Lightning Talk Awards
Sponsored by Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation sponsors prizes for the best lightning talks presented at the ABRF Annual Meeting that contains 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 were judged to be the best receive the Waters Corporation sponsored Awards during the ABRF Awards Program. To be eligible for the competition, the talk's first author should 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, along with complimentary ABRF membership for one year, and a reduced registration fee for the ABRF Annual Meeting.
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 technological developments in the biotechnology field.
ABRF Lightning Talk Categories
- 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.
Submission Criteria
Lightning talks should be aimed at promoting scientific discovery or enriching the core or laboratory setting. Talks should provide data or measurements that support the conclusions. Any abstract focused on marketing a core facility or company (e.g. presenting an inventory of services or equipment) will not be accepted.
Recommended 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 the impact of Cores on the institutions they serve
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/
Prior Award Winners
Patricia Basta - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Method comparison for RNA extraction to be used for potential differential
expression analysis of salamanders undergoing winter dormancy
James Cox – University of Utah
Comparative Study of Lipidomic Profiles in Fed versus Fasted States
and Across Blood Collection Tube Matrices: Implications for Medium to Large-Scale Epidemiological Studies
Brennan Grimes – Van Andel Institute
Comparing novel total RNA-seq methods: a follow up
Abbirami Sathappan – Sidra Medicine
Genomic Profiling of Neuroblastoma Tumor Microenvironment:
Uncovering Targets for Pediatric Cancer Immunotherapy
Bradley F. Guilliams - Colorado State University
A Cloneable Selenium Nanoparticle Imparts Contrast in Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Amy Lyndaker - Cornell University
Automated workflow for ultra-high-throughput mapping of genome-wide protein binding
Murray Tipping - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Atomic Force Microscopy Characterization of Tumor Mechanobiology
Margaret Ushman - Mayo Clinic
Starting Cell Number Limits for the Maxpar Direct Immune Profiling Assay for mass cytometry.
Patricia Basta - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Method comparison for circulating free fetal DNA (cffDNA) extraction from plasma samples of women during pregnancy in support of noninvasive
perinatal sequencing for precision medicine prenatal care
Norah Brown - Stanford University
Increasing Observability of the Phosphoproteome in Brain Tissue
Marie Dinh - NASA Ames Research Center
A Soil Microbial Workflow from DNA Extraction to Amplicon Sequencing
Morgan Coleman - Morehouse School of Medicine
Thermostability of a Plant Protein MoMo30 using a CFX Real-Time Thermocycler
Charles Farnsworth - Cell Signal Technology
Discovering substrates of PRMT5 and CDK4/6 in human melanoma cells with antibody-based PTM peptide specific enrichment strategies
Laura Lewis-Tuffin - Mayo Clinic Florida
Preventing damage to shared use slide scanners: A systematic study of factors that affect curing of commercially-available hard set mounting medias
Garvey McKenzie - Stanford University
Promega 6x5 and the SUMS Proteomics Workflow
Mark Ivanov - INEPCP RAS, Moscow
Improving the proteoform inference from bottom-up proteomic data using protein identifications from MS1 spectra
Selene Swanson - Stowers Institute for Medical Research
A multi-omics approach to analyze serum using a liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) platform.
