May 9th, 2017 Ontology Working Group Meeting

Planteome Ontology WG Zoom Meeting

• Date: Tuesday May 9th, 2017
• Time: 8:15am PDT (GMT-7)

• Connection details: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/157471645
• Meeting Recordings:
  • File:Ontology WG Meeting audio 5-9-17.m4a
  • File:Ontology WG Meeting video 5-9-17.mp4

Agenda

Updates from NYBG

• Brandon will be leaving project as of May 19th, and Dario will be leaving on May 12th.
• DWS out till May 15th
  • Revisions to spikelet pedicel (Link to Gdoc: Pedicel and Related Terms)

Upcoming Meetings and Workshops

2017 Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting, June 1-5th, 2017, Corvallis

• GO Meeting Corvallis
• Registration
• Travel plans

• Dates: June 1-5, 2017 (Details)
  • Arrive (May 31) View travel directions
  • GOC meeting (June 1-3)
  • Noctua gene annotation jamboree (June 4)
  • Reactome Pathway curation jamboree (June 5)
  • Depart (June 5 late evening / June 6 anytime)

Plant Biology 2017, June 24th-28th, Honolulu, Hawaii

• Links: http://plantbiology.aspb.org/

• Important deadlines:
  • May 24, 2017: Deadline for submission of abstracts to be included in the online program book and to receive a poster number.
  • May 27, 2017: Deadline for discount hotel rates. (Please note: Our discounted room block may fill up long before this deadline.)
  • June 12, 2017: Final deadline for Plant Biology 2017 abstract submissions.
  • June 12, 2017: Deadline for standard registration rates for Plant Biology 2017 and iMOSS 2017.
  • June 24–28, 2017: Onsite registration during Plant Biology 2017!

XIX International Botanical Congress, July 23-29, 2017, Shenzhen, China

• Workshop proposal accepted-

• T5-06:Ontologizing botanical knowledge (two sessions)
  • Organizer: Hong Cui (University of Arizona, USA)
  • James Macklin (Agriculture Agri-Food Canada, Canada)
  • Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon State University, USA)

• T5-18: Bioinformatics resources for comparative functional and phylogenetic analysis of plant genomes, pathways and diversity
  • Organizer: Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon State University, USA)
  • Sushma Naithani (Oregon State University, USA)

• Deadline for the abstract submission for oral presentations has been extended for 39 of the 212 general symposia where one or a few speaker slots are available
• New deadline: February 15, 2017 for those 39 symposia and for posters only

• Abstract submitted?

ICBO 2017, Sept 12th-15th, 2017

• Newcastle, GB
• http://icbo.buffalo.edu/
• Important dates:
  • Mar 29, 2017: Workshops and tutorials proposals submission deadline
  • Apr 19, 2017: Notification of acceptance of workshops and tutorials
  • Jun 02, 2017: Paper and Poster Deadline
  • Jun 16, 2017: Paper Reviews Due