2015 Events

2015 Events

Title

Type

Date

Location

iPlant Contact

Institution Contact

Notes

Title

Type

Date

Location

iPlant Contact

Institution Contact

Notes

PAG XXIII (conf website)
 
iPlant PAG Planning page

Conference 

Jan 10-14 

San Diego, CA

J. Williams, E. Lyons

J. Williams

Attendees: Jason Williams, Steve Goff, Nirav Merchant, Eric Lyons,
Nicole Hopkins, Jeremy DeBarry, Uwe Hilgert, Parker Antin
Designated Lodging: Doubletree San Diego Hotel Circle

AVATOL (Assembling, Visualizing, and Analyzing the Tree of Life) Phenomics

Meeting

Jan 12- 14

Biosphere2, AZ

R. Walls

 

iPlant Attendees:  Ramona Walls

iPlant-NSF Monthly Meeting (in-person)

Meeting

Jan 13

TBD

M. Sprinkle

Exec Team

In-person meeting to replace monthly call as Exec Team, Karen Cone and Diane Okamuro are all attending PAG.
Location:  T&C, Rm. XXX (Confirmation no?)

iPlant Get Started Webinar

Webinar

Jan 15 

Online

J. Williams

NA

Monthly webinar for new iPlant account holders

Jetstream Construction Planning Team

Meeting

Jan 20-22

UA, Tucson, AZ

M. Sprinkle

Therese Miller, millertm@indiana.edu

Business purpose - cross-site coordination for the construction phase of the project.
5 tech people coming early on 1/19
Designated lodging -

iPlant Quarterly SAB

Teleconf

Jan 22

virtual

M. Sprinkle

 

Time: 8am - 10 am MST

iSamplES RCN meeting

RCN meeting

Jan 28-30

UT Austin

R. Walls

Kerstin Lehnart, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

R. Walls presented on iPlant infrastrucure

TSW Clemson University

Workshop

Jan 29-30

Clemson, SC

J. Williams

 

Tools & Services workshop

Soymap Professional Development & Networking Workshop

Presentation & Demo

Jan 31

Santa Fe, NM

U. Hilgert

Michael Gonzalez

56 participants

Get Started Webinar

Webinar

Feb 11

Online

J. Williams

 

Monthly webinar for new iPlant account holders

NSF Visit

Meeting

Feb 13

Tucson, AZ

N. Merchant

 

 

Arizona Phenotyping Network

Meeting

Feb 13

Maricopa, AZ

M. Narro

Karen Schumaker

Meeting report

iPlant Webinar: Next Gen Sequencing

Webinar

Feb 20

Online

Roger Barthelson, Martha Narro

 

Next Generation Sequencing: Getting Started, Read Evaluation and Cleanup.

iPlant Software Carpentry Workshop at UA

Workshop

Feb 21-22

Tucson

Uwe H, J. Strootman, N. Zimmerman

 

Curriculum: Shell, git/GitHub, R
75 applicants, 48 participants
BIO 35%, MIS 41%, MATH 9% MED 4%, ENGR 4%
Graduate Students 53%, Ugraudates 21%, Postdocs 17%, Staff 6%, Faculty 4%

Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference on Quantitative Genetics and Genomics

Meeting

Feb 21-27

Barga, Italy

Ann E. Stapleton

 

Ann will present iPlant poster.

2015 Aquatic Sciences Meeting

Meeting

Feb 22-27

Granada, Spain

Bonnie Hurwitz

 

Workshop: iMicrobe: A Cyberinfrastructure to Support Research in Microbial Ecology
Trainer: Bonnie Hurwitz
Date: Tuesday, 24 February, Time: 20:00 to 21:00

Genomics and Big Data in Instruction

Seminar

Feb 24

School of Plant Sciences, UA

Uwe Hilgert

 

 

Observational Data Model Alignment

Workshop

March 2-6

NCEAS, Santa Barbara

R. Walls

Mark Schildhauer, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

Alignment/mapping of ontologies and data models used by iPlant, DataONE, O&M, and the biomedical community

Corn Breeders Meeting and Maize Genetics Meeting

Meeting

March 11-15

St. Charles, IL

Ann E. Stapleton

 

Ann will present iPlant posters.

Get Started Webinar

Webinar

March 11

Online

J. Williams

 

Monthly Getting Started Webinar

Big Data Workshop at Plant Reproduction 2016

Workshop

March 18

Tucson, AZ

E. Lyons

Ravishankar Palanivelu

Abstract: 

The workshop will introduce attendees to resources and tools to analyze big data, including iPlant Discovery Environment (DE), Managing "Big Data, genome management, visualization and analysis of RNASeq, variant calling, and comparative genomics with CoGe.

