An International Symposium of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities

Detailed Program for Friday to Tuesday Feb. 19th – 23rd, 2016

  • Friday – February 19, 2016

  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

    Registration Open

    Hall A Atrium Lobby
  • Satellite Workshops

  •  
  • 7:30 AM – 8:00 AM
    Breakfast for Satellite Workshop 1
    Room 315
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
    (SW1) ABRF Business Skills Workshop
    Room 316
  • 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Speaker Ready Room
    Room 207 & 208
  • Saturday – February 20, 2016

  • 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM

    Registration Open

    Hall A Atrium Lobby
  • Satellite Workshops

  • 7:30 AM – 8:00 AM
    Breakfast for Satellite Workshops
    Floridian Ballroom Foyer
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Speaker Ready Room
    Room 207 & 208
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
    (SW1) ABRF Business Skills Workshop
    Room 316
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
    (SW2) Tissue to Single Cell: Cytometry to Molecular Analysis Workflow
    Room 315
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
    (SW3) Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas9
    Floridian Ballroom D
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
    (SW4) The Galaxy Platform for Multi-Omic Data Analysis and Informatics
    Room 304
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
    (SW5) Count, Measure, and Showcase Your Images
    Room 305
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
    New Member Networking Session
    Floridian Ballroom D
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
    Research Group/Committee Chairs Meeting
    Room 304
  • Keynote and Opening Reception

  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

    Keynote Address

    Managing and Empowering the Research Data Lifecycle: Building Global Communities Through Shared Computational Infrastructure

    Parker Antin, PhD, Associate Dean, Research-Agriculture and Life Sciences, Professor BIO5 Institute, Professor Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Professor Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 6:30 AM – 8:30 PM

    Opening Reception

    Exhibit Hall A
  • 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Exhibit Hall Open
    Exhibit Hall A
  • 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Authors to mount Posters on boards
    Exhibit Hall A
  • Sunday – February 21, 2016

  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

    Registration Open

    Hall A Atrium Lobby
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
    Breakfast
    Floridian Ballroom Foyer
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Speaker Ready Room
    Room 207 & 208
  • 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Exhibit Hall Open
    Exhibit Hall A
  • Plenary Session 1

  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

    Cancer Genomics: Discovery to Clinical Translation

    Elaine R. Mardis, PhD, Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Distinguished Professor of Medicine Professor of Genetic and Molecular Microbiology Co-director, The Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • Innovative Topics 1

  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

    Genomics Track: Analyzing Ocean Health; Towards a True Ergonomic Sensor

    Jim Birch, PhD, Director of the SURF Center, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

    Core Administration Track: Reproducibility in Science: It’s Everyone’s Problem

    Parker Antin, PhD, University of Arizona, President FASEB

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

    Morning Break

    Exhibit Hall A
  • Concurrent Scientific Session 1

  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Imaging Track: Light Sheet Microscopy
    Chair: Kevin McGowan, HHMI Janelia Research Campus

    A Primer on Light Sheet Microscopy

    Leong Chew, Director of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Advanced Imaging Center, HHMI Janelia Research Campus

    Light Sheet Fluorescent Microscopy of the Central Nervous System: Practical Considerations for Studying Injury Paradigms

    Vance Lemmon, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine

    LAT Recruitment to Sites of T Cell Activation

    Lakshmi Balagopalan, The National Institutess of Health

    Room 304
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Core Administration Track: Improving Efficiencies with Lean Management
    Chair: Jay Fox, University of Virginia

    Lean Management in Cores: Specific Tools to Help with Core Productivity and Client Satisfaction

    Jay Fox, University of Virginia,
    Sean Jackson, University of Virginia
    Rob Carnahan, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Room 316
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Genomics Track: Clinical Sequencing
    Chair: Nicholas Ambulos, University of Maryland School of Medicine

    FDA Regulation of Genomic Trials in the Era of Precision Medicine

    Ernest (David) Litwack, Food and Drug Administration

    Next Generation Sequencing and the Personalized Diabetes Medicine Program

    Toni Pollin, University of Maryland School of Medicine

    The NCI-MATCH Trial: Development, Analytical Validation and Application of an NGS Assay for Patient Screening

