Agenda and Minutes 3-23-10

POC meeting, Date: March 23, 2010 Webex Conference Call

1. Items from last week's discussion:

cardinal organ part and collective organ

Ramona and Laurel moved a group of terms so they are now children of these two structures. These include all the terms that don't have is_a parents and are appropriate, plus a few others (see below:) Note: The existing part_of relationships were retained except as noted below.

a. new children of cardinal organ part These have been posted on SF for comments

• antiraphe (definition is not clear. Is it part of the ovary or the funicle?)

• fruit (is a fruit an organ?) MAG: fruit fits our definition of a plant organ

• hypanthium (made part_of receptacle instead of part_of flower)

• leaf lamina margin

• leaf lamina base

• leaf rachis (is_a stalk)

• organ margin

• peduncle

• pulvinus (currently is_a organ)

• raphe (removed part_of link to ovary, because it is part of the funicle that is attached to the ovary, not part of the ovary)

• receptacle (or is it an organ?)

• stalk (moved from is_a organ)

b. new children of collective plant structure:

• floral bract

• inflorescence bract (were children of both plant organ and bract (which is_a organ). Deleted is_a relationships to plant organ and kept under bract).

2. Complete discussion of gametophyte, sporophyte and whole plant.

3. New terms. Posted on SourceForge tracker for comments.

a. spore:

 proposed def'n: A reproductive cell, usually unicellular, capable of developing into an adult without fusion with another cell. (Raven,   Evert, Eichorn, 4th Ed)

comments: the product of meiosis, is_a plant cell, parent of megaspore, microspore, develops into the gametophyte

b. simple organ

c. compound organ

4. Upcoming Conferences:

• American Society of Plant Biology (ASPB) July 31-Aug 4th 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Laurel, Pankaj going, mini symposium presentation (hopefully) or poster and annotation workshop with Gramene. Abstract submitted 3/12/10

• Botanical Society of America (BSA)- July 31-Aug 4th 2010. Providence, Rhode Island. Ramona, Dennis going (?), Type of presentation?, Abstract submission deadline 4/1/10.

• Bio-Ontologies 2010: Semantic Applications in Life Sciences. July 9th and 10th, 2010, Boston, Mass.

Satellite Interest Group (SIG) meeting preceding the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). Laurel, Ramona going (?). Abstract/short paper submission deadline 4/15/10.

• International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). July 10th-13th, 2010. Boston, Mass. Laurel going (?).

• Western Section ASPB Annual Meeting, Washington State University, Seattle Washington. Friday April 30th- Sunday, May 2, 2010

Abstracts submission deadline April 1, 2010 for poster talks. Laurel go???

• International Botanical Congress (IBC2011). July 23rd-30th 2011, Melbourne, Australia.

Important dates (http://www.ibc2011.com/Dates.htm): "Call of symposia closes" 3-31-10, Abstracts submission deadline: 12-1-10.

• Latin American Congress of Botany (http://www.botanica-alb.org/X_Congreso/index.php). La Serena, Chile, October 4-10;

MAG: "I am not sure about due dates for this one due to the earthquake".