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ANNOUNCEMENT: 

Please join us for the next Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities
(ABRF) meeting to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from March 22-25,
2014.  This premier international conference is dedicated to advancing core
facilities, instrument quality control metrics and technology development.
The theme for the 2014 meeting is Team Science and Big Data - Cores at the
Frontier. More information at http://conf.abrf.org.

In addition to the main meeting, a Digital Image Processing Pre-meeting
Workshop will be held prior to the main ABRF meeting on Saturday March 22,
2014, and will be led by the internationally-acclaimed imaging educator and
scholar, Dr. John C. Russ.  (http://www.drjohnruss.com/)

Each day of the main meeting (March 23-25) will have its own scientific
theme with symposia and panel discussions on key aspects of light microscopy
research and developments:
1) Monday March 23, Intra-vital Imaging
2) Tuesday March 24, Meso-imaging (Light Sheet, OPT)
3) Wednesday March 25, Medium/high throughput imaging and handling of large
data sets.

Confirmed speakers include the following:
Rafael Yuste, Columbia University - Plenary talk on the Brain Initiative
(http://www.tedmed.com/speakers/show?id=75311) 
Keith Lidke, University of New Mexico
Kurt Anderson, The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow
Andrés Santos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Kevin Eliceiri, University of Wisconsin
Spencer Shorte, Institut Pasteur
Lani Wu, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

And if that isn't enough motivation to attend, the conference will also
include a meeting of the Light Microscopy Research Group describing results
of an international study on microscope standardization and quality control
and a round table discussion about international imaging networks;
scientific sessions and roundtable discussions focused on contemporary light
microscopic techniques and applications; administrative sessions addressing
core facility operations and management; workshops on writing successful
instrumentation grants; vendor exhibits and of course, great networking for
imaging core personnel. 

Please mark your calendars. If you are a core facility professional, then
you won't want to miss this meeting!  We are confident that it will provide
relevant and useful information for directors and managers of core
facilities as well as other professionals utilizing light microscopy.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Richard Cole, Claire Brown, Alison North and Phil Hockberger
ABRF Light Microscopy Track committee



Richard Cole
Research Scientist V
Director: Advanced Light Microscopy & Image Analysis Core 
Wadsworth Center
 
Research Assistant Professor 
Dept. of Biomedical Sciences 
School of Public Health State University of New York 

P.O. Box 509 Albany N.Y. 12201-0509
518-474-7048 Phone
518-474-4430 Fax 

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