
Title: Optimizing techniques for Enumeration of Mammalian and Microbial Populations using Automated imaging systems

 
Location: America’s Ballroom
Yong Weon Yi
Logos Biosystems, Inc.
 

3:30pm-3:45pm
Title: Changes To NGS Workflow; Why Accurate Sizing And Quantification Of Library Preparations Are Critical To Successful Sequencing.

 
Location: America’s Ballroom
Steven Siembieda
Advanced Analytical Technologies, Inc.
 

3:45pm-4:00pm
Title: Targeted Depletion of Any Unwanted Transcript During RNA-Seq Library Construction

 
Location: America’s Ballroom
Steve Kain, NuGEN Technologies, Inc.
NuGEN Technologies, Inc.
 

4:00pm-4:30pm
PM Break
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

4:30pm-5:30pm
WA2
Building a Sustainable Portfolio of Core Facilities Part 1: A Case Study
Location: Room 100
Speaker: Phil Hockberger (Organizer)
Executive Director of Research Facilities
Northwestern University

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Aaron Rosen
Core Finance Administrator
Northwestern University

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Jeff Weiss
Director for Research Core Planning
Northwestern University

4:30pm-5:30pm
WI2
Live Cell Imaging Tips and Tools
Location: Room 101
Organizer: Claire Brown
Assistant Professor
McGill University

 
 
 
  
Title: Wound Healing Assay
Speaker: James Jonkman
Manager
Advanced Optical Microscopy Facility, University Health Network

 
 
 
  
Title: How Cells Change Shape: using live imaging to probe mechanisms
Speaker: Bob Goldstein
Professor, Department of Biology
University of North Carolina

4:30pm-5:30pm
WP2
SILAC and Alternative Labeling Strategies in Quantitative Proteomics
Location: Room 102
Speaker: Shao-En Ong (Organizer)
Assistant Professor
University of Washington

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Thomas Neubert
Associate Professor
NYU Langone Medical Center

4:30pm-5:30pm
WG2
Large-scale RNA-seq analysis, normalization, and interpretation
Location: Room 104
Title: Cloud-based Resources for Automated RNA-seq Analysis and QC
Speaker: Christopher Mason (Organizer)
Assistant Professor
Weill Cornell Medical College

 
 
 
  
Title: RNA-seq Normalization and Batch Effect Removal
Speaker: Davide Risso
Instructor
University of California, Berkeley

 
 
 
  
Title: Analysis Tools for Deep RNA-sequencing and Isoform Characterization
Speaker: Gunnar Ratsch
Associate Professor
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

4:30pm-5:30pm
MW2
Bioinformatics Cores as a Business: Exploring Models for Core Management
Location: Room 105
Organizer: William Farmeire
Bioinformatics Scientific Director
Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR), University of Florida

 
 
 
  
Title: Bioinformatics Core – Starting from the Ground Up
Speaker: Jyothi Thimmapuram
Bioinformatics Core Director
Purdue University

 
 
 
  
Speaker: James Cavalcoli
Director, Bioinformatics Core, Biomedical Research Core Facilities
University of Michigan

 
 
 
  
Title: A Core Maturing: Managing Transition and Business Development While Vigorously Serving Customers
Speaker: Brent Richter
Director, Enterprise Research IS
Partners HealthCare System, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals

5:30pm-6:30pm
RTA2
Building a Sustainable Portfolio of Core Facilites Part 2: Challenges and Opportunities
Location: Room 100
Moderator: Phil Hockberger
Executive Director of Research Facilities
Northwestern University

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Diane Tabarini
Director of Core Facilities Operations
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Annabelle Stein
Assistant Director of Research Technologies
University of North Carolina

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Jeff Weiss
Director for Research Core Planning
Northwestern University

5:30pm-6:30pm
RTI2
Live Cell Imaging Tips and Tools
Location: Room 101
Organizer: Claire Brown
Assistant Professor
McGill University

 
 
 
  
Panelist: James Jonkman
Manager
Advanced Optical Microscopy Facility, University Health Network

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Bob Goldstein
Professor, Department of Biology
University of North Carolina

 
 
 
  
Panelist: David Piston
Professor and Chair
Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University in St. Louis

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Simon Watkins
Professor and Vice Chairman
Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh

5:30pm-6:30pm
RTP2
Stable Isotope Labeling Approaches in Proteomics: An Open Forum
Location: Room 102
Organizer: Shao-En Ong
Assistant Professor
University of Washington

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Thomas Neubert
Associate Professor
NYU Langone Medical Center

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Chris Colangelo
Director of Protein Profiling
Yale School of Medicine

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Brett Phinney
Manager, Proteomics Core
UC Davis Genome Center

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Brian Searle
Principal Scientist
Proteome Software

5:30pm-6:30pm
RTM2
Operating Bioinformatics Core
Location: Room 105
Organizer: William Farmeire
Bioinformatics Scientific Director
Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR), University of Florida

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Jyothi Thimmapuram
Bioinformatics Core Director
Purdue University

 
 
 
  
Panelist: James Cavalcoli
Director
University of Michigan

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Brent Richter
Director
Partners HealthCare System, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals

5:30pm-6:30pm
RTG2
Gene Editing
Location: Room 104
Organizer: Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy
Director, Mouse Genome Engineering Core Facility
University of Nebraska Medical Center

