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ABRF News and Announcements

Welcome New and Renewing members of the ABRF!

The following colleagues have joined or renewed their memberships in our society in the months of September and October.

ABRF EB 2008 election open Nov 10th to 21st

Please log in and vote for two candidates

New Deadline for Thermo-ABRF Outstanding Scientist Travel Awards

Apply for travel funding to attend ABRF 2009 in Memphis....

The Journal of Biomolecular Techniques is now all electronic

Please see the new JBT web interface via the JBT button in the top banner, and the archived issues in PubMed

ScienceCures Pre-Election News and Resources

The Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) has launched a voter engagement campaign to call on our leaders to make federal funding for biomedical research a priority in 2008 and beyond.

Mathias Uhlen selected to be the Agilent ABRF Award Winner for 2009

Professor Mathias Uhlen of the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, has been selected based on his pioneering contributions to multiple areas, including Staph. Protein A, affinity purification technology, DNA pyrosequencing, and the human protein atlas.

ABRF Award 2006 winner Dr. Roger Y. Tsien of UCSD won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP......Congratulations Dr. Tsien.

First Academic Sponsor of ABRF: Fox Chase Cancer Center

ABRF is seeking more academic sponsors to contribute to its Research Group and Committee activities for the benefit of its members.

iPRG2009 Study now open

Determination of the qualitative differences between two samples each having five sets of MS data replicates.

Registration for ABRF 2009 is now open

Application and Optimization of Existing and Emerging Biotechnologies Please mark your calendar to join us at the ABRF 2009 meeting that will be held February 7-10, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee.

Light Microscopy Research Group 2009 Study Now Open

This is a new Research Group for 2009. We need more RG members. Contact Richard Cole via LMRG web page.

ESRG 2009 study announced: Comparing Edman and Mass Spectrometry Techniques for N-terminal Sequencing

To investigate both traditional and alternative methods for obtaining the N-terminal sequence of a protein. Participants may use any available Edman, mass spectrometric or biochemical method

MARG 2009 study announced: Detection of Human MicroRNAs across miRNA Array Platforms

A study that investigates five commercial miRNA platforms, Illumina, Exiqon, Agilent, FlexmiR by Luminex, and ABI-TLDA

PRG 2009 study announced: Relative Protein Quantification in a Clinical Matrix

A targeted relative protein quantification study relevant for a biomarker validation project.

ABRF Survey Committee is seeking new members

No experience necessary, but "knowledge is power"

Nucleic Acids Research Group (NARG) needs new members (9/14/08)

If you like to study non-qPCR based methods in an RG setting, please talk to us. We welcome new ideas.

Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors Meeting

Oct 22-24, 2008, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. Registration is now open! Go to http://www.uvm.edu/~vgn/NERLSCD for more details.

Greg Grant to represent ABRF on FASEB Finance Committee

ABRF ex President and EB member Greg Grant has been appointed to represent ABRF as a new member of the FASEB Finance Committee

All electronic JBT is now accessible from PubMed Central

Thank you Sue Weintraub for the PubMed link! JBT April 2008 issue is out! ----->

New EB statement on RG-sponsor relationship

The ABRF welcomes the donation of critical reagents by corporate sponsors to facilitate research projects initiated by ABRF Research Groups.