April 2013 GMOD Meeting

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Meeting date: 5-6 April 2013 (before Biocuration 2013)

Meeting location: the Hauser Forum, Cambridge, UK

Online registration form

Registration

Register for the GMOD meeting online now!

Speakers

If you are interested in giving a talk at the meeting, please contact the GMOD Help Desk with the topic of the talk and estimated time length. If you would like to give a lightning talk, you can sign up below or email the help desk.

Agenda

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Kentaro Yoshida of The Sainsbury Lab on the Open Ash Dieback Project

The Open Ash Dieback project, an exciting (and vital) effort to gain insight into ash dieback, a chronic fungal disease of ash trees. Ash dieback is caused by a fungus, Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus, and is characterised by leaf loss and crown dieback in infected trees. Ash dieback has already caused significant damage to tree populations in northern Europe and was recently discovered in the UK. The Open Ash Dieback project embraces the new paradigms of open science and crowdsourcing by making all its data public and asking scientists to analyse genetic data from ash and the fungus.

More information and media coverage of OADB:

Guest Speakers

  • Drupal at EBI (Joseph Rossetto/Bren Vaughan)
  • What the Gene Ontology can do for you (Dr. Jane Lomax; Saturday AM)
  • BioJS (Manuel Corpas)

GMOD



  • JBrowse hackathon on Apr 6th (afternoon)?
  • What to do about dormant / dead GMOD components

Lightning Talks

10-15 minutes on GMOD-related topics.


If you have any suggestions for topics or activities for the 2013 GMOD meeting, please add them here or email them to the GMOD helpdesk.


Remote Attendance

We plan to use Go To Meeting web conferencing software to allow people to "attend" the meeting remotely with video and audio streams. Please add your name below or email the GMOD helpdesk if you would like to attend.

  • Todd Vision, UNC
  • Paul Hale, MGI
  • Stephen Ficklin


Accommodation

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Accommodation is available at Churchill College (the location of Biocuration 2013) for £60 +VAT for a single room with en suite bathroom; this price includes breakfast. Please contact Kelly Bridge, Conference Co-ordinator (Accommodation), directly on kelly.bridge@chu.cam.ac.uk to book.

Other options are also available in Cambridge, including Lucy Cavendish College which has rooms available for the full span of the GMOD and Biocuration meetings. Lady Cavendish is a 10 minute walk to the Biocuration meeting and a 20 minute walk to the GMOD Meeting.