Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors Meeting
October 24-26, 2012
Mountain View Grand Resort
Whitefield, NH
General Information
Mark the date! NERLSCD 2012 will be held October 24-26, 2012, at the Mountain View Grand Resort, Whitefield, New Hampshire, hosted by Norris Cotton Cancer Center of Dartmouth Medical School.
The Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD) meeting is an outstanding regional forum for core facility directors and mangers to network with colleagues, to learn about biotechnology advances and applications, and to discuss the challenges and results of implementing shared research resources. The sixth annual NERLSCD meeting was held November 9-11, 2011, on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY. The 2011 meeting had presentations and discussion forums on operational issues facing biotechnology core laboratories. There were scientific presentations and technical workshops on next generation sequencing, microarrays, proteomics, metabolomics, clinical diagnostics, flow cytometry, optical and electron microscopy, and bioinformatics. A core facility poster session offered attendees an opportunity to present posters describing their core services and to learn about regional life sciences shared resources. Pre-conference events included a proteomics symposium, a genomics educational workshop, and a NY State centralized core administrators meeting. Tours were given of core facilities. There was an opening reception and numerous opportunities to network with colleagues.
Presentations from the 2011 meeting are available to the 2011 meeting attendees. The 2011 program book and an example of a plenary session presentation from the 2011 meeting are available to the public.
The NERLSCD meeting has developed into a model of regional core laboratory cooperation. NERLSCD recently joined the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) as an ABRF Chapter. We welcome the development of other ABRF Chapter regional core director networking meetings, such as hosted by the Midwest Association of Core Directors (MWACD) and the West Coast Association of Shared Resource Directors (WCASRD).
More information about the NERLSCD 2012 meeting will be posted early in 2012. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!
The NERLSCD meeting organizing committee includes Scottie Adams (Trudeau Institute), Stephen Bobin (Dartmouth Medical School), Michelle Detwiler (Roswell Park Cancer Institute), George Grills (Cornell University), Tim Hunter (University of Vermont), Peter Lopez (New York University), Susanna Perkins (University of Massachusetts Medical School), Katia Sol-Church (Center for Pediatric Research, NCC-Delaware), and Ted Thannhauser (USDA-ARS).
