A second Research Resource Facility Meeting was held at the First Symposium of the Protein Society in San Diego, CA. The organizers above identified themselves as the Research Resource Facility Group. Ken Williams joined the group.
The first core facilities operations survey was conducted.
The first set of sequence and amino acid analysis samples were distributed to 103 core facilities. Annual ABRF sequence and amino acid analysis studies have been carried out ever since.
A Satellite Meeting was also held in conjunction with the Protein Society, San Diego, CA. Annual ABRF meetings continue to be held with Protein Society Symposia.
The Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) was formally organized.
The first election of officers was held. Donna Atherton, John Crabb, Audree Fowler, Elizabeth Fowler, Ron Niece, and Ken Williams were elected as the 1989 ABRF Executive Board. Annual election of two Board members per year has continued to date.
The ABRF conducted an instrumentation survey of core facilities.
The ABRF received a small National Science Foundation grant.
An ABRF Workshop, "Evaluating Protein Sequence and Amino Acid Analysis Data from Core Facilities" was held at the ASBMB/ASCB joint meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Separate ABRF research committees for protein sequencing and amino acid analysis were formed.
Ron Niece was elected as the first ABRF President, Beth Fowler as Secretary/Treasurer.
An ABRF Survey committee was formed which continues to carry out annual surveys of core facility operations and activities.
A corporate sponsor program was initiated and eight companies supported ABRF in the initial year of the program.
The ABRF News was created under the guidance of editor Dave Speicher. Three issues were published in 1990 followed by quarterly issues in subsequent years.
An ABRF session was held at the Eighth International Conference on Methods in Protein Sequence Analysis, Kiruna, Sweden.
NSF awarded ABRF a three year grant to support research activities.
Two categories of Membership, Directors and Associates, were defined and membership dues were initiated to contribute toward fiscal stability.
Dave Speicher was elected President.
An ABRF Peptide Synthesis/Mass Spectrometry Research Committee was formed and initiated annual membership wide studies.
The ABRF organized the symposium "State of the Art Biotechnology: From the Present to the Future" at the FASEB Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
ABRF established a business office with Lauren Kim as part time Business Manager.
Ray Paxton was elected Secretary/Treasurer.
The ABRF organized the symposium "Recent Advances in the Detection and Identification of Subtle Structural Alterations in Proteins and Nucleic Acids," at the ASBMB/Biophysical Society joint meeting, Houston, TX.
Greg Grant replaced Paul Matsudaira on the Executive Board.
ABRF organized the poster session for the Protein Society Meeting.
An ABRF session was held at the Ninth International Conference on Methods in Protein Sequence Analysis, Otsu, Japan.
ABRF contracted with FASEB to provide expanded Business Office and membership services.
Two new committees, an Education Committee and a Nucleic Acid Research Committee, were formed and initiated activities.
Greg Grant was elected President.
Ken Williams assumed the editorship of The ABRF News.
The ABRF organizes the symposium "Understanding Biological Macromolecules: Cutting Edge Techniques" at the ASBMB/ACS-DBC joint meeting, San Diego, CA.
The ABRF Annual Meeting immediately before the Protein Society meeting in San Diego is expanded to a full day. In addition, the ABRF co-sponsors a workshop on peptide libraries and organizes the Protein Society poster sessions for the second year.
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