RCN Meeting, 25-27 February 2011
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC
Agenda
Friday, Feb. 25, 2011
8:00 am: Shuttle to NESCent from Marriott
8:15: Continental breakfast at NESCent
8:45 – 9:30: Introductions and welcomes from NESCent and RCN PIs
- Todd Vision: NESCent welcome
- Paula Mabee: RCN objectives; vertebrate working group
- Eva Huala: Overview of plant ontologies and projects
- Andy Deans: Overview of arthropod ontologies and projects
- Suzanna Lewis: Overview of ontology and software development
9:30 – 10:30: 5-minute lightning talks
10:30 – 10:45: Coffee break
10:45 – 12:30: 5-minute lightning talks
12:30: LUNCH (Have lunch with someone whose talk you found interesting)
2:00: Gary Merrill: ‘What an ontology is (and isn’t); some examples of applied ontology in pharmaceutical science’
2:30 – 3:30: Anatomy ontologies and discovery: reality and possibilities
- Monte Westerfield: Using phenotypes to find disease genes
- Chris Mungall: How to build interoperable anatomy ontologies
3:30: Coffee break
4:00: Visions: What would you like ontologies for?
- Brent Mishler: Ontologies as research tools linking phylogenies, systematics, phenotypes, and genomics
- Andy Deans: Describing biodiversity and determining species
- Cyndy Parr: Biodiversity, interacting with non-scientists, vision
- George Gkoutos: High-throughput phenotyping in the Eumorphia project
- Eva Huala: Anatomy Ontologies from a Model Organism Database (MOD) perspective
6:00: Shuttle back to hotel
7:00: Walk to restaurant (Pop’s) from hotel
Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011
8:00 am: Shuttle to NESCent from hotel
8:15: Continental breakfast
8:45: Anatomy ontology resources (Andy Deans, moderator)
- Paula Mabee: Phenoscape: connecting genes and anatomy
- Greg Riccardi and collaborators: Image browsing using ontologies
- Jim Balhoff: Curation interfaces: Phenex, Phenote, and MX
- Others
10:00: Coffee break
10:30: Suzanna Lewis: ‘Lessons from GO: How different is anatomy?’
11:00: Melissa Haendel: ‘How many anatomy ontologies?’
11:30: Panel discussion I: technical and social concerns, pros and cons (Suzanna Lewis, moderator): Hilmar Lapp, Matt Yoder, Pantelis Topalis, Pankaj Jaiswal)
12:30: LUNCH; Advisory Board meeting
2:30 pm: Panel discussion II: technical and social concerns, pros and cons (Suzanna Lewis, moderator): Lukas Mueller, Elisabeth Arnaud, David Sutherland, Peter Robinson
3:30: Coffee break
3:45: Working group breakouts (plants, vertebrates, arthropods, informatics)
6:00: Shuttle back to hotel
8:00: Dinner (Revolution)
Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011
8:00 am: Shuttle to NESCent from hotel
8:30 am: Continental breakfast
9:00 am: Breakout group reports; general discussion on goals for RCN
10:30 am: Coffee break
11:00 am: Synthesis: RCN goals and timelines
11:30 am: Possible topics for future meetings
12:00: Meeting ends; airport shuttles; lunch
Participants
Elizabeth Arnaud, International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), France, e.arnaud@cgiar.org
Jim Balhoff, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), USA, balhoff@nescent.org
Jim Beach, University of Kansas, USA, beach@ku.edu
Dan Bunker, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, dbunker@njit.edu
Shane Burgess, Missouri State, USA, Burgess@cvm.msstate.edu
Nico Cellinese, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, USA ncellinese@flmnh.ufl.edu
Lol Cooper, Oregon State University, USA, cooperl@science.oregonstate.edu
Joel Cracraft, American Museum of Natural History, USA, jlc@amnh.org
Quentin Cronk, University of British Columbia, Canada, quentin.cronk@ubc.ca
Wasila Dahdul, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent); Phenoscape, USA, wasila.dahdul@usd.edu
Andy Deans, North Carolina State University, USA, adeans@gmail.com
Chris Desjardins, Broad Institute, USA, cdesjard@broadinstitute.org
Christine Elsik, Georgetown University, USA, ce75@georgetown.edu
Nico Franz, University of Puerto Rico, USA, nico.franz@upr.edu
George Gkoutos, University of Cambridge, UK gg295@cam.ac.uk
Melissa Haendel, Oregon Health & Science University, USA haendel@ohsu.edu
Eva Huala, Carnegie Institution for Science, USA, huala@acoma.stanford.edu
Jaiswal Pankaj, Oregon State University, USA, jaiswalp@science.oregonstate.edu
Hilmar Lapp, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), USA, hlapp@nescent.org
Suzanna Lewis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, selewis@lbl.gov
Paula Mabee, The University of South Dakota, USA, pmabee@usd.edu
Gary Merrill, North Carolina State University, USA, gary.h.merrill@ontolytics.com
Peter Midford, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent); Phenoscape, USA, pmidford@nescent.org
Brent Mishler, UC Berkeley, USA, bmishler@berkeley.edu
Lukas Mueller, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell, USA, lam87@cornell.edu
Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, CJMungall@lbl.gov
Cyndy Parr, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA, parrc@si.edu
Cyril Pommier, National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France, cyril.pommier@versailles.inra.fr
Martin Ramirez, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (Buenos Aires), Argentina, ramirez@macn.gov.ar
Greg Riccardi, Florida State University, USA, griccardi@fsu.edu
Peter Robinson, Institute for Medical Genetics, Germany, peter.robinson@charite.de
Erik Segerdell, Oregon Health & Science University, USA, erikjsegerdell@gmail.com
Rosemary Shrestha, International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Mexico, R.Shrestha2@cgiar.org
Chris Smith, San Francisco State University, USA, smithcd@sfsu.edu
Cynthia Smith, The Jackson Laboratory, USA, csmith@informatics.jax.org
David Sutherland, University of Cambridge, UK, djs93@gen.cam.ac.uk
Pantelis Topalis, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Greece, topalis@imbb.forth.gr
Todd Vision, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, USA, tjv@email.unc.edu
Marvalee Wake, UC Berkeley, USA, mhwake@socrates.berkeley.edu
Marcelo Weksler, Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil, marcelo.weksler@gmail.com
Monte Westerfield, University of Oregon, USA, monte@uoneuro.uoregon.edu
Mark Westneat, Field Museum of Natural History, USA, mwestneat@fieldmuseum.org
Shaun Winterton, California Department of Food & Agriculture (CDFA), USA, wintertonshaun@gmail.com
Matt Yoder, North Carolina State University, USA, diapriid@gmail.com