Meetings and Events

NCBO-Sponsored Dissemination and Training Events 2005-2009

The Future of the Foundational Model of Anatomy ↑

• November 11-12, 2009, Stanford, CA
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

From Aristotle to the Universal Core: Ontology Training Event ↑

• October 10-11, 2009, Buffalo, NY
• Co-sponsored with the University at Buffalo

Signs, Symptoms and Findings: Towards an Ontology for Clinical Phenotypes ↑

• September 3-4, 2009, University of Milan, Biccaca, Italy
• Co-sponsored by the Italian National Research Council

International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) ↑

• July 27-29, 2009, Buffalo, NY
• Co-sponsored by the National Center for Ontological Research and the University at Buffalo

International Consensus Workshop: Convergence on an Orofacial Pain Taxonomy ↑

• Mar 30-Apr 1, 2009, Miami, FL
• Co-sponsored by the International Association for Dental Research

InterOntology 2009 ↑

• Feb 27-Mar 1, 2009, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
• Special session on Biomedical Ontologies co-organized with the Japanese Center for Ontological Research

Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies ↑

• January 5, 2009, Boston, MA
• Co-sponsored by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)

Signs, Signs, Symptoms and Findings: First Steps Toward an Ontology of Clinical Phenotypes ↑

• September 3-4, 2008, Dallas, TX
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

How to Make Useful Ontologies for Biomedicine ↑

• July 19, 2008, Toronto, Canada.
• NCBO Tutorial at ISMB 2008 (Faculty: Nigam Shah and Barry Smith)

Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies ↑

• June 20, 2008, Minneapolis, MN
• Held in conjunction with the ↑ Evolution 2008 meeting.
• Co-sponsored by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)

Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies ↑

• April 12-13, 2008, Buffalo, NY
• NCBO Tutorial (Faculty: Barry Smith)

Ontologies of Cellular Networks ↑

• March 27-28, 2008, Newark, NJ
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Joint JCOR-NCBO International Biomedical Ontology Dissemination Workshop ↑

• February 26-27, 2008, Tokyo, Japan
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop
• Co-sponsored with the Japanese Center for Ontological Research

Dagstuhl Seminar: Ontologies and Text Mining for Life Sciences http://www.dagstuhl.de/07301 ↑

• July 23-27, 2007: Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
• Organizers: Ulf Leser, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann and Michael Ashburner

Ontologies for Biomedicine – How to Make and Use Them ↑

• July 21, 2007, Vienna, Austria
• NCBO Tutorial at ISMB 2007 (Faculty: Nigam Shah and Barry Smith)

Reasoning with Biomedical Information: Training Course in Logic for Biomedical Research ↑

• June 20-23, 2007, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
• NCBO Training Workshop, organized in conjunction with the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarbrücken, German

Clinical Trial Ontology ↑

• May 16-17 2007, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Dagstuhl Seminar: Ontology Interoperability in Biomedicine ↑

• March 27-30, 2007, Dagstuhl, Germany
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

The OBO Foundry - A Gold Standard Approach to Ontology Evaluation ↑

• December 21, 2006
• Ontolog Forum Talk by Barry Smith: Slides Audio

Phenotype Ontology ↑

• December 1-2, 2006, Clark Center, Stanford, CA
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Connecting BioPAX to Other Biomedical Ontologies ↑

• November 20-21, 2006, MIT, Boston, MA
• NCBO Tutorial (Faculty: Barry Smith)

Panel on the Future of HL7 ↑

• AMIA Anual Symposium, November 14, 2006, Washington DC

Genomics Knowledge Representation for Clinical Trials ↑

• AMIA Annual Symposium, November 12, 2006, Washington DC
• Tutorial (Faculty: Nigam Shah, Barry Smith, and others)

Biomedical Imaging Ontologies ↑

• November 11, 2006, AMIA Annual Symposium, Washington DC
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Biomedical Ontology in Action ↑

• November 8, 2006, Baltimore, MD
• Symposium of the Working Group on Formal (Bio-)Medical Knowledge Representation of the American Medical Informatics Association (KR-MED)

Ontology of Diseases ↑

• November 6-7, 2006, John Hopkins University, Baltimore
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop organized in association with the Formal Ontology and Information Systems (FOIS 2006) Conference

