POC Outreach Events
Workshops, Presentations, Posters, etc
Year 2013
PAG 2013 San Diego, CA
PO was represented at the following events:
PO organized an Ontology workshop: Using Ontologies for Organizing Plant and Animal Genomics Data, Saturday January 14th from 10:20am-12:30pm.
We had 5 speakers and a panel discussion at the end.
Year 2012
Phenotype RCN meeting, Oct 26-29th 2012
Asilomar, CA
LC attended
PO/TO Crop Annotation Workshop at OSU; Sept. 13-15th, 2012
For more information see the wiki page: Plant_Ontology_and_Crop_Annotation_Workshop_OSU_2012
Dates: Sept. 13-15th
The focus of the workshop will be on mostly development stages and traits for the crop plants
Genome Informatics 2012
September 6th-9th, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK
JP attended and presented a poster: The Plant Ontology: A Tool for Linking Plant Anatomy and Development to Genomics Across Plant Taxa
ASPB Plant Biology 2012
July 20 - 24, 2012 - Plant Biology 2012, Austin, TX
Link to meeting page: ASPB2012
Abstract was submitted for submission: Poster Number: P28002
Media:Poster_ASPB_2012_(LC_7-18-12).pdf
Plant Informatics Workshop was held with TAIR, Gramene and PO : Saturday, July 21, 2012, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Link to Plant Ontology workshop presentation: Media:Cooper_PO_ASPB_2012.pdf
LC attended
Outreach booth- ASPB Plant Biology 2012
ICBO 2012
International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies, July 22nd-25th, Graz, Austria, co-located with the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontologies in Information Systems (FOIS 2012).
A paper describing a plant disease extension of the Infectious Disease Ontology was presented at this meeting, as well as a poster on the PO-FNA collaboration.
- Link to IDOPlant paper: Media:idoplant_paper.pdf
- Link to IDOPlant presentation Media:IDOPlant_ICBO2012.pdf
- Wiki page for notes on Plant Disease Ontology
- Link to abstract for PO-FNA mapping poster: Media:PO_FNA_ICBO_abstract.pdf
- Link to PO-FNA mapping poster: Media:PO_FNA_ICBO_poster.pdf
- Link to PO-FNA mapping: http://tinyurl.com/FNAPOmapping
Botany 2012
July 7 - 11, 2012 - Columbus, Ohio
The PO will host a Plant Ontology workshop on Sunday, July 8th, 9:00AM - 12:00PM, to teach people (mostly botanists) how to access and use the PO, including how to send feedback, suggest new terms, etc.
Wiki page for workshop: Plant Ontology Workshop, Botany 2012
5th International Biocuration Conference
April 2-4, 2012, Washington DC
Poster Presentation: File:Abs Biocuration 2012 (LC 12-9-11).pdf
Maize Genetics Meeting 2012
March 15-18, 2012 in Portland, OR
LC submitted an abstract for a short talk abstract Friday March 16th, 5:45pm, which was presented by PJ.
File:Maize meeting 2012 v2.pdf
PAG 2012 San Diego, CA
PO was represented at the following events:
PO organized an Ontology workshop: Using Ontologies for Organizing Plant and Animal Genomics Data, Saturday January 14th from 10:20am-12:30pm.
We had 5 speakers and a panel discussion at the end.
File:Cooper PO (LC 4-4-12).pdf
For more info, see the PAG 2012 Ontology workshop wiki page
- Non-Seed Plant Workshop on Saturday, Jan 14th, (3:50pm-6pm)
Link to abstract and presentation:
- Plant Phenotypes workshop on Sunday, Jan. 15th, (8:00am - 10:10am)
Link to abstract and presentation: Media: Cooper_Phenos_PAG2012.pdf.
- Computer demo Monday 12:50 pm for the PO.
