ABRF is like a train that is leaving the station, time to jump on
The venue
We had great weather and sun rises
Lake front from 14th floor of Contemporary Resort
Lagoon view from the balcony of the Magic Kingdom side of Contemporary Resort
The Magic Kingdom
Cinderella's Castle Credit to Maria Yeung and her 4 MP Cannon SureShot, once again asserting that it is the person behind the instrument that matters, like in ABRF cores
Waiting for the 10 PM firework
Electrical parade on the lake
Day before the meeting opens. Credit for meeting management goes to Courtesy Associates, including Chris, Ashley and Donna
Brian Searle of ABRF and author of Scaffold
Kevin Knudtson, Mike Zianni, and Janet Murray of EdCom. Katia Sol-Church the chair cannot attend because of an auto accident. Tim Hunter of VGN and a new EB is at the back
SW3 Alexander Kel
Steve Bobbin and his day of mini-MBA course
EB 2012
RG Com chairs meeting
Karen Jonscher gives the RG-Com orientation
Laurey Steinke, lead member of the ABRF2102 organizing committee
JBT co-editors Ron Orland and Sheenah Mische
George Grills, EB member, talked about the multi-RG initiative on NGS
Lisa Hetherington, the ABRF business office and Karen Jonscher the new ABRF Secretary-Treasurer at California Grill. Magical Castles are on their faces
California Grill at sunset
Laurey opened the meeting
Dr. Trisha Davis of the Yeast Resource Center giving a plenary talk
Monday morning plenary
Sridar Chittur speaking at NARG meeting, reporting on methylation genomics study
Rob Ferl and Connie Nicklin of ICBR, ABRF Academic Sponsors
Two happy campers who made their quota at this meeting
Mid Atlantic and South East potential chapters held their meet and greet meeting
Time for travel awards
J. Russ Carmical, PhD Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
Allis Chien Stanford University Stanford, CA
Shi Jian-Ding Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology/Microbiology Technical Director, Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Core Facility University of Nebraska Medical Center
Phil Kim Fox Chase Cancer Center getting a travel award
Brewster Kingham University of Delaware
Judith Lacoste, Ph.D. Microscopy specialist Cell Imaging and Analysis Network (CIAN) Department of Biology McGill University
Margaret Robertson receiving a travel award
Taslimarif Saiyed, PhD Director and COO, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR) Bangalore, India
John C. Tigges Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Cort Anderson of NSF on right. ABRF grateful acknowledges NSF for giving $44K to support the ABRF 2012 educational pre-meeting workshops. Without this support, the workshops and many attendants would not have been realized
Left..Abraham Levy who directs SIG/HEI/Imaging at NCRR, Alan McCelland who directs cores at MD Anderson, Jim Anderson who directs DPCPSI at NIH, and ABRF President who called this meeting - Tony Yeung
The meeting of NIH and NSF admins with 18 ABRF admins and EBs, hoping to continue the NCRR focus on core economy
Presentation by Tony Yeung
Mid Atlantic and th South East Chapters are forming right at the ABRF 2012 meeting
The R3 session on NIH Core Support. Mary Lively was mediator
Jim Anderson, Director of DPCPSI
Abraham Levy, Director of SIG/HEI/Imaging at NCRR
Reginald Miller of Mount Sinai and ABRF co-founder Ron Niece
Introducing the ABRF award winner
Roy Martin of Waters, Alan Marshall the ABRF Award winner, and Tony Yeung
The ABRF Award this year was $10K sponsored by Waters
Alan and wife Marylin
Alan and his iconic hat
Carla Bullitt and Marylinn Munson of Ingenuity, Gold Sponsor of ABRF
venue for the ABRF Award dinner
Nicolas Ambulos of U of Maryland
Veronica Rice of OSU CCC doing open mic on CCSG concerns
Sue Weintraub recognizing Majorie Tingle's contributions to cores
Mark Lively adds his appreciation
Ruth Angeletti, co-founder of ABRF, thanked Marjorie Tingle who retired from NCRR
Nancy Denslow remembered Marjorie helping cores
Marjorie Tingle received the Special ABRF Life-time Contribution Award from ABRF President Tony Yeung, in recognition of her 25 years of dedication at NCRR creating and innovating the SIG/HEI program that benefited numerous ABRF core facilities
Dr. George Church
Meet-the-Speaker, here George Church entertained an audience at demo stage in the exhibit hall
Olga Kel-Margouse and Alexander Kel, SW3 speakers on bioinformatics and pathways
An ABRF meeting tradition
Members meeting
Scottie received the 2012 Life-time Membership Award: Scottie-ism: "Does it cost money?" Scottie as Treasurer saved ABRF plenty
Paul Morrison leading doing A B R F for Scottie who was getting the Life Time Membership Award
Scottie-isms: "Never miss an opportunity to nag!" and she kept us all humming along
Scottie-ism when she was in NARG: "Imagine your poster"
Scottie-ism 3: "Queen of the WEB questionnaire"
Scottie Adams receiving the Life-time Membership Award. She contributed to many areas of ABRF, was Secretary-treasurer and EB, was chair of WebCom, member of NARG, active inthe web site face-lift, and a mentor to many ABRF leaders and members
Brian Hampton getting the Bob Walsh RG and Com Member of the Year Award for his tireless contributions to the ABRF Web Committee and Web page make over
Laurie Steinke recognized for her effort to lead the ABRF2012 OC to produce this successful meeting
Recognition for the meeting organizers
Kathryn Lilley is also an OC member and brings her extensive ABRF experience to the meeting
David Feriedman is the EB liaison and worked as one of the contributing OC members.
David, Laurey and Kathryn of OC. The fourth OC member, Richard Wilson of the University of Houston could not stay for this event
Arnie Falick recognized for his three year service on the EB as secretary Treasurer. That is a very big job.
Tony Yeung recognized for his four years on EB and the last year as ABRF President. Presenting is David Friedman the incoming ABRF President
Happy "retirement"
Closing social at the Universal Studios
Fingerprint scanner for lockers, Phil Kim served as the ABRF photographer for this meeting
Brian Hampton and his wife, and Michelle Detwiler on the right who was the last president of ABRF and the editor of the Newsletter
Universal Studios Closing Social
Jeffrey is credited with inspiring Tony to buy the camera and flash that made possible the ABRF photos of this year and 2011. He taught me how to shoot. He has an open album at Picasa under jbyeung
Jason the toy-maker inspired Tony to take the meeting to Disney to capture the magic. Jason was a Disney Imagineer for six years, the fearless lead designer of the game Pirates of the Caribbeans
