2014 Events
Title | Type | Date | Location | iPlant Contact | Institution Contact | Notes |
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CANCELLED: Tucson Software Carpentry Bootcamp | Workshop | Jan 6-7 | Tucson, AZ | N. Merchant | Greg Wilson | In combination with Winter Breeding Institute |
Workshop | Jan 6-10 | Tucson, AZ | S. Goff | B. Walsh, A. Randall | Workshop: Bioinformatics Module, Jan. 8-10 | |
Meeting | Jan 9-10 | San Diego, CA | D. Ware | Hannes Dempewolf | Attendees: Steve Goff, Doreen Ware | |
PAG XXII (website) | Conference | Jan 11-15 | San Diego, CA | J. Williams | D. Scherago | Full iPlant@PAG |
ARFP Research Fellow Mtg | Meeting | Jan 16 | Tucson, AZ | S. Goff | V. Lau | Location: Arizona Inn |
IRRI-iPlant Mtg | Meeting | Jan 17 | Tucson, AZ | S. Goff | IRRI Visitors: Ramil Mauleon, Ken McNally, Nicolai Alexandrov | Purpose: to discuss the 1000 rice genomes that IRRI would like iPlant to host for public research. Mtg included: Nicole, Nirav, Naim, Martha, Roger, Edwin |
EAGER: Report on International Data Exchange Requirements (RIDER) Adv Cmte | Meeting | Jan 30-31 | Washington, DC | S. Goff | Jill Gemmill | RIDER = Report on International Data Exchange Requirements |
| Workshop | Jan 31-Feb 1 | McMinnville, OR | J. Williams | Sam Fox | |
Half-Day Scientific Meeting | UA Meeting | Feb 12 | Tucson, AZ | S. Goff | Anne M. Wertheimer, |
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Population and Community Ontology Collaborative Exchange + Biological Collections Ontology Workshop | Workshop | Feb. 18-20 | Tucson, AZ | R. Walls | Judy Logue/Josie A | Sponsored by the Phenotype RCN and the Interoperable Information Infrastructure for Biodiversity Research (I3B) EAGER |
Phenotype RCN | Meeting | Feb 20-23 | Tucson, AZ | R. Walls; T. Lee | E. Huala | iPlant hosted meeting at Biosphere2 |
Invited Talk at TGAC | Presentation | Feb. 28 | Norwich, UK | J. Williams | Rubina K. | Presentation: Jason Williams, The iPlant Collaborative – A Unified Cyberinfrastructure for the New Life Science |
iPlant/CoGe Workshop | Workshop | Mar 3-4 | Wageningen, NL | E. Lyons, J. Williams | E. Schranz | Workshop: The iPlant Collaborative and CoGe |
iPlant Getting Started | Webinar | Mar 10 | N/A | J. Williams |
| Monthly Webinar for new account holders |
Conference | Mar 13-16 | Beijing, CHINA | D. Ware | A. Stapleton | Attendees: Ann Stapleton, Doreen Ware, Jason Williams | |
Maize Genetics | Workshop | Mar 14 | Bejing, CN | J. Williams |
| Workshop: An Introduction to the iPlant Collaborative |
Meeting | Mar 23-25 | San Francisco, CA | D. Ware, M. Schatz, D. Stanzione | D. Ware | Presentations: | |
Train the Trainers | Training | Mar 25 | Davis, CA | J. Williams |
| Trainees: Mike Covington, Joe Fass, Monica Britton, Sebastian Reyes Chin-Wo, Raj Nandety, Aashish Ranjan, Michelle Stitzer |
Workshop | Mar 26-27 | Davis, CA | J. Williams | Monica Britton, Ian Korf | Trainers: Jason Williams, Roger Barthelson, UCD newly-trained trainers | |
CUREnet | Meeting | Mar 31- Apr 2 | Cold Spring Harbor, NY | D. Micklos, J. Williams | D. Micklos | Presentations: |
GSC 16 - Genomics Standards Consortium | Soc. Conference plus Hackathon | Mar 31 - Apr 2 | Oxford, UK | R. Walls | Neil Davies, Dawn Field | Hackathon for the Biological Collections Ontology during the semi-annual GSC meeting |
Bioinformatics and Computation Biology Lecture Series | Presentation | Apr 2 | Ames, IA | S. Goff | R. Jernigan, Dir.; MJ McCunn, admin; Mary Jane McCunn | Presentation: Steve Goff, Using the iPlant cyberinfratstructure platform to explore the potential connection between protein metabolism, hybrid vigor, and cellular aging |
Moorea Avatar Meeting | Meeting | Apr 3-4 | Oxford, UK | R. Walls | Neil Davies, Dawn Field, Neo Martinez | Presentation: Ramona Walls, Supporting international collaborations iPlant style, providing input on use of iPlant's infrastructure for the Moorea AVATAR project. |
