Thursday, 10/27: Affymetrix, Agilent, Partek, Roche and Thermo will hold satellite-meetings. DNAStar and Fluidigm will have 1 hour presentations.
Registration for the Thursday meeting is free and the meeting rate applies for hotel rooms. Contact the vendor representatives for details and to register for specific sessions.
Roche/NimbleGen/454 Meeting: contact Barbara Pepper
Agilent Technologies Meeting: Contact Cindy Liebson
Thermo Scientific Meeting: Contact David Kage
Affymetrix Meeting: Contact Clint vanValkenburgh Click to register for Workshop
Partek Worshop: Contact Jenny Zhang Click to Register for workshop
DNASTAR talk: Contact Tom Schwei
Fluidigm talk: ContactJennifer Darnell
Ingenuity Workshop; Contact Jamie Bowdoin
2011 Sponsors:
Please see our sponsors page (link at left) to view list of vendors and institutions who will present talks, workshops, information tables and posters.
2011 Meeting Location:
The Crowne Plaza Hotel, 733 West Madison, Chicago, IL 60661, is located on the near west side in Greektown, walking distance from Chicago's Union Station (train, Metra and subway), and near attractions such at Millenium park. For information on the hotel, map:
http://www.thechicagometro.com/The event room rate is $149 plus tax. Parking in the hotel lot is $10 for the day and $25 for overnight. We will look for inexpensive overnight parking at nearby lots.
Contacts:
Please contact any member of the Advisory Committee (listed at bottom) with questions, comments.
Overview of MWACD:
The purpose of MWACD is to foster closer interactions among core facilities and to sponsor conferences of research core facility directors. The idea for MWACD is modeled on the Northeast Regional Life Science Core Directors (NERLSCD). We became the first official Chapter of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF), and we cooperate with ABRF in our activities. We are in the final stages of planning our second core directors conference. The goal of the conference is to provide an opportunity for networking among life science core directors and managers, for core directors to interact with colleagues, share technical advice, and discuss the continuing challenges associated with the operation of shared research resources and technologies. The organization and meetings are not intended to be exclusively confined to the Midwest region: all core directors and core organization managers are encouraged to join and to attend the meeting.
We use the web site as a contact database with member info. For those who have already signed up (go through login procedure), please go back and fill out all the information. We are using the Vermont Genetics Network Core Database for any core info you wish to share. Please add your core this useful, searchable database. If you enter MWACD as an association, we can use the database to search for member cores. We encourage you to inform your colleagues about MWACD.
Advantages in creating such a regional organization:
- A smaller meeting provides a more intimate environment for greater interaction among participants. Sessions can be geared more towards interactive discussions rather than lectures.
- We have distinct characteristics: we are more spread out than our colleagues on the East coast creating more isolation; we have somewhat different institutions, etc. This meeting would enhance networking.
- By acting as a block, we might be able to develop closer ties to NCRR and to create greater leverage with our instrument and consumable vendors.
- Travel and meeting expenses might be reduced.
2010 MWACD Meeting Overview:
The first meeting of MWACD was heldThursday-Saturday October 21-23, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Chicago. Roche/454 and Agilent Technologies held Satellite meetings Thursday. The main MWACD sessions began with a reception 6:00 PM Thursday evening at Jak's Tap, 901 West Jackson Boulevard, http://jakstap.com. Sessions ran all day Friday and concluded 2:00 Saturday. We have formulated a new agenda for the 2011 meeting, so if you have suggestions or would like to participate, please contact one of the meeting organizers listed at the bottom of the page.
The MWACD 2010-2011 Advisory Committee:
William Hendrickson, President, University of Illinois at Chicago, whend@uic.edu
Seth Crosby, Corporate Coordinator, Washington University School of Medicine, scrosby@genome.wustl.edu
Kevin L. Knudtson, Ph.D., University of Iowa, kevin-knudtson@uiowa.edu
Philip Hockberger, Treasurer, Northwestern University, p-hockberger@northwestern.edu
Karen Staehling, media and surveys, Stowers Institute, ksh@stowers.org
Susan Meyn, Vanderbilt University, s.meyn@vanderbilt.edu
