2025 Program
Join us as we head to Richmond, Virginia for our 2025 meeting. We will have a strong focus on business development and management in cores, beginning with a preconference business skills workshop. Other sessions will focus on AI in cores, collaborating with government and Pharma, and many other topics featuring our increasingly collaborative disciplines. We will end with a half day professional skills development workshop.
Schedule
Monday, Pre-Conference Activities (September 15, 2025)
| Monday, September 15, 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Preconference Workshops | |||
| 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM | Registration Open | Hotel Lobby | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast | Capital E | |
| Time | Business Skills Workshop I | Business Skills Workshop II | Vendor User Group Meetings |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | TBD | TBD | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 PM | Break (Kiosk) | ||
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TBD | TBD | |
| 12:45 - 1:45 PM | Lunch | Vendor User Group | |
| 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | TBD | TBD | |
| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | Break (Kiosk) | Vendor User Group | |
| 3:00 - 5:00 PM | TBD | TBD | |
Monday, September 15, 2025 Evening Opening Activities
| MAD SSCi Conference Begins | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Activity | Speaker | Location | |
| 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Registration Open | Hotel Lobby | ||
| 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Opening Reception (Drinks & Apps) | Capital E | ||
| 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Dinner | Capital E | ||
| 6:30 PM - 6:40 PM | Opening Remarks | John Ryan, Professor, Assoc. VP for Research Development, VCU | ||
| 6:40 PM - 7:00 PM | Titanium Sponsor | TBD | ||
| 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Connection – Collaboration and Community: How Research Cores Foster Engagement for Health Impact | Vanessa B. Sheppard, PhD Professor, VCU School of Medicine Theresa A. Thomas Memorial Chair in Cancer Prevention Research Senior Advisor, Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Virginia Commonwealth University | ||
| 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Coffee & Networking | |||
Tuesday, September 16, 2025: Conference Schedule
| Time | Session | Speaker | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Registration Open | Hotel Lobby | ||
| 7:30 - 8:30 AM | Breakfast | Capital E | ||
| 8:30 - 8:40 AM | Welcome | Capital E | ||
| 8:40 - 8:55 AM | Platinum Sponsor Presentation | TBD | Capital E | |
| 8:55 - 9:45 AM | Plenary Session 1 | Mike Emanuele | Capital E | |
| 9:45 - 10:00 AM | Platinum Sponsor Presentation | Sponsored by: | Capital E | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 AM | Break | Sponsored by: | ||
| Concurrent Sessions | ||||
| Time | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Exhibit |
| 10:30 - 11:20 AM | Liquid Biopsy 101: Best Practices | Establishing Metabolomics Services in a Core Facility: Key Considerations and Research Applications | Opportunities and Challenges in Creating an Animal Related Core | Exhibit Hall Open |
| Speakers: Kevin Gerrish | Speakers: Whitney Stutts, Laura Herring | Speakers: Balfour Sartor, Raphael Malbrue & Jennifer Koblinski, PhD | ||
| Location: Capital AB | Location: Capital E | Location: Capital CD | ||
| Lunch & Exhibit | ||||
| 11:30 - 12:30 PM | Lunch | Capital E | ||
| 12:30 - 12:45 PM | Platinum Sponsor | Illumina | TBD | Capital E |
| 12:45 - 1:35 PM | Plenary Session II: Rigor & Reproducibility: How to be kind to your future self | Dana Lapato | Capital E | |
| 1:35 - 1:50 PM | Access the full richness of biological complexity with single cell and spatial multiomics | Bradley Toms, 10XGenomics | Capital E | |
| Concurrent Sessions | ||||
| Time | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Exhibit |
| 1:55 - 2:45 PM | Single Cell 101 | Biosafety in Core Facilities | Unique Challenges in Staffing an Animal Related Core | Exhibit Hall Open |
| Speakers: Emanuele Palescandolo, Lauren Yum, Yan Zhang | Speakers: Monica Arevalo, MPh and Kristen Reifel, PhD | Speakers: Elisa De Stanchini & Michelle Creamer | ||
| Location: Capital E | Location: Capital CD | Location: Capital AB | ||
| 2:45 - 3:10 | Break/Vendor Time | |||
| 3:10 - 4:00 PM | Spatial Transcriptomics II: Multi-core Pipelines & Management | Hot Topics in Microscopy: Super Resolution Microscopy | CRISPR 101 | |
| Speakers: Kory Davis, Kevin Byrd & Jinze Liu | Speakers: Shilpa Dilip Kumar, PhD, & Harikrushnan Balasubramanian, PhD | Speakers: Rena Lapidus, PhD, Dale Cowley, PhD & Brandon Carter-Cooper, MS | ||
| Location: Capital CD | Location: Capital E | Location: Capital AB | ||
| 4:00 - 4:30 PM | Break/Vendor Time: Sponsored By | Location: Capital E | ||
| 4:30 - 4:45 PM | Platinum Sponsor Talk | |||
| Career Roundtable | ||||
| 4:45 - 5:45 PM | Exhibit Hall Open | |||
| Speakers: Nicole White, Meghan Kraft & Kevin Gerrish | Speakers: | Speakers: | ||
| Location: Capital E | Location: Capital E | Location: Capital E | ||
| 5:45 - 6:45 PM | Mentoring Reception | Sponsored by: TBD | Location TBD | |
| 6:45 PM | Dinner on your own | |||
Wednesday, September 17, 2025: Conference Schedule
| Time | Session 1 | Session 2 | Exhibits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30 AM - Noon | Registration Open | ||
| 7:30 - 8:15 AM | Breakfast | ||
| 8:15 - 8:30 AM | Platinum Sponsor Talk | Exhibit Hall Open | |
| 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Rigor & Reproducibility: How to Avoid Issues Before Publication | Speakers: Mu Yang | |
| 9:30 - 9:45 AM | Platinum Sponsor Talk | ||
| 9:45 - 10:15 AM | Break | ||
| 10:20 - 11:10 AM | Rigor & Reproducibility II | Speakers: Roxann Ashworth, Jeetu Eswaraka & Chris Nagy | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 AM | Platinum Sponsor Talk | ||
| 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM | The Changing Landscape of Core Facilities | Speakers: Paul Fawcett, Jeetu Eswaraka, Nicole White & Nick Ambulos | |
| 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | Closing Lunch | ||
