Meetings and Events
Upcoming meetings
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Past meetings
NCBO Dissemination Workshops are picked out in yellow. | NCBO co-sponsored events are picked out in green. |
The Future of the Foundational Model of Anatomy
- November 11-12, 2009
- Stanford, CA
From Aristotle to the Universal Core: Ontology Training Event
- October 10-11, 2009
- Buffalo, NY
Signs, Symptoms and Findings: Towards an Ontology for Clinical Phenotypes
- September 3-4, 2009
- Milan, Italy
- Sponsored by the NCBO and Italian National Research Council
International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO)
- July 27-29, 2009
- Buffalo, NY
- Sponsored by the NCBO, 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
- Feb 27-Mar 1, 2009
- Tokyo, Japan
- NCBO
Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies
- January 5, 2009
- Boston, MA
- September 3-4, 2008
- Dallas, TX
- NCBO
How to Make Useful Ontologies for Biomedicine
- July 19, 2008
- Tutorial at ISMB 2008, Toronto, Canada.
- NCBO
Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies
- June 20, 2008
- Workshop held in conjunction with the http://www.cce.umn.edu/conferences/evolution/ Evolution 2008] meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies
- April 12-13, 2008
- 2-Day Training Event, Buffalo, NY
- NCBO
Workshop on Ontologies of Cellular Networks
- March 27-28, 2008
- Newark, NJ
- NCBO
Joint JCOR-NCBO International Biomedical Ontology Dissemination Workshop
- February 26-27, 2008
- Tokyo, Japan
- NCBO
Dagstuhl Seminar: Ontologies and Text Mining for Life Sciences
- July 23-27, 2007: Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
- Organizers: Ulf Leser, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann & Michael Ashburner
- Attending: Michael Ashburner
- http://www.dagstuhl.de/07301
Ontologies for Biomedicine – How to make and use them
- July 21, 2007
- Tutorial by Barry Smith and Nigam Shah at ISMB 2007
- NCBO
Ontologies for Biomedical Systems II at 20th IEEE CBMS 2007
- June 20-22, 2007, Maribor, Slovenia
Reasoning with Biomedical Ontologies
- June 20-23, 2007: Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
- Attending: Deborah McGuinness, Fabian Neuhaus, Nigam Shah, Barry Smith.
Workshop on Clinical Trial Ontology
- May 16-17 2007, venue TBD
- information about Clinical Trial Ontology workshop
- NCBO
Dagstuhl Seminar: Ontology Interoperability in Biomedicine
- March 27-30, 2007, Dagstuhl, Germany
- Attending: Barry Smith, Michael Ashburner, Mark Musen, Nigam Shah, Fabian Neuhaus, Suzanna Lewis, Werner Ceusters
- Invitation only
- NCBO
Ontolog Forum Talk by Barry Smith on Ontology Evaluation in Biomedicine: The OBO Foundry -- A Gold Standard Approach to Ontology Evaluation.
- December 21, 2006
- Smith Slides
- Smith Audio
Phenotype Ontology (Workshop)
- December 1-2, 2006, Clark Center, Stanford, CA
- PATO meeting agenda
- Attending: Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, Mark Gibson, Nicole Washington, Nigam Shah, Fabian Neuhaus, Michael Ashburner, Monte Westerfield
- NCBO
BioPAX Tutorial. exploratory workshop and tutorial on Connecting BioPAX to Other Biomedical Ontologies
- November 20-21, 2006
- MIT
Panel on the Future of HL7
- AMIA Anual Symposium
- November 14, 2006, Washington DC
- http://ontology.buffalo.edu/HL7/panel.htm
- Attending: Barry Smith
Tutorial on Genomics Knowledge Representation for Clinical Trials
- AMIA Annual Symposium
- November 12, 2006, Washington DC
- http://ontology.buffalo.edu/06/AMIAWorkshop.htm
- November 11, 2006
- AMIA, Washington DC
Biomedical Ontology in Action
- KR-MED 2006
- November 8, 2006, Baltimore
- http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/medinf/kr-med-2006/index.html
- Attending: Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith
Workshop on Ontology of Diseases
- In association with FOIS 2006 (Formal Ontology and Information Systems)
- November 6-7, 2006, John Hopkins University, Baltimore
- information on the Disease Ontology Workshop
- Attending: Werner Ceusters, Christopher Chute, Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, Fabian Neuhaus, Nigam Shah, Barry Smith, Monte Westerfield
- NCBO
Fall NCBO Project Meeting
- Oct. 23-25, 2006, Stanford
- All Hands meeting
- Advisory Committee & NIH Program & Science officers invited
Workshop on Philosophy of Biology
- October 14-15, 2006, Buffalo, NY
- http://ontology.buffalo.edu/06/pob
- Attending: Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith
- NCBO
American Society of Human Genetics
- October 9-13, 2006, New Orleans, LA
- http://genetics.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/menu-annmeet.shtml
- Presentation to find collaborators, also ontology workshop
Genomics Standards Consortium Workshop
- National Institute for Environmental e-Science (NIEeS)
- September 11-13, 2006, Hinxton, UK.
