PAG 2011 Collaborators Workshop

Date and Time:

Sunday, January 16th, Late Morning to include a buffet lunch

Time: 10:30-1:00 pm (will wrap up in time to get to 1:30 sessions)

Where: Town and Country Hotel, Windsor Room

See list of other potential speakers and invitees PAG 2011 PO Workshop Invitees and Speakers

Summary and Objectives:

- We have about 4 or 5 speakers from groups that use the PO or share annotations with us, or who we would like to develop collaborations with

- The goal is to show a range of uses and highlight the utility of the Plant Ontology to the plant science community.

- Each speaker will have about 10 minutes, including time for questions, (~ 5-10 slides)

- We will have a 'working lunch' where folks can mingle and continue discussions

Agenda:

10:30am: Introduction and Welcome (Laurel Cooper, Coordinator, Plant Ontology Consortium)

10:40am: Mary Schaeffer, MaizeGDB

Title: TBA

The Plant Ontology is being utilized as they develop a Maize Gene Atlas. They are working on a large set of Nimblegen and RNA_Seq expression data, from 61 tissues, at various plant growth stages. These data will be added to the Plant Ontology's existing annotations.