    P. Mickey Williams, NCI, National Institutes of Health

    Floridian Ballroom D
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Proteomics Track: Label-Free Proteomic Quantification
    Chair: Michael Washburn, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

    Label Free Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Protein Complexes and Protein Interaction Networks

    Michael Washburn, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

    Peptide-Centric Analysis for Data Independent Acquisition MS/MS Data: From PECAN Detection to Quantification

    Sonia Ting, University of Washington (MacCoss Laboratory)

    A promising alternative to SWATH: an Ion-current-based MS1 strategy enables extensive, large-scale, and reproducible proteomic quantification in large cohorts with high accuracy, precision and extremely-low levels of missing data

    Jun Qu, SUNY-Buffalo

    Ballroom 305
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Trending Topics Track: Cellular Profiling in Extreme Environments
    Chair: Andrew Box, Stowers Institute of Medical Research

    Flow Cytometry in Inner Space: Marine Biology

    Peter Lopez, New York University School of Medicine

    Flow Cytometry 250 Miles from Earth

    Ozzy Mermut, National Optics Institute, Canada

     

    Room 315
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

    Lunch

    Exhibit Hall A
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

    Poster Session 1 (odd numbers)

    Exhibit Hall A
  • Plenary Session 2

  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Exporting Top Down Mass Spectrometry to become a Robust Option for Efficient Characterization of Protein Primary and Quaternary Structure

    Neil L. Kelleher, PhD Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences and the Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • Platinum Presentations 1 – 4
    Moderator: Scott Tighe, Chair ABRF Corporate Relations Committee

  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    How to Implement a Successful User-Based Training Program for the Effective use of Core Facilities
    Mike Troutman, ThermoFisher, Inc.

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    High Quality NGS Libraries from Picogram to Microgram Amounts of Nucleic Acids of Varying Quality
    Fiona Stewart, New England Biolabs, Inc.

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    Amplicons, Heteroduplexes, and Enzymes – Proper Processing Elevates Detection of CRISPR Gene Editing Events
    Steve Siembieda, Advanced Analytical Technologies

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    A Novel rRNA Depletion Method to Enable Whole Transcriptome Analysis of Single Cells with RNA-Seq
    Lin Pham, NuGEN Technologies

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

    Afternoon Break

    Exhibit Hall A
  • Concurrent Workshops 1

  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

    Imaging Track: Challenges in Light Sheet Microscopy Data Storage and Analysis
    Chair: Phil Hockberger, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

    Open Source Light Microscopy

    Kevin Elicieri, University of Wisconsin

    The Evolving Workflow of Digital Imaging in Multiview Datasets

    Mark Sanders, University of Minnesota Imaging Center

    Room 304
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

    Core Administration Track: Business Skills: Professional Development: Promoting Core-Specifc Job Families
    Chair: Nancy Fisher, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Medicine

    Mike Topal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Medicine
    Kevin Knudtson, University of Iowa
    Franziska Grieder, The National Institutes of Health

    Room 316
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

    Genomics Track: Gene Editing

    Gene Editing of Point Mutations in Mammalian Cells Using Single-Stranded Oligonucleotides with or without CRISPR/Cas9

    Eric Kmiec, Helen F. Graham Cancer Center and Research Institute Christiana Healthcare and University of Delaware
    Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, University of Nebraska Medical Center

    Everything is CRISPR with Targeted Deep Sequencing: Using Targeted Deep Sequencing to Better Design Your CRISPR Experiments

    Shondra Miller, Washington University

    Floridian Ballroom D
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

    Proteomics Track: Standard Operating Protocols (SOPs) For Proteomics & Metabolomics Analyses and an Online Reference Portal

    Standard Operating Protocols (SOPs) For Proteomics & Metabolomics Analyses

    Emily Chen, Columbia University Medical Center
    Amrita Cheema Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Preparing Biological Samples for Metabolomics and Lipidomics, Can We Start with Just One Sample?