- http://www.niees.ac.uk/events/egenomics2006/index.shtml
- Attending: Suzanna Lewis, Michael Ashburner, George Gkoutos
Anatomy Ontology Workshop
- September 8-9, 2006, Seattle
- information on the Anatomy Ontology Workshop
- Attending: Michael Ashburner, Melissa Haendel, Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, Fabian Neuhaus, Nigam Shah, Barry Smith, David Sutherland, Monte Westerfield
- NCBO
Tutorial on Standards and Ontologies
- Medical Informatics Europe
- August 27, 2006, Maastricht, Netherlands.
- http://ontology.buffalo.edu/06/MIE_Tutorial.htm
- Attending: Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith
IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics, 2006
- August 14-18, 2006. Stanford University
- http://www.lifesciencessociety.org/CSB2006/index.html
- Attending: Mark Musen (Keynote), rest of Stanford group (tutorial in bioontologies/semantic web)
ISMB, 2006
- August 6-10, 2006, Fortaleza, Brazil.
- http://ismb2006.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/
- Attending: Michael Ashburner, Suzanna Lewis (Keynote speaker for Bio-ontologies SIG)
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, Suzanna Lewis
Functional Genomics investigation Ontology (FuGO) 2nd Workshop
- July 24-28, 2006, Hinxton, UK
- http://fugo.sourceforge.net/news/index.php
- Attending: Barry Smith
9th International Protege Conference
- July 23-26, 2006, Stanford, CA
- http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2006/
- Attending: Chris Callendar, Christopher Chute, Tricia d'Entremont, Chris Mungall, Mark Musen, Natasha Noy, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Kaustubh Supekar
NCBC All Hands Meeting
- July 17-19, 2006, NIH, Bethesda, MD
- Attending: Michael Ashburner, James Buntrock, Chris Callendar, Simona Carini, Louis Goldberg, Deborah McGuinness, Chris Mungall,Mark Musen, Fabian Neuhaus, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Barry Smith, Nicole Washington, Monte Westerfield
- http://www.bisti.nih.gov/ahm2006/
- Ontology: A Vision for the Future and Its Realization Dissemination Event
- Organizers: Mark Musen, Barry Smith
Core 1 & 2 Project Meeting
- June 27-28, 2006, Berkeley, CA
- Attending: Julie Moseley, Lynn Murphy, Mark Musen, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Archana Vembakam (Stanford); Suzanna Lewis, Sima Misra, Chris Mungall, ShengQiang Shu, Nicole Washington (Berkeley); James Buntrock, Christopher Chute, Harold Solbrig (Mayo); Margaret-Anne Storey (UVic); Sherri De Coronado (NIH)
- Working plan for core 1 & 2 goals
Core 1 & 2 Meeting
- June 9, 2006, Berkeley, CA
- Attending: Dilvan Moreira, Lynn Murphy, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Archana Vembakam (Stanford); Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, ShengQiang Shu, Nicole Washington (Berkeley); James Buntrock, Harold Solbrig (Mayo by phone); Chris Callendar (UVic by phone)
Training Course in Biomedical Ontologies
- http://ontology.buffalo.edu/06/os2/index.html
- May 21-24, 2006, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
- Attending: Werner Ceusters, Mark Musen, Barry Smith
- NCBO
NSF/RCN workshop on ontology and phylogeny
- May 21-24, 2006, St. Louis, MO
- Attending: Michael Ashburner, Suzanna Lewis, Monte Westerfield
Phenotype Annotation Meeting
- May 17-20, 2006, Hinxton, UK
- Attending: Michael Ashburner, Mark Gibson, George Gkoutos, Suzanna Lewis, Gillian Millburn, Chris Mungall, Fabian Neuhaus, Erik Segerdell, Nigam Shah, Monte Westerfield
- PATO meeting agenda
Fish Evolutionary Biology Working Group Meeting
- April 9-11, 2006, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Durham, NC
- Attending: Mark Gibson,Paula Mabee, Chris Mungall, Monte Westerfield
Gene Ontology Workshop
- March 31-April 3, 2006, St. Croix
- Attending: Michael Ashburner, Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, Barry Smith
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
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
- http://www.semantic-conference.com/
- 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
- March 2-4, 2006, Stanford, CA
- 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, CA
- Attending: Christopher Chute, Suzanna Lewis, Mark Musen, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Barry Smith
- NCBO
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)
FuGO meeting
- February 13-15, 2006, Philadelphia, PA
- http://fugo.sourceforge.net/news/index.php
- 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
- http://ontology.buffalo.edu/05/bio-ontologies.pdf
- 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)
Applied Biosystems Inc., Science Meeting
- September, 2005, Asilomar, CA
- Michael Ashburner (Keynote)
MGED8, Bergen
- September, 2005
- Michael Ashburner (Keynote)