2017 Events

2017 Events

See Past Events from previous years. 

Title

Type

Date(s)(mm/dd/yyyy)

Location

CyVerse Contact

Event Contact

Notes

Title

Type

Date(s)(mm/dd/yyyy)

Location

CyVerse Contact

Event Contact

Notes

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Conference

01/04/2017 to 01/08/2017

New Orleans, LA

Blake Joyce

Don Mykles, Karen Burnett, David Durica, Jonathon Stillman, Carl Schmidt, Fiona McCarthy

Wiki page/report

Workshop and booth at SICB

Get Started with CyVerse

Webinar

01/11/2017

Online

Jason Williams

 

Regular monthly webinar for new account holders

XXV International Plant and Animal Genome Meeting (PAG)

Conference

01/14/2017 to 01/18/2017

San Diego, CA

Jason Williams

 

See planned events

Get Started with Cyverse

Webinar

02/08/2017

Online

Jason Williams

 

Regular monthly webinar for new account holders

ASPB Phenome

Conference

02/10/2017 to 02/14/2017

Tucson, AZ

Blake Joyce

 

Attendees: Ramona Walls, Blake Joyce, Tyson Swetnam, Upendra Devisetty, Eric Lyons

Phenotyping Hackathon

Hackathon

02/14/2017 to 02/16/2017

Tucson, AZ

Eric Lyons

Jennifer Clarke (UNL), David LeBauer (NCSA/TERRA), Carolyn Lawrence-Dill (ISU), Argelia Lorence (Ark SU), April Agee Carroll (Purdue U)

Details TBD

WQ-MAKER: A flexible, scalable genome annotation pipeline on Jetstream cloud

Webinar

02/24/2017

Online

Martha Narro

Upendra Devisetty

Materials

26 registrants

Software/Date Carpentry Workshop

Workshop

02/24/2017 to 02/25/2017

University of Arizona

Uwe Hilgert

 

112 applicants, 41 participants.

Applicant breakdown

BIO 29%, MIS 23%, MED 17%, Space 6%, ENGR 5%, and SBS, Optics and GEO each 3%

Graduate Students 55%, Staff 15%, Ugraduates 9%, Postdocs 9%, Faculty 7%, Industry & Government 6%

Get Started with CyVerse

Webinar

03/08/2017

Online

Jason Williams

 

Regular monthly webinar for new account holders

CyVerse UK Workshop

Workshop

03/20/2017 to 03/21/2017

University of York.

Jason Williams

 

See information and agenda here: http://cyverseuk.org/events/cyverse-uk-workshop/ (50)

Transcriptomics with Non-Model Organisms

Webinar

03/24/2017

Online

Martha Narro

Blake Joyce

materials

49 registrants, 29 participants

Get Started with CyVerse

Webinar

04/05/2017

Online

Jason Wiliams

 

Regular monthly webinar for new account holders

AgBioData

Workshop

04/18/2017 to 04/20/2017

Salt Lake City

Ramona Walls

Lisa Harper

Attendees: Ramona Walls, Jason Williams, Liya Wang, James Carson

 Working groups included data access with APIs. Will produce a white paper for USDA and NSF.

Report

Transcriptomics with Non-Model Organisms (Part 2)

Webinar

04/28/2017

Online

Martha Narro

Blake Joyce

Materials

50 registrants, 7 participants

Open Data Science Conference

Conference

05/04/2017 to 05/05/2017

Boston

Kapeel Chougule

 

Report

Get Started Webinar

Webinar

05/10/2017

Online

Jason Williams

 

Regular monthly webinar for new account holders

Systems Biology Workshop

Conference & Workshop

05/15/2017 to 05/24/2017

Melbourne, Australia

Ramona Walls

German Spangenberg

Theoretical and practical workshop organized by AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, La Trobe University.

Report

Get Started Webinar

Webinar

06/07/2017

Online

Jason Williams

 

Regular monthly webinar for new account holders

Plant Biology 2017

Conference

06/23/2017 to 06/28/2017

Honolulu, HI

Jason Williams

 

Annual ASPB Conference. There will be a CyVerse Booth as well as a CyVerse Talk and Bioinformatics Session chaired by J. Williams

Genomics Data Carpentry

Workshop

06/30/2017

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Jason Williams

 

Attendees: Jason Williams, Kapeel Chougule

1-day Data Carpentry workshop at CSHL Plant Biology summer course.

