2020 Program Schedule
Below was the program schedule that featured experts from over 30 research institutions! Be sure to click on all BLUE session titles below for more information.
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Saturday, February 29, 2020
7:00am - 7:30am
Satellite Workshop Breakfast
8:00am - 4:00pm
4:00pm - 5:00pm
4:00pm - 5:00pm
5:00pm – 6:30pm
Everything You Wanted to Know About ABRF Research Groups*
Platinum Sponsor Talk – Illumina (5:00pm – 5:15pm): Introducing the NextSeq2000: Exploring the Technical Innovations and Applications Fueling Illumina’s Newest Sequencing System- Kieren Patel, Staff Product Manager, Illumina
Everything You Wanted to Know About ABRF Research Groups*
- NGS – Chris Mason, Associate Professor of Genomics at Weill Cornell Medicine
- GERG – Elizabeth Sergison, Dartmouth University
- PRG – Pratik Jagtap, Research Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
- LMRG – Kris Kubow, James Madison University
- DSRG – Jessica Podnar, Genomic Sequencing and Analysis Facility, University of Texas
- MMRG – Scott Tighe, Technical Director, University of Vermont
- GBIRG – Julie Dragon, University of Vermont
- FCRG – Dave Adams, U. Michigan Medical School
- MRG – Amrita Cheema, Georgetown University
- GRG – Catharine Aquino, Functional Genomics Center, Zurich
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Sponsored by Synthego
Sunday, March 1, 2020
7:30am - 8:30am
8:30am - 9:30am
Empowering Team Science 101: Enabling Reproducible Outcomes Across Diverse Technologies
Platinum Sponsor Talks – Roche Sequencing (8:30am – 8:45am)
- Jason Liu, Ph.D., Field Application Scientist, Roche Sequencing
Empowering Team Science 101: Enabling Reproducible Outcomes Across Diverse Technologies
- Elke Küster-Schöck, Director, d’imagerie microscopique, CHU Sainte-Justine, Canada
- Peter Lopez, Director, Cytometry & Cell Sorting, NYU Langone Health
- Brian Searle, Translational Research Fellow, Institute of Systems Biology
- W. Kelley Thomas, Director Hubbard Center for Genome Studies, University of New Hampshire
9:30am - 10:30am
Harnessing the Power of Deep Learning for Light Microscopy at a Large Scale
- Julie Theriot, U.W. The Allen Institute
9:30am - 5:00pm
Exhibit Hall Open
10:30am - 11:00am
Refreshment Break
INNOVATION THEATER PRESENTATIONS
- Illumina
- 10x Genomics
11:00am - 12:30pm
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS:
Techniques and Applications in Nanopore Sequencing
- Fiona Stewart, Product Portfolio Manager
- Luke Sherlin, Senior Product Manager, NGS
Techniques and Applications in Nanopore Sequencing
- Introduction to Nanopore Sequencing
- Scott Tighe (Organizer), Technical Director, University of Vermont
- Detection of Base Modifications using Nanopore Sequencing
- Jonathan Foox, Postdoctoral Associate, Weill Cornell Medicine
- High Molecular Weight DNA Extractions for Long Read Sequencing and Other Genomic Applications
- Kelvin Liu, Director Research and Development, Circulomics
- Efficient de novo Assembly of Eleven Human Genomes Using PromethION Sequencing and a Novel Nanopore Toolkit
- Miten Jain, Assistant Research Scientist, Univ of California Santa Cruz
Electron Microscopy: adding cryoEM
- David Belnap, Director, Utah Electron Microscopy Core, University of Utah, Health Science Center
- Melissa Chambers, Director, Vanderbilt CryoEM Facility, Vanderbilt
- Ed Egelman, Harrison Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, University of Virginia
Building Robust Quality Management Systems in Core Labs (GLP, GMP and QA Best Practices):
- Christopher W. Gregory (Organizer), Director, Office of Research Technologies and Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
- David L. Blum, Director, Bioexpression and Fermentation Facility, University of Georgia
- Rebecca L. Davies, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota
12:30pm - 2:00pm
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Protein Proximity Mapping: Getting to Know Your Neighbors
Karen Colwill, Network Biology Collaborative Centre Manager, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Centre
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Refreshment Break
INNOVATION THEATER PRESENTATIONS
- Promega
- TaKaRa
3:30pm -5:00pm
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
Multi-omics: Traversing the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
- Cris Kinross, Sr. Global Market Development Manager
- Pratik Jagtap (Organizer), Research Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
