POC Conf. Call 3-15-11
POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Mar 15th, 2011 10am (PST)
In attendance: Laurel Cooper (OSU), Ramona Walls (NYBG), Justin Elser (OSU), Justin Preece (OSU)
Absent: Pankaj Jaiswal (OSU), Marie Alejandra Gandolfo; (Cornell University) Chris Mungall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Dennis Stevenson (NYBG), Barry Smith (University at Buffalo, NY)
Collaborators: none
Acceptance of the minutes from the POC_Conf._Call_3-8-11?
There were no changes, additions, or deletions.
Issues arising from last week's meeting:
Special technical meeting?
The conference call will take place on 3-17-11, at 4PM PDT.
RW will look try to see if any other ontologies are using the has_part relation, and how they deal with it. Will post possible alternative solutions on the POC Technical Issues Page.
Physcomitrella terms
Discussion of new terms was postponed until next week, due to low attendance.
apical cell
Collective plant structures:
Plant organs:
Additional moss terms:
Cardinal organ parts
See POC_Conf._Call_3-22-11 for details.
Upcoming meetings 2011:
* ICBO 2011 Second International Conference on Biomedical Ontology July 26-30, 2011 Buffalo, New York
LC contributed to the workshop proposal "From Fins to Limbs to Leaves: Facilitating anatomy ontology interoperability" Authors: Melissa Haendel, Chris Mungall, Alan Ruttenberg, David Osumi-Sutherland and Laurel Cooper (Accepted) LC is working with the other organizers to develop the workshop plans and a call for papers.
Full-Day Workshops Schedule:
July 26 9am-6pm The Ontological Representation of Adverse Events: Working with Multiple Biomedical Ontologies
July 27 8.30am-4pm Facilitating Anatomy Ontology Interoperability
July 26 6.30pm-9pm Evening Workshop: Common Logic
July 27 4pm-8pm Evening Workshop: Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Consortium
- LC will attend and represent the PO, will submit a short paper/poster for the workshop (deadline April 1st).
*Plant Biology 2011, Aug 6-10th, Minneapolis, Minn
Early-bird registration ends May 13.
Gramene will be putting together a workshop again, focusing on pathways. PJ will present a PO poster.
Abstract deadlines: Your abstract must be submitted by March 11 if you want it to be considered for a minisymposium talk.
For inclusion on the program memory stick and in the program book, abstracts must be submitted by May 27.
TAIR is organizing an Outreach Booth and we are invited to take part.
* International Botanical Congress (IBC2011)
July 23rd-30th 2011, Melbourne, Australia
Registration is open Important dates
Symposium proposal was accepted, 'Bio-Ontologies for the Plant Sciences' under the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics theme.
Dennis, Alejandra, Pankaj and Ramona are planning to attend.
Early bird registration deadline - Extended 1 March 2011 Deadline for registration by presenters 1 March 2011
See IBC 2011 Bio-Ontologies Symposium wiki page for more details
