2013 Events

2013 Events

iPlant Events and Workshops for 2013

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Title

Type

Date

Location

iPlant Contact

Institution Contact

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Title

Type

Date

Location

iPlant Contact

Institution Contact

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CSUPERB

Symposium

Jan 3-5

Anaheim, CA

Nirav Merchant

Sandy Sharp, CSU LA Taskforce Chair

Workshop:  Atmosphere Cloud Computing for Education and Research
Trainers: Nirav Merchant, Andre Mercer

2013 Tucson Winter Institute in Plant Breeding

Workshop

Jan 7-11

Bio5 Institute, Tucson, AZ

S. Goff

B. Walsh, BIO5

Module 4 (Slides): iPlant Overview, Discovery Environment, Heterosis, Cloud Computing, Climate Models, Data Store (Quick Start Guide), CoGe, Molecular Breeding, Integrated Breeding Platform
Trainers: Steve Goff and Nirav Merchant

International Biogeography Society Mtg

Annual Meeting

Jan 9-12

Miami, FL

M. Narro

 

Presentation: Brian Enquist, The commonness and distribution of rarity: Quantifying the botanical diversity of all plant species in the Americas
Posters:
- Benjamin Blonder*, Assembly of plant communities in climate space
- John C. Donoghue, Quantifying the fundamental unit of biogeography: Assessing different methods to measure geographic range size and why it matters
- Benoit Parmentier, Climate interpolation of daily maximum temperature: improvements for the production of climate datasets
* Lists M Narro as co-author

BeanCAP Adv Cmte Meeting

Annual Meeting

Jan 10

Handlery Hotel and Resort
950 Hotel Circle North
San Diego, CA

S. Goff

Phil McClean
BeanCAP Project Director

Steve Goff invited; not attending as he'll be teaching at Winter Breeding Institute.

National Institute for Food and Agriculture - Animal Project Directors' Meeting

Meeting

Jan 11

San Diego, CA

D. Ware

 

Presentation: Doreen Ware, Overview of iPlant

Tools and Services Workshop @ PAG

Workshop

Jan 11

Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina

J. Williams

N/A

Half-day workshop (~1:00PM-7:00PM) one day before the start of PAG.  The Sheraton is adjacent to the San Diego airport.

PAG XXI (wikipage)

Conference

Jan 12-16

San Diego, CA

S. Goff

 

PAGXXI (website)
Early Pre-Registration - accepted up through and including October 31
Standard Pre-Registration - November 1 through January 9th
On site Registration - available after January 9th, 2013

Ensembl Browser Workshop @ UA

Workshop

Jan 22

Tucson, AZ

N. Merchant, F. McCarthy

Bert Overduin
Vertebrate Genomics Team
EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD
United Kingdom

Participants will include iPlant staff, plus UA departments.  Room: Keating 103
Limit: 45 people

Ensembl API Workshop @ UA

Workshop

Jan 23

Tucson, AZ

N. Merchant, F. McCarthy

Bert Overduin
Vertebrate Genomics Team
EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD
United Kingdom

Participants will include iPlant staff, plus UA departments.  Room: Drachman 119
Limit: 20 people

iPlant HIP Hackathon

Hackathon

Jan 28-Feb 1

Tucson, AZ

N. Matasci, 411

Arlin Stoltzfus 
arlin@umd.edu
Fellow, IBBR; Adj. Assoc. Prof., UMCP; Research Biologist, NIST
IBBR, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD, 20850

HIP = Hackathons, Interoperability, and Phylogenies Group at NESCent
Room: Keating 103 (and breakout rooms) 

4th AgMIP Development Sprint

Hackathon

Feb 4-8

Austin, TX

Jayme Brown
411

Steve Welch

Invited workshop for AgMIP community. The main goal of the workshop is to develop data translation tools to enable multiple crop models to be used by AgMIP researchers.  Info about AgMIP Development Workshops can be found here.

