2013 Events
iPlant Events and Workshops for 2013
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Title | Type | Date | Location | iPlant Contact | Institution Contact | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Symposium | Jan 3-5 | Anaheim, CA | Nirav Merchant | Sandy Sharp, CSU LA Taskforce Chair | Workshop: Atmosphere Cloud Computing for Education and Research | |
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 | |
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 |
BeanCAP Adv Cmte Meeting | Annual Meeting | Jan 10 | Handlery Hotel and Resort | S. Goff | Phil McClean | 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 |
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) |
Workshop | Jan 22 | Tucson, AZ | N. Merchant, F. McCarthy | Bert Overduin | Participants will include iPlant staff, plus UA departments. Room: Keating 103 | |
Workshop | Jan 23 | Tucson, AZ | N. Merchant, F. McCarthy | Bert Overduin | Participants will include iPlant staff, plus UA departments. Room: Drachman 119 | |
Hackathon | Jan 28-Feb 1 | Tucson, AZ | N. Matasci, 411 | Arlin Stoltzfus | HIP = Hackathons, Interoperability, and Phylogenies Group at NESCent | |
4th AgMIP Development Sprint | Hackathon | Feb 4-8 | Austin, TX | Jayme Brown | 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. |
Biotechnology - Life Sciences Seminar Series at University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Presentation | Feb. 6 | Lincoln, NE | S. Goff | Thomas C. Hoegemeyer | 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. |
Conference | Feb 16 | Santa Clara, CA | D. Micklos |
| Workshop: DNA Barcoding | |
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 |
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 |
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." | |
Meeting | Mar 2 | Tucson, AZ | M. Narro, | Presentation: Martha Narro and Steve Goff, Overview of iPlant, Data Store, and DE | ||
Murray State University | Seminar | Mar 8 | Murray, KY | A. Stapleton |
| Presentation: Ann Stapleton, iPlant Overview |
Informal Talk for General Public | Mar 9 | Tucson, AZ | E. Lyons |
| Presentation: Eric Lyons, "What you can learn from your genome" | |
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 |
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 |