Meetings and Events

NCBO-Sponsored Dissemination and Training Events 2005-2009

The Future of the Foundational Model of Anatomy ↑

• November 11-12, 2009, Stanford, CA
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

From Aristotle to the Universal Core: Ontology Training Event ↑

• October 10-11, 2009, Buffalo, NY
• Co-sponsored with the University at Buffalo

Signs, Symptoms and Findings: Towards an Ontology for Clinical Phenotypes ↑

• September 3-4, 2009, University of Milan, Biccaca, Italy
• Co-sponsored by the Italian National Research Council

International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) ↑

• July 27-29, 2009, Buffalo, NY
• Co-sponsored by the National Center for Ontological Research and the University at Buffalo

International Consensus Workshop: Convergence on an Orofacial Pain Taxonomy ↑

• Mar 30-Apr 1, 2009, Miami, FL
• Co-sponsored by the International Association for Dental Research

InterOntology 2009 ↑

• Feb 27-Mar 1, 2009, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
• Special session on Biomedical Ontologies co-organized with the Japanese Center for Ontological Research

Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies ↑

• January 5, 2009, Boston, MA
• Co-sponsored by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)

Signs, Signs, Symptoms and Findings: First Steps Toward an Ontology of Clinical Phenotypes ↑

• September 3-4, 2008, Dallas, TX
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

How to Make Useful Ontologies for Biomedicine

• July 19, 2008, Toronto, Canada.
• NCBO Tutorial at ISMB 2008 (Faculty: Nigam Shah and Barry Smith)

Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies ↑

• June 20, 2008, Minneapolis, MN
• Held in conjunction with the ↑ Evolution 2008 meeting.
• Co-sponsored by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)

Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies ↑

• April 12-13, 2008, Buffalo, NY
• NCBO Tutorial (Faculty: Barry Smith)

Ontologies of Cellular Networks ↑

• March 27-28, 2008, Newark, NJ
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Joint JCOR-NCBO International Biomedical Ontology Dissemination Workshop ↑

• February 26-27, 2008, Tokyo, Japan
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop
• Co-sponsored with the Japanese Center for Ontological Research

Dagstuhl Seminar: Ontologies and Text Mining for Life Sciences http://www.dagstuhl.de/07301 ↑

• July 23-27, 2007: Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
• Organizers: Ulf Leser, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann and Michael Ashburner

Ontologies for Biomedicine – How to Make and Use Them ↑

• July 21, 2007, Vienna, Austria
• NCBO Tutorial at ISMB 2007 (Faculty: Nigam Shah and Barry Smith)

Reasoning with Biomedical Information: Training Course in Logic for Biomedical Research ↑

• June 20-23, 2007, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
• NCBO Training Workshop, organized in conjunction with the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarbrücken, German

Workshop on Clinical Trial Ontology

• May 16-17 2007, venue TBD
• Information about Clinical Trial Ontology workshop
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Dagstuhl Seminar: Ontology Interoperability in Biomedicine ↑

• March 27-30, 2007, Dagstuhl, Germany
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

The OBO Foundry - A Gold Standard Approach to Ontology Evaluation ↑

• December 21, 2006
• Ontolog Forum Talk by Barry Smith: Slides Audio

Phenotype Ontology

• December 1-2, 2006, Clark Center, Stanford, CA
• PATO meeting agenda
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Connecting BioPAX to Other Biomedical Ontologies ↑

• November 20-21, 2006, MIT, Boston, MA
• NCBO Tutorial (Faculty: Barry Smith

Panel on the Future of HL7 ↑

• AMIA Anual Symposium, November 14, 2006, Washington DC
• Presenter: Barry Smith and others

Genomics Knowledge Representation for Clinical Trials ↑

• AMIA Annual Symposium, November 12, 2006, Washington DC
• Tutorial (Faculty: Nigam Shah, Barry Smith, and others)

Biomedical Imaging Ontologies ↑

• November 11, 2006, AMIA Annual Symposium, Washington DC
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Biomedical Ontology in Action ↑

• November 8, 2006, Baltimore, MD
• Symposium of the Working Group on Formal (Bio-)Medical Knowledge Representation of the American Medical Informatics Association (KR-MED)

Ontology of Diseases ↑

• November 6-7, 2006, John Hopkins University, Baltimore
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop organized in association with Formal Ontology and Information Systems (FOIS 2006 Conference

The Philosophy of Biology ↑

• October 14-15, 2006, Buffalo, NY
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

American Society of Human Genetics http://genetics.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/menu-annmeet.shtml ↑

• October 9-13, 2006, New Orleans, LA
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• Presentation to find collaborators, also ontology workshop

Genomics Standards Consortium Workshop

• • National Institute for Environmental e-Science (NIEeS)
  • September 11-13, 2006, Hinxton, UK.
  • http://www.niees.ac.uk/events/egenomics2006/index.shtml
  • Attending: Suzanna Lewis, Michael Ashburner, George Gkoutos

Anatomy Ontology Workshop

• • September 8-9, 2006, Seattle
  • information on the Anatomy Ontology Workshop
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner, Melissa Haendel, Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, Fabian Neuhaus, Nigam Shah, Barry Smith, David Sutherland, Monte Westerfield
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Tutorial on Standards and Ontologies