Link to abstract and presentation:
- The PO also took part in an Outreach booth organized by MaizeGDB
Year 2011
- Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences Workshop Univ. of London and the Wellcome Trust Collection Conference Center (London, UK), Dec 6-9
JP will present a poster entitled "Planteome Annotation Wiki: A Semantic Web Application for the Community Curation of Plant Genotypes and Phenotypes". (abstract: SWAT4LS_2011_Proceedings-Planteome_Annotation_Wiki.pdf). He will also participate in a "hackathon" software development session meant to spur innovation in semantic web applications.
Preece, Justin. “Planteome Annotation Wiki: A Semantic Web Application for the Community Curation of Plant Genotypes and Phenotype.” Poster presented at the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences, Univ. of London and the Wellcome Trust Collection Conference Center, London, UK. December 6, 2011. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2166896.2166921.
- Plant Genomes & Biotechnology: from Genes to Networks Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, November 30 - December 3, 2011
RW will present a poster entitled "Using the Plant Ontology to improve the interoperability of genomic and phenomic data sets". (link to abstract: Media:PO_abstract_PGB_CSHL2011.pdf
- Departmental seminar: Facultad de Ciencis Naturales y Museo , Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, Nov. 1, 2011
MAG presented: 'El valor de las fosiles para descrifar la historia evolutiva de las angiospermas y breve introduccion a la Ontologia de Plantas"; Hosted by the Paleobotany Laboratory- Dr. Ari Iglesias.
- Departmental seminar: Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 31, 2011
MAG presented: "Paleobotanica en la era de la Biologia Molecular y breve introduccion a la Ontologia de Plantas"; Hosted by the Paleobotany and Palynology laboratory- Dr. Maria del Carmen Zamaloa.
- 12th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 12), Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, September 28-29, 2011
Barry Smith addressed Plant Ontology issues in two presentations, on “An Introduction to Ontology as a Strategy for Data Integration”, and on “The Structure of the Environment Ontology”)
- Syngenta Presentation. Global webinar, September 26, 2011
PJ and JP presented our current work on the Planteome Annotation Wiki to the IT Research and Development Dept. at Syngenta. (presentation: Jaiswal Lab - Semantic Wiki Presentation - 2011.pdf)
- 2011 CGRB Fall Conference Oregon State University, September 18th-19th, 2011.
Two posters related to the Plant Ontology were presented.
LC presented the poster: "Expanding the Plant Ontology: Linking Plant Anatomy and Development to Genomics Across Plant Taxa".
JP presented a poster: "Planteome Annotation Wiki: A Semantic Application for the Community Curation of Plant Genotypes and Phenotypes". This explains the development of a semantic web application for annotation curation. This web application makes use of PO data via a newly created web service and includes an initial data set built from PO GAF (.assoc) files for Oryza sativa.
- Moss 2011 PO presentation (Black Forest, September 11th - 15th, 2011, done via Webex) Moss 2011 Meeting- PO presentation Sept 12, 2011
- NSF Plant Genome Awardee meeting Sept, 2011. Washington, DC. Submission: Media:2-pager_plant_ontology-2011.pdf
- ASPB Plant Biology meeting 2011, PB2011, Minneapolis, Minn. Aug 6th-10th, 2011
PO and Gramene hosted a Data Curation Workshop
LC presented a PO poster and we took part in an Plant Biology 2011 Outreach Booth
- International Botanical Congress (IBC2011),Melbourne, Australia. July 23rd – 30th 2011
Symposium hosted: Bio-Ontologies for the Plant Sciences under the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics theme.
Please see the IBC 2011 Bio-Ontologies Symposium wiki page for more details.
Press release about the PO at IBC 2011: Media:IBC_2011_Congress_News_Thursday_28_July_WEB.pdf
POC presented talks:
Pankaj Jaiswal, Oregon State University, Ontologies for Plant Biology - IBC 2011
Dennis Stevenson, Genomics of Seed Plants and Ontologies.