    John Asara, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    An ABRF Online Information Resource for Sharing Protocols, SOPs and Technology Information

    Brian Hampton, University of Maryland School of Medicine

    Room 305
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

    Trending Topics Track: Biobanking Next Generation Biorepositories
    Chair: Sheenah Mische, New York Univerity School of Medicine

    Daniel Distel, Northeastern University
    Rachel Brody, New York University School of Medicine
    Diane Uzarski, Duke Translational Research Institute Biobanking Program

    Room 315
  • Concurrent Roundtables 1

  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

    Imaging Track

    Establishing Light Sheet Microscopy in a Core Facility Setting
    Chair: Claire Brown, McGill University

    Kevin Eliceiri, University of Wisconsin
    Mark Sanders, University of Minnesota Imaging Center
    Vance Lemmon, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
    Thomas Gee, ThermoFisher Inc.
    Thomas Stroh, McGill University
    Klaus Hahn, University of North Carolina
    Tim Lionnet, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
    Akira Chiba, University of Miami

    LAT Recruitment to Sites of T Cell Activation

    Lakshmi Balagopolan, The National Institutess of Health

    Room 304
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

    Core Administration Track

    Career Development: Mentoring Models
    Chairs: Sheena Mische, New York University School of Medicine and Anitha Chennat, University of Michigan

    Diane Hillebrand, University of North Dakota
    Claudius Mundoma, Florida State University
    Andy Chitty, Oregon Health and Science University

    Room 316
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

    Genomics Track

    Genomics Research Group – Single-Cell Transcriptomics: Lessons Learned from the Genomics Research Group Study
    Chair: Natalia Reyero, Mississippi State University

    Don Baldwin, Signal Biology, Inc.
    Catharine Aquino Fournier, Functional Genomics Center Zurich
    Sridar Chittur, University of Albany

    DNA Sequencing Research Group – Cross-Site Comparison of Enzymatic Library Construction Kits for Illumina Sequencing

    Charles Nicolet, University of Southern California
    Marie Adams, University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center

    Floridian Ballroom D
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

    Proteomics Track

    Updates from the Proteomics Informatics Research Group

    Magnus Palmblad, Leiden University Medical Center

    Proteomics Standards Research Group Chair: A tale of two studies

    Brian Searle, University of Washington
    Christopher Colangelo, Primary Ion

    Room 305
  • 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM

    Trending Topics Track

    MRG2016 Metabolomics Research Group (MRG) Data Study Analysis

    Amrita Cheema, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Room 315
  • After-hours ABRF

  • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Strengthen Your Core with the iQue Screener PLUS – IntelliCyt Corporation
    Room 304
  • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    From Sample to Data: Discover More from NGS with Greater Performance, Flexibility and Speed – Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Room 305
  • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    PacBio: Introducing the Sequel System for Lower Cost Long-read SMRT Sequencing – Pacific Biosciences
    Room 315
  • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Science Exchange
    Room 316
  • Monday – February 22, 2016

  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

    Registration Open

    Hall A Atrium Lobby
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
    Breakfast
    Floridian Ballroom Foyer
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Speaker Ready Room
    Room 207 & 208
  • 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Exhibit Hall Open
    Exhibit Hall A
  • Plenary Session 3

  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

    The Chemistry of Color: Illuminating Biological Systems with Fluorescence

    Luke D. Lavis, PhD, Group Leader HHMI Janelia Research Campus

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • Innovative Topics 2

  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

    Imaging Track: Engineering Proteins to Respond to Light or Small Molecules In Vivo

    Klaus Hahn, PhD, Director, UNC-Olympus Imaging Center, Ronald Thurman Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Joint Professor, Division of Medicinal Chemistry & Natural Products

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

    Proteomics Track: Fast Proteome Analysis, Metabolomics, and Integration of These Data for Large Studies

    Joshua J. Coon, PhD, Professor of Chemistry and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

    Morning Break

    Exhibit Hall A
  • Concurrent Scientific Sessions 2

  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Imaging Track: Novel Fluorescent Probes and New Imaging Applications
    Chair: Lisa Cameron, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University

