Outreach September 2008 Report
FlyBase
FlyBase hosted an afternoon visit from a couple of Romanian scientists (Alex Ecovoiu and his PhD student) who wanted to know more about FlyBase and how we do GO annotation. Alex runs the only fly lab Romania. (Susan Tweedie)
DictyBase
At a Dictyostelium meeting in Japan, Petra included GO in a talk about DictyBase, and a japanese student later asked all about GO - about our annotations, where to find others, how it's all linked. (Petra Fey)
CRIBI
Paolo Laveder presented a poster on GO at the European Muscle Congress of 13-16 September 2008 at Keble College, Oxford. His main discovery from taking to users was that many people think that Affymetrix produce GO annotations, and so scientists and research funding bodies do not need to contribute to this. This is something that we could address in future outreach.
PAMGO
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute’s Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology (PAMGO) Training Workshop, Blacksburg, VA, July 14-16, 2008
Candace Collmer visited four universities in the People’s Republic of China during May-June, 2008. She presented a talk entitled, “Comparative genomics of plant pathogens: How new Gene Ontology (GO) terms facilitate the study of microbe-host interactions” at Nanjing Agricultural University, Hangzhou University, and Shang Jiaotong University in Shanghai.
Poster and “Flash and Dash” presentation entitled “Using the universal language of Gene Ontology (GO) to annotate gene products involved in the interactions between microbes and their hosts” at the annual (Centennial) meeting of the American Phytopathological Society, Minneapolis, MN, July 26-30, 2008. Authors on the poster were: Collmer, C. W.,Torto-Alalibo, T.,Lindeberg, M.,Chibucos, M., Gwinn-Giglio, M., Biehl, B., Ireland, A., Lomax, J., Bird, D., Collmer, A., Dean, R., Glasner, J., Hannick, L.., Mitchell, T., Perna, N., Setubal, J., White, O., Tyler, B. M. (Candace Collmer)