2017 Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, June 7

Start

 End

 Event

 Location

11:00am

3:00pm

Registration Desk Open

Riverwalk Foyer

5:00pm

12:00am

Exhibitor set up

Riverwalk North

6:00pm

9:00pm

Opening Reception Sponsored by Illumina

Click here for a map to the venue

Columbia Museum

Thursday, June 8

Start

End

Event

Location

7:00am

8:00am

Breakfast

 

7:30am

2:00pm

Registration Desk Open

Riverwalk Foyer

7:30am

8:30am

Breakfast Workshop Sponsored by NanoTemper 

Studies of Molecular Interactions using MicroScale Thermophoresis and Dye-free Stability Characterization using nanoDSF​

Bayshore West

8:30am

9:00am

Opening Remarks

Kimberly Dahlman, President, Southeast Chapter, ABRF

​Susan DeCourcey, Executive Director of ABRF

Riverwalk South

9:00am

10:00am

Keynote Lecture #1

Personalized Cancer Medicine: Progress, but a long way still to go

Howard McLeod, PharmD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Riverwalk South

10:00am

10:30am

Coffee Break

Riverwalk North

10:00am

7:00pm

Exhibit Hall Open (Vendors Show)

Riverwalk North

10:30am

11:30am

Administrative Plenary Talk-Landscape of core facilities

Christine O’Connell, MMSc, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Riverwalk South

11:30pm

1:00pm

Lunch

Bayshore East 

12:30pm

1:00pm

Lunch Workshop Sponsored by Beckman

Dare to explore the full Spectrum: NUV to IR

Bayshore East 

1:15pm

3:15pm

Professional Development Strategies to Launch your Career to the Next Level - Core Directors
Kimberly Dahlman, PhD, Vanderbilt University and Claudius Mundoma, PhD, MBA, Florida State University

Riverview Room

1:15pm

3:15pm

Professional Development Strategies to Launch your Career to the Next Level - Core Staff

Kimberly Dahlman, PhD, Vanderbilt University

Claudius Mundoma, PhD, MBA, Florida State University

Bayshore West

3:15pm

4:15pm

Coffee Break

 

Riverwalk North

4:15pm

5:15pm

Measuring Shared Resource Impact Breakout Session

Edward Seijo, MS, Director, Translational Sciences & Biorepository Shared Resources, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
John Schatzle, PhD, Director, Basic & Population Science Shared Resources, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa FL.
Michael E. Zwick, PhD, Assistant Vice President for Research, Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University
Thayumanasamy Somasundaram, PhD, Director, IMB X-Ray Facility, Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Bayshore West

4:15pm

5:15pm

Next Generation Sequencing Breakout Session - Best Practices in NGS Library Generation Panel Discussion

Bill Farmerie, PhD, University of Florida

Sean Yoder, MS, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Riverview Room

5:30pm

7:00pm

Poster Session (Wine and Hors D'oeuvres)

Riverwalk North & Riverwalk Foyer

Friday, June 9

Start

End

Event

Location

7:00am

8:00am

Breakfast

Bayshore East

7:30am

8:30am

Breakfast Workshop​ Sponsored by Qiagen

​QIAseq miRNA: An unbiased, gel-free workflow and superior mapping rates to speed cancer biomarker discovery

Bayshore West

8:00am

12:00pm

Exhibit Hall Open (Vendors Show)

Riverwalk North

 8:30am

9:30am

Administrative Keynote Lecture-  SouthEast Enrollment Center

Michael Zwick, PhD, Emory University

Priscilla Pemu, MD, MS FACP, Morehouse School of Medicine

Rosario Isasi, JD, MPH, University of Miami

Elizabeth Shenkman, University of Florida

Riverwalk South

9:30am

10:30am

Scientific Plenary Talk - CAR T-cells

Marco Davila, MD, PhD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Riverwalk South

10:30am

11:00am

Coffee Break

Riverwalk North

11:15am

12:15pm

Project Management Breakout Session

Robert Carnahan, PhD, Vanderbilt University

David Blum, PhD, University of Georgia

Melissa Avedon, H. Lee Moffitt CanceCenter & Research Institute

Bayshore West

11:15am

12:15pm

CRISPR/Cas9 Scientific Breakout Session

Experiences in implementing a new CRISPR Core service at Emory

Christopher Raymond, Emory University 

Bayshore East