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)
Introduction to the symoposium (2 minutes), Ramona Walls, The New York Botanical Garden
1. Pankaj Jaiswal, Oregon State University, Ontologies for Plant Biology - IBC 2011 - This will be an introductory talk on general use of ontologies, GO, genomics, etc.
2. Ramona Walls, The New York Botanical Garden, The Plant Ontology: an updated tool for all plant biologists - IBC 2011
3. Dennis Stevenson, Unraveling Darwin’s “abominable mystery”: using phylogenomics to identify proteins of importance in plant evolution - IBC 2011
4. Gavin Kennedy, The University of Queensland PODD: An Ontology Driven Architecture for Extensible Phenomics Data Management - IBC 2011
5. Rudy Appels, Center for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Investigating trait ontologies to facilitate integrating phenotype and genome sequence level information in wheat
6. Discussion session, lead by Pankaj Jaiswal, lead PI for the Plant Ontology. Topics include:
