2024 Annual Meeting

Core Tours Breakfast & Registration
Pre-registration required

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Core Tours
Pre-registration required

See Core Tour Participant Guide for details

Registration & Lunch

Sponsored by:

Jon Klein, M.D., Ph.D. | Interim Executive Vice President for Research & Innovation, University of Louisville

Kevyn Merten, Ph.D. | Associate Vice President for Research & Innovation, University of Louisville

Jeff Polson | President and CEO, Jewish Heritage Fund
Why Philanthropy is Critical to Research Funding: A Local Grantmaker’s Perspective

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Networking Break (Grand Ballroom and Cask) & Vendor Showcase (Rickhouse)

Networking Reception and Halloween Party at the Muhammad Ali Center

Come dressed to impress in your best Halloween costume! The top 3 costumes as voted on by reception attendees will receive complimentary registration to the 2025 ABRF Annual Meeting.

Note: Face coverings/masks and fake weapons are not permitted at the Muhammad Ali Center.
      

Breakfast & Registration

Sponsored by:

Melissa Smith, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Louisville
Partnering with Core Facilities to Develop New Translational Research Methods

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Shaping the Future of AI in Research

Jill Abney, Ph.D. | Associate Director, Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, University of Kentucky

Alex Glynn | Research Literacy and Communications Instructor, University of Louisville Libraries

Ayman El-Baz, Ph.D. | Chairperson, Professor & Distinguished Scholar, Department of Bioengineering, University of Louisville

Alex Sheardy, Ph.D. | Staff Scientist, Integrated Imaging Facility, University of Notre Dame

Session Chairs: Sarah Chapman, Ph.D. and David Morgan, Ph.D.

A Conversation on Service: Sharing the Good Things Vendors Have Done to Enable High Quality, Efficient, and Affordable Service

Service wins! Complaining about service contracts, poor service standards, and high costs is easy. Come to hear from your colleagues and share your own impressive service wins. Take what you’ve learned and ask your vendor to do the same for you!

Session Chair: Ian Lightcap, Ph.D.

Lunch & Networking

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Making ABRF Work for You: Committees, Research Groups, and Networking

Do you know all of the benefits that you can get from ABRF? Do you like trivia? Come to this session to partake in a lively session of this unique MWACD-ABRF Trivia! Learn about all of the committees, research groups, and education opportunities available to you as a member of ABRF.

Session Chair: Molly Zeller, M.S.

A Conversation on Cross Core Collaborations

As technologies increasingly transcend traditional core facility boundaries, collaboration between cores has become essential. Join this session to hear from your colleagues and share your own experiences in cross core collaborations. Discuss what strategies have succeeded, what challenges remain, and explore how to effectively integrate expertise and resources to advance research efforts.

Session Chair: Mary Winn, Ph.D.

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Sherry Thornton, Ph.D. | Professor and Director of Research Flow Cytometry Facility, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
State of the art in flow cytometry – a recent revolution in cellular analysis

Kevin W. Eliceiri, Ph.D. | RRF Walter H. Helmerich Professor and Director of Center for Quantitative Cell Imaging, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Computational imaging of cellular microenvironments

Jessica Lukowski, Ph.D. | Mass Spectrometry Imaging Lead, Mass Spectrometry Technology Access Center, McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine
Advancing research through spatial omics: MALDI MSI guided laser capture microdissection for in-depth multi-omics analysis

Session Chair: Sequen Wang, Ph.D.