The Philosophy of Biology ↑

• October 14-15, 2006, Buffalo, NY
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Ontology Development ↑

• September 11-13, 2006, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
• Genomics Standards Consortium Workshop, co-sponsored with the National Institute for Environmental e-Science (NIEeS)

Anatomy Ontology Workshop http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/Anatomy_Ontology_Workshop ↑]

• September 8-9, 2006, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Tutorial on Standards and Ontologies ↑

• August 27, 2006, Maastricht, Netherlands.
• NCBO Tutorial, organized in conjunction with the Medical Informatics Europe 2006 Conference (Faculty: Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters)

Ontologies for Biomedicine – How to Make and Use Them ↑

• August 14-18, 2006. Stanford University
• Tutorial at [IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics, 2006 http://www.lifesciencessociety.org/CSB2006/index.html] Conference (Faculty: Amar Das, Nigam Shah)

On the Need and Utility of Ontologies ↑"

• Jul 30-August 4, 2006, Fortaleza, Brazil.
• Presentation by Michael Ashburner at the Conference In Silico Analysis of Proteins. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Swiss-Prot.

Functional Genomics Investigation Ontology (FuGO) 2nd Workshop ↑

• July 24-28, 2006, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, Hinxton, UK

Ontology Visualization with [Jambalaya http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2006/tutorials.html ↑]

• July 23-26, 2006, Stanford, CA
• NCBO Tutorial (Faculty: Chris Callendar)

Scientific Ontologies ↑

• July 17-19, 2006, NIH, Bethesda, MD
• i2b2, NAMIC and NCBO sponsored SIG session at NCBC All Hands Meeting [1]

Ontology: A Vision for the Future and Its Realization ↑

• July 19, 2006, NIH, Bethesda, MD
• Presentation by Mark Musen and Barry Smith at NCBC All Hands Meeting [2]

Training Course in Biomedical Ontologies ↑

• May 21-24, 2006, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
• NCBO Training Event (Faculty: Olivier Bodenreider, Werner Ceusters, Mark Musen, Barry Smith), organized jointly with the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarbrücken, German

Phenotype Annotation Meeting ↑

• May 17-20, 2006, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Principles of Biomedical Ontology Design ↑]

• • March 31-April 3, 2006, St. Croix
  • Tutorial by Barry Smith at the [Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting http://www.geneontology.org/minutes/20060331_StCroix.pdf]

Bio-IT LifeSciences Conference

• • April 3-6, 2006, Boston, MA
  • http://www.lifesciencesexpo.com/live/26/ ↑]
  • Speaker: Michael Ashburner, Ben Franklin Award Lecture.

Workshop on Ontology of Images

• • March 24-25, 2006, Stanford, CA
  • ↑ CCB NCBC] and others with biomedical image ontologies
  • [Workshop on Ontology of Images | info on Ontology of Images workshop]
  • Attending: Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, Mark Musen, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Barry Smith, Kaushtubh Supekar
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Immunology Ontology Workshop: NIAID ↑]

• • March 21-22, 2006, Gaitherburg, MD
  • Attending: Suzanna Lewis (speaker), Mark Musen (Session chair), Barry Smith

Semantic Technology Conference

• • March 6-9, 2006, San Jose, CA
  • ↑
  • Attending: Deborah McGuinness (Keynote, tutorial), Mark Musen (speaker), Daniel Rubin, Kaustubh Superkar (speaker)

NIH NCRR Animal Models workshop

• • March 6-7, 2006, Bethesda, MD
  • Attending: Monte Westerfield

cBio Project Meeting

• • March 2-4, 2006, Stanford, CA
  • Agenda
  • ↑
  • Entire project, NIH Program & Lead Science officers

BIRN ontology workshop

• • February 28-March 1, 2006, Stanford, CA
  • Attending: Christopher Chute, Suzanna Lewis, Mark Musen, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Barry Smith
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

NLM vocabulary collection and distribution meeting

• • February 27-28, 2006, NLM, Washington, DC
  • Attending: James Buntrock, Christopher Chute, Tom Johnson, Chris Mungall, Deepak Sharma, Harold Solbrig

