WACD 2023 Program: The Energy in Synergy
Note: Final session times are subject to change.
Abstracts are available here. We would like to thank all attendees for coming to Portland. Links to the talks can be found below as they are available, please check back for updates.
Thursday, October 12th
8:15-8:45 Registration: Coffee & Pastries
8:45-9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks – Host: Diane Miller (WACD President)
9:00-10:45 Session 1: Crossing Traditional Core Technologies – lessons learned and a discussion of boundaries
Moderator: Laurent Bentolila (UCLA)
Speaker: Erin Weisbart (Broad Institute), “From Lots of Pictures to Lots of Numbers to Lots of Answers: Advances in Quantitative High Content Imaging”
Speaker: Camilla Urbaniak (NASA-JPL), “Harnessing Core Facilities for Advancing Space Biology Research”
Speaker: Beverley Rabbitts (UCSC), “The Surf is Up in Academic Drug Discovery”
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Session 2: Core Technologies 1
Moderator: Kristen Jepsen (UCSD)
Speaker: Gold Sponsor: (Qiagen), Samuel J. Rulli, Jr., Ph.D. Director, Global Product Manager RNAseq Profiling, NGS Assay Technologies, “Simplify your NGS Workflows with QIAseq Lightspeed Collaboration”
Speaker: Gold Sponsor: (Scale), Mary Arrastia, PhD Field Application Scientist, “RNA, Methylation, and CRISPR, Oh My! New Technologies to Enable Scalable Single Cell Studies”
Speaker: Claudia Lopez (OHSU – Multiscale Microscopy Core) and (Pacific NW CryoEM Center), “How to Successfully Manage a University Shared Resource and a National NIH Electron Microscopy Facility and Survive in the Process”
12:00-1:00 Lunch: Vendor Booths open
1:00-2:30 Session 3: Power Skills in Academic Environments – Presentation and Interactive Workshop
Moderator: Ben Abrams (UCSC)
Speaker: Karen E. Mosier (USASK) “Power Skills in Academic Environments”
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-4:00 Session 4: Core Technologies 2: Celebrating ABRF and the Link Between Academia and Industry
ABRF Introduction – Sara Bowen (Barrow Neurological Institute)
Speaker: Platinum Sponsor: (Illumina), Sam Hester, Staff Product Marketing Manager, “Enabling Core Laboratories to Expand Access to Genomics”
Speaker: Platinum Sponsor: (PacBio), Justin Blethrow, Product Manager PacBio, “Changing the Game with High-Accuracy Sequencing”
4:00-5:00 Keynote Speaker: Peter Barr-Gillespie (OHSU), “Institutional Core Facilities: Relationships with Users and Administration”
Moderator: Andy Chitty (OHSU)
5:00-6:30: Hors d’oeuvres and Beverage Reception – Sponsored by Qiagen
Live Music by The Meester
Friday, October 13th
8:30-9:00 Welcome: Coffee & Pastries
9:00-10:30 Session 5: Cores for the Common Good – examples of cores influencing real world outcomes and demonstrating professional avenues and collaborations
Moderator: Isabelle Girard (UCD)
Speaker: Chris Harrington (OHSU) and Jackie Shannon (OHSU), “Cores in Support of Impactful Innovation: the Healthy Oregon Project”
Speaker: Brett Phinney (UCD), “Developing Proteomic Genotyping for the Common Good”
Speaker: Victoria Vesna (UCLA), “Visualizing Frequencies: Art and Science from Atomic to Cosmic Dimensions”
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Session 6: Career Development – different levels of development and expertise
Moderator: Sara Bowen (Barrow Neurological Institute)
Speaker: Ryan Zervakos (LinkedIn), “The Roadmap to Career Success and Mobility”
Speaker: Britt Daughtry (OHSU), “Incorporating a Clinical Project into Your Core Lab”
Speaker: Pamela Canaday (OHSU), “The Benefits of a Core Career Track”
12:15-1:15 Lunch – Vendor Booths Open
1:15-2:45 Session 7: Core Technologies 3
Moderator: Kristen Jepsen (UCSD)
Speaker: Gold Sponsor: (Singular), Jordan Williams PhD, Sr. Manager Field Application Science, “G4 Benchtop Sequencer: Enhance your Core Lab Sequencing Capabilities”
Speaker: Gold Sponsor: (Alamar Bio), Douglas Hinerfeld, Ph.D. Sr. Director, Field Application Services, “Comprehensive and Ultra-Sensitive Protein Biomarker Detection at the Push of a Button”
Speaker: Aaron Nilsen (OHSU), “Access to Synthetic Chemistry Can Expand the Services Offered by Your Core Facilities”
Speaker: Mike Munks (OHSU), “Multi-Core Experiments: Synergistic Outcomes, or Just Squared Degree of Difficulty?”
2:45-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-4:30 Session 8: Interactive Core Communications – building pipelines so metrics can be communicated, using metrics in your business plan, how to speak the language and convey value to those allocating financial resources
Moderator: Diane Miller (WACD President)
Speakers: Julie Auger, Andy Chitty and Craige Mazur ( Salk Institute, OHSU and OHSU, respectively) “Maximizing Core Impact with Metrics Integration and Effective Communication”
4:30-4:45 Closing Remarks
Lite Hors d’oeuvres and Beverage Reception immediately following closing remarks.
