POC Outreach Events
Workshops, Presentations, Posters, etc
Year 2012
Phenotype RCN meeting, Oct 26-29th 2012
Asilomar, CA
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.
- 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)