2016 Los Angeles GOC Meeting Logistics
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.
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/
- Attendees, please choose an appetizer and main course and put your choice in the table below.
- 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) (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 | Choice of appetizer | Choice of main course | Are you planning to attend the Noctua/LEGO workshop the day after the meeting, Monday, November 7th? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Shur-Jen Wang | Rat Genome Database | Yes | yes | No | ||
Paul Thomas | USC | Yes | Yes | Calamari | Salmon | Yes |
Suzanna Lewis | LBNL | 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 | ||
Ruth Lovering | UCL | Yes | Yes (note food: vegetarian or fish only) | Yes | ||
Leonore Reiser | TAIR | No | Yes | |||
Helen Attrill | FlyBase | 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 | ||
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 | No | ||||
Tony Sawford | EMBL-EBI | No | ||||
Alice Shypitsyna | EMBL-EBI | Yes | ||||
Jim Hu | TAMU | |||||
Debby Siegele | TAMU | No | ||||
Jim Balhoff | RTI | Yes | Yes | No | ||
Xiaosong Huang | USC | Yes | Yes | |||
Pascale Gaudet | SIB | Yes | Yes | |||
Chris Grove | WB | No | No | Yes | ||
Raymond Lee | WB | Yes | Yes | 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 +1.800.333.3333
- 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