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Roxann Ashworth

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Posted By Roxann Ashworth 01-19-2024 10:26
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I thought this might be of interest to some in this community. Participate in a New Genetics Teaching Study! Researchers from Cornell University, BSCS Science Learning, and the University of Leeds are calling for participants in a large-scale experimental study. The ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 12-11-2023 18:21
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One of my clinical colleagues is evaluating NGS analytics pipelines for a group he is involved with. They are trying to create a more unified nationwide approach to cancer NGS analytics. One of the pipelines they are evaluating is Sophia Genetics. He would love to talk to someone with practical, hands-on ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 09-14-2023 09:22
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Hi Ricardo, My instruments are fully amortized and I have a pretty high volume and good discounts because of other things that I do with Thermo. And we do a 1/8 reaction, I think....it's been years since I've done the math. I'm currently charging $7. I do think that will go up next year given the outrageous ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 08-18-2023 08:16
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We have a tri-fold brochure that very generically describes our services and has a graphic that shows a possible work flow through our complicated group. We often have a table at events like new faculty orientation, our precision medicine conference or our postdoc BBQ and it gives us something to hand ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 08-09-2023 11:20
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If you are not registered for the meeting and would like to attend this, please stop and see us at the registration desk and we will direct you. You are also welcome to register to attend the meeting, even at this late date! We would love to see you! Roxann Ashworth, MHS Laboratory Director, Customer ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 07-07-2023 09:08
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Please convey our thanks for all of her hard work to Hunter! Roxann
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 07-05-2023 15:39
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Conference Hotel Information Do you have a hotel room yet? You should get one soon before they are all sold out! Great news! The conference hotel is the Courtyard Chapel Hill, within walking distance of the Friday Conference Center. The conference rate of $164/night is available through July 7. See ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 06-21-2023 09:53
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Check out all of the exciting plans we have for the MAD SSCi meeting this year! We will be at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, August 9-11, with two pre conference workshops: Business Skills (August 8 & 9) and Train the Trainer (August 9). We have planned sessions for animal related cores, ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 03-21-2023 08:36
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I actually did not work on this :) Kym developed it based on a document that Jessica Podnar and Marie Adams developed for the DSRG. ------------------------------ Roxann Ashworth Laboratory Director Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD ------------------------------
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 03-09-2023 15:04
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Hi Shared, I have a lot of experience with the QIAcuity system, if you would like to hear about it. ------------------------------ Roxann Ashworth Laboratory Director Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD ------------------------------
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 02-16-2023 09:53
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Hi Chris, There was a very nice presentation on this at the 2022 MAD SSCi meeting (https://madssci.abrf.org/resources/). I'm not sure if it covers everything you are interested in, but the video is available on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqTjxsjHyYA). I would be happy to connect ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 01-26-2023 10:32
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Hi Aaron, I have made arrangements with Unity Services (a division of Thermo Fisher) to come in twice a year and do onsite pipette calibrations. The people who want to have their calibrations done place an order in iLab, and drop off their pipettes a day or two ahead of the calibration date. Unity is ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 01-10-2023 08:57
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I'm at Johns Hopkins University. I run a Sanger Sequencing, dPCR, qPCR, pyrosequencing Core, and I'm part of a much larger group of Cores that covers many things DNA related. I am a member of the ABRF Executive Board and the MAD SSCi organizing committee. My question: What was the most useful educational ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 10-31-2022 16:20
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Reminder: we are actively seeking topics for the annual meeting (or if you have something you would like to see us do over Zoom, before the meeting, let us know that as well). If you have every had a thought like "I'd like to know more about xxxx" or "I wonder what others do about xxxx problem", please ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 10-10-2022 15:03
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The Organizing Committee is beginning to plan MAD SSCi 2023! We hope to announce the location and date of the meeting soon. (Hint: it will be late summer instead of June.) Along that vein, we are actively seeking topic ideas and new OC committee members. Please post any ideas you might have here, and ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 08-29-2022 13:33
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Note...I am not on that committee. I am just forwarding the invitation I received. If you work with animals, please also consider joining the Working with Animal Models community here, so we can start to gather ideas on how to meet the needs of cores that work with animals within the ABRF community. ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 08-29-2022 13:31
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Dear colleague, As one of the scientific leaders, you are cordially invited to participate in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) virtual workshop on Enhancing Rigor and Reproducibility in Animal Research by Managing Extrinsic Factors that will take place on September 23, 28, and 30, 2022. This workshop ...
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 08-12-2022 09:19
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The CEO of MyGreenLabs also spoke in San Diego in 2022. But this is always a great topic. ------------------------------ Roxann Ashworth Laboratory Director Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD ------------------------------
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 08-10-2022 16:44
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Thanks for sharing! ------------------------------ Roxann Ashworth Laboratory Director Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD ------------------------------
Posted By Roxann Ashworth 08-05-2022 09:34
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Hi Beverly, You should take a look at the Center for Open Science. They have an interesting publication model that allows for peer review of methods, prior to the experiment, and then publishes positive and negative results. Protocols.io can also provide a way to publish methods (and obtain a doi for ...