- Robert Hettich, Distinguished Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Ewy Mathé, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
- Tejaswini Mishra, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University
- Kelly Ruggles, Assistant Professor, NYU Langone Health
Imaging Organoids, Exploiting New Dimensions in Cell Culture
- Kara McKinley, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Univ Calif San Fran – Vale Lab
- Johannes Schoeneberg, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Univ Calif Berkeley – Institute for Data Science
- Mark LaBarge, Professor, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Planning for Core Sustainability and Addressing Usage Challenges: Lessons from Core Research Facilities Seeded by NIH IDeA Funding
- Gabor Bethendly, Founder, CEO
- Rand Haley (Organizer), Director, Huron Consulting Group
- Samuel “Sam” G. Mackintosh (Organizer), Associate Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Jonathan “Josh” E. Baker, Associate Professor, University of Nevada Reno
- Ricky D. Edmondson, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Julia “Julie” T. Oxford, Distinguished Professor, Boise State University
5:00pm - 6:00pm
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
Single cell ‘Omics
Single cell ‘Omics- John Chevillet, Automation and Instrumentation Lead, Product Integration
- Gabor Marth, Professor of Human Genetics, University of Utah
- Harrison Specht, Graduate Research Assistant, Northeastern University
Tools for Big Data Visualization
- David Weiss, Global Product Manager – Genome Engineering and CRISPR Workflows
- Mapping Whole Brain Structure and Activity at Cellular Resolution: iDISCO+ and ClearMap
- Christoph Kirst, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco
FASEB & ABRF: Partners in Science Policy and Advocacy
- Yvette Seger, Director Science Policy, FASEB
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Technology Showcases
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Monday, March 2, 2020
7:30am - 8:30am
Technology Showcases
8:30am - 9:30am
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
Viral Vector Manufacturing: Quality Attributes of rAAV Used in Clinical Development
- Javier F. Alcudia (Organizer), Director, Stanford Virus Core
- J. Fraser Wright, Professor of Pediatrics, CDCM Stanford
- Kimberly Lee (Organizer), Director of Proteomics, Cell Signaling Technology, Inc.
- Douglass Sheeley, Program Leader, NIH
A Practical Guide to Quantitative FLIM/FRET
- Steve Vogel, Senior Investigator, NIAAA
The Entrepreneurial Core Director
Platinum Sponsor Talks – Promega – How can Promega help you to promote your facility and the services you offer? (8:30am – 8:45am)- Iain Ronald, Director, Academic Government Market Segment
- Phil Hockberger (Organizer), Associate Vice President for Research, Northwestern University
- Ben Myers, Director of Research Cores, Yale University
- Claudius Mundoma, Director, Physical Biochemistry Facility, Florida State University
9:30am - 5:00pm
Exhibit Hall Open
10:00am - 11:00am
ABRF Award Recipient’s Presentation: Multiplex & in situ Reading & Writing Omes
Diamond Sponsor Talk: E & I (10:00am – 10:15am)
- Aaron Spang, Vice President, Research & Academic Healthcare
- George Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
11:00am - 1:30pm
Poster Sessions and Lunch:
INNOVATION THEATER PRESENTATIONS
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Roche Sequencing
- PerkinElmer
- NanoString
- Fluidigm
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Microbes in Space: Issues and Solutions about “Omics in Space”
Platinum Sponsor Talks: Perkin Elmer – Eliminating the Guesswork from Miniaturization of NGS Library Prep (1:30pm – 1:45pm)- Thomas Rawlins
- Kasthuri Venkateswaran, NASA
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Lightning talks (selected from Abstracts)
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
- Bojana Gligorijevic, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, Temple University
- Andrew Shih, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Univ. of Washington; Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Proteomics Data Science: Online Data Sources
- Brian Searle (Organizer), Translational Research Fellow, Institute for Systems Biolog
- Vagisha Sharma, Software Engineer, University of Washington
- Susan Weintraub, Professor, UT Health Science Center San Antonio
- Phillip Wilmarth, Research Assistant Professor, Oregon Health and Sciences University
Submitting Successful Cancer Center Support Grants (P30) from the Core Perspective
