2018 Events

2018 Events

See Past Events from previous years.

Title

Type

Date(s)

MM/DD/YYY

Location

CyVerse Contact

Local Contact

Notes

 

Title

Type

Date(s)

MM/DD/YYY

Location

CyVerse Contact

Local Contact

Notes

 

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Conference

01/07/2018

San Fransisco, CA

Blake Joyce

Animal Genome to Phenome NSF Research Coordination Network

Don Mykles, David Durica, Jonathan Stillman, Karen Burnett

Blake gave a web presentation instead of traveling. Workshop luncheon demonstrated CyVerse, workflows available at CyVerse, and answered user questions.

 

NSF INCLUDES Summit

Conference

01/08/2018 // 01/10/2018

Alexandria, VA

Jason Williams

 

Jason presented a poster on CyVerse EOT and networked with representatives from other NSF Center-scale research projects.

 

XXVI International Plant and Animal Genome Meeting (PAG)

Conference

01/13/2018 // 01/17/2018

San Diego, CA

Jason Williams

 

See wiki page

 

Materials Data Infrastructure Task Force

Task force

1/22/2018

Pittsburgh, PA

R. Walls

Justin Scott (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society)

Task force to further the aims of this report. Meeting report. 17 participants

 

Focus Forum Webinar: SciApps

Webinar

01/26/2018

virtual

Tina L or Shelley L

L. Wang

materials on wiki page

13 participants

 

NSF Geospatial Software Institute Workshop

Workshop

1/28/2018 - 1/29/2018

Los Angeles, CA

Tyson Swetnam

Shaowen Wang (CyberGIS, University of Illinois)

Goal was to plan for spatial infrastructure

 

Focus Forum Webinar: iMicrobe

Webinar

02/09/2018

virtual

Tina L or Shelley L

B. Hurwitz

materials available on wiki page

36 participants

 

Software Carpentry Workshop

Workshop

02/10/2018 // 02/11/2018

Tucson, AZ

 

Uwe Hilgert (BIO5)

See wiki page

 

Phenome 2018

Conference

02/13/2018 // 02/17/2018

Tucson, AZ

Blake Joyce

 

Two presentations to the entire conference (252 attendees)

Two presentations in sessions (50-60 participants)

Booth visited by approximately 40 attendees for specific questions

 

Docker Demo

Workshop

02/15/2018 // 02/15/2018

Tucson, AZ

Upendra Devisetty

Uwe Hilgert (BIO5)

 

 

Public Access to Research Data

Workshop

22-23 Feb. 2018

Alexandria, VA

R. Walls

Mike Hildreth (Notre Dame) & Kerstin Lehnert (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia)

NSF Workshop to Gather Disciplinary Perspectives on Public Access to Data. Meeting report. 12 participants.

 

Focus Forum Webinar: CyVerse SDK

Webinar

23 Feb

virtual

Tina L or Shelley L

John Fonner

materials available on wiki page

7 participants

 

Astrolabe Workshop

Workshop

03/01/2018

Oracle, AZ

R. Walls, S. Miller

Bryan Heidorn

Workshop to ingest data into Astrolabe. Susan presented a CyVerse overview, Ramona demo'd DE metadata features. ~15 attendees.

 

CyVerse Container Camp

Workshop

03/07/2018 // 03/09/2018

Tucson, AZ

Upendra Devisetty

Upendra Devisetty, Nirav Merchant

34 registrants (of which 1 cancelled)

 

CyVerse Genomics Data Carpentry and Tools and Services

Workshop

03/07/2018 // 03/09/2018

Raleigh, NC

Jason W.

Carlos Goller (local host)

CyVerse Genomics Data Carpentry and Tools and Services workshops at NC State

 

Data and Image Analysis in CyVerse

Workshop

03/15/2018

Maricopa, AZ

Blake

Alison Thompson

90 minute intro to phenotyping and image analysis in CyVerse

Taught at the MAC high-throughput phenotyping week long workshop

 

RDA11

Conference

03/20/2018-03/23/2018

Berlin, Germany

R. Walls

Michael Hildreth, Kerstin Lenhert

Ramona will give a CyVerse presentation at the session on data preservation.