Jian Wei Tay - University of Colorado Boulder
Illuminating Photosynthesis in Single Cyanobacterial Cells
Yamna Khurshid - Karachi University
Molecular Characterization and Cytotoxic Activity of McTI, a Novel Cystine-Knot Inhibitor from Momordica charantia
Kathy Schaefer - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
A cytometry-based assay to determine optimal Janelia Fluor dye labelling of Halo and SNAP tags
Jeffrey C. Silva - Adeptrix Corporation
A Targeted Multiplexed MALDI MS Assay Platform using Affinity-Bead Assisted Mass Spectrometry (Affi-BAMS) for Monitoring Brain and CSF Biomarkers
Uma Aryal – University of Washington and Proteome Software
Analysis of Human Nuclear Protein Complexes by Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Profiling
Eric Chow – University of California, San Francisco
MULTI-seq: Scalable Single-Cell RNA-seq Multiplexing Using Lipid-Tagged Indices
Yurong Gao – University of Rochester Medical Center
K-means Spectral Unmixing for Multi-channel Imaging and Image Analysis Platform at a Core Facility
Stephanie Archer-Hartmann – University of Georgia
Comprehensive Glycoprotein Analysis at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
David Goerlitz – Georgetown University Medical Center
Comparison of the Performance of two RNA Isolation Protocols and Three Analysis Platforms to Detect Exosome-derived miRNA Expression Profiles
Ryan Leib – Stanford University
Multidimensional Optimization for Deeper FFPE Proteome Profiling
Angel Sampson – University of Florida
Cross-core Collaboration toward the Characterization of AAV-Antibody Complex Structure
Brian Capaldo – University of Virginia
Cyttools: Open Source Pipeline Framework for Cytometry Data Analysis
Alexander Lemenz – Rutgers University
Use of the Open-Sourced Mycroft AI Skills to Create Automated and Voice Activated Pipelines for Core Facility Standard Bioinformatics Analysis
Nicolas Loof – University of Texas Southwestern
New Technique for Sorting Rare Populations of Cells
Samantha Sevilla – National Institutes of Health
Formalin-Fixed-Paraffin-Embedded Extraction Benchmarking Evaluation
Monica DeLay – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Abstract Title: Enrichment of CRISPR-mediated homologous-directed repair in mammalian cells by cell cycle-based flow sorting
Jeanne Geskes – University of Michigan
Abstract Title: Comprehensive Assessment of Custom Targeted Panels for Next Gen Sequencing
Brian Searle – University of Washington and Proteome Software
Abstract Title: A comprehensive analysis of peptide degradation over time
Katia Sol-Church –Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital For Children
Abstract Title: Inherited recessive epigenetic and genetic compound heterozygote mutations cause Baratela Scott Syndrome in a subset of patient with rare skeletal dysplasia.
Past Presentations
Patricia Basta – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Method comparison for RNA extraction to be used for potential differential
expression analysis of salamanders undergoing winter dormancy
Presentation
James Cox – University of Utah
Comparative Study of Lipidomic Profiles in Fed versus Fasted States
and Across Blood Collection Tube Matrices: Implications for Medium to Large-Scale Epidemiological Studies
Presentation
Brennan Grimes – Van Andel Institute
Comparing novel total RNA-seq methods: a follow up
Presentation
Abbirami Sathappan – Sidra Medicine
Genomic Profiling of Neuroblastoma Tumor Microenvironment:
Uncovering Targets for Pediatric Cancer Immunotherapy
Presentation
Carole Perrot - Johns Hopkins
Empowering Research Through Specialized Training in Microscopy, Flow Cytometry, and Genomics
Presentation
Catharine Aquino - Functional Genomics Center Zurich
Evaluating NGS-based OlinkTechnology and mass spectrometry-based workflows for plasma and serum proteomics
Presentation
Claudius Mundoma - Stanford University
FAIR Facilities and Instruments: Enabling transparency, reproducibility, and equity through persistent identifiers
Presentation
Gabriela De la Cruz - UNC-CH School of Medicine
From Method Development to Discovery: Innovating Spatial Transcriptomics with Xenium
Presentation
S. Garvey McKenzie, Ph.D. - Stanford University Mass Spectrometry
Impact of Divalent Metal Ions on the Proteomics S-TrapFilter Digestion Protocol
Presentation
Marjolijn Hameetman -Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
FlowMonitor: an R-shiny application for advanced monitoring of flow cytometer performance
Presentation
Dr. Indrani Bhowmick - Analytical Resources Core
Action to streamline services and increase community engagement: Innovative Workflows
Presentation
James Shira –Arizona Genetics Core, University of Arizona
An inexpensive method for collection of high-quality RNA from blood of surgical patients
Presentation
Jared Slobodan - Ranger Technology
Optimizing Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis for Accessible Sample QC in Long Read Sequencing Workflows
Presentation
Juan Pablo Galindo Lazo - Stanford University Mass Spectrometry
Byonic vs. FragPipe: Comparing Performance and Efficiency in Proteomics Workflows
Presentation
Kara A. Clissold, M.A.- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pilot Project Funding: Return on Investment and Impact of a “Core Voucher” Program
Presentation
Katelyn Becker - Van Andel Institute
Whole Genome Enzymatic Methylation Assay Comparison
Presentation
Patrick Badua - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Leaning Our Cores
Presentation
Shixia Huang, PhD - Baylor College of Medicine
Advanced Technologies and STEMM Education
Presentation
Robert Wappel - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Room Temperature Storage of Nucleic Acids
Presentation
Yeong Yun - Van Andel Institute
Assessing nucleic acid extraction and library preparation kits for cell-free DNA and RNA
Presentation
Zoe Senn - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Utilizing Salesforce to Optimize Ordering & Billing Workflows for Cores with External Customer Bases
Presentation