2011 Events

2011 Events

Title

Type

Date

Location

Notes

Workshop on Comparative Genomics

Workshop

Jan. 9-21

Ceský Krumlov, 
Czech Republic

Invited Faculty, Sheldon McKay,
Title: "The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the Plant Sciences"

New York University

Seminar

Jan. 10

New York, NY

Seminar by Ann Stapleton, Host: Michael Purugganan, /wiki/spaces/COM/pages/242164286
Title: "What can iPlant do for me right now?"

Iowa State University

Seminar

Jan. 12

Ames, IA

Seminar by Steve Goff, Host: Volker Brendel, Collaborators: Volker Brendel, Pat Schnable, Bill Beavis, Thomas Lubberstedt, Jode Edwards, Steve Cannon, Carolyn Lawrence, Erik Vollbrecht
Title: “Heterosis, Protein Metabolism, and Energy Efficiency: How Cyberinfrastructure Can Be Applied" 

Integrated Breeding Platform

Meeting

Jan 14.

San Diego, CA

Signed MOU

PAG 2011

Conference

Jan. 15-19

San Diego, CA

iPlant Activities at PAG XIX including DNASubway Workshop, iPlant Presentation
Title: "The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the Plant Sciences"

Colorado State University

Seminar

Jan. 22

Fort Collins, CO

Seminar by Ann Stapleton, Host: Pat Bedinger, /wiki/spaces/COM/pages/242164306
Title: "What can iPlant do for me right now?"

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging

Conference

Jan. 24

San Francisco, CA

Mini-workshop on bioinformatics visualization

University of Florida

Seminar

Jan. 25

Gainsville, FL

Seminar by Steve Goff, Host: Pam Soltis, Collaborators: Pam Soltis, Brad Barbazuk, Doug Soltis, Gordon Burleigh, Melanie Correll;
Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

UA School of Information: Science, Technology, and Arts Seminar

Seminar

Jan. 31

Tucson, AZ

Seminar by Steve Goff, Host: Clayton Morrison;
Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

SDCI-CoManage

Workshop

Feb. 1

Tucson, AZ

Tech Review for CoManage

Breeding Common Bean Annual Meeting

Seminar

Feb. 16

Tucson, AZ

Seminar by Steve Goff, Host: Phil McLean;
Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

IRODs Developer Meeting

Meeting

Feb. 16-18

Chapel Hill, NC

Rion Dooley attended

University of Kentucky

Seminar

Feb. 18

Lexington, KY

Seminar by Steve Goff, Host: Joe Chappell;
Title: “Heterosis, Protein Metabolism, and Energy Efficiency: How Cyberinfrastructure Can Be Applied"

iPlant Developer Meeting

Meeting

Feb. 20-23

Tucson, AZ

Organizer: Matthew Vaughn

Geospatial Information Systems

Workshop

Feb. 24

Tucson, AZ

Kickoff meeting for working group

Genomics In Education

Workshop

Feb. 25-26

Tucson, AZ

DNA Subway Workshop

Rice Unviersity, U of Houston, and Texas Southern

Seminar

Feb. 25

Houston, TX

Visit by Ann Stapleton, Host: Michael Covington, Janet Braam, /wiki/spaces/COM/pages/242164294
Title: "What can iPlant do for me right now?"

U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaine

Seminar

Mar. 6-8

Urbana, IL

Seminar by Steve Goff, Host: C. Richard Johnson;
Title: “Heterosis, Protein Metabolism, and Energy Efficiency: How Cyberinfrastructure Can Be Applied"

GMOD Spring Training

Workshop

Mar. 8-12

Durham, NC

Invited Instructor, Sheldon McKay presented
Title: "The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the Plant Sciences"

Noble Foundation

Seminar-Industry

Mar. 9-11

Ardmore, OK

Seminar by Steve Goff, Host: Michael Udvardi
Title: “Heterosis, Protein Metabolism, and Energy Efficiency: How Cyberinfrastructure Can Be Applied"

University of Missouri, Columbia

Seminar

Mar. 13-15

Columbia, MO

Seminars by Steve Goff and Eric Lyons, Host: James Birchler, Collaborators: James Birchler, Chris Pires, David Braun, Paula McSteen;
Goff Title:  "The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"
Lyons Title:  "Comparative Genomics with CoGe in the iPlant Discovery Environment"

Portland State University

Seminar

Mar. 14

Portland, OR

Seminar by Ann Stapleton, Host: Suzanne Estes, Potential Collaborator: Todd Mockler
Title: "What can iPlant do for me right now?"

