Preliminary WACD 2024 Program: Optimizing Core Performance and Impact
Please find speaker biographies and talk or session abstracts below as they are available. Full talk materials now available for those with underlined titles.
Tuesday, November 12th
8:45-9:15 Registration: Coffee & Pastries
9:15-9:30 Welcome & Opening Remarks – Host: Diane Miller (WACD President)
9:30-10:30 Session 1: Training – Good for Your Users, Good for Your Staff…
Moderator: Ben Abrams (UCSC)
Speaker: Giulia Gurun, Associate Professor of Teaching (UCSC), “Strategies for successful user training sessions: A Teaching Professor Perspective“
Speaker: Terri Quenzer, Executive Director, Bioscience WD Hub (Mira Costa College), “The Best Kept Secret for Finding Skilled Talent“
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Session 1: Training (Continued ) …Good for You
Speaker: Heather Olson (Pacific Northwest National Lab), “Speed Mentoring“
11:30-12:30 Session 2: Core Technologies 1
Moderator: Jennifer Page (Salk)
Speaker: Gold Sponsor: 10x Genomics, Samantha Shelton, Science and Technology Advisor, “New Single Cell Products Built to Scale from 10x Genomics“
Speaker: Tatyana (Tanya) Sharpee, Professor (Salk) “Using geometry to characterize high dimensional biological data“
Speaker: Gold Sponsor: BD Biosciences, Jason Holzman, Senior Sales Specialist Single Cell Multiomics, “Single Cell Multiomics – Harness the Power of More”
12:30-1:30: Lunch: Sponsored by Bio-Rad
Vendor Booths open
1:30-2:45 Session 3: Models of Core Support, Is Central Support Always Best?
Moderator: Ben Abrams (UCSC)
Speaker: Ben Abrams, Director – Life Sciences Microscopy Center (UCSC)
Speaker: Raj Uthamanthil, AVP, Research and Innovation, Professor (affiliate), University of Washington (Seattle Children’s Hospital)
Speaker: Isabelle Girard, Director, Research Core Facilities (UCD)
Speaker: Michael Lee, Executive Director, Research Resource Program (UCSF)
2:45-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:30 Session 4: Core Technologies 2:
ABRF Introduction – Sara Bowen (Barrow Neurological Institute)
Speaker: Platinum Sponsor: Illumina, Jennifer Hammond, Sr Sequencing Sales Specialist, “Illumina Innovations Roadmap”
Speaker: Platinum Sponsor: Qiagen, Sam Rulli, Director uNGS Applications, “Never waste a sample – improving sequencing workflows“
4:30-5:30 Keynote Speaker: Amoro Hamdoun, Co-Director Scripps Center for Oceans and Human Health (Scripps), “Marine Model Organism Resources”
5:30-7:00: Cocktail Reception Sponsored by Curio Biosciences
Wednesday, November 13th
8:15-9:15 Coffee and Pastries Breakfast Showcase by Globus,
Speaker: Brigitte Raumann, Product Manager, Globus | University of Chicago “Meeting Data Management Challenges Faced by Shared Facilities with Globus“
9:15-10:45 Session 5: Business Skills – Evaluation
Moderator: Diane Miller (WACD President)
Speaker: Cassie Sather Associate Operations Director, Shared Resources (Fred Hutch) “Evaluation“
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Session 6: Business Skills – Strategic Planning
Moderator: Sara Bowen (Barrow Neurological Institute)
Speaker: Julie Auger, Exec Director, Research Operations (Salk Institute) and Justine Kigenyi, Administrative Director (Univ. of Kansas Medical Center) “Business Planning and Strategic Management“
12:00-1:00: Lunch: Sponsored by Yokogawa
Vendor Booths Open
1:00-2:30 Session 7: Core Technologies 3 and Open Science in the Community
Moderator: Jenn Page (Salk Institute)
Speaker: Gold Sponsor: Agilent, Kelly Sheff, “Genomics and Multi-Omics Solutions from Agilent – Fit for a Diversity of Applications“
Speaker: Gold Sponsor: Watchmaker Genomics, Jimmy Perrott, Automation FAS, “Sequencing with SASS: Simple, Automatable, and Sensitive Solutions“
Speaker: Elena Ruggeri (San Diego Zoo), “The application of transcriptomics in wildlife conservation“
Speaker: Nathan Shaner, Associate Adjunct Professor (UCSD), “Illuminating biology from the ocean to the microscope“
Speaker: Michael Zager, Director Data + Visualization (Fred Hutch), “Fred Hutch – Digital Transformation“
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-4:30 Session 8: Growing Your Userbase Through Alternative Programs
Moderator: Laurent Bentolila (UCLA)
Speaker: Sara Brin Rosenthal, Associate Director for Research, (UCSD)“ ACTRI vouchers provide support for bioinformatics analysis of otherwise unfunded work“
Speaker: Vitor Hugo Balasco, Director of the Biomolecular CryoEM Facility (UCSC), “Driving Cryo-EM Success: Leveraging Pilot Programs to Grow Your Userbase“
Speaker: Christopher Denny, Professor (UCLA), “Connecting biomedical researchers to core facilities through the UCLA CTSI Core Voucher Program“
Speaker: Kristen Jepsen (UCSD), “Industry Sponsored Grant Programs”
4:30-4:45 Closing Remarks
