Debbie Requesens

Deborah RequesensQuarterly Activities UpdatesApr19th – July 21st, 2016NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository (HGCR)  Prepared content and presented at the 3rd and 4th Contract Review Meetings (May 3rd, Jul 18th)  Attended the Rare Patient Advocacy Symposium (UPenn, Philadelphia, May 6th) o Followed up with contacts, emailed family disease groups with information about HGCR  Assisted Genetic Counselor (TS) with making a new webinar presentation for the RARE Foundation Alliance, a new video for the Rett Syndrome Family Conference and a two-part blog for the Global Genes Foundation  Finalized list of conferences for HGCR team to attend in 2016 to increase submission recruitment targets and repository awareness: o Conference call with the Global Genes Foundation. Invited to speak at their Annual Summit in September 2016.  Managed Coriell-wide customer related assistance: o Responded to and/or assigned all customer related inquiries  Point of contact for Customer Support (CS) regarding scientific inquiries, MTAs, SRIs o Organized and presented at “Lunch and Learn” meetings with CS Team and representatives of every contract  2nd meeting was regarding MTAs and SRIs (May 26th)  3rd meeting was regarding the use of Queue and handling Custom Orders (Jun 21st) o Assisted Director of Biobanking Logistics and Quality Standards (LC) in preparation of standard email replies for CS’s use o Attended a meeting with the Director of Biobanking and Quality Standards (LC) and IT representatives to discuss using JIRA for CS and Orders on Demand  Finalized NIH 4D Nucleome Consortium project outline o Participated in several conference calls with consortium participants and finalized and delivered final Service Agreement to the Program Coordinator  Attended a meeting with the Director of Strategic Alliances (CF) to take over responsibility for all HGCR Custom DNA and RNA extraction quotes and customer interactions regarding custom service work  Organized efforts to update iPSC and Stem Cells information on catalog: o Organized meetings with Stem Cell Lab and a project manager (LB) to identify changes needed o Organized meetings with IT to initiate changes on both HGCR and Coriell catalog pages  Publicity efforts included: o Preparing several “What’s New” articles with the Communications team (MC), to be displayed on the HGCR catalog page o Updating the Coriell conferences booth display with the Communications team o Preparing a new HGCR submissions video (in progress)  Attended weekly meetings with HGCR team, Stem Cell Lab, and Mol Bio LabCoriell:  Presented at the Scientific Engagement Meeting (June 15th)  Researched, prepared and submitted application for W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Medical Research Grant (with VC, NT, Jul 15th) o $150K to create disease (LQT3) in a dish model utilizing iPSCs and CRISPR/Cas9  Spearheaded effort to create and distribute Publications Survey to Coriell customers to capture sample related publications  Interviewed Jack Hsiao, candidate for the Postdoctoral Research position  Attended AEM, SEM and BSO meetings as well as candidate seminars