Plant Sciences Inst Adv Board | Meeting | Apr 4 | Ames, IA | S. Goff | Deanna Brill (admin), Pat Schnable (dept head) |
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Workshop | Apr 7-10 | Maricopa, AZ | R. Walls | Jeffery White | A three day workshop on field phenomics. | |
Panel Presentation | Apr 9 | Denver, CO | S. Goff | Dan Taylor, Director, Internet2 | Session Title: "Using Big Data to Revolutionize Agriculture Worldwide" *scheduled for *Wednesday, April 9 from 1:15pm-2:30pm. | |
Get Started with iPlant | Webinar | Apr 11 | N/A | J. Williams |
| Monthly Webinar for New Account Holders |
NSF (RCN) Incubator: Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE) | Meeting | Apr 17-18 | Omaha, NB | J. Williams | Mark Pauley | Attendees: Jason Williams, Sally Elgin (iPlant SAB member) |
Workshop | Apr 27-30 | Toronto, ON | J. Williams |
| Attendees: Jason Williams, John Fonner, Jonathan Strootman | |
Conference | Apr 29- May 1 | Boston, MA | J. Carson |
| Attendees: James Carson to attend and represent iPlant and TACC | |
Datasphere | Workshop | May 5-6 | Biosphere2, Oracle, Arizona | N. Merchant, M. Narro | Brian Heidorn, U. Arizona | NSF-funded workshop (~30) to explore the software and cyberinfrastructure needs of the biodiversity and environmental sciences, and address how a software institute might advance these fields. |
Plant Trait Semantics at iDiv | Workshop | May 6-7 | Leipzig, Germany | R. Walls | Jens Kattge | Plant Trait Semantics in the Context of Biodiversity Research: Concepts and Opportunities for Interoperability. |
Software Carpentry Workshop | Workshop | May 12-13 | Cold Spring Harbor, NY | J. Williams |
| iPlant will sponsor a two-day SC workshop at CSHL |
Workshop | May 12-13 | Charlotte, NC | N. Matasci | Ann Loraine | Trainer: Naim Matasci, Naim will teach a class on using R for NGS. | |
Get Started with iPlant | Webinar | May 14 | Online | J. Williams |
| Monthly iPlant orientation webinar |
OpenStack Summit | Conf | May 12-16 | Atlanta, GA | E. Skidmore |
| Attendees: Edwin Skidmore, Steve Gregory |
Workshop | May 20 | Reno, NV | R. Barthelson, U. Hilgert | Christie Howard | Trainer: Roger Barthelson, Roger will lead a tour of iPlant and help a group of local faculty work through RNA-Seq data. | |
Workshop | May 21-22 | Reno, NV | D. Micklos, U. Hilgert | Christie Howard | Genomics in Education (DNA Subway) workshop. | |
Tools and Services Workshop | Workshop | May 27-28 | Stony Brook, NY | J. Williams | Joshua Rest | Tools and Services Workshop |
Ecological Modeling to SDM group | presentation | May 30 | New York City, NY (remotely) | R. Walls | Mary Blair | Presentation: Ramona Walls, Ecological Modeling Proposal to the Species Distirbution Modeling Group at the American Museum of Natural History. |
iPlant New Releases and Previews | Webinar | Jun 6 | Online | J. Williams, S. Srinivasan |
| Webinar on the latest iPlant releases and preview of upcoming features |
Soc. Conference | Jun 8-12 | Puerto Rico |
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Site Visit | Jun 16-17 | Washington, D.C. | S. Goff | K. Cone | Attendees: Steve Goff, Nirav Merchant, Eric Lyons, Matt Vaughn, Doreen Ware, Ann Stapleton, Jason Williams, Lyia Wang, Barbara Heath | |
iRODS User Group Mtg 2014 | Meeting | Jun 18-19 | Cambridge, MA | N. Merchant | Jointly coordinated by iRODS Consortium and DICE Center. | Event details here. |
JCVI | Workshop | Jun 18-19 | Rockville, MD | E. Lyons | Haibao Tang | Trainer: Eric Lyons |
Meeting | June 24 | Washington,DC | N. Merchant |
| Attendee: Nirav Merchant, for a panel on CI | |
UK Collaborations | Meetings | Jun 21-29 | Dublin, Edinburgh, London | M. Vaughn |
| Attendee: Matt Vaughn, attending various meetings, presenting, and holding discussions with UK collaborators |
