Join us as we bring together Core Facilities professionals for the inaugural CORES 2021 Professional Development Conference at TRI. We invite you to network, collaborate, keep up to date with the latest technology and hear from industry leaders on servicing the scientific community.

All Scientific Core disciplines are invited: from Microscopy to Mass Spec, Biological Resources to Flow Cytometry and everything in between. If you work in a Core Facility, Scientific Platform or Shared Resource Services Lab, this conference is for you!

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Time and Location
9:00am - 5:00pm, 7 October 2021
TRI Auditorium, 37 Kent St Woolloongabba

Costs
Conference Attendance (in-person) - $55
Conference Attendance (online) - $15
Conference Dinner (night prior - 6 October) - $60

Program

Session 1: 9:05-10:40am	Leadership in Science: supporting individuals, teams and collaborations	Prof Margaret Sheil AO Vice-Chancellor and President, QUT
	Moving from Research to Core	A/Prof Nigel Waterhouse, Facility Manager, QIMR Berghofer
	Customer Service: Promoting a client-centric culture in cores	Dr Jane Fitzpatrick Chief Operating Officer, ANFF
Session 2: 11:10am - 12:50pm	Recruiting, retaining and developing talent	Adj Prof (UQ) Sach Jayasinghe Chief Investigator, Australian Digital Observatory - ARDC Platform Project, QUT
	Professional Development of core staff	Prof Linda Lua Director, Protein Expression Facility
	Academic Leadership at TRI	A/Prof Raymond Steptoe and Dr David Sester Principal Research Fellow, UQDI , Senior Flow Cytometry Scientist, TRI
	Publishing, acknowledgement and grantsmanship as a member of a core (Talk)	Dr Brian Tse, Senior Preclinical Imaging Scientist, TRI
	Publishing, acknowledgement and grantsmanship as a member of a core (Panel)	Dr Brian Tse Senior Preclinical Imaging Scientist, TRI;  Professor Stephen Blanksby, Acting-Pro Vice Chancellor (Research infrastructure), Principal Research Fellow (Mass Spectrometry), Professor of Chemistry, QUT; Dr Nicholas Condon, Senior Microscopist & CZI Imaging Scientist, ACRF, IMB, UQ;  Dr Michael Batzlof, Research Leader, Griffith University
Session 3: 1:40pm - 4:00pm	"My Journey" through Science and Research	Prof Ian Frazer AC FRS Affiliate Professor, UQDI Faculty of Medicine; NHMRC Leadership Fellow, Faculty of Medicine; Afflil Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience
	Finding your Core Strength	Kylie Price, Head of Research Technology and Senior Staff Scientist, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research
	How to engage with industry and external clients Managing a National Core Facility – Rules of Engagement	Dr Derek Smith, Senior Manager, Griffith University Rebecca Lang, Operations Manager, Compounds Australia, GRIDD, Griffith University
	The means, mechanisms and considerations for the acquisition of research infrastructure	Dr Jodi Clyde-Smith, Director Research Office, UQ
	Core facility financial sustainability (Panel)	Kylie Price, Dr Derek Smith, Dr Jodi Clyde-Smith, Sach Jayasignhe
	Drinks and Networking in the TRi Atrium  4:00 - 5:00pm

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