POC Conf. Call 10-4-11

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Oct 4th, 2011 10am (PDT)

In attendance:

POC members:

Absent:

Collaborators: none

Any changes or corrections(additions/deletions, etc) needed in the minutes from the POC_Conf._Call_9-27-11?

Upcoming meetings and Presentations 2011/2012:

Plant Genomes & Biotechnology: From Genes to Networks, CSHL

Dates: November 30 - December 3, 2011 Abstract Deadline: September 9, 2011...

Academic/Student No-Housing Package $720

RW registered and submitted abstract. Will need to present a preliminary data analysis for the talk/poster.

PAG 2012

January 14-18, 2012, San Diego, California

• Registration and Abstract submissions: open on Sept 22
• Early Pre-Registration Deadline: October 31
• Travel Grants Deadline: November 1
• Abstract Submission Deadline: November 11

Our proposal for an Ontology workshop for PAG has been approved. It will be on Saturday January 14th from 10:20am-12:30pm

Use of Ontologies for Organizing Plant and Animal Genomics Data

LC is presenting in the Plant Phenotypes workshop on Sunday Morning, 15 January 2012 -- 8:00 am - 10:10 am.

The PO will take part in an Outreach booth organized by MaizeGDB

Other activities?

Phenotype RCN meeting, 23-25 February 2012

The dates: February 23-25, 2012 (Thursday, Friday, 1/2 Saturday) have been confirmed for the next annual Phenotype RCN meeting.

It will be held again at NESCent (Durham, NC).

5th International Biocuration Conference

April 2-4, 2012, Washington DC

Call for abstracts is now open: Need to clarify the deadlines

There are three submission categories for abstracts:

1. Talk or Poster (with consideration for oral presentation)

2. Poster only

3. Workshop only

• Submission deadline November 30, 2011

• Notification of acceptance February 3, 2012

Instructions

There are seven topic sessions from which submitters are invited to select:

  1. Ontologies, standards and best practices, including gold standard datasets.
  2. Protein annotation; sequences, structures and pathways.
  3. Community annotation and Wikis.
  4. Genomics and metagenomics data curation.
  5. High throughput proteomics data (focus on NGS and MS data) curation and presentation.
  6. Literature collection, text mining and curation.
  7. Tools to assist curation, including automated pipelines. 

There are four submission tracks:

  1. Paper, with consideration for oral presentation
  2. Talk
  3. Workshop
  4. Poster 

From the Instructions page: For authors wishing to submit to DATABASE for the 2012 BIOCURATION VIRTUAL ISSUE:

• Submission deadline: October 15, 2011
• First decisions: November 15, 2011
• Revisions deadline: December 15, 2011
• Final decisions: January 10, 2012
• Conference: April 2-4 2012

PJ planning to attend, LC and RW can go. Check with Pascal to confirm dates

Botany 2012

July 7 - 11, 2012 - Columbus, Ohio

Call for Symposia, Colloquia and Workshops:

Submission site now open. Deadline for submissions is Saturday, October 15th, 2011 at 11:59 PM PST.

RW, DWS and MAG will put together a proposal for a half day hands-on workshop. The goal will be to teach people (mostly botanists) how to access and use the PO, including how to send feedback, suggest new terms, etc.

From meeting website:

When you submit your proposal, you will be asked for the following information:

• What Societies and Sections will be sponsoring the session. Please provide contact information for any persons who have approved the sponsorship
• The societies participating in Botany 2012 of which you are a member
• The names, email and street addresses of the organizers, and which of them will lead the session
• A title and description of the session
• Keywords and web links that are relevant
• Requirements, such as room type, food, special equipment or transportation, depending on the type of proposal
• An estimate of anticipated attendance
• A list of invited speakers or leaders, if relevant.