[Fwd: Botany 2004 symposia]--ACTION required

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

Action item required.

Pankaj

-------- Original Message --------
From: 	Brent Mishler <bmishler at socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: 	Botany 2004 symposia
To: 	Leonore Reiser <lreiser at acoma.stanford.edu>
CC: 	Pankaj Jaiswal <pj37 at cornell.edu>, Susan McCouch
<srm4 at cornell.edu>, Elizabeth Kellogg <kellogge at msx.umsl.edu>, Sue Rhee
<rhee at acoma.stanford.edu>, Lincoln Stein <steinl at cshl.edu>, Doreen Ware
<ware at cshl.edu>



Hi all,

Jeff Osborne forwarded this proposal to me -- it looks great!  I would
really like for Deep Gene to be a co-sponsor.  One problem is the kind
of support needed.  Our funds aren't really for paying for big-ticket
foreign speakers; I'd rather give student/postdoc support.  We do pitch
in for faculty travel too, but NSF frowns on paying for foreign faculty
from developed countries (going on the assumption that they can generate
their own funds and shouldn't be relying on the US NSF).  Foreign
students they don't seem to mind too much.  So if you can cover the "big
guys" somehow else, I'd be willing to support some student travel to
attend your symposium.  Could that work?

All the best,

Brent


>
> ********************

>
> Symposium Title: Biological Ontologies for Plant Biology: Development  
> and Applications
>  -----

>  Organizer(s): Contact person: Leonore Reiser
>  lreiser at acoma.stanford.edu Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant
>  Biology 260 Panama St Stanford,CA 94305 (T) 650-325-1521X311 (F)
>  (650) 325-6857 Other organizers (Name/email) Pankaj Jaiswal
>  pj37 at cornell.edu Susan McCouch srm4 at cornell.edu Elizabeth Kellogg

>  kellogge at msx.umsl.edu Sue Rhee rhee at acoma.stanford.edu Lincoln Stein

>  steinl at cshl.edu Doreen Ware ware at cshl.edu
>  -----

> Sponsoring Sections:
>  Developmental and Structural Section, Genetics Section, Physiological
>  Section, Systematics Section
>  -----

>  List of speakers: 1.Lincoln Stein Plant Ontology Consortium/Cold
> Spring Harbor Lab "Introductory Remarks" 2.Midori Harris Gene
> Ontology Consortium "The Gene Ontology Consortium" 3. Pankaj Jaiswal
> Gramene/Cornell University "Anatomy, Trait and Developmental Stage
> ontologies for rice" 4.Leszek Vincent University of Missouri-Columbia
>  "Development of ontologies for maize." 5. Tanya Berardini Carnegie
> Institution, Department of Plant Biology and The Arabidopsis
> Information Resource (TAIR) " Anatomy and developmental stage
> ontologies Arabidopsis" 6.Doreen Ware Cold Spring Harbor Labs/USDA
> "Informatics for the Plant Ontology Consortium: Database and tools"
> 7.Tanya Berardini/Pankaj Jaiswal TAIR/Gramene "Standards and Methods
>  for Annotation" 8.Elizabeth Kellogg University of
> Missouri-Columbia/Deep Gene "Adaptation of ontologies for diverse

> plant taxa: integration and validation". 9.TBD Gramene "Community
> Curation at Gramene Database" 10. Rupali Bhalerao, PoplarDB "Annotation
> of the Poplar genome: the first sequenced tree genome" and 11.Yukiko
> Yamakazi , Oryzabase " Rice Phenotype
> Annotation".
>
> Discussion Topic(s): Expansion and
> adaptation of POC for other plant species and integration of
> community input for tool development and curation/ontology validation.
>  -----

>  Duration: Half Day
>  -----

>  Nature of sponsorship: Financial support requested
>  -----

> Amount requested: $2500 to cover the cost of airfare for Dr. Yamakazi
> (Japan) and Dr. Bhalerao (Sweden). We feel it is very important to include

> Dr Bhalerao as the poplar genome sequence will be released soon. Dr.
> Yamakazi's group curates rice phenotypes in Japan. Integration of
> information from diverse species as well as diverse groups working on the
> same organism is critical to improve access to these resources by the
> research community.
>
>  -----

> Requests for sponsorship submitted to: BSA Sections: Developmental
> and Structural Section, Genetics Section, Physiological Section,

> Systematics Section, Other Sources: Deep Gene Research Coordination

> Network, Gene Ontology Consortium, Gramene Community Consortium

>
> --
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   
> Jeffrey M. Osborn
> Division of Science
> Truman State University
> 100 E. Normal Street
> Kirksville, MO 63501-4221, USA
>
> Tele:  (660) 785-4017
> Fax:  (660) 785-4045
> E-mail:  josborn at truman.edu
> Internet: http://www2.truman.edu/~josborn/

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



-- 


**********************************************************
Brent D. Mishler
      Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
      Director, University and Jepson Herbaria
      Associate Director, California Biodiversity Center
   Mailing address:
      UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
      UNIVERSITY AND JEPSON HERBARIA
      1001 VALLEY LIFE SCIENCES BLDG # 2465
      BERKELEY, CA  94720-2465  USA
   Phone:  (510) 642-6810
   FAX:    (510) 643-5390
   E-mail: bmishler at socrates.berkeley.edu
   WWW:    http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/people/mishler.html
**********************************************************

-- 
******************************************
Pankaj Jaiswal, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Dept. of Plant Breeding
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY-14853, USA

Tel:+1-607-255-3103 / Fax:+1-607-255-6683
E mail: pj37 at cornell.edu
http://www.gramene.org
******************************************