A Research Resource Facility Satellite Meeting, organized by Donna Atherton (Rockefeller University), Audree Fowler (UCLA), Rusty Kutny (DuPont), Ronald Niece (University of Wisconsin), and Alan Smith (UC Davis), was held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Methods in Protein Sequence Analysis in Seattle, WA in August.
A second Research Resource Facility Meeting was held at the First Symposium of the Protein Society in San Diego, CA in August. The organizers above identified themselves as the Research Resource Facility Group. Kenneth Williams (Yale University) joined the group.
The first core facilities operations survey was conducted.
A Satellite Symposium was held with the 72nd annual FASEB meeting in Las Vegas, NV in May.
The first set of sequence and amino acid analysis samples (STD-1 and STD-2) were distributed to 103 core facilities.
A Satellite Meeting was also held in conjunction with the Second Symposium of the Protein Society, San Diego, CA in August.
The Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) was formally organized.
The ABRF conducted an instrumentation survey of core facilities.
Separate ABRF research subcommittees for protein sequencing and amino acid analysis were formed.
The first election of officers was held. Donna Atherton, John Crabb, Audree Fowler, Elizabeth Fowler, Ronald Niece, and Kenneth Williams were elected as members of the first ABRF Executive Committee.
The ABRF received a small National Science Foundation Grant.
An ABRF Satellite Workshop was held in conjunction with the ASBMB/ASCB joint meeting in San Francisco, CA in January.
The ABRF incorporated in the state of Delaware.
Samples for the sequence (89SEQ) and amino acid analysis (89AAA1 and 89AAA2) surveys were distributed to 120 core facilities.
ABRF Survey and Newsletter subcommittees were formed.
The Survey subcommittee distributed a survey on operations in core facilities.
Eight companies supported ABRF by becoming corporate sponsors.
An ABRF Satellite Meeting was held in conjunction with the Third Symposium of the Protein Society, Seattle, WA in August.
The second election of ABRF officers was held in the Fall of 1989. Alan Smith and David Speicher were elected to the Executive Committee to replace Audree Fowler and Donna Atherton.
The ABRF applied to the National Science Foundation for multiyear support of its expanding research efforts and related activities.
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