    Novel Biosensor Approaches Shed Light on Motility and Immune Cell Signaling

    Klaus Hahn, University of North Carolina

    New Imaging Tools to quanitify gene expresssion regulation in living cells

    Tim Lionnet, HHMI Janelia Research Campus

    A wearable FRET-based “social” interaction sensor system for exposing protein networks in vivo

    Akira Chiba, University of Miami

    Room 304
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Core Administration Track: Evolving Core Technologies Chair: Belynda Hicks, The National Institutes of Health

    Evolving Core Technologies – How to Make the Right Decisions

    Jane Romm, John’s Hopkins University

    How to Stay Relevant in an Age of Evolving Technologies: Lessons from the Molecular Biology Facility at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

    Karen Staehling, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

    What to do when we can’t do everything? Managing a technology portfolio, creating growth opportunities, and integrating multi-core services at the University of Florida Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (UF-ICBR)

    William Farmerie, University of Florida

    Ballroom 316
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Genomics Track: Single Cell Genomics
    Chair: Anoja Perera, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

    Single Cell Profiling Identifies Neural Crest Invasion Signature

    Jason Morrison, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

    Learning the “Metadata” of the Cell with Single Cell Genomics

    Rahul Satija, New York Genome Center/NYU Center for Genomics and Systems Biology

    Massive Human Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis of Healthy and Diseased Kidney Tissues Applying Droplet Microfluidic Technology (Drop-Seq)

    Edgar Otto, University of Michigan

    Floridian Ballroom D
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Proteomics Track: Clinical Proteomics

    Towards Cancer Biomarker Discovery Using Mass Spectrometry Based Proteomics for Profiling of Clinical Specimens

    Josip Blonder, MD, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, NCI, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.

    Chemical-Based Metaproteomics of the Healthy Human Gut Microbiome

    Dennis Wolan, PhD, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute

    Serum Proteomes Distinguish Children Developing Type-1 Diabetes

    David Goodlett, PhD, Professor and Isaac E. Emerson Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

    Room 305
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Trending Topics Track: Antibodies
    Chair: Robert Carnahan, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Alternative immunological reagents to enable proteomics, imaging, cell biology, and therapeutics discovery

    Robert Carnahan, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Nano- and Chromobodies: How to Connect Biochemistry and Cell Biology

    Ulrich Rothbauer, Universitat Tubingen

    Novel Phage Display Library from Naive Rabbit Antibody Repertoires

    Cristoph Rader, The Scripps Research Institute

    Room 315
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

    Lunch

    Exhibit Hall A
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

    Poster Session 2 (even numbers)

    Exhibit Hall A
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    ABRF Award Lecture

    Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhD, Director, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • Platinum Presentations 5 – 8
    Moderator: Scott Tighe, Chair ABRF Corporate Relations Committee

  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    Trends in Genomic Medicine
    Mostafa Ronaghi, Illumina, Inc.

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    High Speed Sorting of Single Cells Transfected with Short Hairpin RNA’s (shRNA’s) for Aptamer Optimization
    Oliver Umland, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    Continue the Journey. New Horizons in Single Cell Analysis
    Doug Hinerfeld, Fluidigm

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    New Applications Leveraging SMART Technology for Next-Gen Sequencing
    Rachel Fish, Clontech

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

    Afternoon Break

    Exhibit Hall A
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Authors must remove Posters from boards
    Exhibit Hall A
  • Concurrent Workshops 2

  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

    Imaging Track: Choosing the Right Probe for your Application
    Chair: Lisa Cameron, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University

    Long(er) Wavelength Fluorescent Probes

    Kyle Gee, Thermo Fisher, Inc.