 

ASPB Southern Regional Meeting

Conference

03/24/2018 // 03/26/2018

New Orleans, LA

Jason Williams

 

Jason giving invited Keynote (100)

 

Data Carpentry Workshop

Workshop

04/11/2018 // 04/12/2018

San Francisco, CA

Jason Williams

Olga botvinnik

Hosted Data Carpentry Workshop at the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub

(33 attendees)

 

CyVerse Genomics Data Carpentry and Tools and Services

Workshop

05/16/2018 // 05/18/2018

New Orleans, LA

Jason Williams

 

CyVerse Genomics Data Carpentry and Tools and Services workshops at University of New Orleans (25 DC/ 25TSW)

 

Amazon Research

Seminar

05/25/2018

Cambridge, UK

Jason Williams

 

Invited Talk: Scaling Science by Scaling People, Purpose-built Cyberinfrastructure for Life Science (40 attendees)

 

Data Carpentry Workshop

Workshop

05/28/2018 // 05/29/2018

Dublin, IE

Jason Williams

 

Genomics Data Carpentry at University College Dublin, Co-Hosted with deNBI, Wellcome Trust (32 participants)

 

CarpentryCon

Conference

05/30/2018 // 06/01/2018

Dublin, IE

Jason Williams

 

Jason will be participating in the conference, including activities related to the DC genomics lessons.

 

GSC 20

Hackathon and Conference

May 2-4, 2018

San Diego, CA

 R. Walls

Rob Knight, UCSD

Ramona attended hackathon on how to better serve MIxS standards for sequence data

 

Open Repositories

Conference

June 4-7

Boseman, MT

R. Walls

none

Ramona presented on Identifier Services

 

CyVerse Genomics Data Carpentry and Machine Learning

Workshop

06/22/2018 // 06/24/2018

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Jason Williams

 

We will be teaching Genomics Data Carpentry and an intro to ML module co-developed with Data Camp.

 

Galaxy Community Con/BOSC

Conference

06/25/2018 // 06/30/2018

Portland, OR

Jason Williams

 

This is a great target for the developer community. Jason will attend a portion.

 

CSHL Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Biology

Course

07/02/2018

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Jason Williams

 

Jason will give a one day lecture and lab including CyVerse and Data Carpentry

 

Plant Biology 2018

Conference

07/14/2018 // 07/19/2018

Montreal, CA

Jason Williams

 

CyVerse will have a booth and co-hosting a workshop

 

CyVerse Genomics Data Carpentry and Tools and Services

Conference

08/13/2018 // 08/15/2018

Ft. Collins, CO

Jason Williams

 

CyVerse Genomics Data Carpentry and Tools and Services workshops at Colorado State (Dates and campus may adjust slightly)

 

SACNAS 2018

Conference

10/10/2018

San Antonio, TX

Blake Joyce

Joslynn Lee

Teaching introduction to data analysis in CyVerse and SWC with the Tracy Teal.

Blake's last hurrah as a CyVerse Science Team member!

 

Focus Forum Webinar:  VICE

Webinar

11/02/2018

virtual

Tina

Upendra Devisetty, Tyson Swetnam

Introductory level webinar on how to use VICE; materials on wiki page.

 

Biological Data Science

Conference

11/07/18 // 11-10-18

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Jason Williams

 

Bi-annual meeting on Biological Data Science, including posters on CyVerse Education and Training (JWilliams) and SciApps (Zhenyuan).

 

Focus Forum Webinar: Making your data FAIR with CyVerse

Webinar

11/30/2018

virtual

Tina

Ramona Walls

Introductory level webinar on how to use CyVerse features to make your data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR); materials on wiki page.

 

EMBL-ABR CyVerse Webinar

Webinar

11/31/18

Melbourne, AU

Jason Williams

 

Delivered webinar on CyVerse CI including into to DE, VICE, Data Store, and Atmosphere (18 online)

 

BioInfoSummer

Workshop

12/03/18 // 12/07/18

Perth, AU

Jason Williams

 

Jason presented a talk (Improving the Bioinformatics Curriculum) and presented workshop on RNA-Seq/Single-cell RNA-Seq using CyVerse tools/learning materials. (130 talk; 27 workshop)

 

CyVerse UK workshop

Workshop

12/10/18 //12/12/18

Norwich, UK

Jason Williams

 

3 Day workshop on CyVerse UK tools - focused on RNA-Seq (See agenda).(34 Data Carpentry 35 TSW)