NERLSCD 2024 Program
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Wednesday 16 October, 2024
| Time | Activity | Notes | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00-17:30 | Registration is Open! | Fort Orange Courtyard | |
| 14:00-16:00 | Platinum Sponsor: Qiagen NERLSCD 2024 Platinum Sponsor workshops Presenter: Samuel J. Rulli, Jr., Ph.D. Director Global Product Manager RNAseq Profiling NGS Assay Technologies Attendance is free, but you must register: Registration Link | Have you ever asked yourself: Do we miss (or even waste) genomic and transcriptomic information by considering only one analyte? How would the picture change if all analytes could be investigated? You can get a complete picture from your precious samples by stabilizing and isolating multiple analytes from the same blood draw or tissue sample to generate robust and reproducible insights. It might be easier than you think to start isolating circulating tumor cells (CTCs), cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and circulating RNAs from blood samples or capturing the complete picture of DNA, RNA and protein from your tissue samples. And you don’t have to do it all at once. Storage of samples until you are ready to analyze them increases your flexibility to plan your studies and accelerate your research. Join QIAGEN as we talk about how sample stabilization, isolation, NGS library preparation and digital PCR and biological insights in the multiomics world can take your research to a new level. Attendance is free, but you must register. Register for workshop | 24 High Street |
| 15:00-17:00 | North East Core Admin (NE-CAN) meeting | Email the OC to suggest ideas for the meeting | High Street Boardroom |
| 15:30-17:30 | Platinum Sponsor: Illumina NERLSCD 2024 Platinum Sponsor workshops Speakers: Illumina R&D leadership Fiona Kaper – VP, Head of Assay R&D Carolyn Conant – Director, Systems Integration Kristina Fontanez – Sr Director, Product Development, Assay R&D Dept | Title: Discussion Forum: Innovations that support Multiomics Come to this session to learn more about the latest in Illumina’s Innovation roadmap including single cell, proteomics, and our newest sequencing chemistry, XLEAP-SBS. Experts from our research and development leadership team will have an open discussion on our plans and ask for your feedback. Attendance is free, but please register: Link to Register | Shaker Hall |
| 18:00-21:00 | Opening Reception | Albany Institute for History & Art | Albany Institute – Buses will be available. Meet in the Hotel Lobby at 5:30 |
| 21:00 | NERLSCD Afterdark | After Hours Networking | Mr. D’s Lounge |
Thursday 17 October, 2024
| Time | Activity | Notes | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00-18:00 | Registration | Fort Orange Courtyard | |
| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast | Fort Orange Atrium | |
| 09:00-09:15 | Welcome to NERLSCD2024 Sridar Chittur, Richard Cole, and Marimar Lopez – Hosts Mark Eagen CEG | King Street Ballroom | |
| 09:15-10:05 | Keynote Address Nick Mantis Chief, Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, New York State Department of Health | Leveraging core technologies to probe host-pathogen interactions in the gut | King Street Ballroom |
| 10:05-10:15 | Platinum Sponsor – Qiagen | EZ Nucleic Acid Isolation and TNA NGS Library Kits | King Street Ballroom |
| 10:15-10:30 | Morning Break and Networking Sponsored by Volta Labs and GRAVL | Please visit our sponsors! | King Street Atrium Fort Orange Ballroom |
| 10:30-11:30 | Roundtable- Single Cell Proteomics | Single Cell Proteomics | King Street Ballroom |
| 11:45-13:00 | Lunch and Networking Session | Please visit our sponsors! | Fort Orange Atrium King Street Atrium Fort Orange Ballroom |
| 11:45-13:00 | BSL3 Lab user meeting | Find us at a reserved table to discuss on BSL3 Lab operations, challenges, and best practices | Fort Orange Atrium |
| Concurrent | Breakout | Sessions | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Implementing New analytic pipelines for mass spectrometry Jeremy Balsbaugh, chair | Speakers: Tim Moore, Kyle Swovick, Xiaoyang Su | 24 High Street |
| 13:00-14:00 | Spatial Tissue Profiling in 2025: Switching Gears Prep Ioannis Vlachos, Chair | Gold Sponsor – 10X Genomics Speakers: Bony De Kumar Jonathan Preall | Town Hall |
| 13:00-14:00 | Strategies for Training and Continuing Education in Flow Cytometry: What do our users need to know? Dan Mielcarz, chair | Gold Sponsor – Nanoselect Speakers: Michael Kissner, Steven Polter | Shaker Room |