Iowa State University

Seminar

Mar. 16

Ames, IA

Seminar by Eric Lyons, Host Volker Brendel, Carolyn Lawrence;
Title:  "Comparative Genomics with CoGe in the iPlant Discovery Environment"

University of Guelph

Seminar

Mar. 16

Guelph, ONT

Seminar by Steve Goff, Host: Lewis Lukens, Clarence Swanton;
Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

iPlant Metrics

Meeting

Mar. 25

Wilmington, NC

EMEC-hosted meeting to ID metrics for measuring success/progress

/wiki/spaces/notes/pages/242107184

Meeting

Mar. 27-28

Atlanta, GA

In-person working group meeting

WEB 2.0 Expo

Conference

Mar. 28-31

San Francisco, CA

Seung-jin Kim attended

University of Arkansas

Seminar

Apr. 1

Fayetteville, AR

Invited talk to Walton College by Sue Brown,
Title: "Cyberinfrastructure: What’s in it for MIS?”

iRODS CodeSprint

Workshop

Apr. 12-14

Tucson, AZ

Developer meeting for iRODS

TeraGrid Meeting

Meeting

Apr. 13-15

Pittsburgh, PA

Dan Stanzione attended

Data-Intensive Analysis, Analytics, and Informatics

Workshop

Apr. 14-15

Seattle, WA

Dan Stanzione attended

Genomics In Education

Workshop

Apr. 15-16

Greensboro, NC

DNA Subway Workshop

Cornell University

Seminar

Apr. 17-19

Ithaca, NY

iPlant Training Workshop led by Matthew Vaughn, Title: "An Overview of the iPlant Discovery Environment"

UC Berkeley

Seminar

Apr. 19

Berkeley, CA

Seminar and Training on CoGe/iPlant by Eric Lyons, Host: Mike Freehling
Title:  "Comparative Genomics with CoGe in the iPlant Discovery Environment"

East Carolina University

Seminar

Apr. 21

Greenville, NC

Seminar by Ann Stapleton, Host: Beth Thompson, Collaborators: Beth Thompson, Jinling Huang, Ashley Egan
Title: "What can iPlant do for me right now?"

/wiki/spaces/Events/pages/242199846

Conference

May 2-6

Madison, WI

Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay attended and presented poster; Ann Hari Haefele attended;
Ray's Poster Title: "Enabling Plant Sciences Research Through iPlant's Discovery Environment and Condor"

Dow AgroSciences

Seminar-Industry

May 2

Indianapolis, IN

Seminar by Steve Goff, Host: Dennis Merens;
Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

Genomics In Education

Workshop

May 6-7

Bowie, MD

DNA Subway Workshop

International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium

Conference

May 14-22

Anchorage, AK

Dan Stanzione attended

Genome Assembly

Training Workshop

May 17-20

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

CSHL-sponsored Workshop, Matthew Vaughn presented, Title: "Roadblocks to genome assemblies"

Syngenta

Seminar-Industry

May 18

Research Triangle Park, NC

Seminar by Steve Goff;
Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

Cornell Next Gen Sequence Analysis Tools

Training Workshop

May 23-Jun 1

Ithaca, NY

Machine image contributed by Sangeeta Kuchimanchi, Contacts: Chi Sun, Robert Bukowski

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Seminar

Jun. 3

Toronto, ON

Seminar by Sheldon McKay, Host: Lincoln Stein
Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

SSWAP

Training Workshop

Jun. 6

St. Johns, NM

Intro to Semantic Web technology

Arabidopsis Genome Research Meeting

Meeting

Jun. 6-10

Tucson, AZ

Dan Stanzione attended

Postdoc Tool Integration

Training Workshop

Jun. 6-8

Tucson, AZ

UAT for TiTo

Anthropod Genomics Symposium

Conference

Jun. 10-13

Kansas City, KS

Sheldon McKay, Invited workshop host, Title: "Comparative Genomics and the iPlant Discovery Environment" 

