Meetings and Events

On the internal calendar.

Upcoming meetings

• 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: Mark, Suzi, Barry

• Fourth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference
  • February 9-10, 2006, MITRE, McLean, VA
  • [http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FourthSemanticInteroperabilityforEGovernm

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• • Attending: Barry

• cBio Project Meeting
  • March 2-4, 2006, Stanford Unversity
  • Entire project & Scientific Advisory board
  • Project meeting & internal workshop led by Barry.

• NIAID Ontology Workshop: Focus on Immunity
  • March 21-22, 2006, Bethesda, MD
  • Attending: Mark (Session chair), Suzi (speaker)

• Biomedical Image Ontology Workshop
  • March 24-25, 2006, Stanford University
  • CCB NCBC and others with biomedical image ontologies

• Training Course in Biomedical Ontologies
  • http://ontology.buffalo.edu/06/os2/index.html
  • May 21-24, 2006, Schloss Dagstuhl
  • Barry

• NCBC Biomedical Ontology Workshop
  • Later in 2006
  • Other NCBC's

• NCBC All Hands Meeting
  • July 17-19, 2006, Washington, DC

• In Silico Analysis of Proteins. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Swiss-Prot
  • Jul 30- August 4, 2006, Fortaleza, Brazil.
  • http://www.swissprot20.org/
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner

• ISMB, 2006
  • August 6-19, 2006. Fortaleza, Brazil.
  • http://ismb2006.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/
  • Attending: Michael, Suzi (Keynote speaker in Bio-ontologies), Nipam & Fabian (Tutorial)

• IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics, 2006
• August, 2006. Stanford University
  • http://conferences.computer.org/bioinformatics/
  • Attending: Mark Musen (speaker)

• American Society of Human Genetics
  • October 10-14, 2006, New Orleans, LA
  • Presentation to find collaborators, also ontology workshop

• Biomedical Ontology Workshop in association with FOIS 2006 (Formal Ontology and Information Systems)
  • November 6-8, 2006, John Hopkins University
  • Barry

Past meetings

• Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2006
  • Maui, HI, January 2-6, 2006
  • Michael Ashburner, Keynote.
  • http://psb.stanford.edu/

• NCBC Meeting
  • Dec. 15-16, NIH
  • Attending: Mark, Suzi, Monte
  • Introducting new NCBCs to each other and NIH staff

• Phenotype Annotation Meeting
  • December 11-12, 2005, Asilomar conference center
  • Attending
    • From ZFIN: Monte Westerfield, Erik Segerdell, Melissa Haendel, Paula Mabee
    • From FlyBase: Gillian Millburn
    • From Berkeley: Suzi Lewis, Chris Mungall, Mark Gibson
    • From Victoria: Peggy Storey, Chris Callendar, Sean Falconer
  • Define requirements of phenotype annotation tools

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

• National Bioinformatics Network, South Africa
  • December 2, 2005, University of Cape Town.
  • Michael Ashburner, Keynote talk at Official Opening.

• Phenotype Ontology Content Workshop
  • Nov. 19-20, 2005, CSHL
  • Attending
    • From cBio: Mark, Nigam, Suzi, Chris, John, Michael, George, Monte, Erik (not Barry)
    • Jonathan Bard, XSPAN
    • Thomas Bittner, Lou Goldberg, Fabian Neuhaus, NCOR
    • Judy Blake, MGD
    • Mike Cherry, Jane Lomax, GO
    • Rex Chisolm, Pascale Gaudet, NuGene project
    • Rachel Drysdale, FlyBase
    • Akhilesh Pandey, OMIM
    • Anne Kwitek, RGD
    • Yves Lussier, SNOMED
  • Media:PhenoAgenda.doc

• Stanford/Mayo/Berkeley Meetings
  • Nov. 21, 10am-3pm, Stanford; Nov. 22, 10am-3pm, Berkeley
  • Attending
    • From Stanford: Mark, Daniel, Archana, Lynn, Nigam
    • From Berkeley: Suzi, Chris, Sima, Shu, Nomi
    • From Mayo: Deepak, Harold, Jim
  • Draft Agenda, Mayo/Berkeley Visit, Monday, Nov 21, 2005

• Forbes Dewey Meeting
  • Late October, MIT
  • 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, CSHL
  • Suzi will gave presentation on cBio.
  • Birds of a feather sessions, one on ontology.

• Workshop on Bio-Ontologies
  • October 28, 2005, Buffalo, NY
  • http://ontology.buffalo.edu/05/bio-ontologies.pdf
  • Presenting: Suzi, Frank Hartel, Sumi Yoshikawa, Olivier Bodenreider, David Hill
  • Training session on making ontologies better

• 1st International Annual Conference, Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Caxambu, Brazil
  • October, 2006
  • Michael Ashburner, Keynote.

• Applied Biosystems Inc., Science Meeting, Asilomar
  • September 2005
  • Michael Ashburner, Keynote.

• MGED8, Bergen
  • September, 2005
  • Michael Ashburner, Keynote