From rhee at acoma.Stanford.EDU Wed Aug 10 14:21:37 2005 From: rhee at acoma.Stanford.EDU (sue rhee) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: First International Biocurator Meeting, Asilomar, CA, December 8-11, 2005 Message-ID: ** First announcement ** First International Biocurator Meeting, Asilomar, CA, December 8-11, 2005 The goal of this meeting is to create a forum for curators and developers of biological databases to discuss their work, promote collaborations, and foster a sense of community in this very active and growing area of research. Confirmed plenary speakers include Rolf Apweiler (EBI), Russ Altman (Stanford University), and Mike Tyers (University of Toronto). Advance registration will be available from August 6 - October 1, and abstract submission will be open from August 6 - October 11. For more information, please see the meeting web site at: http://biocurator.org/intnlbiocurator.html The meeting organizers would like to thank the Genetics Society of America for their support. Organizing Comittee: Richard Bruskiewich -International Rice Research Institute, the Philippines Maria Costanzo -Saccharomyces Genome Database, Stanford University, USA Kara Dolinski -Saccharomyces Genome Database, Princeton University, USA Takashi Gojobori -Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Japan Win Hide -South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Doug Howe -Zebrafish Information Network, University of Oregon, USA Sean May -NASC, the European Arabidopsis Stock Centre, UK Gillian Millburn -FlyBase, University of Cambridge, UK Sima Misra -FlyBase and BDGP, University of California, Berkeley, USA Mary Polacco -USDA ARS and University of Missouri, USA Sue Rhee -The Arabidopsis Information Resource, Carnegie Institution, USA Simon Twigger -Rat Genome Database, Medical College of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA Yukiko Yamazaki -Oryzabase, Genetic Informatics Laboratory, Center for Genetic Resource Information, National Institute of Genetics, Japan _______________________________________________ Biocurator mailing list Biocurator at acoma.stanford.edu http://aztec.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/biocurator