Understanding GWAS workshop | Workshop | Jun | Lincoln, | J. Williams | Harkamal Walia, | Trainers: Jason Williams, Ann Stapleton |
Conference | Jun 24-25 | Raleigh, NC | D. Boss |
| Presentation: Darren Boss, Atmoshpere Demo, June 24, 3:15pm session. | |
Workshop | Jun 27-28 | Denver, CO | U. Hilgert, J. Williams | Heidi Loshbaugh | Genomics in Education Workshop | |
Get Started with iPlant | Webinar | Jul 9 | Online | J. Williams |
| Monthly iPlant orientation webinar |
22nd Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) | Conference | Jul 10-15 | Boston, MA | J. Stein |
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Conference | Jul 12-16 | Portland, OR | J. Williams |
| Attendees: Jason Williams, Nicole Hopkins, Christos Noutsos, Doreen Ware | |
Software Carpentry Workshop at ASPB | Workshop | July 17-18 | Portland, OR | J. Williams |
| iPlant and KBase in cooperation with ASPB will host a software carpentry workshop for ASPB members and also feature iPlant and KBase tools with hands-on demos. |
Conference | Jul 26-30 | Boise, ID | J. Williams, U. Hilgert |
| iPlant Activities: 1/2 Day Tools-Services Workshop, 1/2 day Genomics in Education Workshop | |
Workshop | Aug 4-8 | Stillwater, OK | E. Lyons | Peter Hoyt, Grad Program Dir, Bioinformatics, OK State University | Presentation: Eric Lyons (8/6/14), Using Atmoshere, as part of the bioinformatics workshop | |
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (ESA 2014) | Conference | Aug 10-15 | Sacramento, CA | R. Walls |
| Presentation: Ramona Walls, The iPlant Collaborative: using iPlant for sharing, managing, and analysing ecologial dataWalls iPlant ESA 2014.pdfWalls iPlant ESA 2014.pdf |
iPlant Workshop with ICRISAT | Workshop | Aug 11 | Tucson, AZ | S. Subramaniam |
| Attendees: ICRISAT team of Dr Rajeev Kumar Varshiney. |
Workshop | Aug 13-14 | Huntsville, AL | D. Micklos, U. Hilgert | Neil Lamb | Genomics in Education Workshop | |
iPlant Workshop | Workshop | Aug 13 | Tucson, AZ | S. Subramaniam |
| Attendees: Prof. Guohao He and lab members, Prof. Channapatna Prakash. |
iPlant Workshop with ICRISAT | Meeting | Aug 13 | Tucson, AZ | S. Subramaniam |
| Attendees: ICRISAT team of Rajeev Kumar Varshiney. Followup discussion to identify areas of collaboration between ICRISAT and iPlant. |
Virtual Hackathon | Aug 14 | Tucson, AZ | N. Hopkins |
| Attendees: John Fonner, James Carson, Matt Vaughn, Rion Dooley, Roger Barthelson, Nicole Hopkins, Kurt Michels, and Nirav Merchant. | |
iPlant Workshop | Workshop | Aug 16-17 | Tucson, AZ | S. Subramaniam |
| Attendees: Faculty, Researchers and Students of Amrita School of Biotechnology. |
Conference | Aug 17-22 | Vancouver, CA | J. Williams |
| Presentations: James Reecy, iAnimal, and Fiona McCarthy, Functional Annotation/Pathways, Jason Williams, Using DNA Subway | |
CSHL Visit | Meeting | Aug. 20-22 | Cold Spring Harbor, NY | N. Hopkins |
| Attendees: Nicole Hopkins, Ramona Walls |
iPlant workshop | Workshop (remote) | Aug 25 | Berkeley, CA | S. Subramaniam |
| Attendees: Members of Prof. Michael R Freeling lab. Overview of iPlant resources. |
Meeting | Aug 25-27 | Tucson, AZ | N. Merchant |
| Attendees: Nirav, Todd Tannenbaum (UWisc), Greg Thain (UWisc), | |
NPGI Postdoctoral Research Fellows Annual Awardee Meeting | Meeting | Sep 3 | Arlington, VA | J. Williams | Diane Okamuro | Jason invited to give the talk: The iPlant Collaborative: Computational Resources for Young Investigators - How Can We Help? |
GenEx Roadmapping Event | Meeting | Sep 3-4 | Minnetonka, MN | S. Goff | Mike Bean, Paul Bonnett, Bill Danker, Ray Riley, Syngenta | Attendees: Steve Goff, Eric Lyons, Ann Stapleton |
High Performance Computing (HPC) in Undergraduate Biology Education | Meeting | Sep 3-5 | Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | D. Micklos | Dave Micklos, Dan Stanzione, Jan Witkowski | The objective is to discuss IF and HOW we can expand educational access to HPC to allow more students to analyze biology’s big data. 30 attendees include D. Micklos, J. Williams, U. Hilgert from iPlant EOT and representatives from NSF and universities around the country. |
