ABRF Lightning Talk Awards
Sponsored by Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation sponsors prizes for the best lightning talks presented at the ABRF Annual Meeting that contain original research. The ABRF Education Committee reviews all talk abstracts submitted to the meeting and selects a limited number of candidates for award consideration. Lead authors of the candidate talks are invited to give a short (3 minute) presentation of their work during a concurrent session at the ABRF Annual Meeting. The authors of the lightning talks judged to be the best receive the Waters Corporation sponsored Awards during the ABRF Awards Program. In order to be eligible for the competition, the talk's first author must be submit a draft of their talk before the annual meeting, and be available for the judging and the Award Session during the meeting. Each of the winners receives $500.
Eligible talks focus on the latest scientific research results enabled by advanced life sciences technologies, methods and software tools that facilitate applications, and the latest technology developments in the biotechnology field. Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
ABRF Lightning Talk Categories
- Administration: Management, Process Improvement, Software Tools, Shared Facility Expertise, Best Practices, Mentoring, Career Development, etc.
- Animal Research in Core Facilities Flow Cytometry/Trending: Flow Cytometry, Antibodies, Statistics, Bio-IT, Bioinformatics, 3D Printing, All Other
- Genomics: Single cell, Metagenomics, Sequencing, Gene Editing, CRISPR/CAS, Biomarkers, Microarray, Software, etc.
- Imaging: Confocal, Light Microscopy, Small Animal Imaging, Electron Microscopy, Developing Applications, etc.
- Novel Technologies: New and emerging applications and approaches used in Core facilities
- Proteomics/Mass Spectrometry: Protein analysis, Protein Sequencing, Metabolomics, Lipidomics, Glycomics, Carbohydrate analysis, Biomarkers, Software, etc.
- **Note: Core Facility posters should be submitted in the associated topic area.
Core Facilities Submission Criteria
Core Facilities lightning talks should be aimed at promoting scientific discovery or enriching the core or laboratory setting. Core Facilities talks must provide data or measurements that support the conclusions. Any poster focused on marketing a core facility or company (e.g. presenting an inventory of services or equipment) will not be accepted.
Recommended Core Facilities topics include:
- Development of a novel technique or modification to a previously implemented protocol
- Implementation details of a new workflow, protocol or standard operating procedure
- A quantitative evaluation of a Core's impact on the institute it serves
A well written and correctly formatted example of a Core Facilities abstract presented by Johnson et al in J Biomol Tech v.24(2); Jul 2013 (doi: 10.7171/jbt.13-2402-003) can be found at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605922/ (link is external)