    Fluorescence Probes for Super-Resolution Microscopy – Experiences from an Advanced Microscopy Core

    Thomas Stroh, McGill University

    Room 304
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

    Core Administration Track: Business Skills: Customer Management in a Shared Resource Environment
    Chair: Joanne Lannigan, University of Virginia School of Medicine

    David Blum, University of Georgia

    Ball Room 316
  • 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

    Genomics Track: Metagenomics
    Moderator: Scott Tighe, Chair of Metagenomics Research group and Extreme Microbiome Project

    Experimental Design in Metagenomics

    Matt Settles, University of California Davis

    Standardizing Metagenomics with a Novel Class I Microbial Reference Standard and Improved DNA Extraction Using a Multicomponent Enzyme Reagent

    Scott Tighe, University of Vermont

    Analysis of the MGRG Class I Bacterial Reference Standard with the Oxford Nanopore MinION

    Noah Alexander, Weill Cornell Medical College

    “Methodomics”: Comparing Methods for Analyzing the Microbial Communities of Lake Hillier – The Famous Australian Pink Hypersaline Lake

    Ken McGrath, Australian Genome Research Facility

    Metagenomics Species Accuracy: Taxa Classification Across 12 Algorithms and 24 Standards; A Bioinformatics Benchmark

    Chris Mason, Weill Cornell Medical College

    Genomics and Transcriptomics Reveal the Response of Extreme Microbial Communities to Oil and Dispersant Exposure

    Tito D. Peña-Montenegro, University of Georgia

    Beer-omics: Microbial Populations and Dynamics in Fermentation

    Shawn Levy, Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology

    Floridian Ballroom D
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

    Proteomics Track: How to Make Sense of Quantitative Proteomics Lists
    Chair: Michael Washburn, Stowers Institute

    Josip Blonder, NCI/Frederick National Lab/Leidos Biomed
    Joshua Coon, University of Wisconsin
    David Goodlett, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
    Marco Hein, University of California San Francisco

    Room 305
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

    Trending Topics Track: Novel Technologies: High Content Screening
    Chair: David Weber, University of Maryland School of Medicine

    Novel Technologies: High Content Screening

    David Weber, University of Maryland School of Medicine
    Vance Lemmon, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine

    Enabling High Throughput Screening for Drug Discovery and the Application of 3D Cell-Based Spheroids

    Louis Scampavia, The Scripps Research Institute

    Room 315
  • Concurrent Roundtables 2

  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

    Imaging Track: Fluorescent Probes: How to Keep Up
    Chair: Richard Cole, Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health

    Fluorescent Probes and Imaging Approaches in Everyday Life of an Imaging Core

    Maria Boulina, University of Miami

    Room 304
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

    Core Administration Track

    Lessons Learned: How to Choose a Centralized Billing System that Best Suits your Institution

    Nicole White, Chair, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation
    Susan Meyn, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Heather Richards, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University

    Room 316
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM

    Genomics Track

    Genomics Bioinformatics Research Group
    Christopher Mason, Weill Cornell Medical School

    Floridian Ballroom D
  • 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM

    Proteomics Track

    Protein Sequencing Research Group

    C-Terminal Identification of Standard Proteins by O18 Labeling and Bottom-Up Mass Spectrometry

    Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, New York University School of Medicine

    Room 305
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM

    Proteomics Research Group

    Identification of Low Abundance Proteins in a Highly Complex Protein Sample

    Henriette Remmer, University of Michigan
    Paul Stemmer, Wayne State University

    Room 305
  • 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM

    Trending Topics Track

    Flow Cytometry Research Group

    Evaluating the Effects of Cell Sorting on Gene Expression

    Andrew Box, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

    Evaluating Cell Sorter Cleaning Procedures Across Institutions by Testing for Common Contaminants

    Kathleen Brundage, West Virginia University

    Room 315
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM

    Antibody Research Group

    David Blum, University of Georgia

    Room 315
  • After-hours ABRF

  • Tuesday – February 23, 2016

  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM

    Registration Open

    Hall A Atrium Lobby
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
    Breakfast
    Floridian Ballroom Foyer
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
    Speaker Ready Room
    Room 207 & 208
  • All Day

    Exhibit Hall Closed

    Exhibit Hall A
  • Plenary Session 4

  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

    Know Thy Cells: Improving Biomedical Research Reproducibility

    Leonard P. Freedman, PhD, Global Biological Standards Institute

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • Innovative Topics 3

  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

    Genomics Track: Transient Gene and miRNA Expression Profile Changes of Confluent Human Fibroblast Cells in Space

