Agenda and Minutes 3-23-10

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POC meeting, Date: March 23, 2010 Webex Conference Call

1. Items from last week's discussion: 

cardinal organ part and collective organ

Ramona and Laurel moved a group of terms so they are now children of these two structures. These include all the terms that don't have is_a parents and are appropriate, plus a few others (see below:) Note: The existing part_of relationships were retained except as noted below.

a. new children of cardinal organ part



b. new children of collective plant structure:


2. Complete discussion of gametophyte, sporophyte and whole plant.


3. New terms. Posted on SourceForge tracker for comments.

a. spore: 

 proposed def'n: A reproductive cell, usually unicellular, capable of developing into an adult without fusion with another cell. (Raven,   Evert, Eichorn, 4th Ed)

comments: the product of meiosis, is_a plant cell, parent of megaspore, microspore, develops into the gametophyte


b. simple organ


c. compound organ

4. Upcoming Conferences:

  • American Society of Plant Biology (ASPB) July 31-Aug 4th 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Laurel, Pankaj going, mini symposium presentation (hopefully) or poster and annotation workshop with Gramene. Abstract submitted 3/12/10
  • Botanical Society of America (BSA)- July 31-Aug 4th 2010. Providence, Rhode Island. Ramona, Dennis going (?),

Type of presentation?, Abstract submission deadline 4/1/10.

  • Bio-Ontologies 2010: Semantic Applications in Life Sciences. July 9th and 10th, 2010, Boston, Mass.

Satellite Interest Group (SIG) meeting preceding the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). Laurel, Ramona going (?). Abstract/short paper submission deadline 4/15/10.

  • International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). July 10th-13th, 2010. Boston, Mass. Laurel going (?).
  • Western Section ASPB Annual Meeting, Washington State University, Seattle Washington. Friday April 30th- Sunday, May 2, 2010

Abstracts submission deadline April 1, 2010 for poster talks. Laurel go???

  • International Botanical Congress (IBC2011). July 23rd-30th 2011, Melbourne, Australia.

Important dates (http://www.ibc2011.com/Dates.htm): "Call of symposia closes" 3-31-10, Abstracts submission deadline: 12-1-10.

MAG: "I am not sure about due dates for this one due to the earthquake".

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