Ramona Walls, The New York Botanical Garden, The Plant Ontology: an updated tool for all plant biologists - IBC 2011. Link to PDF of presentation: Media:Walls_PO_presentation_IBC11.pdf
- International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies IBCO 2011 Buffalo, NY. July 26-30, 2011
LC co-organized the session on "From Fins to Limbs to Leaves: Facilitating Anatomy Ontology Interoperability" and presented a flash talk "The Plant Ontology: Development of a Reference Ontology for all Plants"
LC also presented the PO in the OBO Foundry session as part of the application for OBO Foundry Membership link
*Plant Working Group Meeting of the Phenotype Ontology RCN, Google Campus in Boulder, CO; June 1-3, 2011 RCN, June 2011
All four (Plants, Arthropoda, Vertebrates and Bioinformatics) Working Group sessions ran concurrently to maximize the benefits of emerging results, group experiences and collective synergy.
*Semantic Web Workshop, June 6-7, 2011, Santa Fe, NM.
The Plant Ontology was represented at the 2011 Semantic Web Workshop. Hosted by Damian Gessler and the iPlant Collaborative, this two-day workshop focused on biological applications for semantic web services. JP and JE attended.
* Presentation to Physcomitrella Collaborators May 2011 Plant Ontology Webinar- May 2011 release
- Phenotype RCN Meeting Durham, NC, February 25-27, 2011 [1]
The Plant Ontology attended the inaugural meeting of the newly-funded Phenotype Ontology RCN at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, NC.
Plant and Animal Genome XIX Conference
PAG 2011, San Diego, CA. January 15-19, 2011
LC, RW, JP and DWS presented a PO poster and a computer demo.
LC took part in the Plant Phenotypes workshop and panel discussion
We also hosted a PAG_2011_Collaborators_Workshop on Sunday, Jan 16th, 2011.
Year 2010
- NETTAB 2010 conference on Biological Wikis, Nov 29-Dec 1, 2010, Naples, Italy
Justin Preece presented the poster: A Semantic Wiki for Genotype/Phenotype Annotation in Plant Species" File:NETTAB 2010 poster proposal.pdf
- Seminar, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University- Thurs, Oct 14th, 2010.
Laurel presented a seminar: Bridging Plant Anatomy and Genomics in the Digital Era: Recent Advances at The Plant Ontology File:Cooper BPP final (LC 10-14-10).pdf
- Seminar, New York Botanical Garden. October 6, 2010. Ramona Walls presented a seminar 'Plant Ontology: A tool for structural, developmental and molecular plant biologists'
- American Society of Plant Biologists, Quebec, Montreal, Canada. Jul. 31 - Aug. 4, 2010
Laurel Cooper and Pankaj Jaiswal attended. Laurel presented a poster:The Plant Ontology: A Database for Plant Genomics.
Cooper, L., Elser, J., Walls, R., Stevenson, Dennis W., Smith, B., Mungall, C. J., Gandolfo, M. A., and Jaiswal, P. (2010). The Plant Ontology: A Database for Plant Genomics. American Society of Plant Biologists, Quebec, Montreal, Canada
We also organized a Plant Biology 2010 Outreach Booth: Plant Genome Resources Outreach Booth.
- PO-Gramene Annotation Workshop at Plant Biology 2010 PO-Gramene Annotation Workshop
A workshop to demonstrate the Phenote Annotation Tool was held at the ASPB Plant Biology Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
You can find a link to the workshop page at: Phenote Workshop
- Botany 2010, Providence, RI. Jul. 31 - Aug. 4, 2010. Dennis Stevenson, Alejandra Gandolfo, and Ramona Walls attended.
Ramona Walls gave a presentation for the Developmental and Structural Section Abstract-BSA2010 File:Presentation-BSA2010.pdf
Walls, R., Cooper, L., Elser, J., Stevenson Dennis W., Smith, B., Mungall, C. J., Gandolfo, M. A., and Jaiswal, P. (2010). The Plant Ontology: a tool for structural, developmental, and molecular plant biologists. Providence, RI.