NIAID meeting

• • February, 2006, Washington, DC
  • Attending: Mark Musen

cBio Phenotype Annotation tool specification

• • February 21-23, 2006, Berkeley, CA
  • Attending: Melissa Haendel, Sierra Taylor (ZFIN); John Day-Richter, Mark Gibson, Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, ShengQiang Shu (Berkeley)

Mini-Syposium on Semantic Enrichment of Scientific Literature

• • February 20, 2006 at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner (speaker)

cBio OBD specification

• • February 17, 2006, Berkeley, CA
  • Attending: Ben Olasov, Ida Sim (UCSF); Mark Gibson, Suzanna Lewis, Sima Misra, Chris Mungall, ShengQiang Shu (Berkeley); Daniel Rubin (Stanford by phone)

Functional Genomics Investigation Ontology (FuGO): First Workshop ↑

• • February 13-15, 2006, Philadelphia, PA
  • Attending: Barry Smith

Fourth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference

• • February 9-10, 2006, MITRE, McLean, VA
  • ↑ http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FourthSemanticInteroperabilityforEGovernmentConference_2006_2_0910]
  • Attending: Barry Smith

NIAID BRC3 and Inter Operability Working Group meeting

• • February 6-7, 2006, Philadelphia, PA
  • http://www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/genomes/brc/brc3.htm ↑
  • Attending: Suzanna Lewis, Barry Smith

PharmGKB and cBiO meeting

• • January 31, 2006, Stanford, CA
  • Attending: Daniel Rubin (Stanford); Suzanna Lewis, Sima Misra (Berkeley); Russ Altman, Tina Boussard, Teri Klein, Mark Woon (PharmGKB)

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2006

• • January 2-6, 2006, Maui, HI
  • Michael Ashburner (Keynote)
  • http://psb.stanford.edu/ ↑]

NCBC Meeting

• • Dec. 15-16, NIH, Bethesda, MD
  • Attending: Mark Musen, Suzanna Lewis, Monte Westerfield
  • Introducting new NCBCs to each other and NIH staff

Phenotype Annotation Meeting ↑]

• • December 11-12, 2005, Asilomar conference center
  • Attending: Melissa Haendel, Paula Mabee, Erik Segerdell, Monte Westerfield (ZFIN); Gillian Millburn (FlyBase); Mark Gibson, Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall (Berkeley); Chris Callendar, Sean Falconer, Margaret-Anne Storey (UVic)
  • Define requirements of phenotype annotation tools

International Biocurator Meeting ↑]

• • December 8-11, 2005, Asilomar, CA
  • http://biocurator.org/intnlbiocurator.html
  • Attending: Sima Misra (organizer), Chris Mungall (speaker), Monte Westerfield (speaker)

National Bioinformatics Network, South Africa ↑]

• • December 2, 2005, University of Cape Town, SA
  • Michael Ashburner (Keynote)

Phenotype Ontology Content Workshop ↑]

• • Nov. 19-20, 2005, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner, John Day-Richter, George Gkoutos, Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, Mark Musen, Erik Segerdell, Nigam Shah, Monte Westerfield
  • Media:PhenoAgenda.doc

Stanford/Mayo/Berkeley Meetings ↑]

• • Nov. 21, 10am-3pm, Stanford, CA; Nov. 22, 10am-3pm, Berkeley, CA
  • Attending: Lynn Murphy, Mark Musen, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Archana Vembakam, (Stanford); Nomi Harris, Suzanna Lewis, Sima Misra, Chris Mungall, ShengQiang Shu (Berkeley); James Buntrock, Deepak Sharma, Harold Solbrig (Mayo by phone)

Forbes Dewey Meeting

• • Late October, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  • Michael Ashburner, chair
  • Goal to see if anonymous foundation would pay for ontology content unification, standards, collaboration, etc.

Genome Informatics Meeting ↑]

• • Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 2005, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
  • Suzanna Lewis (organizer, speaker)

Workshop on Bio-Ontologies

• • October 28, 2005, Buffalo, NY
  • ↑
  • Presenting: Suzanna Lewis, Frank Hartel, Sumi Yoshikawa, Olivier Bodenreider, David Hill
  • Training session: making ontologies better
    • NCBO

1st International Annual Conference, Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

• • October, 2005, Caxambu, Brazil ↑]
  • Michael Ashburner (Keynote)