Presentations at the ASPB meeting

[Claire Elise Hebbard]

Hi, Christophe,

Thanks for initiating this group effort. Yes, Gramene is planning to
attend, and we are interested in a presentation.

Pankaj Jaiswal will be the most likely person to be attending and
presenting. Ideally, we would also like a one hour slot.

I will confirm this with Pankaj and ask him to work on submitting an
abstract. We  would appreciate your working with the organizers to try to
group the DB presentations together, and for your presentation to go first
since you will be presenting the GO and Metacyc.

You can contact Pankaj (pj37 at cornell.edu) or myself directly concerning
anything else we should know for this coordination.

Sincerely,

Claire Hebbard
Gramene Outreach
cer17 at cornell.edu



> Hi,
>
> I am contacting you on behalf of TAIR.
> We are planning on going to the ASPB meeting in Chicago next July and
> wondered whether you had any intentions on attending.
> This year, TAIR (Harmut Foerster, Tanya Berardini and myself) and SGN
> (Lukas
> Muller) are planning on a joint session that would introduce several plant
> DBs and wondered whether you would be interested in sharing a slot.
> The idea would be to have a 2h slot to present our databases (we're
> planning
> on maybe four DBs, which would be roughly 30min presentations including
> questions).
>
> TAIR would be happy to run a full session on GO (what its purpose is and
> its
> applications) and probably MetaCyc.
> We thought it would make sense to have one DB covering these topics to
> avoid
> having to repeat the same info everytime.
>
> Each DB could thereafter have its own, more in-depth session. TAIR would
> like to plan on a one hour presentation but we could be happy to share a
> 2h
> slot with another DB. The other two could share another (assuming that one
> hour is sufficient). In any case, it would probably help if we'd
> synchronize
> our efforts to avoid all having minisymposia at the same time and to
> maximize exposure.
>
> If you have not already completed yours, the deadline for submission of
> the
> minisymposia abstract is february 14th.
> Do let me know if this sounds interesting to you and I can start
> contacting
> the ASPB organizers for book some slots and send some abstracts.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christophe
> --
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> MetaCyc/TAIR Curator                                 AraCyc:
> http://www.arabidopsis.org/tools/aracyc/
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