Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities

Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities
Formation 1989
Headquarters Bethesda, MD
Location
Membership
~900
Official language
English
President
 Andrew Chitty
Website http://www.abrf.org/

The Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) is dedicated to advancing core and research biotechnology laboratories through research, communication, and education. ABRF members include over 900 scientists representing 340 different core laboratories in 41 countries, including those in industry, government, academic and research institutions.[1]

History

In 1986 a Research Resource Facility Satellite Meeting was held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Methods in Protein Sequence Analysis. The next year protein sequencing and amino acid samples were sent to survey 103 core facilities. By 1989 the ABRF was formally organized and incorporated. Each year an annual meeting was held as a satellite meeting of the Protein Society until 1996 when separate meetings began.[2]

ABRF Research Groups

Research Groups are established to fulfill two of the purposes of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities. First, to provide mechanisms for the self-evaluation and improvement of procedural and operational accuracy, precision and efficiency in resource facilities and research laboratories. Second, to contribute to the education of resource facility and research laboratory staff, users, administrators, and interested members of the scientific community.[3]

Resource Technologies

Members of ABRF are involved in a broad spectrum of biomolecular technologies that are implemented in core facility settings:

Annual Conference

Every year the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities annual conference is held during the spring in a varying North American city. This international conference is used to expose members to new and emerging biotechnology through lectures, roundtables, Research Group presentations, poster sessions, workshops and technical exhibits.

  • ABRF 2019, March 23-26, San Antonio, Texas
  • ABRF 2018, April 22-25, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; The Premier Conference for Core Services
  • ABRF 2017, March 25-28, San Diego, California; A Forum for Advancing Today's Core Technologies to Enable Tomorrow's Innovations
  • ABRF 2016, February 20-23, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Innovative Technologies Accelerating Discovery
  • ABRF 2015, March 28-31, St. Louis, Missouri; Integrative Technologies for Advancing Scientific Cores
  • ABRF 2014, March 23-25, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Team Science and Big Data: Cores at the Frontier
  • ABRF 2013, March 2-5, Palm Springs, California; Tools for the Advancement of Convergence Science
  • ABRF 2012, March 17–20, Orlando, Florida; Learning From Biomolecules
  • ABRF 2011, February 19–22, San Antonio, Texas; Technologies to Enable Personalized Medicine
  • ABRF 2010, March 20–23, Sacramento, California; Translating Basic Research With Advances in Biomolecular Technology
  • ABRF 2009, February 7–10, Memphis, Tennessee; Application and Optimization of Existing and Emerging Biotechnologies
  • ABRF 2008, February 9–12, Salt Lake City, Utah; Enabling Technologies in the Life Sciences
  • ABRF 2007, March 31- April 3, Tampa, Florida; Creating the Biological Roadmap
  • ABRF 2006, February 11–14, Long Beach, California; Integrating Science, Tools and Technologies with Systems Biology
  • ABRF 2005, February 5–8, Savannah, Georgia; BioMolecular Technologies: Discovery to Hypothesis
  • ABRF 2004, February 28- March 2, Portland, Oregon; Integrating Technologies in Proteomics and Genomics
  • ABRF 2003, February 10–13, Denver, Colorado; Translating Biology Using Proteomics and Functional Genomics
  • ABRF 2002, March 9–12, Austin, Texas; Biomolecular Technologies: Tools for Discovery in Proteomics and Genomics
  • ABRF 2001, February 24–27, San Diego, CA; The New Biology: Technology for resolving Macromolecular Communications
  • ABRF 2000, February 19–22, Bellevue, Washington; From Singular to Global Analyses of Biological Systems
  • ABRF 1999, March 19–22, Durham, North Carolina; Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Technologies: Linking Genomes, Proteomes and Biochemistry
  • ABRF 1998, March 21–24, San Diego, California; From Genomes to Function - Technical Challenges of the Post-Genome Era
  • ABRF 1997, February 9–12, Baltimore, Maryland; Techniques at the Genome-Proteome Interface
  • ABRF 1996, March 30- April 2, San Francisco, California; Biomolecular Techniques

ABRF Award

The ABRF Award is presented at the annual ABRF meeting for outstanding contributions to Biomolecular Technologies. Past Award Winners:[6]

Journal of Biomolecular Techniques

The ABRF is the publisher of the Journal of Biomolecular Techniques. The journal is peer-reviewed and is published quarterly.[7] The major focus of the journal is to publish scientific reviews and articles related to biomolecular resource facilities. The Research Group published reports include annual surveys. News and events, as well as an article watch focused on techniques used in typical core facility environments are also included.

ABRF Executive Board

  • Andrew Chitty, ABRF President, Oregon Health & Science University
  • Julie Auger, Treasurer, University of California Davis
  • Allis Chien, Stanford University
  • Frances Weis-Garcia, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Rich Cole, School of Public Health, State University of New York
  • Nancy Fisher, University of North Carolina
  • Christian Lytle, Dartmouth College
  • Claudius Mundoma, Florida State University
  • Susan DeCourcey, ABRF Executive Director

References

  1. ↑ "ABRF Mission Statement". Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities. Archived from the original on 22 May 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2009.
  2. ↑ Crabb, JW: "ABRF; A Brief History" ABRF News, June 1995
  3. ↑ "Research Group Guidelines" (PDF). Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2009.
  4. ↑ "Universal Proteomics Standards – Validating the Future of Proteomics". Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "UPS1 and UP2 Proteomic Standards". Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "ABRF Award". Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "Journal of Biomolecular Techniques at PubMed". Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities. Archived from the original on 1 May 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2009.
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