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Thomas Cradick
Director of the Protein Engineering Core Facility
Georgia Institute of Technology

 
 
 
  
Panelist: Vittorio Sebastiano
Assistant Professor, Dept. of OBGyN/Director of the Transgenic, Knockout and Tumor Model Center
Stanford School of Medicine

TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015

8:00am-8:15am
Announcements
 
Location: America’s Ballroom
 

8:15am-9:15am
P4
Plenary Session
Location: America’s Ballroom
Title: Integrating Optical and Molecular Technologies for Studying Cancer Metastasis
Speaker: John Condeelis
Professor, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

9:30am-10:30am
SA3
Trending Core Business Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Location: Room 100
Organizer: Constance Esposito
Assistant Director of DNA Sequencing Core, Core Operations
University of Michigan

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Luellen Fletcher
Associate Director for Administration, Biomolecular and Cellular Resource Center
University of Pennsylvania

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Joanne Lannigan
Director, Flow Cytometry
University of Virginia

9:30am-10:30am
SI3
New Horizons in Light Microscopy
Location: Room 101
Organizer: Lisa Cameron
Director of Confocal and Light Microscopy
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical Center

 
 
 
  
Title: High speed 3D microscopy in-vivo using Swept Confocally-Aligned Planar Excitation (SCAPE) microscopy
Speaker: Elizabeth Hillman
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University

 
 
 
  
Title: Panel Discussion on the Future of Light Microscopy
Speaker: Kevin Eliceiri
Director, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin

 
 
 
  
Title: Panel Discussion on the Future of Light Microscopy
Speaker: John Condeelis
Professor, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

 
 
 
  
Title: Panel Discussion on the Future of Light Microscopy
Speaker: John White
Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering
University of Wisconsin at Madison

9:30am-10:30am
SP3
Extending the Range of Metabolome Analysis
Location: Room 102
Speaker: Daniel Jones (Organizer)
Professor and Director, Mass Spectometry and Metabolomics Core
Michigan State University

 
 
 
  
Title: Using Isotopic Labeling and Metabolic Flux Analysis to Quantify Plant Metabolism
Speaker: Doug Allen
Research Computational Biologist
USDA-ARS/Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

 
 
 
  
Title: Small Molecules in a Core Setting: Targeted Metabolic Flux to Untargeted Lipidomics
Speaker: John Asara
Assistant Professor and Director
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

9:30am-10:30am
SG3
Gene Editing
Location: Room 104
Title: Designer Nucleases: A New Era in Genome Engineering
Speaker: Channbasavaiah Gurumurthy (Organizer)
Director, Mouse Genome Engineering Core Facility
University of Nebraska Medical Center

 
 
 
  
Title: CRSIPR 2.0- Improved Bioinformatics, and Nuclease Systems
Speaker: Thomas Cradick
Director of the Protein Engineering Core Facility
Georgia Institute of Technology

 
 
 
  
Title: Genome Editing and Human Development
Speaker: Vittorio Sebastiano
Assistant Professor, Dept. of OBGyN/Director of the Transgenic, Knockout and Tumor Model Center
Stanford School of Medicine

9:30am-10:30am
MS3
Antibody Validation for ChIP-Seq Applications
Location: Room 105
Organizer: David Blum
Director, Bioexpression and Fermentation Facility
University of Georgia

 
 
 
  
Organizer: Seth Crosby
 

 
 
 
  
Title: Defining and Targeting the Epigenome of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Speaker: Jacqueline Payton
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine

 
 
 
  
Title: Uncovering enhancer elements in mouse hematopoietic stem cells using low cell input ChIP-SEQ
Speaker: Grant Challen
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine

10:00am-3:00pm
Exhibit Hall Open
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

10:30am-11:00am
AM Break
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

11:00am-11:30am
RG5
DNA Sequencing Research Group (DSRG)
Location: Room 104
Organizer: Robert Lyons
University of Michigan

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Joanna Hamilton
Co-Director, Genomics Shared Resource
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

11:30am-12:00pm
RG14
Nucleic Acid Research Group (NARG)
Location: Room 104
Organizer: Herbert Auer
Managing Director
Functional GenOmics Consulting

12:00pm-1:00pm
Lunch
 
Location: Exhibit Hall 1
 

1:00pm-2:15pm
Award Presentations
 
Location: America’s Ballroom
 

2:15pm-2:45pm
NGS Multi – RG Presentation
 
Location: America’s Ballroom
Speaker: George Grills (Organizer)
Director of Operations of Core Facilities in the Life Sciences/Director of Advanced Technology Assessment
Cornell University

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Don Baldwin
Chief Scientific Officer
Signal Biology, Inc.

 
 
 
  
Speaker: Christopher Mason
Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Weill Cornell Medical College

3:00pm-4:00pm
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
 
Location: America’s Ballroom
David Nelson
Master Trainer
VitalSmarts

4:00pm-4:30pm
PM Break
 
Location: America’s Ballroom Foyer
 

4:30pm-5:30pm
Affiliates and Chapters Meeting
 
Location: America’s Ballroom
 

5:30pm-6:30pm
ABRF Members Meeting
 
Location: America’s Ballroom
 

7:00pm-11:00pm
Closing Social at City Museum
 
Location: City Museum
 

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