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2022 Power Point Presentations
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Session 1: Emerging Technologies
Moderator: Kristen Jepsen
- High-res wastewater sequencing uncovers early, cryptic SARS-CoV-2 variant spread Smruthi Karthikeyan, PhD, UC San Diego School of Medicine
- Accelerate your research with BioPACIFIC MIP Michael Lake, Ph.D., Technical Director – Living Biofoundry
Session 2: Core Technologies 1
Moderator: Diane Miller, MSE – University of British Columbia (UBC) – WACD President
- Why experimental design matters and how you can make sure it’s pretty good Aria Hahn, PhD, Koonkie
Session 3: Round Table Topics
Moderator: WACD Organizing Committee Members
- Staying organized and accurate without losing your mind: Record keeping/LIMS tracking statistics, sample submission/processes – share solutions/successes. -with Sara Bowen.
- Maximizing user training: Training structure (users) – training in one session, multiple sessions, demonstration of skills -with Laurent Bentolila.
- Increasing visibility with publications: Publication credit – use of RRIDs – how to incentivize users to include core info in publications -with Ben Abrams.
- NIH data sharing policies – how are people coping with new expectations. -with Gene Hess.
- How to entice researchers to include shared resource equipment in their grant applications -with Kristen Jepsen.
- Training/hiring of staff – untrained/poorly trained. How to interview technical staff to hire someone with a good attitude AND good technique. Tips and tricks for weeding out those that can’t actually do labwork well -with Diane Miller.
Keynote:
Moderator: Laurent Bentolila
- Towards Marbled Cultured Meat That Can Be Scaled for Food Production Amy Rowat, Ph.D., Marcie H. Rothman Presidential Chair of Food Studies, Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA
Session 5: Creating an inclusive culture in the core
Moderator: Laurent Bentolila
- Embedding Equity and Fostering Belonging in the Lab Matthew Lander Griffith (Assistant Director – Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion – Stanford University School of Medicine)
- Powered by the People: Creating cultures of excellence to drive discovery & innovation Adam Stieg, Ph.D. Associate Director, CNSI, Director, Nano and Pico Characterization Laboratory, Executive Director, BioPACIFIC Materials Innovation Platform
- Teaching Methodologies in the Cores Matthew Mecklenburg, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA
Session 8: Core Communications
Moderator: Ben Abrams
- Method development, sharing and publication at core facilities Gabriel Gasque, Head of Outreach, protocols.io
- Getting to the “core” of social media Nicole Wilkins – Director Strategic Communications, Marc Roseboro – Digital Communications Manager, Jeremy Rondon – Communications Specialist
- Taking the Stress Out of Building and Delivering an Effective Pitch Mike Huntley, Magnify Pitch Coach, Senior Adviser – SBDC
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