Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors Meeting

You are invited to attend the first annual Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD) meeting, November 9-10, 2006, on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY. This will be a networking meeting for core directors and managers in the Northeast. The conference will provide an opportunity for core facility directors and managers to meet colleagues, to share technical advice, and to discuss the challenges and results of implementing shared research resources and technologies.

There will be an evening reception on Thursday, Nov. 9th, and an all day meeting on Friday, Nov. 10th. The morning agenda will consist of presentations on topics relevant to all core directors and managers. The afternoon agenda will have technology focused breakout sessions, each lead by a panel of experts, in which topics of interest will be discussed in a workshop setting among core directors and managers offering similar services. There will be workshop discussion sessions on DNA Sequencing and Genotyping, Microarrays, Real-time PCR, Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, Protein Production and Characterization, Flow Cytometry, Optical Imaging, and Bioinformatics and Bio-IT.

The meeting will include a poster session. All attendees are encouraged to submit a poster abstract. The purpose of this session is to provide a chance for core facility directors to present posters describing the activities and services their individual cores provide and to view what core services are available at neighboring institutions.

The poster abstract submission deadline is October 27, 2006. Abstracts should be submitted after registering for the meeting. In addition to the poster abstract, participants are encouraged to submit their full poster presentation in pdf format so that they can be included in a CD which will be distributed at the meeting. Submission of the poster pdf files does not need to be done at the same time as submission of poster abstracts. The deadline for submission of poster pdf files is November 3, 2006.

The meeting registration deadline is October 27, 2006. Registration to this meeting WILL BE LIMITED so please register early!