2024 Program
Join us as we head to New Jersey, the northernmost part of the Mid-Atlantic region for our 2024 meeting. We will once again have a strong track of offerings for animal-related cores, including a half-day pre-conference session on best practices in management of animal-related cores. Additionally, we will continue to offer leadership training with a full day pre-conference session entitled “Leading with C.A.R.E. Principles.” 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
Wednesday Pre-Conference Activities (August 14, 2024)
| Wednesday, August 14, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Preconference Workshops | |||
| 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM | Registration Open | Atrium | |
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast | Christophers | |
| Time | Preconference Workshop I | Preconference Workshop II | Vendor User Group Meetings |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Leading with C.A.R.E. Tactics (Johnson) | Best Practices in Management of Animal Related Cores (Neilson) | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 PM | Break (Kiosk) | ||
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Leading with C.A.R.E. Tactics (Johnson) | Best Practices in Management of Animal Related Cores (Neilson) | |
| 12:45 - 1:45 PM | Lunch (Christophers) | Vendor User Group (Neilson) | |
| 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | Leading with C.A.R.E. Tactics (Johnson) | Rutgers Core Tours | |
| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | Break (Kiosk) | Vendor User Group (Neilson) | |
| 3:00 - 5:00 PM | Leading with C.A.R.E Tactics (Johnson) | Rutgers Core Tours | |
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Evening Opening Activities
| MAD SSCi Conference Begins | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Activity | Speaker | Location | |
| 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Registration Open | Atrium | ||
| 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Opening Reception (Drinks & Apps) | Atrium | ||
| 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Dinner | Christophers | ||
| 6:30 PM - 6:40 PM | Opening Remarks | |||
| 6:40 PM - 7:00 PM | Titanium Sponsor: Qiagen | Krishna Amin: "Innovative custom NGS solutions from QIAGEN" | ||
| 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Opening Keynote Lecture: | Michael Zwick, Senior Vice President of Research, Rutgers University | ||
| 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Coffee & Networking | |||
Thursday, August 15, 2024: Conference Schedule
| Time | Session | Speaker | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Registration Open | Livingston Foyer | ||
| 7:30 - 8:30 AM | Breakfast | Overnight guests should eat in Christophers. Day guests may partake of the food in the Livingston Foyer. | ||
| 8:35 - 8:50 AM | Welcome | Livingston III & IV | ||
| 8:50 - 9:45 AM | Plenary Talk I: Use of AI for improving Translatability of Research | Szczepan Baran, PhD | Livingston III & IV | |
| 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | Corporate Partner Talk: New England Biolabs | New England Biolabs | Livingston III & IV | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Break | Sponsored by: | Atrium | |
| 10:20- 11:15 AM | Plenary Talk II: Use of PowerApps in Core Facility Operations | Rajesh Uthamanthil, DVM, PhD, DACLAM | Livingston III & IV | |
| 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Corporate Partner Talk: Illumina | Bao Ho; "Leveraging Illumina Sequencing with the Novaseq X plus" | Livingston III & IV | |
| Concurrent Sessions | ||||
| Time | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Exhibit |
| 11:35 AM - 12:25 PM | Cryo EM regional Collaborations | ABRF DNA Research Group's Methylation Methods Comparison Study | Big Data and AI in Support of Animal Related Cores | Exhibit Hall Open |
| Speakers: Jason Kaelber, PhD & Mario Borgnia, PhD | Speakers: Molly Zeller, PhD & Xiaoling Xuei, PhD | Speakers: Matthew Keller & Jeetendra Eswaraka, BVSc, PhD, DACLAM, DECLAM | ||
| Location: Segal | Location: Livingston III & IV | Location: Johnson | Livingston I & II | |
| Innovation Theater & Lunch | ||||
| 12:25 PM - 1:40 PM | Lunch | Livingston III & IV | ||
| 12:40 PM - 1:10 PM | Innovation Theater | Element Biosciences: “Element AVITI Sequencer: Next Level Sequencing Solution for NGS Applications” | Chris Higgins, Sr. Field Applications Scientist | Livingston III & IV |
| Daicel Arbor Biosciences: "“Solutions for complex NGS targets: Antimicrobial resistance, 16S, pathogens, and other applications” | Alison Devault | |||
| 1:10 - 1:40 PM | Free time in the exhibit hall | Livingston I & II | ||
| Concurrent Sessions | ||||
| Time | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Exhibit |
| 1:45 PM - 2:35 PM | Microbiome Collaborations | Light Microscopy | Improving Animal Health Using Animal Clinical Trials | Exhibit Hall Open |
| Speakers: M. Andrea Azcarate-Peril, PhD; Barbra Ferrell, MS | Speakers: Sushmita Mukherjee, PhD, MS and Alison Taylor, PhD | Speakers: Joshua Stern, DVM, PhD and Nicola Mason, BVetMed, PhD | ||
| Location: Segal | Location: Livingston III & IV | Location: Johnson | ||
| 2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | Organoids: Challenges in the Core Facility Setting | Metabolomics | Strategizing Economic Prosperity for Core Facilities: Bridging Government and Pharma Collaborations | |
| Speakers: Vanessa Thompson, PhD & Besnik Qeriqi; Hardik Patel, MS | Speakers: Xiaoyang Su, PhD; Claire Carter, PhD | Speakers: Scott Perkins, VMD, MPH, Dipl ACLAM; Vincent Smeraglia, JD | ||
| Location: Segal | Location: Livingston III & IV | Location: Johnson | ||
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Break | Sponsored by: TBD | Livingston Foyer | |
| Concurrent Sessions | ||||
| 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM | AI in Clinical Trials/Data Analytics | Stakeholder Analysis, Demand Assessment, Resource Building – Spatial Technologies as a Case Study | Cores as the Gatekeepers of Research Excellence | Exhibit Hall Open |
| Speakers: Reynold Panettieri, Jr, MD | Speakers: Christopher Gregory, PhD | Speakers: Kara Clissold, MA; Kathleen Brundage, PhD; Joshua Russell, CSP; Andrea Azcarate-Peril, PhD | ||
| Location: Segal | Location: Livingston III & IV | Location: Johnson | Location: Livingston I & II | |
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Happy Hour and Networking | Sponsored by: TBD | Livingston Foyer | |
| 6:30 PM | Dinner on your own | |||
Friday, August 16, 2024: Conference Schedule
| Time | Session 1 (Livingston III & IV) | Session 2 (Johnson) | Exhibits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30 AM - Noon | Registration Open | ||
| 7:45 - 9:00 AM | Breakfast (Overnight guests should eat in Christophers. Day Guests may partake of the food in the Livingston Foyer) | ||
| 8:30 - 9:30 AM | Seeing is Believing: Embracing and Navigating Diverse Realities, Part 1 (Speaker: Josh Russell, CSP) | N/A | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | Corporate Partner Talk: TBD | N/A | |
| 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM | Break: Sponsored by: TBD | ||
| 10:20 AM - 11:10 AM | Seeing is Believing: Embracing and Navigating Diverse Realities, Part 2 | Audit Preparedness for Shared Resources (Speaker: Christopher Gregory, PhD) | |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Corporate Partner Talk: TBD | ||
| 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM | Seeing is Believing: Embracing and Navigating Diverse Realities, Part 3 | ||
| 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | Closing Lunch (Christophers) | ||
