This session will whack leaders' thinking, give them a personal sense of mission of their importance as service leaders, and share many no cost or low cost ideas for how to create a culture where employees are fully engaged using the elements of a spirited workplace.

Merge Gupta-Sunderji will not only outline the eight definitive characteristics of high-performing teams, but will also give you specific tools that you can use to build these qualities in your staff AND lead your team to continued productivity.

In this Q&A, three expert end-users from three different fields discuss the data systems they use in their facilities, how easy those systems were to learn to use, and how the systems changed things in their labs.

George Weinstock, Ph.D., professor of Genetics and Molecular Microbiology at Washington University, discusses what a lab manager can do to stay abreast of changes in the rapidly evolving field of next-generation sequencing.