Attendance capped at 50. Please register for workshop here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9FB9TVX

Field Phenomics Workshop

Workshop

March 18-19

Maricopa, AZ

Martha Narro

 

Martha will present/demo. Meeting report and slides.

Data Carpentry Hack-a-thon

Hack-a-thon

March 23-26

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

J. Williams

 

iPlant will host a hack-a-thon on teaching and evaluation materials for Data Carpentry lessons on NGS data.

2015.03 AIBS Complex Data Integration Workshop

Workshop

March 30-31

Arlington, VA

R. Walls

Paula Mabee, Phenotype RCN; Robert Gropp, AIBS

Press release

Get Started Webinar

Webinar

April 8

Online

J. Williams

 

Monthly webinar for new iPlant account holders

iPlant Webinar - Transcript Assembly: Approaches

Webinar

April 17

Online

R. Barthelson, M. Narro

 

Materials

NSF Charrette on Regional Big Data Innovation Hubs

Meeting

April 17

Wakefeild, MA

J. Williams

 

Jason will be attending the meeting: https://bdhub.info/

USDA-iPlant BigData Workshop on Genome Variation

TSW/TTT

April 19-22

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

L. Wang, D. Ware, Jason. W

 

~25 USDA Investigators will be working on applying iPlant resources to problems in Population Genomics. They will also train on iPlant CI and disseminate these skills within ARS.

Sustainability Retreat

Meeting

April 23-24

Dallas, TX

M. Sprinkle

 

Meeting for Executive Team to determine high-level strategy

Get Started Webinar

Webinar

May 4

Online

J. Williams

 

Monthly webinar for new iPlant account holders

Genomics Standards Consortium (2015.05 GSC17)

Meeting

May 4-6

JGI, Walnut Creek, CA

R. Walls, B. Hurwitz

 

17th Meeting of the Genomics Standards Consortium. Theme: Standards for the Microbial Dark Matter. RW presented on ontologies for linking biodiversity standards and data. BH presented on iMicrobe.

TSW University of Georgia 

TSW

May 7-8

Athens, GA

J. Williams

CJ Tsai(?)

Two-day tools and services workshop.

Big Data + Bioimage Informatics Workshop

Workshop

May 14-15

UC Santa Barbara

Nirav Merchant, Martha Narro

 

Meeting report

Tools and Services Workshop

TSW

May 18-19

Santa Fe, NM

U. Hilgert

Luke Spangenburg (luke.spangenburg@sfcc.edu); Donovan Bailey (dbailey@nmsu.edu); Michael Gonzales (mgonzales@soymap.org)

These workshops will serve the New Mexico and West Texas area and are coordinated to reach institutions where we can impact a large number of users.

Spatial Data Workshop

Workshop

May 20

Tucson, AZ

Nirav Merchant

 

 

Genomics in Education Workshop

GinE

May 21-22

Santa Fe, NM

U. Hilgert

Luke Spangenburg (luke.spangenburg@sfcc.edu); Donovan Bailey (dbailey@nmsu.edu); Michael Gonzales (mgonzales@soymap.org)

Two-day workshop about use of cyberinfrastructure in teaching.

iMicrobe/iVirus Workshop at ASM

Workshop

May 29

New Orleans, LA

J. Williams

 

 

Genome Annotation with MAKER-P

Webinar

May 29

online

Shabari Subramaniam, Martha Narro

 

 

American Society for Microbiology

Conference

May 30 - Jun 2

New Orleans, LA

B. Hurwitz

 

Attendees: B. Hurwitz, R. Walls
Session Title: *iMicrobe: A Cyberinfrastructure to Support Research in Microbial EcologySession Date/Time: *Saturday May 30 2015 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM 

Get Started with iPlant

Webinar

June 3

Online

J. Williams

 

Monthly webinar for new iPlant account holders

RNA-Seq for the Next Generation

Workshop

June 8-12

Bowie, MD

J. Williams

M. Spector (CSHL), George Ude (Bowie State).

A faculty workshop held by the DNALC at Bowie State Univ. will host faculty working on RNA-Seq projects using the DNA Subway Green Line, Data Store, and DE.

Tools and Services Workshop

TSW

June 15-16th

Brookings, SD

J. Williams

Carol L.