Genomics In Education

Workshp

Jun. 10-11

Buffalo, NY

DNA Subway Workshop

PhytoBisque CodeSprint

Workshop

Jun. 14

Tucson, AZ

Developer meeting for PhytoBisque

Evolution 2011

Conference

Jun. 17-21

Norman, OK

Presentation by Naim Matasci
Title: "The iPlant Tree of Life Project and Toolkit: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Plant Science Research"

iEvoBio

Conference

Jun. 21-22

Norman, OK

Presentation by Jamie Estill, Title: "The iPlant Tree Reconciliation Tool"
Presentation by Naim Matasci, Title: "The TNRS: a Taxanomic Name Resolution Service for Plants"

Arabidopsis 2011

Conference

Jun. 22-24

Madison, WI

Poster by Vicki Bryan, Steering Committee meeting attended by Dan Stanzione;
Poster Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

Society for Experimental Biology 2011

Conference

Jun. 29-Jul. 4

Glasgow, Scotland

Dan Stanzione presented, Title: "The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the Plant Sciences"

Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science

Workshop

Jul. 1-21

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

CSHL-sponsored Workshop, Course taught using iPlant Infrastrcture (Machine images contributed by Nathan, Edgar, Matt)

BASF

Seminar-Industry

Jul. 6

Research Triangle Park, NC

Seminar by Steve Goff, Host: Jeremy Erickson;
Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

Genomics In Education

Workshop

Jul. 7-8

St. Louis, MO

DNA Subway Workshop

BSA 2011

Conference & Training Workshop

Jul. 9-10

St. Louis, MO

iPlant Activities at BSA'11, including DNASubway Workshop, iPlant Workshop with CIPRES, and TNRS Poster
Uwe Hilgert Title: "Genomics in Education: The DNASubway", Martha Narro Title: "The iPlant Collaborative Seed Projects", Eric Lyons Title: "Comparative Genomics and the iPlant Discovery Environment", Matt Vaughn Title: "Tool Integration in the Discovery Environment", Naim Matasci Title: "The TNRS: a Taxanomic Name Resolution Service for Plants", Steve Goff Title: "The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the Plant Sciences", Sheldon McKay Title: "Comparative Genomics and the iPlant Discovery Environment"  

Workshop on Comparative Genomics

Workshop

Jul. 10-23

Fort Collins, CO

Invited Faculty, Sheldon McKay
Title: "Comparative Genomics and the iPlant Discovery Environment"

University of Florida

Seminar

Jul. 15

Gainseville, FL

Sheldon presented seminar. Hosts: Doug and Pam Soltis
"The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the Plant Sciences"

Smithsonian Institute

Seminar

Jul. 15

Washington, D.C.

Seminar on iPlant and iPToL by Naim Matasci, Host: Vicki Funk, Cindy Parr (discussed with Vicki about participation in iPlant activities, discussed with Cindy convergence of TNRS and EOL phylogenies)
"The iPlant Tree of Life Project and Toolkit: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Plant Science Research"

/wiki/spaces/Events/pages/242199831

Visit

Jul. 18

Tucson, AZ

One-day visit by NSF Program Officer

/wiki/spaces/Events/pages/242199745

Conference

Jul. 18-21

Salt Lake City, UT

iPlant Activities at TG'11
Giving Presentations:
Rion Dooley - An API to feed the World, 10-12 PM, Tues, July 19
Matt Hanlon etal. -Benefits of NoSQL Databases for Portals & Science Gateways,2:45 - 5:15, Wed. July 20 

Attending Tutorials: 
Sangeeta K - Global Federated File System/REST API Tutorial 
Andy L - Building Science Gateway Applications/REST API 
Sriramu S - New User Tutorial/REST API Tutorial 
Michael G - New User Tutorial/REST API Tutorial - cancelled 
Nirav M - Global Federated File System/Genesis II Install, Config, Mgmt 
Kris H - New User Tutorial/REST API Tutorial 

TACC Attendees: Matthew Hanlon, Rion Dooley, Stephen Mock, Maytal Dahan, Praveen Nuthulapati, Patrick Hurley, Dan Stanzione

