Travel Award Winners

The Journal of Biomolecular Techniques (JBT) Award

Journal of Biomolecular Technique This annual award recognizes the best research article published each year in the JBT, the publication of the ABRF society. This year’s award goes to T. Regan Baird, Daniel Kaufman, and Claire M. Brown  for  their article entitled: “Mercury Free Microscopy: An Opportunity for Core Facility Directors”, appeared in July issue of the JBT(J Biomol Tech. Jul 2014; 25(2): 48-53. doi: 10.7171/jbt.14-2502-001).

 

ABRF Robert A. Welch Outstanding Research Group/Committee Member of the Year Award winner: Don Baldwin 

Don Baldwin​ Don Baldwin has been an active member of ABRF since 2001 and has served as Chair of the Microarray Research Group (MRG) and the Genomic Research Group (GRG).  He has also served on the Metagenomics Research Group, been the Experimental Design Project Co-coordinator of the ABRF Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Study, a member of the Steering Committee, and the ABRF representative for the Genome in a Bottle Consortium.  Don also serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Biomolecular Techniques (JBT).

Don has been a crucial participant in many projects at both the conception and execution levels.  He has contributed significantly in the preparation of samples for benchmarking, sample processing for RG projects, performing data analysis, and presenting results. Within GRG, projects have included developing synthetic miRNA standards that will be a great resource for researchers developing novel methods of analysis using microarrays, PCR, and NGS technologies.  Furthermore, he has been one of the main drivers of the ABRF NGS studies. Recently, he has also been an active member of the newly formed Metagenomics Research Group.  His colleagues describe him as a pleasure to work with and a very enthusiastic and extremely knowledgeable individual. For his outstanding and tireless contributions to the ABRF, Don Baldwin receives the Robert A. Welch Outstanding Research Group/Committee Member of the Year Award.

​FASEB MARC (Minority Access to Research Careers) Travel Awards

FASEB Consistent with the educational outreach mission of the organization, Tim Hunter and Natalia Garcia-Reyero Vinas represented ABRF at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) to promote careers in biotechnology and biomedical resource facilities. They also judged posters and oral presentations and awarded five students the ABRF-ABRCMS Best Presentation Awards. Through the FASEB MARC program, four of the students were also provided with travel awards to present their research at the ABRF meeting in St. Louis.

 

ABRF Best Presentation Award Recipients at ABRCMS, November 2014

  • Ibrahim Osumanu* (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
  • Hamid Hussaini* (University of Buffalo)
  • Kimberly Herard* (Emory University)
  • Isavannah Reyes* (St. Edward’s University)
  • Marissa Foster (University of California at Los Angeles)

*Through the FASEB MARC program, these four students were awarded travel funds to attend and present their research at ABRF 2015.

​ABRF OUTSTANDING SCIENTIST/TECHNOLOGIST TRAVEL AWARD

SeqGen Recipients of the ABRF Travel Awards are those ABRF members who have made outstanding contributions in their institutional core facilities, have developed new biotechnologies with applications in core facilities, and/or have been active in ABRF activities. The 2015 Travel Awards are co-sponsored by the ABRF Executive Board and SeqGen, Inc.  The awards selection committee consisted of: Debbie Adam (Chair), University of British Columbia; Allis Chien, Stanford University; Sridar Chittur, SUNY Albany; Jennifer Holbrook, Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children; William Hendrickson  (EB Liaison), University of Illinois, Chicago.

The 2015 Awardees are:

Andrew Box        Andrew Box (Manager, Cytometry Facility, Stowers Institute for Medical Research)

Philip Hexley        Philip Hexley  (Director, Flow Cytometry Research Facility, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center)

Ernest Meyer        Ernest Meyer (Research Scientist/Manager, Cytometry Facility, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute)

Katia Sol-Church        Katia Sol-Church (Director, Biomolecular Core Lab, Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children)

Michael Zianni        Michael Zianni  (Manager, Plant-Microbe Genomics Facility, The Ohio State University)

ABRF 2015 Chapter Awards

Sponsored by the Midwest Association of Core Directors (MWACD) and Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD) 

As Chapters of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF), the Midwest Association of Core Directors (MWACD) and Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD) annually sponsor four $500 Travel Awards.  The goal of this award program is to provide past attendees of MWACD and NERLSCD meetings with funds to help them attend the ABRF annual meeting. Please reach out and welcome the following Travel Award recipients to our ABRF community.

From the MWACD Chapter:

  • Mary Winn (Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI)
  • Ashley Ulm (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH)
  • Angela Schmoldt (Great Lakes Genomics Center, Milwaukee, WI)

From the NERLSCD Chapter:

  • Roxana del Rio-Guerra (University of Vermont, Burlington, VT)
  • Will Xia (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA)

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