2014 Events
Title | Type | Date | Location | iPlant Contact | Institution Contact | Notes |
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CANCELLED: Tucson Software Carpentry Bootcamp | Workshop | Jan 6-7 | Tucson, AZ | N. Merchant | Greg Wilson | In combination with Winter Breeding Institute |
Workshop | Jan 6-10 | Tucson, AZ | S. Goff | B. Walsh, A. Randall | Workshop: Bioinformatics Module, Jan. 8-10 | |
Meeting | Jan 9-10 | San Diego, CA | D. Ware | Hannes Dempewolf | Attendees: Steve Goff, Doreen Ware | |
PAG XXII (website) | Conference | Jan 11-15 | San Diego, CA | J. Williams | D. Scherago | Full iPlant@PAG |
ARFP Research Fellow Mtg | Meeting | Jan 16 | Tucson, AZ | S. Goff | V. Lau | Location: Arizona Inn |
IRRI-iPlant Mtg | Meeting | Jan 17 | Tucson, AZ | S. Goff | IRRI Visitors: Ramil Mauleon, Ken McNally, Nicolai Alexandrov | Purpose: to discuss the 1000 rice genomes that IRRI would like iPlant to host for public research. Mtg included: Nicole, Nirav, Naim, Martha, Roger, Edwin |
EAGER: Report on International Data Exchange Requirements (RIDER) Adv Cmte | Meeting | Jan 30-31 | Washington, DC | S. Goff | Jill Gemmill | RIDER = Report on International Data Exchange Requirements |
| Workshop | Jan 31-Feb 1 | McMinnville, OR | J. Williams | Sam Fox | |
Half-Day Scientific Meeting | UA Meeting | Feb 12 | Tucson, AZ | S. Goff | Anne M. Wertheimer, |
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Population and Community Ontology Collaborative Exchange + Biological Collections Ontology Workshop | Workshop | Feb. 18-20 | Tucson, AZ | R. Walls | Judy Logue/Josie A | Sponsored by the Phenotype RCN and the Interoperable Information Infrastructure for Biodiversity Research (I3B) EAGER |
Phenotype RCN | Meeting | Feb 20-23 | Tucson, AZ | R. Walls; T. Lee | E. Huala | iPlant hosted meeting at Biosphere2 |
Invited Talk at TGAC | Presentation | Feb. 28 | Norwich, UK | J. Williams | Rubina K. | Presentation: Jason Williams, The iPlant Collaborative – A Unified Cyberinfrastructure for the New Life Science |
iPlant/CoGe Workshop | Workshop | Mar 3-4 | Wageningen, NL | E. Lyons, J. Williams | E. Schranz | Workshop: The iPlant Collaborative and CoGe |
iPlant Getting Started | Webinar | Mar 10 | N/A | J. Williams |
| Monthly Webinar for new account holders |
Conference | Mar 13-16 | Beijing, CHINA | D. Ware | A. Stapleton | Attendees: Ann Stapleton, Doreen Ware, Jason Williams | |
Maize Genetics | Workshop | Mar 14 | Bejing, CN | J. Williams |
| Workshop: An Introduction to the iPlant Collaborative |
Meeting | Mar 23-25 | San Francisco, CA | D. Ware, M. Schatz, D. Stanzione | D. Ware | Presentations: | |
Train the Trainers | Training | Mar 25 | Davis, CA | J. Williams |
| Trainees: Mike Covington, Joe Fass, Monica Britton, Sebastian Reyes Chin-Wo, Raj Nandety, Aashish Ranjan, Michelle Stitzer |
Workshop | Mar 26-27 | Davis, CA | J. Williams | Monica Britton, Ian Korf | Trainers: Jason Williams, Roger Barthelson, UCD newly-trained trainers | |
CUREnet | Meeting | Mar 31- Apr 2 | Cold Spring Harbor, NY | D. Micklos, J. Williams | D. Micklos | Presentations: |
GSC 16 - Genomics Standards Consortium | Soc. Conference plus Hackathon | Mar 31 - Apr 2 | Oxford, UK | R. Walls | Neil Davies, Dawn Field | Hackathon for the Biological Collections Ontology during the semi-annual GSC meeting |
Bioinformatics and Computation Biology Lecture Series | Presentation | Apr 2 | Ames, IA | S. Goff | R. Jernigan, Dir.; MJ McCunn, admin; Mary Jane McCunn | Presentation: Steve Goff, Using the iPlant cyberinfratstructure platform to explore the potential connection between protein metabolism, hybrid vigor, and cellular aging |
Moorea Avatar Meeting | Meeting | Apr 3-4 | Oxford, UK | R. Walls | Neil Davies, Dawn Field, Neo Martinez | Presentation: Ramona Walls, Supporting international collaborations iPlant style, providing input on use of iPlant's infrastructure for the Moorea AVATAR project. |
Plant Sciences Inst Adv Board | Meeting | Apr 4 | Ames, IA | S. Goff | Deanna Brill (admin), Pat Schnable (dept head) |
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Workshop | Apr 7-10 | Maricopa, AZ | R. Walls | Jeffery White | A three day workshop on field phenomics. | |
Panel Presentation | Apr 9 | Denver, CO | S. Goff | Dan Taylor, Director, Internet2 | Session Title: "Using Big Data to Revolutionize Agriculture Worldwide" *scheduled for *Wednesday, April 9 from 1:15pm-2:30pm. | |
Get Started with iPlant | Webinar | Apr 11 | N/A | J. Williams |
| Monthly Webinar for New Account Holders |
NSF (RCN) Incubator: Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE) | Meeting | Apr 17-18 | Omaha, NB | J. Williams | Mark Pauley | Attendees: Jason Williams, Sally Elgin (iPlant SAB member) |
Workshop | Apr 27-30 | Toronto, ON | J. Williams |
| Attendees: Jason Williams, John Fonner, Jonathan Strootman | |
Conference | Apr 29- May 1 | Boston, MA | J. Carson |
| Attendees: James Carson to attend and represent iPlant and TACC | |
Datasphere | Workshop | May 5-6 | Biosphere2, Oracle, Arizona | N. Merchant, M. Narro | Brian Heidorn, U. Arizona | NSF-funded workshop (~30) to explore the software and cyberinfrastructure needs of the biodiversity and environmental sciences, and address how a software institute might advance these fields. |
Plant Trait Semantics at iDiv | Workshop | May 6-7 | Leipzig, Germany | R. Walls | Jens Kattge | Plant Trait Semantics in the Context of Biodiversity Research: Concepts and Opportunities for Interoperability. |
Software Carpentry Workshop | Workshop | May 12-13 | Cold Spring Harbor, NY | J. Williams |
| iPlant will sponsor a two-day SC workshop at CSHL |
Workshop | May 12-13 | Charlotte, NC | N. Matasci | Ann Loraine | Trainer: Naim Matasci, Naim will teach a class on using R for NGS. | |
Get Started with iPlant | Webinar | May 14 | Online | J. Williams |
| Monthly iPlant orientation webinar |
OpenStack Summit | Conf | May 12-16 | Atlanta, GA | E. Skidmore |
| Attendees: Edwin Skidmore, Steve Gregory |
Workshop | May 20 | Reno, NV | R. Barthelson, U. Hilgert | Christie Howard | Trainer: Roger Barthelson, Roger will lead a tour of iPlant and help a group of local faculty work through RNA-Seq data. | |
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