Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD) Meeting

摘要 东北地区生命科学核心主任(NERLSCD)年会申请资金支持。这次会议为生命科学核心设施的负责人和管理人员提供了一个与同事建立网络、了解生物技术进展和应用以及讨论实施共享研究资源的挑战和成果的难得机会。有关于生物技术核心实验室面临的操作和管理问题的全体会议、讲习班和讨论论坛。有关于基因组学、功能基因组学、蛋白质组学、成像和其他技术的技术研讨会，包括下一代测序、基因分型、微阵列、实时聚合酶链式反应、蛋白质组学和质谱学、蛋白质生产和表征、光学成像、生物信息学和生物信息技术。核心设施招贴会议为了解区域生命科学共享资源和服务提供了机会。 NERLSCD会议成立于2006年，是该区域核心主任的基层努力的结果，目的是为建立网络和应对生命科学核心实验室的业务和技术挑战提供一个论坛。2006年、2007年和2008年举行了三次年度会议。NERLSCD 2008年会议有150名与会者，代表17个州和加拿大1个省的60个机构。下一次会议定于2009年11月在纽约康奈尔大学伊萨卡校区举行。 过去NERLSCD会议的资金由赞助机构和注册费提供。本次会议没有征求或接受任何商业供应商的支持，以促进创造一种会议环境，促进核心董事之间的非正式和信息丰富的讨论和联系，而不受供应商代表的影响或压力。然而，由于经济状况，许多以前的机构赞助商将无法继续提供相同水平的支持。因此，根据NIH会议和科学会议支助计划(PA-08-149)，要求为NERLSCD会议提供为期五年的部分资金支持。 NERLSCD会议是由来自八个不同机构的一组核心董事组织的。组委会成员有有效合作的历史，并在共享研究资源实验室和组织科学会议方面拥有丰富的经验。 NERLSCD会议促进了区域资源的共享，从而有助于减少昂贵的研究生物技术基础设施的重复。会议发言者会议和研讨会小组讨论的重点是核心资源的有效管理以及现有和新兴生物技术的最佳应用。因此，对NERLSCD会议的支持将促进许多不同机构目前和未来由NIH资助的广泛项目。

ABSTRACT Funding support is requested for the Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD) annual meeting. This meeting provides an exceptional opportunity for life sciences core facility directors and managers to network with colleagues, to learn about biotechnology advances and applications, and to discuss the challenges and results of implementing shared research resources. There are plenary sessions, workshops and discussion forums on operational and management issues facing biotechnology core laboratories. There are technical workshops on genomics, functional genomics, proteomics, imaging, and other technologies, including next generation sequencing, genotyping, microarrays, real-time PCR, proteomics and mass spectrometry, protein production and characterization, optical imaging, bioinformatics and bio-IT. A core facility poster session offers an opportunity for learning about regional life sciences shared resources and services. The NERLSCD meeting was established in 2006 as a result of a grass roots effort of core directors in the region to provide a forum for networking and for addressing the operational and technical challenges of life sciences core laboratories. Three annual meetings have been held in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The NERLSCD 2008 meeting had 150 attendees representing 60 institutions in 17 states and 1 Canadian province. The next meeting is scheduled for November, 2009, on the Ithaca, NY campus of Cornell University. Funding for past NERLSCD meetings was provided by sponsoring institutions and by registrations fees. No commercial vendor support was solicited or accepted for this meeting in order to facilitate the creation of a meeting environment that fosters informal and informative discussion and networking between core directors without influence or pressure from vendor representatives. However, due to the state of the economy, many of the previous institutional sponsors will be not be able to continue to provide the same level of support. Therefore partial funding support for the NERLSCD meeting for five years is requested under the NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (PA-08-149) program. The NERLSCD meeting is organized by a group of core directors from eight different institutions. The organizing committee members have a history of working effectively together and have extensive experience with shared research resource laboratories and with organizing scientific conferences. The NERLSCD meeting facilitates sharing of regional resources and thus helps reduce duplication of costly research biotechnology infrastructure. The meeting speaker sessions and workshop panel discussions focus on the effective management of core resources and on the optimal application of existing and emerging biotechnologies. Thus, support for the NERLSCD meeting will facilitate a broad range of current and future NIH funded projects in many different institutions.