Presentations at the ASPB meeting

[Lukas Mueller]

Sounds great to me!
Cheers
Lukas

On Feb 9, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Pankaj Jaiswal 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>> 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>)
>>     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>
>>      > 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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>>      > http://www.metacyc.org/
>>      > MetaCyc/TAIR Curator                                 AraCyc:
>>      > http://www.arabidopsis.org/tools/aracyc/
>>     <http://www.arabidopsis.org/tools/aracyc/>
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>> -- 
>> Dr Christophe Tissier                                   MetaCyc: 
>> http://www.metacyc.org/
>> MetaCyc/TAIR Curator                                 AraCyc:   
>> http://www.arabidopsis.org/tools/aracyc/
>> Carnegie Institution of Washington                tel  +1 650 325 
>> 1521 x267
>> Stanford University                                      fax +1 650 
>> 325 6857      Stanford, CA94305
>> USA
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