    Honglu Wu, PhD, Manager of the Radiation Biophysics Laboratory and the Bioanalytical Core Laboratories, NASA Johnson Space Center

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

    Administration Track: Improving Openness and Reproducibility of Scientific Research

    Tim Errington, PhD, Center for Open Science

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

    Morning Break

    Floridian Ballroom Foyer
  • Concurrent Scientific Sessions 3

  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Imaging Track: Light Microscopy Research Group Presentation Update
    Chair: Claire Brown, McGill University

    3D Light Microscopy Standard Sample and Protocols for Light Microscopy

    Erika Wee, McGill University

    Reproducibility in Life Science: The Role You Can Play

    Nathan Blow, BioTechniques

    Room 304
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Core Administration Track: NIH and Federal Policy Update
    Chair: Julie Auger, University of California, Davis

    NIH Shared Instrument Grant Program Updates

    Franziska Grieder, The National Institutes of Health/p>

    The Expanded Genomic Data Sharing Policy

    Jennie Larkin, The National Institutess of Health

    Room 316
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Genomics Track: The Sieves of Sanity in a World of Big Data: Forensic Bioinformatics and Controls.

    Chris Mason, Weill Cornell Medical College Paul Boutros, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

    Benchmarking Transposable Element Insertion Detection Methods and their Application to Large-Scale Cancer Datasets

    Elizabeth Henaff, Weill Cornell Medical College

    Floridian Ballroom D
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Proteomics Track: The Interactome
    Chair: Mark Lively, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

    Protein Microarrays for Studies in Biomarkers and Post Translational Modification

    Joshua Labaer, Arizona State University

    Mapping Global Protein ‘Interactomes’

    Andrew Emili, University of Toronto

    A Human Interactome in Three Quantitative Dimensions Organized by Stoichiometries and Abundances

    Marco Hein, University of California, San Francisco

    Room 305
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Trending Topics Track: Metabolomics
    Chair: Chris Turck, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

    Pathway Illumination for Disease Research – Combining Proteomics and Metabolomics Data

    Chris Turck, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

    Strategies to Integrate NMR and Mass Spectrometry in Metabolomics

    Arthur Edison, University of Georgia

    Metabolic Phenotyping in Translational Medicine: Mouse to Man – Readiness of Technology

    Ralf Bogumil, BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG

    Room 315
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

    Lunch

    Floridian Ballroom Foyer
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

    ABRF’s Role in Reproducibility in Research General Discussion
    (People will bring in their lunch from the Floridian foyer

    Floridian Ballroom C
  • Platinum Presentations 9 – 12
    Moderator: Scott Tighe, Chair ABRF Corporate Relations Committee

  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

    Enhancing Reproducibility and Maintaining Scientific Integrity through Cell Line Authentication
    Doug Storts, Promega Corporation

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

    Advanced Tissue Clearing System for High-Resolution 3D Imaging
    Yong Weon Yi, Logos Biosystems, Inc.

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

    Advanced Optical Components for Fluorescence and Laser Applications
    Michael Stanley, Chroma Technology Corp

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

    Advances in 3D Biology and Multi-Parameter Assays: Simultaneous Digital Counting of Nucleic Acids and Proteins at 800-plex
    Gregory Gonye, NanoString Technologies

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • Innovative Topics 4

  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Imaging Track: Expansion Microscopy – Improved Resolution through Uniform Specimen Swelling

    Paul Tilberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boyden Lab

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Proteomics Track: A comprehensive Database and Search Method for Large-Scale Metaproteomics

    Dennis Wolan, PhD, Departments of Molecular and Experimental Medicine and Chemical Physiology, Scripps Research Institute

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • Research Group Presentation

  • 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

    Genomics Track: The ABRF Next-Generation Sequencing Study, Phase II: Genomic Data

    Chrisopher Mason, Weill Cornell Medical College
    Don Baldwin, Signal Biology, Inc.
    William Farmerie, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida
    Scott Tighe, University of Vermont

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • Closing Events

  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

    ABRF Awards Presentations

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

    ABRF Members Meeting

    Floridian Ballroom AB
  • 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM

    Closing Social – Sun Dream Yacht Charter

     

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