Jan 2014 GMOD Meeting
GMOD will be holding a community meeting on January 16th and 17th 2014 in San Diego, CA, immediately after PAG XXII.
Online registration is now open at EventBrite.
Proposed meeting features:
- Poster session
- GBrowse to JBrowse migration guide
- More coming soon!
If you have any suggestions or requests for the meeting, please contact the GMOD help desk.
Keynote Speaker
Tentative title: "A Centralized Model Organism Database (CMOD) for the Long Tail of Sequenced Genomes"
Andrew Su is an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute. His research focuses on applying the tools of bioinformatics, statistics, crowdsourcing, and computer science to biomedical discovery. Prior to joining Scripps in July 2011, he was the Associate Director of Bioinformatics at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) in San Diego, CA. He also serves as an Executive Editor of the journal Gene and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Gene Ontology Consortium.
Registration
Please register online at EventBrite.
The registration fee includes lunch on both days.
Logistics
The meeting will take place at the Best Western Seven Seas (a short distance from the Town and Country where the Plant and Animal Genomes meeting is held). A block of rooms is being held for attendees of the GMOD meeting at a very good room rate. To make reservations in this block, you must call (not reserve online) (800) 328-1618 and ask for the GMOD rate.
