ABRF welcomes Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD) as newest chapter
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- The ABRF welcomes the Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD, also often called NERDS) as its newest ABRF Chapter!
- The annual NERLSCD meeting is a regional forum for core facility directors and mangers to network with colleagues, to learn about biotechnology advances and applications, and to discuss the challenges and results of implementing shared research resources. The NERLSCD meeting, now in its seventh year, has developed into a model of regional core laboratory cooperation. NERLSCD 2011included presentations and discussion forums on operational issues facing biotechnology core laboratories. There were scientific presentations and technical workshops on next generation sequencing, microarrays, proteomics, metabolomics, clinical diagnostics, flow cytometry, optical and electron microscopy, and bioinformatics. A core facility poster session offered attendees an opportunity to learn about regional life sciences shared resources. Pre-conference satellite events included the Northeast Symposium on Proteomics and Protein Chemistry, an Educational Workshop on Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS), and a NY State Core Administrators Network (NY-CAN) meeting.
- NERLSCD 2012will be held October 24-26, 2012 at the Mountain View Grand Resort, Whitefield, New Hampshire, hosted by Norris Cotton Cancer Center of Dartmouth Medical School. Please mark the date!
- You can find out more about ABRF Chapters and Affiliates at the ABRF 2012 annual conference, March 17-20, 2012, in Orlando, Fl. There will be many opportunities at ABRF 2012 to meet with Chapter and Affiliate members and to learn about how to become involved and about opportunities to establish new ABRF Chapters and Affiliates. The ABRF and the “ABRF NERDS” Chapter look forward to seeing you at the ABRF 2012 meeting!
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Vermont Lung Center presents Pulmonary Research Group Symposium ~ October 21, 2011
The University of Vermont and the Vermont Lung Center present the
Fall 2011 Pulmonary Research Group Symposium
“Obesity: A Modifier of Immunity and Inflammation in the Lung”
October 21, 2011
Trapp Family Lodge ~ Stowe, Vermont
Program Organizers: Benjamin Suratt, MD, Anne Dixon, BM, BCh, and Lennart K.A. Lundblad, PhD, – University of Vermont
The world’s population is experiencing an unprecedented epidemic of obesity. Type 2 diabetes and hypertension diseases typically seen in the elderly – are now common in childhood. Once considered only a mechanical factor that could alter pulmonary physiology, it is now apparent that obesity can lead to profound changes in immunity and inflammation, having direct effects on a wide range of pulmonary diseases, including asthma, COPD, pneumonia and acute lung injury. We have invited leading obesity and lung disease researchers from across the United States and Australia and the Netherlands to attend a meeting with the purpose of reviewing the current state of knowledge pertaining to the effects of obesity on immunity and inflammation in the lung. The ultimate goal is to identify priorities for new research in this field. In addition to having access to leading researchers and cutting-edge talks, attendees will get to experience the spectacular fall foliage of Vermont at the Trapp Family Lodge.
Click HERE to register or learn more.
