2015 Events
Title | Type | Date | Location | iPlant Contact | Institution Contact | Notes |
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PAG XXIII (conf website) | Conference | Jan 10-14 | San Diego, CA | J. Williams, E. Lyons | J. Williams | Attendees: Jason Williams, Steve Goff, Nirav Merchant, Eric Lyons, |
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. |
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. |
iPlant Quarterly SAB | Teleconf | Jan 22 | virtual | M. Sprinkle |
| Time: 8am - 10 am MST |
RCN meeting | Jan 28-30 | UT Austin | R. Walls | Kerstin Lehnart, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University | R. Walls presented on iPlant infrastrucure | |
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 |
Meeting | Feb 13 | Tucson, AZ | N. Merchant |
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Arizona Phenotyping Network | Meeting | Feb 13 | Maricopa, AZ | M. Narro | Karen Schumaker | |
Webinar | Feb 20 | Online | Roger Barthelson, Martha Narro |
| Next Generation Sequencing: Getting Started, Read Evaluation and Cleanup. | |
Workshop | Feb 21-22 | Tucson | Uwe H, J. Strootman, N. Zimmerman |
| Curriculum: Shell, git/GitHub, R | |
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. |
Meeting | Feb 22-27 | Granada, Spain | Bonnie Hurwitz |
| Workshop: iMicrobe: A Cyberinfrastructure to Support Research in Microbial Ecology | |
Genomics and Big Data in Instruction | Seminar | Feb 24 | School of Plant Sciences, UA | Uwe Hilgert |
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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 | |
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 |
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: | |
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. |
Workshop | March 30-31 | Arlington, VA | R. Walls | Paula Mabee, Phenotype RCN; Robert Gropp, AIBS | ||
Get Started Webinar | Webinar | April 8 | Online | J. Williams |
| Monthly webinar for new iPlant account holders |
Webinar | April 17 | Online | R. Barthelson, M. Narro |
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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. |
Workshop | May 14-15 | UC Santa Barbara | Nirav Merchant, Martha Narro |
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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 |
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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 |
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Webinar | May 29 | online | Shabari Subramaniam, Martha Narro |
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Conference | May 30 - Jun 2 | New Orleans, LA | B. Hurwitz |
| Attendees: B. Hurwitz, R. Walls | |
Get Started with iPlant | Webinar | June 3 | Online | J. Williams |
| Monthly webinar for new iPlant account holders |
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. |