[Fwd: Botany 2004 symposia]--ACTION required

Wed Nov 5 14:47:11 EST 2003

Thanks for forwarding that- be good to discuss today. I also heard from
another group we asked to sponsor- but no specifics yet. Ill update at the
phone call in a few minutes.
Leonore

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Pankaj Jaiswal wrote:

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

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