IBC 2011 Bio-Ontologies Symposium

International Botanical Congress (IBC2011), July 23rd – 30th 2011

The Plant Ontology will host a symosium on Bio-Ontologies for the Plant Sciences under the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics theme.

Schedule of speakers

(Date and times TBA)

Pankaj Jaiswal, Oregon State University, Ontologies for Plant Biology - IBC 2011

Ramona Walls, The New York Botanical Garden, The Plant Ontology: an updated tool for all plant biologists - IBC 2011

Angelica Cibrian or Dennis Stevenson, Unraveling Darwin’s “abominable mystery”: using phylogenomics to identify proteins of importance in plant evolution - IBC 2011

Gavin Kennedy, The University of Queensland PODD: An Ontology Driven Architecture for Extensible Phenomics Data Management - IBC 2011

Rudy Appels, Center for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Title TBA

Notes:

Pankaj will give the introductory talk on general use of ontologies, GO, genomics, etc, and Ramona will present the talk on the Plant Ontology. Abstracts have been submitted.

No additional abstracts were submitted for our proposal, and Angelica does not think she will be able to attend because of lack of funds.

Dennis will speak in place of Angelica. PJ invited two other speakers. Gavin Kennedy will talk about the ontology application in large scale phenomics projects. Still waiting for abstract from Rudi Appels, who will speak on crop genomics and phenomics.

We received permission to use the 6th time slot for a discussion session. PJ will lead the discussion.