• • Medical Informatics Europe
  • August 27, 2006, Maastricht, Netherlands.
  • http://ontology.buffalo.edu/06/MIE_Tutorial.htm
  • Attending: Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith

IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics, 2006

• • August 14-18, 2006. Stanford University
  • http://www.lifesciencessociety.org/CSB2006/index.html
  • Attending: Mark Musen (Keynote), rest of Stanford group (tutorial in bioontologies/semantic web)

ISMB, 2006

• • August 6-10, 2006, Fortaleza, Brazil.
  • http://ismb2006.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner, Suzanna Lewis (Keynote speaker for Bio-ontologies SIG)

In Silico Analysis of Proteins. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Swiss-Prot

• • Jul 30- August 4, 2006, Fortaleza, Brazil.
  • http://www.swissprot20.org/
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner, Suzanna Lewis

Functional Genomics Investigation Ontology (FuGO) 2nd Workshop

• • July 24-28, 2006, Hinxton, UK
  • http://fugo.sourceforge.net/news/index.php
  • Attending: Barry Smith

9th International Protege Conference

• • July 23-26, 2006, Stanford, CA
  • http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2006/
  • Attending: Chris Callendar, Christopher Chute, Tricia d'Entremont, Chris Mungall, Mark Musen, Natasha Noy, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Kaustubh Supekar

NCBC All Hands Meeting

• • July 17-19, 2006, NIH, Bethesda, MD
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner, James Buntrock, Chris Callendar, Simona Carini, Louis Goldberg, Deborah McGuinness, Chris Mungall,Mark Musen, Fabian Neuhaus, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Barry Smith, Nicole Washington, Monte Westerfield
  • http://www.bisti.nih.gov/ahm2006/
  • Ontology: A Vision for the Future and Its Realization Dissemination Event
    • Organizers: Mark Musen, Barry Smith

Core 1 & 2 Project Meeting

• • June 27-28, 2006, Berkeley, CA
  • Attending: Julie Moseley, Lynn Murphy, Mark Musen, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Archana Vembakam (Stanford); Suzanna Lewis, Sima Misra, Chris Mungall, ShengQiang Shu, Nicole Washington (Berkeley); James Buntrock, Christopher Chute, Harold Solbrig (Mayo); Margaret-Anne Storey (UVic); Sherri De Coronado (NIH)
  • Working plan for core 1 & 2 goals

Core 1 & 2 Meeting

• • June 9, 2006, Berkeley, CA
  • Attending: Dilvan Moreira, Lynn Murphy, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Archana Vembakam (Stanford); Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, ShengQiang Shu, Nicole Washington (Berkeley); James Buntrock, Harold Solbrig (Mayo by phone); Chris Callendar (UVic by phone)

Training Course in Biomedical Ontologies

• • http://ontology.buffalo.edu/06/os2/index.html
  • May 21-24, 2006, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
  • Attending: Werner Ceusters, Mark Musen, Barry Smith
    • NCBO

NSF/RCN workshop on ontology and phylogeny

• • May 21-24, 2006, St. Louis, MO
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner, Suzanna Lewis, Monte Westerfield

Phenotype Annotation Meeting

• • May 17-20, 2006, Hinxton, UK
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner, Mark Gibson, George Gkoutos, Suzanna Lewis, Gillian Millburn, Chris Mungall, Fabian Neuhaus, Erik Segerdell, Nigam Shah, Monte Westerfield
  • PATO meeting agenda

Fish Evolutionary Biology Working Group Meeting

• • April 9-11, 2006, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Durham, NC
  • Attending: Mark Gibson,Paula Mabee, Chris Mungall, Monte Westerfield

Gene Ontology Workshop

• • March 31-April 3, 2006, St. Croix
  • Tutorial by Barry Smith

Bio-IT LifeSciences Conference

• • April 3-6, 2006, Boston, MA
  • http://www.lifesciencesexpo.com/live/26/
  • Speaker: Michael Ashburner, Ben Franklin Award Lecture.

Workshop on Ontology of Images

• • March 24-25, 2006, Stanford, CA
  • CCB NCBC and others with biomedical image ontologies
  • [Workshop on Ontology of Images | info on Ontology of Images workshop]
  • Attending: Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, Mark Musen, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Barry Smith, Kaushtubh Supekar
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Immunology Ontology Workshop: NIAID

• • March 21-22, 2006, Gaitherburg, MD
  • Attending: Suzanna Lewis (speaker), Mark Musen (Session chair), Barry Smith

Semantic Technology Conference

• • March 6-9, 2006, San Jose, CA
  • http://www.semantic-conference.com/
  • Attending: Deborah McGuinness (Keynote, tutorial), Mark Musen (speaker), Daniel Rubin, Kaustubh Superkar (speaker)

NIH NCRR Animal Models workshop

• • March 6-7, 2006, Bethesda, MD
  • Attending: Monte Westerfield

cBio Project Meeting

• • March 2-4, 2006, Stanford, CA
  • Agenda
  • http://www.smi.stanford.edu/research/cbio/cbio_meeting.html
  • Entire project, NIH Program & Lead Science officers