Tools and Services Workshop

Workshop

07/06/2017

Fayetteville, AK

Jason Williams

Douglas Rhoads

2017 CyVerse Workshop at University of Arkansas

Genomics Data Carpentry

Workshop

07/07/2017 to 07/08/2017

Fayetteville, AK

Jason Williams

Douglas Rhoads

2017 CyVerse Workshop at University of Arkansas

Tools and Services/ Genomics in Education Workshop

Workshop

07/10/2017 to 07/12/2017

Harrisonburg, VA

Jason Williams

Ray Enke

2017 CyVerse Workshop at James Madison University

ANGUS: Analyzing High Throughput Sequencing Data

Workshop

06/26/2017 to 07/08/2017

UC Davis

Upendra Devisetty

Titus Brown

No cost to CyVerse. Devisetty will be lead instructor for this 2 week workshop.

Tools and Services Workshop

Workshop

06/26/2017 to 06/28/2017

Jeonju, South Korea

Jawon Song

 

Tools and Services Workshop at Rural Development Administration

Get Started Webinar

Webinar

07/19/2017

Online

Jason Williams

 

Regular monthly webinar for new account holders

New and Improved RNA-Seq Workflow

Webinar

07/21/2017

Online

Tina Lee

Kapeel Chougule

Materials

International Botanical Congress

Conference

07/23/2017 to 07/29/2017

Schenzhen, China

Ramona Walls

 

Happens every 6 years. Ramona will be in China anyway, so will present on CyVerse and an ECS project.

Ecological Society of America

Conference

08/06/2017 to 08/11/2017

Portland, OR

Tyson, Jason

 

 

Get Started Webinar

Webinar

08/09/2017

Online

Jason Williams

 

Regular monthly webinar for new account holders

NCBI Hackathon

Hackathon

08/14/2017 to 08/26/2017

Bethesda, MD

Jason Williams

Ben Busby (NCBI Outreach Lead)

Jason will participate as a team lead at a hackathon sponsored by NCBI

JupyterCon

Conference

08/22/2017 to 08/25/2017

New York City

Nirav Merchant

 

Attendees: Nirav Merchant, Blake Joyce, Edwin Skidmore, Paul Sarando, Kapeel Chogule

Software Carpentry Workshop

Workshop

08/24/2017 to 08/25/2017

Los Alamos

Jason Williams

 

Software Carpentry Workshop at LANL

Software/Data Carpentry Workshop

Workshop

08/26/2017 to 08/27/2017

Tucson, AZ

Uwe Hilgert

 

86 participants

CyVerse Genomics Data Carpentry and Tools and Services Workshop

Workshop

08/28/2017 to 08/30/2017

Las Cruces, NM

Jason Williams

 

2017 CyVerse Workshop at New Mexico State University

Software Carpentry Workshop

Workshop

09/09/2017 to 09/10/2017

Tucson, AZ

Blake Joyce

Robert Henderson

Workshop put on by the HLT and Linguistics department. Designed to be self-sustaining each year from here on out by the HLT/NLP/Linguistics Department. Blake taught two hours of using Atmosphere and Juypter Notebooks.

19 participants

Get Started with CyVerse

Webinar

09/13/2017

Online

Jason Williams

 

Regular monthly webinar for new account holders

Focus Forum: Data Store

Webinar

09/15/2017

Online

Tina Lee

Nirav Merchant, Ramona Walls

Materials

Cotton Inc. Cotton Breeders Tour

Symposium

09/26/2017

Tucson, AZ

Ramona Walls

Judith Brown

Half day symposium highlighting UA research relevant to cotton breeders. RW presented a CyVerse overview. ~100 attendees

SACNAS Pre-Conference 2017

Conference/Workshop

10/18/2017

Salt Lake City, UT

Amanda Cooksey

Joslynn Lee (HHMI, CyVerse User) and Rolando Madrid (SACNAS Director of Programs)

Amanda and Joslynn will lead a half-day workshop "Data Platforms for Life Science Researchers" partnering with Galaxy and Software & Data Carpentry. 27 participants for CyVerse and 28 participants for SW-DC.

Registration Site and CyVerse Wiki

Joslynn gave two SACNAS conference session presenting on CyVerse at the "Resources and Techniques for Training Students in Computational Skills" and "Using Cyberinfrastructure to Enable Data Intensive Research, Collaboration, and Education in Plant Genomics" (~20-25 attendees for each session)

Sixth Annual Workshop of the Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Group

Conference/workshop

10/25/2017 to 10/26/2017

Ann Arbor Michigan

Ramona Walls

Oliver He, Amanda Hicks

Ramona presented 2 talks: MEOWL: Microbial Environments described using OWL  (from the iMicrobe project) and Using cyberinfrastructure to make life sciences data FAIR: lessons learned.

~45 participants

Focus Forum: Leveraging CyVerse for Large-scale Spatial Analysis