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Revision as of 17:53, 3 November 2016
GOC Meeting, Los Angeles, November 4-6, 2016
- Location:
- University of Southern California
Registration
- Please register at: https://www.regonline.com/registration/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1890594
Consortium dinner Friday November 4
Planned Schedule
- Friday November 4:
- Meeting will run from 9am to 5pm.
- Consortium Dinner will follow.
- Saturday November 5:
- Meeting will run from 9am to 5pm.
- Sunday November 6:
- Meeting will run from 9am to 1pm.
- Optional break out groups may follow.
- Monday November 7:
- Noctua training workshop will run from 9 am to 3 pm
Meeting Venue and Directions
- University of Southern California, Ray I. Irani Hall, room 101.
- Campus Map: type "RRI" in the search box - http://web-app.usc.edu/maps/
- Walk from hotel: Cross the street (Figueroa) at the light just north of the hotel, and continue almost straight across campus
- Driving from off-campus: Enter campus from Vermont Street (west side), and pay for parking in Parking Structure A ("PSA" on map), which is right across from RRI. Or park right next to the Radisson Hotel and walk with the others (this is cheaper and probably easier on Saturday and Sunday).
Arriving
- International Flights
- LAX
- Recommend Uber (pick up on Departures level, one floor above ground) or Taxi
- Some domestic flights
- Burbank airport, slightly closer and more convenient than LAX
Meeting Dinner
- Dinner will be on the 4th, starting at 6:30pm, at McKays in the Trophy Room: http://mckays.usc.edu/
- Here are the dinner choices for that evening
- Appetizer:
- Soup of the Day
- Garden Green Salad
- Cajun Fried Calamari (Crispy Calamari Fries Served with House Remoulade & Lemon)
- Main
- Montego Bay Chicken (Half of a Farm Raised Chicken, Char-Grilled & Brushed with Authentic Jerk Marinade Over Chorizo-Calypso Rice)
- Sake Salmon (Fresh Atlantic Salmon Glazed with Rice Wine & Miso Stir-Fried Vegetables, Forbidden Rice)
- Flat Iron Steak (10oz Flat Iron Steak Grilled to Perfection with Maytag Mashed Potatoes Seasonal Vegetables & Red Wine Demi Glace)
- Boneless Short Rib (12-Hour, Cabernet Braised Short Rib over Smoked Cheddar, Red Pepper Grits Seasonal Vegetables)
- Cavatappi Arrabbiata (Corkcrew Pasta Tossed in Garlic Crème Sauce with Fried Roasted Tomatoes, Salmon Belly & Carlsbad Mussels)
- Thai Curry Noodles (vegan/vegetarian; gluten-free) (Sautéed Garden Vegetables in a Rich-Red Curry Broth, Served with Flat Stir-Fried Noodles)
- Appetizer:
Attendees
Please add your name to the table if you intend to attend the meeting, the dinner, the Noctua workshop, so we can get a headcount estimate.
Name | Organization | Are you planning to attend the GOC meeting | Are you planning to attend the GOC dinner | Are you planning to attend the Noctua/LEGO workshop the day after the meeting, Monday, November 7th? |
---|---|---|---|---|
Shur-Jen Wang | Rat Genome Database | Yes | No | No |
Paul Thomas | USC | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Suzanna Lewis | LBNL | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Judy Blake | Jackson Laboratory | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Paul Sternberg | Caltech | Yes | Yes | |
Chris Mungall | LBNL | Yes | No (previously organized meeting) | |
Seth Carbon | LBNL | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Stacia Engel | Stanford, SGD | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Kimberly Van Auken | WB, Caltech | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Doug Howe | ZFIN | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sabrina Toro | ZFIN | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Christian Pich | ZFIN | No | No | Yes |
Ruth Lovering | UCL | Yes | Yes (note food: vegetarian or fish only) | Yes |
Leonore Reiser | TAIR | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Donghui | TAIR | Yes | Yes | No |
Helen Attrill | FlyBase | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Giulia Antonazzo | FlyBase | Yes | Yes | No |
David Hill | The Jackson Laboratory | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Harold Drabkin | The Jackson Laboratory | Yes | Yes | Not sure |
Karen Christie | The Jackson Laboratory | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mary Dolan | The Jackson Laboratory | Yes | Yes | No |
Li Ni | The Jackson Laboratory | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Dmitry Sitnikov | The Jackson Laboratory | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Darren Natale | PRO | Yes | No | |
Fiona McCarthy | AgBase | No | ||
Petra Fey | dictyBase | No | Yes (note: vegetarian or fish only) | Yes |
Peter D'Eustachio | Reactome | Yes | Yes | No |
Edith Wong | SGD | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Olivia Lang | SGD | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mike Cherry | SGD | Yes | No | |
Helen Parkinson | EBI | No | No | |
David Osumi-Sutherland | EBI | Yes | No (It's my daughter's birthday!) | |
Val Wood | PomBase | Yes | Yes | |
Huaiyu Mi | USC | Yes | Yes | |
Maria Martin | EMBL-EBI | Yes | Yes | No |
Tony Sawford | EMBL-EBI | Yes | Yes | No |
Alice Shypitsyna | EMBL-EBI | Yes | Yes (note food: vegetarian or fish only) | Yes |
Jim Hu | TAMU | Yes | Yes | No |
Debby Siegele | TAMU | Yes | Yes | No |
Suzi Aleksander | TAMU | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Jim Balhoff | RTI | Yes | Yes | No |
Xiaosong Huang | USC | Yes | Yes | |
Pascale Gaudet | SIB | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Chris Grove | WB | No | No | Yes |
Raymond Lee | WB | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Marc Feuermann | Swiss-Prot | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sylvain Poux | Swiss-Prot | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Malcolm Fisher | Xenbase | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Marcus Chibucos | ECO, IGS | Yes | Yes | No |
Ranjana Kishore | WormBase, Caltech | No | No | Yes |
NOT attending:
Moni Munoz-Torres - Previous commitment to attend http://www.icg-11.org/
Melanie Courtot
Paola Roncaglia
Accommodations
- PLEASE BOOK USING CODE "GOCON" BY OCTOBER 13 TO ENSURE RATE
- Make hotel reservations with your personal access code “GOCON” either
- online https://www.radisson.com/los-angeles-hotel-ca-90007/cafiguer
- by phone from US 1.800.333.3333, international call +1.213.748.4141
- We have arranged for a group rate at the Radisson Hotel across the street from the USC campus.
- Make sure to book by October 13, as there may be no availability after that date
- the weekend of November 5-6 there will be two big football games at the Coliseum
- Individuals will pay on own for all charges
Local activities
- walking distance:
- Exposition Park - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Park_(Los_Angeles)
- Natural History Museum - http://www.nhm.org
- California Science Center - http://californiasciencecenter.org
- Exposition Park - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Park_(Los_Angeles)
- Downtown LA
- LA Live - https://www.lalive.com/
- MOCA - http://www.moca.org/
- Little Tokyo - http://www.littletokyola.org