SEASR Executive Board
Laxminarayanan Krishnan, President (and past Treasurer)
Research Engineer
Georgia Institute of Technology
Christopher Middleton, DB, President Elect
Director of Research Operations, Georgia Cancer Center, Augusta University
Jenny Schafer, PhD, Past-President
Managing Director, Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)
Research Associate Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
Vanderbilt University
Daniel Kraushaar, PhD, Past Sponsorship Coordinator
Director, Genomic and RNA Profiling (GARP) Core
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Angel Sampson, PhD, Sponsorship Coordinator
Scientific Director
Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR) Monoclonal Antibody Core
Assistant Scientist
University of Florida
Scott Olsen, MS, Treasurer
Operations Manager, Genome Sequencing Facility, St. Jude
Laura Fox-Goharioon, Communications/Website Coordinator
Core Director
Emory Integrated Cellular Imaging Core
Emory University
Rachel Henson, MS, Speaker Liaison/Communications
Manager, Biorepository and Specimen Resource Core Advocate Aurora Research Institute
Celestial Jones-Paris, PhD, Membership (Registration) Coordinator
Clinical Scientist II, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Mark Bolding, Phd, Treasurer Elect
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Co-Director, UAB Institutional Research Core Program
Jaydeep Kolape, Speaker Liaison/Communications
Manager, Advanced Microscopy and Imaging Center Core Facility Program, The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Sandy Hsieh, Communications/Website
Lab Manager I, Optical Microscopy Core, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (IBB), Georgia Institute of Technology
Diansy Zincke, Sponsorship Coordinator Elect
NextGen DNA Sequencing Scientific Director , Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR), University of Florida
Barbara Manley-Smith, Sponsorship Coordinator Elect
Director, Research Facilities Research Administration. Augusta University
About us
The purpose of the Southeastern Association of Shared Resources (SEASR, pronounced “Caesar”) is to provide a regional forum for core directors, managers, scientists, and technical staff to meet, discuss and collaborate on the many common issues that face us. The topic areas include, but are not limited to, facility management, efficient laboratory practices, biotechnology advances and applications, federal and financial oversight, emerging issues facing cores, etc.
SEASR strives to be a professional organization that is inclusive and culturally competent. The SEASR Executive Board (EB) is diverse, with representation by women (75%), people of color/minorities (25%) and different nationalities. Of the twelve EB members, five are located in TN, four are located in GA, two are located in FL and one is located at the University Central del Caribe, Puerto Rico. Similar to the general membership of ABRF, SEASR EB members represent a mix of core managers, core directors and university administrators with core oversight roles. For the 2023 new EB member application year, SEASR plans to continue recruiting diverse EB members, with a particular interest in receiving applications from under-represented states in our catchment area (the Southeast).
As an official Chapter of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF), we cooperate with ABRF in our activities. Membership in the ABRF is encouraged; however it is NOT a requirement for attending SEASR meetings or participation in the SEASR organization. Please visit the ABRF web site to see the many benefits including numerous technology study groups, discussion forums, and an exciting annual meeting.
Click here to review the SEASR Charter.