Education Committee

Call for Education Programs - submit your proposal today

Share your expertise with your core colleagues by offering an Education Program (panel, presentation, workshop) for the upcoming schedule of online events.  The ABRF Education Committee is now accepting proposals for online Education Programs.  Online sessions are typically scheduled in 1-hour or 2-hour (Zoom) blocks, with multiple sessions per program as needed to deliver content and engage the audience.  Recently hosted workshops were well-attended and recordings can be viewed here: https://www.abrf.org/workshops-webinars

Submit your proposal via this form

Mission

The mission of this committee is to

  • Promote, design, support, and implement educational programs, projects, and services that contribute to the continuing education and training of core staff,
  • Enhance the scientific and professional development of scientists
  • Facilitate the education and training of students and postdoctoral fellows who wish to pursue careers in core operations and management

Questions or interest in joining an ABRF committee? Contact us! 

Current Membership

Marie Adams (Executive Board liaison) - Van Andel Institute
Sridar Chittur –  SUNY Albany
Claudia Cosentino  (Chair) - Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Joe Dragavon – University of Colorado, Boulder
Isabelle Girard – University of California - Davis
Gene Hess - Seattle Childrens Research Institute
Shixia Huang - Baylor College of Medicine
Kevin Knudtson - University of Iowa
Roy Martin – Waters Corporation
Sheenah Mische – NYU Langone Health
Jenny Schafer (CAB liaison) - Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Frances Weis-Garcia – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Nicole White – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Membership History

Member NameOrganizationDetails
Pamela Scott Adams Trudeau Institute  Member, EB Liaison: 03/06 - 04/07
Keith Ashman MDS Sciex  Chair: 04/02 - 11/02
Dr. Allis Chien Stanford University Member: 03/13 - 07/18
EB Liason: 03/15 - 04/17
Dr. Sridar Chittur SUNY, Albany Co-chair: 03/15-03/16
Chair: 03/16-03/17
Joseph Fernandez Rockefeller Univ  Member: 02/03 - 02/06
Dr. Nancy Fisher University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill EB Liason: 04/17 -
Dr Susan H Hardin University of Houston  Member, EB Liaison: 04/02 - 02/06
William Hendrickson University of Illinois at Chicago (Emeritus) Member: 04/18 -
Tim C Hunter Vermont Cancer Ctr  EB Liason: 05/12 - 03/14
Cvic Innocent Boston Children's Hospital
 Chair: 04/18 -
Dr Karen R Jonscher University of Colorado Denver  Chair: 01/08 - 03/09
Member: 02/06 - 01/08
EB Liason: 04/09 - 04/12
Dr. Kevin L. Knudtson Univ of Iowa  Chair: 03/13 - 03/14
Member: 05/10 - 03/12
Dr. Elke Küster-Schöck McGill University, CIAN  Member: 04/09 - 03/13
Dr. David Landsman NIH/NLM/NCBI  Chair: 11/02 - 01/08
Dr. Ken I Mitchelhill Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute  Member: 01/02 - 12/03
Dr. Janet M Murray University of Vermont  Chair: 03/12 - 03/13
Co-Chair: 03/11 - 03/12
Dr. David S. Needleman USDA/ARS Eastern Regional Research Center  Member: 01/08 - 03/13
John M Neveu Harvard University  Member: 05/06 - 04/10
Dr Natalia G. Reyero Vinas MIssissippi State University  Member: 04/13 - 03/14
Chair: 03/15 - 03/16
Margaret Robertson   Member: 01/04 - 12/07
Caprice Rosato Oregon State Univ  Member: 03/08 - 03/11
Dr. Paul A Rudnick NIST  Member: 04/13 - 11/14
Brian C. Searle Proteome Software Inc.  Member: 07/10 - 03/14
Dr Katia Sol-Church AI duPont Hospital for Children  Chair: 03/10 - 03/12
Ad hoc: 05/12 - 03/13
Laurey Steinke University of Nebraska Medical Center  Member: 01/02 - 12/03
Chris W Turck Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry  EB liaison: 04/07 - 04/09
James Van Ee Cornell University  Member: 01/11 - 03/16
Co-chair: 03/13 - 03/14
Chair: 03/14 - 03/15
Frances Weis-Garcia Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
 Member: 04/18 -
Nicole White Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Chair: 04/17 - 04/18
Michael Zianni Plant-Microbe Genomics Facility/Ohio State University  Member: 03/10 - 03/14
Member volunteered admin: 04/08 - 03/09