BIRN ontology workshop

• • February 28-March 1, 2006, Stanford, CA
  • Attending: Christopher Chute, Suzanna Lewis, Mark Musen, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Barry Smith
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

NLM vocabulary collection and distribution meeting

• • February 27-28, 2006, NLM, Washington, DC
  • Attending: James Buntrock, Christopher Chute, Tom Johnson, Chris Mungall, Deepak Sharma, Harold Solbrig

NIAID meeting

• • February, 2006, Washington, DC
  • Attending: Mark Musen

cBio Phenotype Annotation tool specification

• • February 21-23, 2006, Berkeley, CA
  • Attending: Melissa Haendel, Sierra Taylor (ZFIN); John Day-Richter, Mark Gibson, Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, ShengQiang Shu (Berkeley)

Mini-Syposium on Semantic Enrichment of Scientific Literature

• • February 20, 2006 at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner (speaker)

cBio OBD specification

• • February 17, 2006, Berkeley, CA
  • Attending: Ben Olasov, Ida Sim (UCSF); Mark Gibson, Suzanna Lewis, Sima Misra, Chris Mungall, ShengQiang Shu (Berkeley); Daniel Rubin (Stanford by phone)

FuGO meeting

• • February 13-15, 2006, Philadelphia, PA
  • http://fugo.sourceforge.net/news/index.php
  • Attending: Barry Smith

Fourth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference

• • February 9-10, 2006, MITRE, McLean, VA
  • http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FourthSemanticInteroperabilityforEGovernmentConference_2006_2_0910
  • Attending: Barry Smith

NIAID BRC3 and Inter Operability Working Group meeting

• • February 6-7, 2006, Philadelphia, PA
  • http://www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/genomes/brc/brc3.htm
  • Attending: Suzanna Lewis, Barry Smith

PharmGKB and cBiO meeting

• • January 31, 2006, Stanford, CA
  • Attending: Daniel Rubin (Stanford); Suzanna Lewis, Sima Misra (Berkeley); Russ Altman, Tina Boussard, Teri Klein, Mark Woon (PharmGKB)

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2006

• • January 2-6, 2006, Maui, HI
  • Michael Ashburner (Keynote)
  • http://psb.stanford.edu/

NCBC Meeting

• • Dec. 15-16, NIH, Bethesda, MD
  • Attending: Mark Musen, Suzanna Lewis, Monte Westerfield
  • Introducting new NCBCs to each other and NIH staff

Phenotype Annotation Meeting

• • December 11-12, 2005, Asilomar conference center
  • Attending: Melissa Haendel, Paula Mabee, Erik Segerdell, Monte Westerfield (ZFIN); Gillian Millburn (FlyBase); Mark Gibson, Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall (Berkeley); Chris Callendar, Sean Falconer, Margaret-Anne Storey (UVic)
  • Define requirements of phenotype annotation tools

International Biocurator Meeting

• • December 8-11, 2005, Asilomar, CA
  • http://biocurator.org/intnlbiocurator.html
  • Attending: Sima Misra (organizer), Chris Mungall (speaker), Monte Westerfield (speaker)

National Bioinformatics Network, South Africa

• • December 2, 2005, University of Cape Town, SA
  • Michael Ashburner (Keynote)

Phenotype Ontology Content Workshop

• • Nov. 19-20, 2005, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
  • Attending: Michael Ashburner, John Day-Richter, George Gkoutos, Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, Mark Musen, Erik Segerdell, Nigam Shah, Monte Westerfield
  • Media:PhenoAgenda.doc

Stanford/Mayo/Berkeley Meetings

• • Nov. 21, 10am-3pm, Stanford, CA; Nov. 22, 10am-3pm, Berkeley, CA
  • Attending: Lynn Murphy, Mark Musen, Daniel Rubin, Nigam Shah, Archana Vembakam, (Stanford); Nomi Harris, Suzanna Lewis, Sima Misra, Chris Mungall, ShengQiang Shu (Berkeley); James Buntrock, Deepak Sharma, Harold Solbrig (Mayo by phone)

Forbes Dewey Meeting

• • Late October, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  • Michael Ashburner, chair
  • Goal to see if anonymous foundation would pay for ontology content unification, standards, collaboration, etc.

Genome Informatics Meeting

• • Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 2005, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
  • Suzanna Lewis (organizer, speaker)

Workshop on Bio-Ontologies

• • October 28, 2005, Buffalo, NY
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  • Presenting: Suzanna Lewis, Frank Hartel, Sumi Yoshikawa, Olivier Bodenreider, David Hill
  • Training session: making ontologies better
    • NCBO

1st International Annual Conference, Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

• • October, 2005, Caxambu, Brazil
  • Michael Ashburner (Keynote)

Applied Biosystems Inc., Science Meeting

• • September, 2005, Asilomar, CA
  • Michael Ashburner (Keynote)

MGED8, Bergen

• • September, 2005
  • Michael Ashburner (Keynote)