Big Data Computing: Building a Vision for ARS Information Management

Meeting

Feb. 5-6

GWCC, Beltsville, MD

D. Ware, M. Vaughn

 

The USDA ARS is hosting a meeting on big data.  
Presentations:
Doreen Ware, 
Matthew Vaughn,

Biotechnology - Life Sciences Seminar Series at University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Presentation

Feb. 6

Lincoln, NE

S. Goff

Thomas C. Hoegemeyer
362 H Plant Science Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE  68583-0915 402-472-7049

Presentation: Steve Goff, The heterosis model, why iPlant tools/CI are necessary to solve this, and other basic biology questions

BIOSA/BIO5 Student Industry Networking Event

Meeting

Feb 13

Tucson, AZ

U. Hilgert

BIO5 EOT

Andre Mercer, Chris LaRose, Monica Lent, and Tina Lee to provide information about Big Data in biomedical research to UA graduate and undergraduate students. 

Technology in Tucson: Industry and Education Showcase 

Trade Show

Feb 16

Tucson, AZ

U. Hilgert

AZ Tech Council

Uwe Hilgert to staff booth providing information about iPlant Collaborative. 

GinE @ National Biotechnology Education Conference

Conference

Feb 16

Santa Clara, CA

D. Micklos

 

Workshop: DNA Barcoding
Trainers: Dave Micklos

Gordon Research Conference in Quantitative Genetics and Genomics

Conference

Feb. 17- 22

Galveston, TX

D. Ware, S. Goff, A. Stapleton

 

Presentation: Steve Goff, The iPlant Collaborative
This will be given in Doreen's stead.
Attendees: Ann Stapleton, Bruce Walsh, and many other associated collaborators.

Phenotype RCN

Meeting

Feb 23-25

NESCent, Durham, NC

R. Walls

Eva

Ramona Walls to represent iPlant at the meeting.

UA Microbiology Dept. Lecture Series

Seminar 

Feb 27

Tucson, AZ

S. Goff

Maggie So, Immunology Dept.

Presentation: Steve Goff, The heterosis model, why iPlant tools/CI are necessary to solve this, and other basic biology questions. 1PM, MRB102

Genomes to Germplasm

Meeting

Feb 28 - Mar 2

INRA, Versailles, France

N. Merchant, E. Lyons

P. Kersey, EMBL

Nirav Merchant and Eric Lyons to represent iPlant on "...(ii) informatics needs and solutions: what infrastructure and data standards are available, and what componenets are missing or underdeveloped, particularly in the context of globally distributed activities,..."  and "...(iv) tools needed to practically apply these data for the purposes of plant breeding and crop development."

RCN Pollen Meeting

Meeting

Mar 2

Tucson, AZ

M. Narro,

Ravi Palanivelu

Presentation: Martha Narro and Steve Goff, Overview of iPlant, Data Store, and DE
Presentation: Naim Matasic, Atmosphere 
Presentation: Shannon Oliver and Andrew Predoehl, Bisque
Presentation: Matt Bomhoff, CoGe

Murray State University

Seminar 

Mar 8

Murray, KY

A. Stapleton

 

Presentation: Ann Stapleton, iPlant Overview 

Tucson Festival of Books

Informal Talk for General Public

Mar 9

Tucson, AZ

E. Lyons

 

Presentation: Eric Lyons,  "What you can learn from your genome"
Part of Science Cafe Talks at the Book Festival, Main Stage, 3PM.

Ecological and Functional Genomics Group @ SUNY Stony Brook

Seminar

Mar 11

Stony Brook, NY

C. Noustsos

 

Presentation: Christos Noutsos, "Big Data in Plant Biology: an example in Ecology and Evolution"

High Tech Anthropology by Menlo Innovations

Course

Mar 11-15

Ann Arbor, MI

S. Oliver

 

Training for Shannon Oliver on Agile software Development
Designated Lodging: Campus Inn Ann Arbor

TSW @ Maize Genetics Conference

Workshop

Mar 14

Pheasant Run Resort, St. Charles, IL

U. Hilgert

Margy Moore 

Half-day workshop (~10:00AM-3:00PM) one day before the Maize Genetics Conference 2013.

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Presentation

Mar 18-19