January 02, 2001
Hi Folks,
This message is directed to persons who plan on attending, or are
thinking about attending the ABRF meeting next month. I've never attended
an ABRF meeting, and I'm trying to decide whether I should petition my
supervisor for the funding needed to go to San Diego in February. Judging
from the title of the meeting: "The New Biology: Technologies for
Resolving Macromolecular Communications", it appears that the focus of the
meeting will be in areas not directly related to DNA fragment
analysis/genotyping - which is the kind of work I'm presently involved
with. Therefore, I'm wondering whether attendance to this next meeting by
personnel in DNA/Fragment-related Cores will be low, or lower than if the
focus of the meeting were on genotyping-related, or DNA-based technology?
I ask because I could easily rationalize the expense of attending the
meeting to my boss if I was confident that it would be attended by a
significant number of folks doing genotyping work with whom I could discuss
issues relative to my own recent trials & tribulations while starting-up a
new Genomics/Genotyping Core here. If expected attendance this year by
Fragment Analysis-type folks will be lower than usual (due to the nature of
this year's meeting's focus), maybe I'll pass on attending this time, and
see how things look in 2002 (in Austin, right?). Any input/responses from
(potential) attendees would be appreciated.
Happy New Year!
Bob
Robert G. Keefe, Ph.D.
Wadsworth Center/NYS Dept. of Health
Genomics Core Facility
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