| 13:00-14:00 | Concurrent Breakout: From Samples to Final Data; Helping Users Make and Use Imaging Pipelines Jim Chambers, chair | Speakers: Doug Taatjes | 28 High Street |
| 13:00-14:00 | Service Contracts Susanna Perkins, Chair | Speakers: Daniel Kouns, Alex Garcia, Michael Shroyer | 26 High Street |
| 14:00-15:00 | Keynote Address Sally Temple Scientific Director, Neural Stem Cell Institute | Neuracell core facility: Robust and Reproducible Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived 2D and 3D Brain Cell Models | King Street Ballroom |
| 15:00-15:10 | Platinum Sponsor – Illumina | Illumina Innovations Roadmap. Speaker: Ryan Hegarty | King Street Ballroom |
| 15:10-15:30 | Afternoon Break and Networking Sponsored by Volta Labs and GRAVL | Please visit our sponsors! | King Street Atrium Fort Orange Ballroom |
| Concurrent | Breakout | Sessions | |
| 15:30-16:45 | Flavors of single-cell technologies- opportunities and challenges Bony De Kumar, chair | Gold Sponsor – PacBio Speakers: Spyros Darmanis Ioannis Vlachos Tsung-Chih Chen Maria Bikou | King Street Ballroom |
| 15:30-16:45 | The AI Frontier: Transforming Shared Resource Services in Biomedical Research Michael Cammer, chair | 28 High Street | |
| 15:30-16:45 | Managing Users Expectations Roxana Del Rio Guerra, chair | Speakers: Roxana Del Rio Guerro, Julie Dragon, Scott McCallum, Jeremy Balsbaugh | 24 High Street |
| 15:30-16:45 | Bioinformatics- support for different technologies James VanEe, chair | Speakers: Amanda Ferguson, Emily Guswa, Jeffery Caplan | 28 High Street |
| 16:45-19:00 | Vendor Show and Poster Session Submit an abstract | Thanks to our sponsors for making NERLSCD 2024 possible. | King Street Atrium Fort Orange Ballroom |
| 19:00 | Dinner, on your own | ||
| 21:30 | NERLSCD Afterdark | Networking with your collegues, old and new. | Mr. D’s Lounge |
Friday 18 October, 2024
| Time | Activity | Notes | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00-12:00 | Registration | Fort Orange Courtyard | |
| 08:00-9:00 | Breakfast | Fort Orange Atrium | |
| 09:00-09:45 | Plenary: Beyond the Bench to the Extreme; Sulfur Caves, Antarctica, Space Genomics, and Beyond | Speaker: Scott Tighe ABRF Microbiome and Metagenomics Research Group Technical Director of Genomics University of Vermont | King Street Ballroom |
| 09:45-09:55 | ABRF Marketplace | Speaker: Nate Herzog | King Street Ballroom |
| Concurrent | Breakout | Sessions | |
| 10:00-11:00 | The Wild Wild West of Next-Gen: New Tech Showdown Sara Goodwin, chair | Gold Sponsor – Complete Genomics Speakers: Michael Zody Chris Mason Scott Tighe | 24 High Street |
| 10:00-11:00 | All you wanted to ask about a career in core facilities, but were afraid to ask Marimar Lopez, Rich Cole, chairs | Gold Sponsor – New England Biolabs Speakers: Amy Gordon, Rich Cole, Marimar Lopez, Spencer Bruce, Katharine Dovidenko | 26 High Street |
| 10:00-11:00 | Novel technologies: 1) Photoinduced force microscope; 2) Building nanoscale structures using DNA Kaye Thomas, chair | Gold Sponsor – Revvity Speakers: Helen Zha Arun Chandrashekaran | 28 High Street |
| 11:00-11:15 | Morning Break and Networking Sponsored by Volta Labs and GRAVL | Please visit our sponsors! | King Street Atrium Fort Orange Ballroom |
| Concurrent | Breakout | Sessions | |
| 11:15-12:15 | Training the next generation of Core Scientists John Ashton, chair | Speakers: Chris Hallee, Ying-Wai Lam, Steve Eyles | 28 High Street |
| 11:15-12:15 | How do you change culture? Intellectual contribution from core personnel to the research Julie Dragon, chair | Speakers: Katia Sol Church Julie Dragon Chris Hemme Heather Driscoll | Town Hall |
| 11:15-12:15 | Creating a Data Management Core – moving beyond the plan Stuart Levine, chair | 24 High Street | |
| 11:15-12:15 | Cores role in the greening of labs Andrew Vinard, chair | Speaker: Chuck Blanchette | King Street Ballroom |
| 12:15-13:00 | Keynote Address Sheenah Mische Exec. Director, Division of Advanced Research Technologies NYU School of Medicine | Neither fish nor Fowl a cautionary tale for scientists contemplating administration | King Street Ballroom |
| 13:00-13:10 | Tom Volkert Memorial Mentorship Award | Presented by Stuart Levine | King Street Ballroom |
| 13:10-13:15 | Concluding Remarks Stuart Levine, NERLSCD President | King Street Ballroom | |
| 13:15 | Lunch | Fort Orange Atrium | |
| See you next year at Yale! | October 2025 Yale University |