Meeting | Sep 7-10 | London, UK | D. Boss |
| Boss invited to attend meeting. | |
Conference | Sep 7-10 | Strasbourg, FR | J. Williams |
| Workshop: Bioinformatics training | |
Meetings | Sep 12 | St. Louis, MO | D. Ware |
| Presented “Translating Plant Genomes” | |
Workshop | Sep 15 - Oct 23 | Tucson, AZ | T. Lee/A. Randall | Nirav, Eric, Ramona, Nicole, Edwin, Roger, Uwe, Stroot, Martha | Priority is for BIO5 Researchers; see schedule/modules on the registration webform (link not public) | |
Workshop | Sep 18-19 | Beltsville, MD | J. Williams | DeWyane Shoemaker | iPlant will hold two training sessions for ARS researchers working with Arthropods | |
Meeting | Sep 25-27 | Denver, CO | T. Lee, MM Sprinkle |
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Software Carpentry Boot Camp | Workshop | Sep 27-28 | Phoenix, AZ | J. Strootman |
| Trainer: Jonathan Strootman |
CollabIT BioCenters Meeting | Meeting | Oct 6-8 | East Lansing, MI | M. Narro | Tracy Teal, Michigan State U | Discuss what the BioCenters can do to work together, esp. Data Carpentry workshops and grant proposals. Meeting report. |
Meeting | Oct 13 | Bloomington, IN | E. Skidmore |
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TDWG Annual Meeting | Meeting | Oct 27 - 31 | Jonkoping, Sweden | R. Walls |
| Theme is "Applications and Data Standards for Sustaining Biodiversity" |
Meeting | Nov 5-8 | Cold Spring Harbor, NY | J. Williams |
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iPlant Train-the-trainers pre-workshop webinar | Webinar | Nov 10 | Online | J. Williams, |
| Prep webinar for group of USDA-ARS trainers who will meet at CSHL in December. |
CYMMIT | Meeting | Nov 9 - 12 | Mexico City, MX | R. Walls |
| Business purpose: This is a one-off working meeting to figure out how to use IBP and iPlant for the Genotypes2Fields initiative in maize. |
NSF Visit | Meeting | Nov 14 | Tucson, AZ | Exec Team, Jason W., Dave M. | Jane Silverthorne, Jim Olds | |
Meeting | Nov 16-19 | Tucson, AZ | D. Ware, K. Chougule, J. Stein | Rod Wing | Doreen presented "Translating Plant Genomes", a talk that highlighted several resources including iPlant. | |
Meeting | Nov 30 - Dec 3 | Ames, IA | Nicole H, Jeremy D. | Carolyn Lawrence | Designated Lodging: Memorial Union at Iowa State campus | |
Volker Brendel visit | Meeting | Dec 2 | Tucson, AZ | Eric L, Edwin S | Eric Lyons | Business Purpose: UA Plant Sciences invited Dr. Brendel to give a presentation for their seminar series; he will also meet with Edwin re: Atmosphere Workshop Cloud during his visit to UA. |
Outreach | Dec 3 | Phoenix, AZ | Shelley L, Nirav M, Edwin S | Mike Sauceda | Nirav and Edwin gave a live 8-min interview with Arizona Horizon host Ted Simons re: Jetstream, iPlant, and Atmosphere | |
iPlant Train-the-trainers | Workshop | Dec 7-10 | Cold Spring Harbor, NY | J. Williams |
| A group of ~25 staff/researchers from USDA-ARS will be trained on helping other USDA-ARS scientists use the iPlant infrastructure for RNA-Seq |
Meeting | Dec 10 | Tucson, AZ | M. Narro, N. Merchant, R. Walls |
| Business Purpose: discuss how best to collaborate with Lifemapper to support spatial data in iPlant for the community. | |
iPlant-TACC Cross-Site Coordination | Meeting | Dec 15 | Tucson, AZ | John Fonner, Matt Vaughn | Nirav M, Eric L, Edwin S. | Business Purpose: coordinate development, website, management, and infrastructure teams for the rollout of Bio.CI umbrella organization starting at PAG 2015. |
Jetstream Planning | Meeting | Dec 16-17 | Tucson, AZ | M. Vaughn, N. Merchant, E. Skidmore |
| Business Purpose: Jetstream project planning construction starting Jan 2015 |