"Communications" is the Quarterly Newsletter of the ABRF

Communications is a quarterly association newsletter that provides a means of communications (hence the choice of title) amongst the members of the ABRF community. The Communications newsletter is a way to share member news and highlights, association activities and initiatives, international news, lab tips and protocols, issues involved in running a biomolecular resource…and much more! We hope our members find it a useful forum to share their experiences and encourage everyone to submit their thoughts and insights!

Please send any and all future submissions and ideas to either abrf@abrf.org or michelle.detwiler@roswellpark.org!

We hope you enjoy Communications…By the Members, For the Members!”

Previous issues can be accessed using the links below.

• Spring 2010
• Summer 2010
• Fall 2010

Table of Contents for the Summer 2010 Issue

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• ABRF Insights
  • 1 “Such Exciting Times in the ABRF Right Now!”  Michelle Detwiler - ABRF President  Open Access
• Association News
  • 5 Photos from ABRF 2010 Sacramento
  • 7 Open Letters
    • “iABRF” How we can be an association with international appeal  – By Elke Küster-Schöck
  • 8 New ABRF Members - Spring!
  • 10 ABRF Member Highlights  Open Access
    • Interview with Ron Orlando – by Seth Crosby
    • Dr. Ronald Niece Receives Achievement Award
  • 13 Research Group Reports
    • Proteomics Informatics Research Group (iPRG) “The trouble with computers” – by Lennart Martens
    • Metabolomics (MRG) “Metabolomics Research Group – Off to a Great Start!” – By Chris Turck
    Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
  • 15 Committee Communiques
    • “Education Committee “We want you – and you know it!” – by Elke Küster-Schöck
  • 17 ABRF Members Spreading the Word
    • ProteoRed Salamanca Conference – by Kathryn Lilley
    • National Institutes of Health Career Symposium – by Jack Simpson
  • 19 Coming Soon
    • “The Midwest and Mad Cows” Midwestern Association of Core Directors (MWACD)
    • Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD) – by Susanna Perkins
  • 21 Robert A. Welch RG/Committee Member of the Year Award
    • Remembering Bob Welch
    • Michael Zianni - 2010 Award Recipient
• Features
  • 23 The Administrator
    • “Business Plans for Biomolecular Resource Facilities: Useful Tools to Define Your Future and Support Your Institution’s Enterprise”
      by Jay Fox, University of Virginia  Open Access
  • 25 ProteoRed- The Spanish Initiative
    • “The ABRF in the heart of ProteoRed” by Juan Pablo Albar ProteoRed
  • 27 ABRF Core Authorship Guidelines
  • 29 JBTeasers
    • Briefs from The Journal of Biomolecular Techniques
• Take it Back to the Lab
  • 30 “Converting Capitol Expenses to Operating Expenses with Utility Computing: The North East Cyberinfrastructure Consortium”
    by Jim Vincent  Open Access
  • 33 “These Data Are No Good!” Next Generation Sequencing Data and Levels of Quality – by Todd M. Smith
• The Annual Meeting
  • 37 ABRF 2011
    • “Technologies to Enable Personalized Medicine” –  by Preston Hensley  Open Access
  • 42 Answers to the Spring Issue “Pop Quiz”

Background image credited to: Donald Bliss and Sriram Subramaniam, National Library of Medicine, NIH – Courtesy: National Science Foundatiion