Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors Meeting
October 22-24, 2008
University of Vermont
Burlington,VT
General Information
Organizing Committee:
- Timothy Hunter (University of Vermont)
- Pamela Scott Adams (Trudeau Institute)
- Stephen Bobin (Dartmouth Medical School)
- Michelle Detwiler (Roswell Park Cancer Institute)
- George Grills (Cornell University)
- Robert Keefe (Wadsworth Center/NYS DOH)
- Katia Sol-Church (Center for Pediatric Research, NCC-Delaware)
- Theodore Thannhauser (USDA-ARS)
Meeting Sponsors:
- Vermont Genetics Network
- Cornell University Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- The Jackson Laboratory
- Wadsworth Center
- Norris Cotton Cancer Center
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Vermont Cancer Center
- The Center for Functional Genomics, SUNY at Albany
- Delaware Biotechnology Institute
- The Delaware INBRE
- Nemours' Biomedical Research
- Dartmouth Lung Biology Center
- Wyeth
- Center for Clinical and Translational Science at Dartmouth
General Information
You are invited to attend the third annual Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD) meeting, October 22-24, 2008, on the University of Vermont campus in Burlington, VT. This will be a networking meeting for core directors and managers in the Northeast. The conference will provide an opportunity for core facility directors and managers to meet colleagues, to share technical advice, and to discuss the challenges and results of implementing shared research resources and technologies.
There will be organized tours through several core facilities at the University of Vermont in the afternoon and an evening reception on Wednesday, Oct. 22nd, followed by a two day meeting from Thursday to Friday. The meeting will include plenary presentations of general interest to all core directors, a poster session (the posters will describe the activities and services provided by the core facilities of the participants), and discussion sessions, each lead by a panel of experts, in which topics of interest will be discussed in a workshop setting among core directors and managers offering similar services. There will be breakout sessions on DNA Sequencing, Genotyping, Microarrays, Real-Time qPCR, Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, Protein Expression and Characterization, Flow Cytometry, Optical Imaging, Transgenics, Stem Cells, and Bioinformatics/Computational Biology.
The meeting will include a poster session. All attendees are encouraged to submit a poster abstract. The purpose of this session is to enable core facility directors to present posters describing the activities and services their individual cores provide and to view what core services are available at neighboring institutions.
The poster abstract submission deadline has been extended to Oct. 8, 2008. Abstracts should be submitted after registering for the meeting. In addition to the poster abstract, participants are encouraged to submit their full poster presentation in pdf format. Poster presentations will be made available on a website restricted to meeting participants. Submission of the poster pdf files does not need to be done at the same time as submission of poster abstracts. The deadline for submission of poster pdf files is October 8, 2008. Recommended poster size is 4ft.(W) x 3ft.(H).
The meeting registration deadline has been extended to Oct 8, 2008. Registration to this meeting WILL BE LIMITED so please register early.