ASPB 2011

Conference

Aug. 6-9

Minneapolis, MN

iPlant Activities at ASPB'11, Steve Goff, Martha Narro, Eric Lyons, Naim Matasci, Liya Wang, Christos Noutsos, Chunlao Tang, and Matt Vaughn attended;
Presentation: Introduction, Overview, DE, Tool Integration, Data Management and Atmosphere (Eric Lyons)
Presentation: Phylogenetic Workflows: Tree Building and Post-tree Analysis (Naim Matasci)
Poster: A Data Analysis Pipeline for Next Generation Sequencing of DNA Methylome (Chunlao Tang)
Poster: A QTL/GWAS workflow in the iPlant Discovery Environment (Liya Wang)
Poster: Evolution of Regulatory Stress Responses in Duplicated Arabidopsis Gene (Christos Noutsos)

Oregon State University

Seminar

Aug. 9

Corvallis, OR

Visit by Ann Stapleton, Host: John Fowler
Title: "What can iPlant do for you right now?"

q-bio

Conference

Aug. 10-14

Santa Fe, NM

Poster presented by Juan Raygoza;
Title:  "Enabling Quatitative Biology Through iPlant's Discovery Environment: The case of tool integration"

University of Oregon

Seminar

Aug. 11

Eugene, OR

Visit by Ann Stapleton, Host: Alice Barkan
Title: "What can iPlant do for you right now?"

SolCAP and Potato Breeders Association

Meeting

Aug. 14

Wilmington, NC

Ann Stapleton met with the executive committee to go over iPlant resources relevant to SolCAP.  Collaborator: Robin Buell

/wiki/spaces/Events/pages/242199539

Conference

Aug. 16-18

Warwick, England

Poster by Naim Matasci;
Title: "Using R to Empower a New Plant Biology"

BioExtract/Carol Lushbough

Visit

Aug. 25

Tucson, AZ

Discussed collaboration with BioExtract

IBP-iPlant

Meeting

Aug. 28

Tucson, AZ

Meeting re: Embedding IBP Developer at iPlant

Colorado State University

Seminar

Aug. 31

Fort Collins, CO

Seminars by Steve Goff, Host: Tom Holzer; Title: “Heterosis, Protein Metabolism, and Energy Efficiency: How Cyberinfrastructure Can Be Applied" and Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

University of Hawai'i, Manoa

Seminar

Sept. 12

Manoa, HI

Seminar by Steve Goff, Host: Gernot Presting;
Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

Virginia Tech Integration & Visualization

Training Workshop

Sept. 12-14

Blacksburg, VA

Integration of Visualization Tools to answer biological questions, Host: Ruth Grene, attended by Dan Stanzione, Christos Noutsos, Matt Vaughn  

EU Bioinformatics Summer School

Training Workshop

Sept. 15

Lake Lucerne, Switzerland

Attended by Matt Vaughn

Organismal Biology for Adaptive Processes

Workshop

Sept. 19-20

Arlington, VA

NSF future research directions workshop

University of Oklahoma

Seminar

Sept. 30

Norman, OK

Invited talk by Sue Brown,
Title: "Diversity and Media Use: A Case Study of the iPlant Collaborative”

UA Ecology and Evoluntionary Biology Seminar

Seminar

Oct. 4

Tucson, AZ

Seminar by Naim Matasci, 
Title: "The iPlant Collaborative: A Cyberinfrastructure for the Life Sciences"

Genomics in Education

Workshop

Oct. 11-12

Riverside, CA

DNA Subway Workshop

Genotype-to-Phenotye: Deriving Biological Knowledge from Large Genomic Datasets

Workshop

Oct. 16-19

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

CSHL-sponsored Workshop, Steve Goff attended

TDWG 2011

Conference

Oct. 16-21

New Orleans, LA

Naim Matasci and Bill Peil presented TNRS 
Title: "The TNRS: a Taxanomic Name Resolution Service for Plants"

Nomina IX

Conference

Oct. 21 - 23

New Orleans, LA

Naim Matasci and Zhenyuan Lu attended

BIEN NCEAS Working Group

Meeting

Oct. 24-28

Santa Barbara, CA

Seed Project Working Group Meeting

UA Plant Sciences Seminar

Seminar

Oct. 24

Tucson, AZ

Seminar by Steve Goff, Campus Location: Marley 230 @ 4 PM;
Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

