POC Outreach Events

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Workshops, Presentations, Posters, etc

Year 2012

Genome Informatics 2012

Genome Informatics 2012 September 6th-9th, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK



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.

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

Link to abstract and presentation:

Link to abstract and presentation: Media: Cooper_Phenos_PAG2012.pdf.

  • Computer demo Monday 12:50 pm for the PO.

Link to abstract and presentation:

Year 2011

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.


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)


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.




  • 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 PO Collaborators workshop on Sunday, Jan 16th, 2011.

Year 2010

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'

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.

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.


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.


Laurel Cooper and Ramona Walls attended and Laurel presented a talk "Introduction to the Plant Ontology™"

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"

Year 2008

Year 2007

  • AGRONOMICS workshop " Ontologies, Standards and Best Practices", Gent, Belgium, May 21-23
  • ITMI Israel, April 16-20, 2007
    • Shuly Avraham, poster

Year 2006

Year 2005

  • The 16th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Madison, WI, June 18, 2005
  • Frontiers in Plant Biology, MO, April 2005 Poster

Year 2004

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)
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