- Jay W. Fox (Organizer), Professor, University of Virginia School of Medicine
- Heather Richards, Business Manager, Ohio State University Medical Center
- Tim Synold, Professor, City of Hope Cancer Center
- Rajesh Uthamanthil, Vice President, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
- Min He, Program Officer, National Cancer Institute
ABRF Genomics Research Group Presentations
- Jeff Reimers, Sr Director, Automation, North America
- Chris Mason, ABRF Next Generation Sequencing Study (NGS):
- Working on a project
- Marie Adams, DNA Sequencing Research Group (DSRG):
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- Hybrid Capture Methods for Targeted RNA Sequencing
- Investigating FFPE conditions on downstream nucleic acid assays
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- Julie Dragon, Genomics Bioinformatics Research Group (GBIRG):
- The GBIRG ONTOLOGY STUDY
- Elizabeth Sergison, Genome Editing Research Group (GERG):
- Reproducibility of indel formation rates by comparing guide RNA format and delivery method
- Scott Tighe, Metagenomics and Microbiome Research Group (MMRG):
5:00pm - 6:00pm
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
HONEY I SHRUNK THE KITS: Practical Adventures in Reducing Assay Volumes
Platinum Sponsor Talks: Fluidigm – Maximizing Workflow Efficiencies for RNA-Seq with an Automated Microfluidics Solution (5:00pm – 5:15pm)
- David A. King, Vice President, Research and Development, Genomics
HONEY I SHRUNK THE KITS: Practical Adventures in Reducing Assay Volumes
- Stuart Levine (Organizer), Director, MIT BioMicro Center, MIT
- Austin Hendricks, Automation Specialist, MIT BioMicro Center, MIT
- Delsy Martin, Managing Director, Center for Advanced Technology, UCSF
- Kathryn Hall, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
- Sue Weintraub, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Structural Biology, UT Health San Antonio
ABRF Research Groups / Open Mic
- Ben Abrams, Director, UC Santa Cruz Life Sciences Microscopy Center
- Kathleen Brundage, Director, WVU Flow Cytometry & Single Cell Core Facility
- Victoria Ly, Computer Engineering Graduate Student, Haussler Lab UC Santa Cruz
Administrating Cores Supported by Multiple Funding Sources
- Heather Richards (Organizer), Admin Manager Shared Resources, Ohio State University
- Justine Karungi Kigenyi, Administrative Director, Hoglund Brain Imaging Center
- Susan Meyn, Director, Research Resources & Strategy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Technology Showcases
- QIAGEN
- Mission Bio
- Argolight
- Dovetail Genomics
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
7:30am - 8:30am
Technology Showcases
8:30am - 9:30am
There’s No “I” in Core: Administrators and Scientists Talk
- Dani Chesson, CEO, Chesson Consulting
- Andrew Vignard, Director, Core Facilities, UMass IALS
- Robert Steen, Director, Genomics Core Facility, Harvard Medical School
Diamond Sponsor Talk: E & I (8:30am – 8:45am)
- Aaron Spang, Vice President, Research & Academic Healthcare
9:30am - 10:00am
Refreshment Break
9:30am - 2:00pm
Exhibit Hall Open
10:00am - 11:00am
Precision Medicine in the Era of Huge Cohorts and Dense Phenotypic Data
- Josh Denny, CEO, NIH All of Us Program
11:00am - 12:30pm
Journals, ABRF and You: Partners Addressing Rigor and Reproducibility
- Laura Smith, Editorial Staff, Senior Preflight Coordinator, Journal of Cell Biology
- Shawnna Buttery Ph.D., Lead Editor, STAR Protocols
- Joerg Heber, Editor-in-Chief, PLOS ONE
- Guillermo Marques Ph.D., Scientific Director, University Imaging Centers (UIC) of the University of Minnesota
Jeremy Petravicz, Editor, Current Protocols
Susan T. Weintraub, Ph.D., Associate Editor, Journal of Proteome Research
12:30pm - 2:00pm
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Beyond Spatial Transcriptomics: Tissue Systems Biology
- Kit Fuhrman, NanoString Technologies
- Cindy Loomis (Organizer), Director, Experimental Pathology Research Laboratory, NYU Langone Health
- Jared Burkes, Co-Director, Flow Cytometry & Cell Imaging Core Facility, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Valeria Mezzano, Technical Director, Experimental Pathology Research Laboratory, NYU Langone Health
- Travis Hollman, Director, Advanced Immunomorphology Platforms, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
3:30pm - 4:30pm
- A. Nicole White, Research Shared Facilities Administrator, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
4:30pm - 6:00pm
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Closing Reception
Schedule at a Glance:
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