2009 Grant Renewal Workshop
A workshop hosted by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
Location and Date
Venue: National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) (directions, also see information for visitors)
Date: April 28-29, 2009
Organizers: Paula Mabee, Monte Westerfield, Todd Vision
Introduction
The goal of this workshop is to discuss plans for an RCN (Research Coordination Network) or INTEROP (Community-based Data Interoperability Networks) application to NSF that we would submit in July or August 2009. The grant would provide funds for 3-5 years of meetings and workshops (and in the case of the INTEROP program, implementation to a limited extent) to identify problems and develop methods and plans to describe phenotypes in a much broader range of species.
Specific goals are to be determined by the workshop participants. An initial list includes establishing and maintaining communication among evolutionary biologists and model organism communities developing ontologies, coordinating efforts among the broader ontology community so that these ontologies are interoperable, and methods to align and reason across multi-species ontologies for phenotype and taxonomy. The workshop includes interested members from both the model organism and evolutionary biology communities.
Agenda
Note that this agenda is still in draft stage and may change before the meeting.
Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2009
Afternoon:
- 1:30:
- 3:15 Coffee break
- 5:00: Van back to hotel
- 6:30 Van from hotel to dinner (whole group)
Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2009
Morning:
- 8:00 SHUTTLE FROM HOTEL
- 8:15 Coffee & pastries
- 10:45 COFFEE
- 12:15 LUNCH
Afternoon:
- 1:30:
- 3:15 Coffee break
- 5:00: Van back to hotel
- 6:30 Van from hotel to dinner (whole group)
Logistics
- For long-distance participants, the hotel is the Millennium Hotel (2800 Campus Walk Ave, Durham, NC 27705; tel. (919) 383-8575)
- For dining & entertainment, NESCent is right across from Ninth Street
- For the venue, NESCent is in the historic Erwin Mills building (directions)
Reading
- Within the Phenoscape project, we have been tagging interesting references about phenotype and taxonomy ontologies by using the tag "phenoscape" on Connotea. Everyone is welcome to suggest references by using this tag.
Participants
Members of Phenoscape are in bold font.
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Judy Blake | The Jackson Laboratory |
| Wasila Dahdul | Phenoscape, and Department of Biology, University of South Dakota |
| Hilmar Lapp | Phenoscape, and NESCent |
| Suzi Lewis | Berkeley Bioinformatics and Ontology Project |
| John Lundberg | Phenoscape, and Department of Ichthyology, Academy of Natural Sciences |
| Paula Mabee | Phenoscape, and Department of Biology, University of South Dakota |
| Anne Maglia | Missouri University of Science and Technology |
| Peter Midford | Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas |
| Paul Sereno | University of Chicago |
| Todd Vision | Phenoscape, NESCent, and Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Peter Vize | Department of Biology, University of Calgary |
| Monte Westerfield | Phenoscape, Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN) and Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon |
