POC Conf. Call 7-05-11
POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday June 14th, 2011 10am (PDT)
In attendance:
POC members:
Absent:
Collaborators:
Acceptance of the minutes from the POC_Conf._Call_6-28-11?
Upcoming meetings 2011:
- Botany 2011 Meeting [Botany 2011] St. Louis, MO at the Chase Park Plaza, July 9-13.
Societies participating: Society for Economic Botany, the American Fern Society (AFS), the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT), and the Botanical Society of America (BSA).
DWS is attending, but will not present. Many people from the BSA will be at the IBC meeting in Melbourne.
- ICBO 2011 Second International Conference on Biomedical Ontology
July 26-30, 2011 Buffalo, New York ICBO
-LC will present the PO on Friday July 29th, 3:30pm in the session: "Parallel Sessions on Special Topics: The OBO Foundry, featuring discussions of the Infectious Disease Ontology, the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations, the Ontology for General Medical Sciences and the Plant Ontology"
Link to program: [[1]]
LC is co-organizing the workshop "From Fins to Limbs to Leaves: Facilitating anatomy ontology interoperability" along with Melissa Haendel, Chris Mungall, Alan Ruttenberg, David Osumi-Sutherland.
Date: July 27 8.30am-4pm 'Facilitating Anatomy Ontology Interoperability
- Plant Biology 2011, Aug 6-10th, Minneapolis, Minn
Gramene and Plant Ontology are hosting a [Data Curation Workshop] again, focusing on pathway curations.
LC and PJ will present a [PO poster.
TAIR (Kate Dreher) is organizing an [Plant_Biology_2011_Outreach_Booth Outreach Booth] and we are invited to take part. We are hosting the website.
- International Botanical Congress (IBC2011)
July 23rd-30th 2011, Melbourne, Australia
Registration is open Important dates
Symposium 'Bio-Ontologies for the Plant Sciences' under the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics theme, wiil be held on Thursday, 27 July, from 13:30 to 15:30.
Dennis, Alejandra, Pankaj and Ramona are planning to attend.
See IBC 2011 Bio-Ontologies Symposium wiki page for more details
- POC Meeting at New York Botanic Garden Tentative dates, Sept 9th-11th, 2011
DWS will look into booking the apartments at the NYBG for accommodations
More details TBA....