- Bio-Ontologies 2010: Semantic Applications in Life Sciences July 9th-10th, 2010
Laurel Cooper and Ramona Walls attended and presented a poster and a one page write-up that was presented as a 'flash update talk'
File:PO Poster BioOntologies2010.pdf
File:PO FlashTalk BioOntologies2010.pdf
File:Walls Cooper BioOntologies29.pdf
Walls, R., Cooper, L., Elser, J., Dennis W. Stevenson, Mungall, C. J., Gandolfo, M. A., and Jaiswal, P. (2010). The Plant Ontology: A Common Reference Ontology for Plants. Boston, MA.
- Cell Ontology Workshop,Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Mass. May 18th-19th, 2010
Laurel Cooper and Ramona Walls attended and Laurel presented a talk "Introduction to the Plant Ontology™"
- Plant and Animal Genome XVIII Conference, San Diego, CA. Jan. 9-13, 2010
Laurel Cooper and Justin Elser Poster and Computer Demonstration
Elser, J., Cooper, L., and Jaiswal, P. (2010). Plant Ontology: Databases And Applications. San Diego, CA.
Year 2009
- GCP Ontology Workshop Rome, Italy, April 20-22, 2009
- Chih-Wei Tung, Gave a talk on "Plant and Trait Ontology"
- 3rd International Biocuration Conference Berlin, Germany, April 16-19, 2009
- Chih-Wei Tung, POC poster presentation
- Plant & Animal Genome Conference San Diego, Jan 10-14, 2009
- Chih-Wei Tung, POC poster presentation
Year 2008
- MetaCyc database workshop Ithaca, Oct 21, 2008
- Chih-Wei Tung, present a talk "An Introduction to the Plant Ontology Database "
- Plant & Animal Genome Conference San Diego, Jan 12, 2008
- Chih-Wei Tung, POC poster presentation
Year 2007
- ASPB 2007 Chicago, July 7-11, 2007
- Chih-Wei Tung, presentation, poster abstract
- Chih-Wei Tung, presentation, poster abstract
- RCN Plant and Trait Ontology Workshop, CSHL, NY, June 10-11
- Doreen Ware, Pankaj Jaiswal, Shuly Avraham, Chih-Wei Tung
- Doreen Ware, Pankaj Jaiswal, Shuly Avraham, Chih-Wei Tung
- AGRONOMICS workshop " Ontologies, Standards and Best Practices", Gent, Belgium, May 21-23
- Chih-Wei Tung, presentation
- ITMI Israel, April 16-20, 2007
- Shuly Avraham, poster
Year 2006
- PAG XIV Ontology Workshop (2006): Ontologies for Databases
- Anuradha Pujar: Development of a generic plant growth stage ontology
- Katica Ilic: Application of plant ontologies
Year 2005
- PAG XIII Ontology Workshop (2005): Development and Implementation of Ontologies in the Database
- Leonore Reiser: Using the Plant Ontologies
- Katica Ilic: Controlled vocabularies for describing and cmparing phenotypes and gene expression
- Pankaj: posters
- The 16th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Madison, WI, June 18, 2005
- Katica Ilic and Leonore presentations
- Poster
- The 8th Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting at the ISMB, June 24, 2005
- Pankaj Jaiswal, presentation
- The 47th Maize Genetic Conference, WI, March 2005 Poster
- Frontiers in Plant Biology, MO, April 2005 Poster
- The XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria, July, 2005. Felipe, poster
Year 2004
- Annotation Demo, 04/07/2004
- Botany 2004, Abstract #347 (Toby.ppt) and #351 (Felipe.ppt)
- ASPB 2004, FL, July, Abstract #864, Poster (KI), Workshop (PJ and LR)
- PAG XII 2004, CA, January, Abstract # 927, Poster (Pankaj), abstract
Year 2002
- PAG X Bioinformatics: Database
- Leszek Vincent: The POC and Plant ontologies (poster)
- Leszek Vincent: The POC and Plant ontologies - silk purpose from a maize ear (workshop: ontology)