Thursday, October 25, 2012

11:30

5:00

Vendor-Sponsored Satellite Meetings

SCHEDULE AND AGENDAS

11:00

12:30

Lunch

1:00

3:00

Core Administrators Workshop

AGENDA

3:15

5:30

Monsanto Tour

(buses depart from hotel at 3:15)

6:00

11:00

Opening Reception at the City Museum

                                                              Friday, October 26, 2012

7:30

8:30

Continental Breakfast

8:45

9:15

Opening Remarks:

Bill Hendrickson,  MWACD President and Director of Research Resources, University of Illinois at Chicago,

"Welcome to MWACD 2012"

David Friedman, President of ABRF, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Co-Associate Director Proteomics lab, Vanderbilt University

"The ABRF and You:  Biomolecular Research in the Core Facility"

9:15

10:05

Keynote speaker: Tom Osborn

 Molecular Breeding Technology Program Director, Monsanto Company

Title: “A Genomics Approach to Increasing Global Food Production”

ABSTRACT

10:15

10:30

Coffee Break

10:15

7:30

Vendor exhibits open

10:30

11:45

Panel Discussion: “Quality Management and Certifications”

Moderator: David McCarter, Operations Manager, Monsanto Company

Edward Bonney, Quality Management Lab Stewardship Lead, Monsanto Company

Janice Hotz, Business Quality Leader, Dow Agrosciences

Ankita Patel, Assistant Professor and  Laboratory Director, BaylorCollege of Medicine

ABSTRACT

12:00

12:45

Lunch

1:00

1:55

Featured Speaker: Mark Lively

Wake Forest School of Medicine and past FASEB President

Title: “The Essential Role of Scientists in Shaping Public Science Policy”

2:00

3:45

Imaging Science Talks

Introductions: Phil Hockberger, Associate Professor and Director of Core Facilities, Northwestern University

Alison North, Rockefeller University, “For a Few Dollars More: Super-Resolution Microscopy” ABSTRACT

Dave Piston, Vanderbilt University, “A Fist Full of Microscopes” ABSTRACT

3:45

4:00

Coffee Break

4:10

5:40

Panel Discussion: “Managing People and Resources Efficiently”

Moderator: Robert Carnahan, Director Antibody and Protein Resource, Vanderbilt University

Renitra Robinson, Process Improvement Engineer, Monsanto Company

Paula Turpen, Director Research Resources, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Joe Rutledge, Laboratories Medical Director, Seattle Children's Hospital

ABSTRACT & AGENDA

Article on Toyota Production System

6:00

7:30

Poster Session and Vendor Exhibits (wine and cheese social)

8:00

10:00

Dinner on your own

                                                          Saturday, October 27, 2012

7:30

8:30

Breakfast

8:45

9:45

Keynote speaker: Elaine Mardis

Director of Technology Development, The Genome Institute, Washington University

Title: “Massively Parallel Sequencing: Advances and Applications”

ABSTRACT

9:45

10:45

Breakout Session I (running concurrently)

9:45

10:45

Cellular and Animal Imaging

Co-leaders: Philip Hockberger, Northwestern University

Alison North, Rockefeller University

Proteomics and Metabolomics

Leader: Sophia Alvarez, Danforth Center

Next Generation Sequencing

Leader: Anoja Perera, Stowers Institute

10:45

11:00

Coffee Break

11:00

12:15

Breakout Session II (running concurrently)

11:00

12:15

Monoclonal Antibody/Hybridoma

Robert Carnahan, Vanderbilt University

Bioinformatics

Neil Bahroos, University of Illinois at Chicago

Microarray/qPCR

Leader: Sandra Splinter Bondurant, University of Wisconsin-Madison

12:15

1:30

MWACD Organizational Meeting & Lunch