Presentations at the ASPB meeting

Pankaj Jaiswal pj37 at cornell.edu
Fri Feb 9 12:07:01 EST 2007


I would go for session 2 (ontology, pathway and ath-genome) before the 
one on dbs because we will mention about these thing sin our db talks. 
Doing these first will cover a lot of background.

rest is fine. I can do PO ~20 min, Gramene ~40 min and lets say a 5-10 
in pathway if we can split.

-pankaj

Christophe Tissier wrote:

> hi Pankaj,
> 
> no, there are two sessions. We think that GO deserves more than 20minA 
> whole one will be dedicated to GO+PO+ Metabolic pathways.
> There are going to be 4h altogether.
> Session 1 (2h)
> introduction to all the DBs:
> 40min each including whatever question time you see fit for your own DB. 
> If you think 40min is too much for your DB, I'm sure we can reallocate 
> to time for other things. Do let me know.
> 
> Session 2 (2h)
> GO+PO (45-50min)
> Metabolic pathways (30min)
> TAIR genome update (30min)
> Do let me know if you intend to participate in this session (if so 
> provide me with an outline of your presentation... couple of lines will 
> suffice. Pankaj, do you want to cover PO?).
> 
> Now I guess if you intend to talk about the use of GO in your DB intro, 
> we could have the session order reversed. Although we can just as well 
> mention GO during the talk and introduced the GO talk for those 
> interested. I don't think the order is that critical so if you have 
> preferences we can definitely consider it.
> 
> I hope this clarifies things.
> 
> oh, by the way, talking to Wendy (one of the ASPB meeting coordinators), 
> this sessions do NOT fall under the Minisymposium category but 
> workshops. As such I don't think there is a need for posters. We are 
> making arrangement directly with the committee and are bypassing the 
> whole abstract submission thing via the web. If you want a separate slot 
> for your DB on very specialized topics, you might want to consider 
> submitting an abstract under the Botany Format 
> <http://www.2007.botanyconference.org/2007Calls/CallforAbstracts2007.pdf>, 
> which also does not require a poster. Or contact Wendy to see where you 
> presentation would fit best.
> 
> If you could all provide me with a very rough dribble on what you intend 
> to talk about during the intro session. I need to email Wendy our draft 
> by monday, so please send it today or at the latest tomorrow morning. 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Christophe
> 
> On 2/9/07, Pankaj Jaiswal <pj37 at cornell.edu <mailto:pj37 at cornell.edu>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Christophe,
> 
>     I think the 2hr session is shaping up something like this
> 
>     20 min-TAIR
>     20 min-SGN
>     20 min-Gramene
>     20 min-Ontologies (GO + PO)--> I suggest adding PO
>     20 min-Plant metabolic pathways
>     20 min-Questions and discussion.
>             You can split this 20 min as 5 min after each presentation for
>             questions and changeover of the speaker or everything towards
>             the end.
> 
>     -Pankaj
> 
>     Christophe Tissier wrote:
> 
>      > Hi Claire,
>      >
>      > thanks for the emails.
>      > MaizeGDB can't make it, so it will be TAIR, SGN and Gramene
>     together for
>      > the introductory session.
>      > As mentioned before, we would hopefully follow up on a second
>     session
>      > focusing on Gene Ontology and MetaCyc (we will probably introduce
>     AraCyc
>      > and we could do the same for RiceCyc unless Pankaj wants to do it
>      > himself. As for you Lukas, I am not sure whether you want to talk
>     about
>      > the Cyc you're putting together. It's still in beta, right? not been
>      > released to the general public? Overall we think we'll keep the
>     MetaCyc
>      > part short and sweet).
>      > After discussion, I think we're not going to have a third session
>     for
>      > TAIR. We would squeeze 20min of updates on our new genome release
>     in the
>      > second session.
>      >
>      > I have contacted the organizers of the ASPB meeting (I am sorting out
>      > the details for rooms etc. Do let me know if you're going to have
>     some
>      > specific requirements for your presentation other than Powerpoint
>      > usuals, laser pointer...). We will need to submit an abstract for
>     each
>      > session. Although TAIR will fully take care of session 2, it
>     would be
>      > nice if you could send me a short description of what you want to
>     talk
>      > about. I will draft an abstract merging all your comments. It
>     would be
>      > great if you could send me this by tomorrow.
>      >
>      > Thanks
>      >
>      > Christophe
>      >
>      >
>      > On 2/8/07, Claire Elise Hebbard <cer17 at cornell.edu
>     <mailto:cer17 at cornell.edu>
>      > <mailto:cer17 at cornell.edu <mailto:cer17 at cornell.edu>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     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
>     <mailto:pj37 at cornell.edu> <mailto:pj37 at cornell.edu
>     <mailto: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 <mailto:cer17 at cornell.edu>
>     <mailto:cer17 at cornell.edu <mailto: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
>      >      > --
>      >      > Dr Christophe Tissier                                  
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>      > --
>      > Dr Christophe Tissier                                   MetaCyc:
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>      > MetaCyc/TAIR Curator                                 AraCyc:
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr Christophe Tissier                                   MetaCyc: 
> http://www.metacyc.org/ <http://www.metacyc.org/>
> MetaCyc/TAIR Curator                                 AraCyc:   
> http://www.arabidopsis.org/tools/aracyc/
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> Stanford University                                      fax +1 650 325 
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