2016 Events

2016 Events

Title

Type

Date

Location

CyVerse Contact

Institution Contact

Notes

Title

Type

Date

Location

CyVerse Contact

Institution Contact

Notes

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)

Conference

Jan 3-7

Portland, OR

Blake Joyce

Don Mykles, Karen Burnett, David Durica, Jonathon Stillman, Carl Schmidt, Fiona McCarthy

Hosted a lunch community assessment session, a booth for determining community interests, published a peer-reviewed white paper, and a Journal of Visualized Experiments peer-reviewed publication.

XXIV International Plant and Animal Genome Meeting

Conference

Jan 9-13

San Diego, CA

Jason W.

N/A

We will have several workshops, sessions, and a booth.

Agenda for PAG

Phenology Ontology Workshop

Workshop

Jan 12-17

Ft. Collins, CO

R. Walls

Jill Baron

Workshop to build an initial draft of the Plant Phenology Ontology, funded by NEON and hosted by the USGS Powell Center.

iSamplES RCN annual meeting

Workshop

Jan 25-27

RenCI, Chapel Hill, NC

R. Walls

Kerstin Lehnert, Chris Lenhardt

Annual meeting of the Internet of Samples for Earth Science Research Coordination

Software Carpentry Workshop: Programming in R

Workshop

Jan 23-24

Tucson, AZ

Uwe Hilgert

Uwe

Curriculum: Intermediate R
58 applicants, 45 participants

BIO 27%, MIS 20%, MED 11%, MATH 11%, ENV 7%, SSBS 5%, ENGR 4%, Space Sciences 4%, IT 4%, Library 4%

Graduate Students 60%, Postdocs 19%, Faculty 7%, Ugraduates 7%, Staff 5%

Software Carpentry Workshop: Programming in Python

Workshop

Jan 30-31

Tucson, AZ

Uwe Hilgert

Uwe

Curriculum: Intermediate Python
67 applicants, 47 participants
MIS 36%, BIO 27%, MED 13%, ENGR 8%, MATH 6%, ENV 5%
Graduate Students 64%, Postdocs 18%, Ugraduates 6%, Staff 6%, Faculty 6%

Focus Forum Webinar:

Digital Imaging of Root Traits (DIRT)

Webinar

Jan 29

online

Martha

Alex Bucksch, Georgia Tech U

registration, materials

79 registrants, 34 participants

Data Carpentry Workshop on NGS Data

Workshop

Jan 19-20

Stony Brook, NY

Jason W.

Joshua Rest

Data Carpentry workshop on iPlant/DC developed NGS lessons

Genomics in Education - The University of Delaware

Workshop

Feb 1-2

Newark, DE

Jason W.

Alenka Hlousek-Radojcic

Standard Genomics in Education Workshop

Tools and Services Workshop - The University of Delaware

Workshop

Feb 3-4

Newark, DE

Jason W.

Alenka Hlousek-Radojcic

Standard Tools and Services Workshop

Getting Started with iPlant

Webinar

Feb 10

Online

Jason W.

 

Monthly webinar for new account holders

PHOIBOS2 Identifier Workshop

Workshop

Feb 17-19

Oracle, AZ

R. Walls, M. Esteva

 

NSF funded workshop and hackathon on identifier technologies

MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (MCBIOS)

Workshop

Mar 3-5

Memphis, TN

Jason W.

Bindu Nandri

We will do a half-day workshop at this event

Get started with CyVerse

Webinar

Mar 9

Online

Jason Williams

 

Monthly webinar for new account holders

Tools and Services Workshop - The Ohio State University

Workshop

Mar 17-18

Wooster, OH

Jason W.

Asela Wijeratne

Standard Tools and Services Workshop

Tools and Services Workshop - Plant Reproduction 2016 Conference

Workshop

Mar 18

Tucson, AZ

Eric Lyons

Ravi Palanivelu

Three hour workshop: Intro to CyVerse; Hands-on with Data Store, DE, Atmo; Genome management and analysis with CoGe

Education and Outreach Webinar Series: iPlant's DNA Subway

Webinar

Mar 23

Online

Jason Williams

Molly Phillips

Jason will present on CyVerse EOT and DNA Subway as part of this iDigBio Webinar series

Using Docker to bring tools into the Discovery Environment

Webinar

Mar 25

Online

Martha Narro

Roger Barthelson, Upendra Devisetty

registration, materials

30 registrants, 12 participants

Software Carpentry Workshop

Workshop

Mar 28-Apr 1

Tucson, AZ

Uwe Hilgert

Uwe Hilgert

Sequence of five 1/2-day workshops. >Registration >Material >Eherpad

Curriculum: Shell, git/GitHub, R, Atmosphere
48 applicants, 39 participants

Applicant breakdown:
BIO 29%, MED 25%, Optical Sciences 19%, Space Sciences 6%, Math 6%, Linguistics 6%, Chemistry 4%
Graduate Students 47%, Ugraduates 8%, Postdocs 19%, Staff 13%, Faculty 11%

Genomics in Education Workshop - Southern Illinois University -Carbondale

Workshop

Mar 29-30

Carbondale, IL

Jason W.

