BSA symposia (fwd)

[Leonore Reiser]

Hi
Here is the response from Pam Diggle who is the head of the Developmental
and Structural Section.

Certainly getting enthusiastic (-$$) support from folks involved in Botany
2004.

I'll nudge Susanne Chambers from ASPB some more.
-Leonore
(Please excuse any unintended omissions in my email to her- I  was
frantically doing what I thought was damage control- turns out we did
follow 'protocol').

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Leonore Reiser, Ph.D.                   lreiser at acoma.stanford.edu
The Arabidopsis Information Resource	FAX: (650) 325-6857
Carnegie Institution of Washington	Tel: (650) 325-1521 ext. 311
Department of Plant Biology		URL: http://arabidopsis.org/
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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:42:15 -0700
From: Pamela Diggle <diggle at buffmail.Colorado.EDU>
To: Leonore Reiser <lreiser at acoma.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: BSA symposia

Leonore,

Apparently, you did follow the instructions!  It's just that it's
been so long since anyone did, that I didn't even know it.  We (the
Developmental and Structural Section) typically discuss symposium
proposals at the business meeting that's held at the BSA meetings and
then accept proposals from members and approve them before they are
submitted to the society.  As a result, our section has already
committed all of its funds to other symposia.  I discussed this with
the executive committee, and we are willing to add our sponsorship,
but we can't offer financial support.

If this is agreeable to you, I'll let Jeff Osborn know that we will
be a sponsor.

Best wishes,
Pam Diggle


>Dear Dr. Diggle,
>I apologize. I clearly was not on top of things with respect to how to set
>up the symposium and request sponsorship. I am representing the Plant
>Ontology Consortium, which was just funded by the National Science
>Foundation to develop controlled vocabularies to describe plant anatomy
>and developmental/growth stages. These controlled vocabularies will be
>used by databases/genomic resources to describe patterns of gene
>expression, mutant phenotypes and QTLs among other data types. The project
>follows the paradigm of the Gene Ontology Consortium, which has created
>ontologies (structured controlled vocabularies) to describe gene functions
>with three aspects: biological process, molecular function and
>sub-cellular localization.
>The Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) is an 'open source' project and all
>tools/data etc... will be freely available to the plant research/breeding
>community. It is our hope that by developing and using these ontologies
>this will facilitate cross taxa queries (find all mutants with abnormal
>inflorescences in all taxa)- and assist in finding correlations between
>phenotypes and the underlying genetic basis for these phenotypes.
>
>The POC collaborators include TAIR (Arabidopsis), Gramene (rice and other
>grasses),Maize GDB and Dr. Toby Kellogs lab at Missouri.The website
>(www.plantontology.org) has more information about the participants
>program.
>
>We felt that Botany 2004 was an excellent venue for a first 'users'
>meeting, where we could present the concepts, tools and data that are
>being developed -and most importantly to solicit the feedback and
>involvement of the plant biology community in developing/refining the
>ontologies and for specifications on the type and format of tools that
>will be developed to access and use the data.
>
>Because the project ties together many disciplines, we hoped to have the
>support from a variety of participating  groups at Botany 2004.
>
>I apologize for not contacting you first to ask for your approval. I am
>sure I misunderstood the process by which one requests support. Do you
>think your group would be interested in being a sponsor for this workshop?
>I am happy to provide whatever information you require to assist you in
>making your decision.
>
>Thank you so much for your time and attention.
>Best Regards,
>Leonore Reiser
>
>On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Pamela Diggle wrote:
>
>>  Leonore,
>>
>>  I understand that you have listed the Developmental and Structural
>>  Section as a sponsor of the symposium on Ontology that you have
>>  proposed to the BSA.  We were not contacted for our approval.
>>
>>  Pam Diggle
>>  Chair, Developmental and Structural Section
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>>  *****************************************************************
>>  Pamela K. Diggle
>>  Associate Professor
>>  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
>>  University of Colorado
>>  Boulder, CO 80309-0334
>>  USA
>>
>>  http://spot.colorado.edu/~diggle/
>>
>>
>
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>Leonore Reiser, Ph.D.                   lreiser at acoma.stanford.edu
>The Arabidopsis Information Resource	FAX: (650) 325-6857
>Carnegie Institution of Washington	Tel: (650) 325-1521 ext. 311
>Department of Plant Biology		URL: http://arabidopsis.org/
>260 Panama St.
>Stanford, CA 94305
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Pamela K. Diggle
Associate Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0334
USA

http://spot.colorado.edu/~diggle/