2013 Agenda





Thursday, October 17, 2013

11:30

1:00


Lunch - Varsity Hall II (2nd Floor Union South)

Core Administrators’ Meeting

12:00

4:00



Vendor-Sponsored Satellite Meetings - Union South



Start

End

Agriculture (3rd Floor)

The Marquee (2nd Floor)

11:30

12:00



12:00

1:00


DNA Star-DNA

1:00

2:00

iLab Solutions

DNA Star-Protein

2:00

3:00

Affymetrix


3:00

4:00

Affymetrix



3:00

4:00


Tour: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery – A

Tour: Biotechnology Center (425 Henry Mall) – B

4:00

5:00


Tour: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery – B

Tour: Biotechnology Center (425 Henry Mall) – A

6:00

11:00


Opening Reception - Pyle Center (702 Langdon Street)

Casino Night

Sponsored by Illumina and Epicentre







Friday, October 18, 2013

7:30

8:30


Continental Breakfast - Varsity Hall II

(2nd Floor Union South)


8:45

9:15


Opening Remarks - Varsity Hall II

Kevin Knudtson, MWACD President & Director of DNA Core Facility, University of Iowa


David Friedman, President of ABRF


“The ABRF and You:  the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities”

9:15

10:15


Keynote Speaker - Varsity Hall II

Michael Sussman, Director of UW Biotechnology Center


“Genomic Basis for the Myogenic Origin and Evolution of Electric Organs”

10:15

10:30


Coffee Break - Varsity Hall II

10:15

7:30 PM


Vendor Exhibits Open - Varsity Hall II

10:30

11:45


Panel Discussion - Varsity Hall II

“Marketing Your Facility”

Nicole Bonomini, University of Michigan

Tamara Bond, VP for Marketing, Danaher

Seth Crosby, Washington University


Moderator: Seth Crosby

12:00

1:25


Lunch & Vendor Talks – Varsity Hall II

Start

Title

12:00

‘Did You Say You Want Results? DNASTAR Next-Gen and Structural Biology Solutions’

Jacqueline Carville, Marketing Specialist, DNASTAR, Inc.

12:15

‘Long-span, Mate-pair Scaffolding & Methods for Faster Next-generation Sequencing Library Preparation’

Curtis Knox, VP Marketing & Sales, Lucigen

12:30

‘Real Design Expertise, Real Results! Find out What’s New from Roche NimbleGen’

Patrick Eimerman, Ph.D., International Product Manager, Target Enrichment, Roche NimbleGen, Sequencing Solutions

12:45

‘New Reagent Tools to Improve Proteomic Analysis: New Enzymes and Reference Materials’

Mike Rosenblatt, Ph.D., Sr. Research Scientist, Promega Corporation


1:30

3:00


Breakout Session I (running concurrently)

Industry Room            (3rd Floor)

Cellular & Animal Imaging

Leader:                     Winfried Wiegraebe, Stowers

Agriculture Room (3rd Floor)

Proteomics

Leader:         TBD

The Marquee                      (2nd Floor)

Next Generation Sequencing

Leader: Josh Hyman, Director of UWBC DNA Sequencing Facility, UW-Madison


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3:00

3:15


Coffee Break – Varsity Hall II

3:15

4:40


Panel Discussion - Varsity Hall II

Managing People”

Charles Konsitzke, Asst. Director of University of Wisconsin-Madison Biotechnology Center
Sherry Harsch-Porter,
Founder Porter Bay Group

Karen Staehling, Stowers Institute


Moderator: David McCarter, Monsanto Company

4:45

5:55


Breakout Session II (running concurrently)

Industry Room          (3rd Floor)

Cellular Technologies (Flow Cytometry, Monoclonal Antibody & Hybridomas)

Leader: Dagna Sheerar, UW-Madison

Agriculture Room (3rd Floor)

Microarray/qPCR


Leader: Sandra Splinter BonDurant University of Wisconsin Madison

The Marquee                     (2nd Floor)

Bioinformatics


Leader: Tom Bair, University of Iowa


6:00

7:30


Poster Session & Vendor Exhibits – Varsity Hall I & II

Wine & Cheese Social

Sponsored by Affymetrix

8:00 PM



Dinner on Your Own






Saturday, October 19, 2013

7:30

8:30


Breakfast – Varsity Hall II

8:45

9:45


Keynote Speaker – The Marquee Theater (3rd Floor)

David Dooling, Computational Engineering Lead, Monsanto and Former Director of Informatics, Genome Institute, Washington University


‘Scaling Analysis Throughput & Flexibility’

9:45

11:30


Panel Discussion – The Marquee Theater (3rd Floor)

“Managing Data and User Expectations”


Jim Cavacoli, Director of the Bioinformatics Core, CCMB

David Dooling, Computational Engineering Lead, Monsanto and Former Director of Informatics, Genome Institute, Washington University

Jyothi Thimmapuram, Bioinformatics Core at Purdue


Moderator: Kevin Knudtson, University of Iowa


11:30

1:00


MWACD Organizational Meeting & Lunch – The Marquee Lounge (2nd Floor)


Sponsored by Danaher Group