April 2013 GMOD Meeting
Meeting date: 5-6 April 2013 (before Biocuration 2013)
Meeting location: the Hauser Forum, Cambridge, UK
Contents
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:
- Paper: Crowdsourcing genomic analyses of ash and ash dieback – power to the people
- Scientists crowdsource to decode genetic code of ash dieback fungus - from The Guardian
- Open Science versus Ash Dieback
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
- GMOD: the 5 year plan (Scott)
- Galaxy CloudMan Workshop (Dave Clements)
- Community Building and Maintenance (Dave Clements)
- GMODsurveyome redux (Amelia Ireland)
- Using CAS-Utils (Community Annotation System Utilities) in real life (Emmet O'Brien)
- Updates on actively developed GMOD components (please sign up!)
- Chado update?
- Galaxy Project Update (Dave Clements)
- GBrowse
- InterMine
- JBrowse (Gregg Helt)
- MAKER
- Tripal (Stephen Ficklin, Saturday)
- WebApollo (Moni Munoz-Torres)
- etc. (add your component here!)
- JBrowse hackathon on Apr 6th (afternoon)?
- What to do about dormant / dead GMOD components
Lightning Talks
10-15 minutes on GMOD-related topics.
- TAIR PLAIN, Bob Muller
- iAnn collaborative announcement dissemination, Manuel Corpas, Rafael Jiminez
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
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.