Genomics In Education

Workshop

Oct. 28-29

Roslindale, MA

DNA Subway Workshop

Genome Informatics

Conference

Nov. 2-5

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Joshua Stein poster: "Genome and transcriptome assembly workflows and evaluation using the iPlant cyberinfrastructure"
Christos Noutsos poster: "Atmosphere---iPlant collaborative’s cloud computing service for the plant sciences"
Liya Wang poster: "A QTL/GWAS workflow integrated in iPlant discovery environment"

Intrexon

Seminar

Nov. 7

Research Triangle Park, NC

Steve Goff presentation;
Title: “The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for the plant science community"

Geospatial Code Sprint

Meeting

Nov. 8-9

Tucson, AZ

Internal code sprint

SSWAP Use Cases

Meeting

Nov. 10-11

Tucson, AZ

Internal use case meeting

Genomics In Education

Workshop

Nov. 11-12

Lonestar College, Kingwood Texas

DNA Subway Workshop

SC11

Conference

Nov. 12-18

Seattle, WA

Presentations: Edwin Skidmore, Title: "iPlant Atmosphere: A Gateway to Cloud Infrastructure for the Plant Sciences", Andy Lenards, Title: "Building an environment to faciliatate discoveries for plant sciences", Rion Dooley, Title: "The iPlant Foundational API"  

Tools and Services Workshop @ NESCent

Training Workshop

Nov. 15 - 16

Durham, NC

iPlant Phylogenetics Workshop to introduce NESCent, UNC, and other faculty and staff to iPlant's software/infrastructure for sequence analysis and phylogenetics

Tools and Services Workshop @ Iowa State

Training Workshop

Nov. 17-18

Ames, IA

For Volker Brendel's Course at Iowa State

Genome Literacy Workshop at NHGRI

Meeting

Nov. 18

Rockville, MD

Dave Micklos presented on DNA Subway and the iPlant Collaborative, Title: "Genomics in Education: The DNASubway"

Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference

Conference

Nov. 28-Dec. 3

Adelaide, South Australia, AUS

Dave Micklos presented on DNA Subway and the iPlant Collaborative, Title: "Genomics in Education: The DNASubway"

/wiki/spaces/Events/pages/242199732

Meeting

Nov. 28-29

Tucson, AZ

Planning meeting for IBP with CYMMIT and Efficio representatives.

/wiki/spaces/Events/pages/242199662

Training Workshop

Nov. 30

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

DE RNAseq and Phylogenetics workflows and other topics.  Held in conjunction with CSHL meeting Plant Genomes and Biotechnology.  Joshua Stein, Jason Williams, Liya Wang, Christos Noutsos, Jerry Lu, Sheldon McKay, Doreen Ware, Chunlao Tang, Uwe Hilgert, Cornel Ghiban, Mohammed Khalfan,   Workshop page is here.  Planning page is here.

Plant Genomes & Biotechnology: From Genes to Networks

Meeting

Nov. 30 - Dec. 3

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Sheldon McKay talk presentation during "Current Major Funding Initiatives" session.
Jerry Lu poster: "iPlant's TNRS: a taxonomic name resolution services for plants"
Naim Matasci poster:  "The iPlant Collaborative---A cyberinfrastructure to support next-generation phylogeny-based research"
Christos Noutsos poster: "Atmosphere---A cloud computing offered from iPlant collaborative to the Plant science community"
Joshua Stein poster: "Genome and transcriptome assembly workflows and evaluation using the iPlant cyberinfrastructure"
Liya Wang poster: "A QTL/GWAS workflow in iPlant Discovery Environment"

Tree Biology Seed Project

Meeting

Dec. 6

Tucson, AZ

Seed Project Working Group Meeting

CSS 2011 & Seed Expo

Conference

Dec. 7 - 9

Chicago, IL

Steve Goff presenting on iPlant/Heterosis/Molecular Breeding; Title: “Heterosis, Protein Metabolism, and Energy Efficiency: How Cyberinfrastructure Can Be Applied"

Tools and Services Workshop @ Michigan State

Workshop

Dec. 8-9

East Lansing, NY

Trainers: Matt Vaughn and Fusheng Wei

Tools and Services Workshop @ UA

Workshop

Dec. 16 & 20

Tucson, AZ

Trainers: Eric Lyons, Nirav Merchant (if available)

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