Meetings and Events

On the internal calendar.

Upcoming meetings

• Gene Ontology Workshop
  • March 31-April 3, 2006, St. Croix
  • Attending: Barry, Michael, Suzi, Chris M.

• Fish Evolutionary Biology Working Group Meeting
  • April 9-11, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Durham, NC
  • Attending: Monte, Paula, Mark G., Chris M.

• Phenotype Annotation Meeting
  • May 19, location on East Coast TBD
  • Attending: Monte, Michael, Suzi, BIRN people, Plant Ontology people, etc.

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

• NSF/RCN workshop on ontology and phylogeny
  • May 21-24, St. Louis
  • Attending: Michael, Suzi, Monte

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

• NCBC All Hands Meeting
  • July 17-19, 2006, Washington, DC
  • Attending: Mark, Daniel, Monte, Chris M., Peggy or Chris Ca., ?

• 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, Suzi

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

• IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics, 2006
• August, 2006. Stanford University
  • http://conferences.computer.org/bioinformatics/
  • Attending: Mark Musen (Keynote speaker), rest of Stanford group (tutorial in bioontologies/semantic web)

• Anatomy Ontology Workshop
  • September 8-9, 2006, Seattle
  • information on the Anatomy Ontology Workshop
  • Attending: Michael, Suzi, Monte, Barry, Fabian

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

• Disease Ontology Workshop
  • In association with FOIS 2006 (Formal Ontology and Information Systems)
  • November 6-8, 2006, John Hopkins University, Baltimore
  • information on the Disease Ontology Workshop
  • Attending: Barry, Suzi, Chris, Rex, Monte, Fabian

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2007

• Ontology Interoperability in Biomedicine
  • March 27-30, 2007, Dagstuhl, Germany
  • Invitation only

• Dagstuhl Seminarium: Ontologies and Text Mining for Life Sciences
  • July 23-27, 2007: Dagstuhl, Germany
  • Organizers: Ulf Leser, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann & Michael Ashburner
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner
  • http://www.dagstuhl.de/07301

• Ontology Summer School
  • Aug. ??? 2007, Buffalo

• NECTAR Clinical Research Ontology Workshop
  • ???, 2007, Bethesda ???

• All NCBCs Ontology workshop
  • ???, 2007 with Andreas Califano, Columbia, NY???

• Phenotype Ontology (Upper Level) workshop
  • ???

Past meetings

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

• Immunology Ontology Workshop: NIAID
  • March 21-22, 2006, Gaitherburg, MD
  • Attending: Mark (Session chair), Suzi (speaker), Barry

• Semantic Technology Conference
  • March 6-9, 2006, San Jose, California
  • http://www.semantic-conference.com/
  • Attending: Mark Musen(talk), Deborah McGuinness(keynote, tutorial), Daniel Rubin and Kaustubh Superkar(talk),

• NIH NCRR Animal Models workshop
  • March 6-7, 2006, Bethesda, MD
  • Attending: Monte

• cBio Project Meeting
  • March 2-4, 2006, Stanford University
  • Agenda
  • http://www.smi.stanford.edu/research/cbio/cbio_meeting.html
  • Entire project, NIH Program & Lead Science officers

• BIRN ontology workshop
  • February 28-March 1, 2006, Stanford
  • Attending: Carol, Chris C., Suzi, Barry, Stanford group

• NLM vocabulary collection and distribution meeting
  • February 27-28, 2006, NLM, Washington, DC
  • Attending: Chris M., Chris C., Harold, Deepak, James, Tom, John?, Archana?

• cbio_proj_meeting_0306
  • March 2-4, 2006

• NIAID meeting
  • February, 2006, DC
  • Attending: Mark M.

• cBio Phenotype Annotation tool specification
  • February 21-23, 2006, LBNL
  • Attending: Melissa & Sierra (ZFIN), Suzi, Chris M., Mark G., John, Shu (Berkeley)

• Mini-Syposium on Semantic Enrichment of Scientific Literature
  • February 20, 2006 at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner [talk]

• cBio OBD specification
  • February 17, 2006, LBNL
  • Attending: Ida & Ben (UCSF), Daniel (Stanford), Suzi, Chris M., Mark G., Sima, Shu (Berkeley)

• FuGO meeting
  • February 13-15, 2006, Penn, Philadelphia, PA
  • http://fugo.sourceforge.net/news/index.php
  • Attending: Barry

• 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

• 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: Suzi, Barry

• PharmGKB and cBiO meeting
  • January 31, 2006, Stanford
  • Attending: Daniel (Stanford), Suzi & Sima (Berkeley), Teri Klein, Tina Boussard, Mark Woon, Russ Altman (PharmGKB)

• 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