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 to 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.
The MWACD 2011-2012 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
David McCarter, Monanso Corp. david.w.mccarter@monsanto.com