Jane Geisler-Lee

Standard Genomics in Education Workshop

Tools and Services Workshop - Southern Illinois University -Carbondale

Workshop

Mar 31-Apr 1

Carbondale, IL

Jason W.

Jane Geisler-Lee

Standard Tools and Services Workshop

Conference

April 4-5

Columbia,

Missouri

Nirav M.

Trupti Joshi

Presentation

CyVerse Training Day

Workshop

Apr 11th

Melbourne, AU

Jason W.

Vicky Schneider

Jason will be hosted by EMBL Australia Bioinformatics Director for collaborations and a one-day workshop.

Nectar Research Software Infrastructure Workshop

Workshop

Apr12th

Melbourne, AU

Jason. W

Vicky Schneider/Michelle Barker

Jason will present CyVerse as a type of US 'Virtual Laboratory', presenting an overview of the project as well as the development of Atmosphere

Get Started with CyVerse

Webinar

April 20

Online

J. Williams

 

Monthly webinar for new account holders

Focus Forum Webinar: Collaborating with Image Data in Bisque

Webinar

April 22

Online

Martha Narro

Kris Kvilekval, Dmitry Fedorov, Ramona Walls

materials

28 registrants, 17 participants

NSF AVATOL PIs meeting

Workshop

April 26-27

Arlington, VA

R. Walls, N. Merchant

Joe Miller

NSF hosted meeting for all PIs of the three AVATOL projects to discuss sustainability. RW participated as PI, NM as sustainability expert. (~40 participants)

OBI-ECO evidence meeting

Workshop

May 11-12

Baltimore, MD

R. Walls

Marcus Chibucos

Joint meeting of the Evidence Ontology (ECO) and Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) to discuss modeling evidence. RW is on ECO advisory board.

Big Genomic Data Skills Training for Professors

Workshop

May 24

Farmington, CT

J. Williams

Jeff Chuang

Jason will give a one-day presentation on analyzing genomics data using CyVerse resources

External Scripting for Bisque Workflows

Webinar

May 25

Online

M. Narro

Kris Kvilekval, Dmitry Fedorov

materials

17 registrants + 3 staff, 10 community participants

Data Carpentry Workshop

Workshop

May 26-27

Bethesda, MD

J. Williams

Michelle Dunn

Jason will co-teach a Data Carpentry on the CyVerse co-developed genomics data lessons at NIH

Tools and Services Workshop

Workshop

May 30-31

Irapuato, MX

J. Williams

Rubén Alverez

J. Fonner and J. Williams will lead a Tools and Services workshop at LangeBio/CINVISTAV

Data Carpentry Workshop

Workshop

Jun 1-2

Irapuato, MX

J. Williams

Rubén Alverez

J. Fonner and J. Williams will lead a Data Carpentry on the CyVerse co-developed genomics data lessons

RNA-Seq for the Next Generation Virtual Workshop

Workshop

Jun 6-17

Online

J. Williams

 

J. Lee and J. Williams will co-teach a virtual workshop on RNA-Seq and DNA Subway with other DNALC instructors.

Software Carpentry

Workshop

Jun 11-12

Tucson, AZ

U. Hilgert

 

2-day workshop preceding the NIH IRACDA Conference

Curriuculum: Shell, git/GitHub, Python
68 applicants; 43 participants
Applicant breakdown
BIO 29%, MED 19%, Space Sciences 14%, Math 12%, Optical Sciences 10%, ENGR 6%, Environmental Sciences 5%
Graduate Students 33%, Ugraduates 30%, Postdocs 20%, Staff 11%, Faculty 5%

IRACDA 2016 Conference

Conference

Jun 12-14

Tucson, AZ

U. Hilgert

 

Presentation: Uwe Hilgert

5th International Conference on Quantitative Genetics

Conference

Jun 12-17

Madison, WI

A. Stapleton

Natalia de Leon

UNCW CyVerse student Danielle Chaung will present a poster on VALIDATE.  Ann will hand out information about CyVerse.

2016 National Academies Special Topics Summer Institute on Quantitative Biology

Workshop

Jun 19-24

Raleigh, NC

J. Williams

 

Workshop: Cyberinfrastructure in the Classroom - Using Computation Resources to Make Teaching 'High Performance'

BioQUEST Summer Institute

Workshop

Jun 20-21

Raleigh, NC

J. Williams

Kristin Jenkins

Jason will give a presentation on DNA Subway and Atmosphere for education and also give a demo Data Carpentry lesson

Getting Started with CyVerse

Webinar

Jun 22

Online

J. Willams

 

Monthly webinar for new account holders

Plant Biology 2016

Conference

Jul 7-13

Austin, TX

Jason W.

 

CyVerse will host a booth and poster

Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2016

Conference

Jul 8-9

Orlando, FL

J. Fonner