No. 8: Visit GeneLab this fall at your favorite conference: ASGSR, AMIA and ASCB

Greetings From GeneLab!

GENELAB WORKSHOPS - AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR GRAVITATIONAL BIOLOGY (ASGSR) ANNUAL MEETING 

GeneLab will be hosting two sessions at the 2016 ASGSR Annual Meeting to be held in Cleveland, Ohio October 26-29. On Thursday October 27, from noon to 2:00 p.m. EDT, GeneLab will present a plenary session with updates about the GeneLab project and scientific talks that highlight data in the GeneLab Data Repository. A "grab-and-go" lunch will be available onsite for purchase before the session. On Friday, October 28, from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. EDT, members of the GeneLab team will present a tutorial on how to use the GeneLab Data System, how to submit data, data curation/metadata/standards, current vs. future capabilities, and GeneLab collaborations. Bring your questions and feedback. Both sessions will be webcast. The webcasts will be archived on the ASGSR website after the meeting.

GeneLab team members will present three posters at the ASGSR meeting:

  • San-Huei Lai, Valery Boyko, Kaushik Chakravarty, Rick Chen, Daniel Berrios, Homer Fogle, Oana Marcu, Linda Timucin, Jonathan Galazka, Sigrid Reinsch, Olga Stotzky, Mike Skidmore
    GeneLab: Multi-Omics Investigation of Rodent Research-1 Bio-Banked Tissues

  • Peter Tran, Mohana Gurram, Jairon Hashim, Sneha Raghunandan, Jon Welch, Sonja Caldwell, Michael Skidmore, Daniel Berrios
    GeneLab Phase 2: Federation of Space Biology Experiment Data

  • John Pfail, Oana Marcu, Homer Fogle
    Cross-Species Meta-Analysis of Spaceflight Transcription Profiling Datasets

GeneLab will co-host an information booth with NASA's Space Biology program. Stop by the booth for a hands on demonstration of the GeneLab data system, to meet our team members, or to ask questions about any other aspect of the GeneLab project.

AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION (AMIA) ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

AMIA is the professional society for health sciences informaticians. At the AMIA annual symposium to be held in Chicago, November 12-16, 2016, GeneLab's Dr. Dan Berrios will present a poster entitled NASA’s GeneLab: Phase One Results and Plan. Dr. Berrios' co-authors are Jon D. Welch, Homer W. Fogle, Michael Skidmore, and Oana Marcu. GeneLab will also be hosting an informational booth at the conference.

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CELL BIOLOGY (ASCB) ANNUAL MEETING

The ASCB annual meeting is the largest gathering of leading cell biologists worldwide. ASCB 2016 will be held December 3-7, 2016 in San Francisco, California. GeneLab will co-host an informational booth with the NASA Space Biology Program and Dr. Sigrid Reinsch will present a poster entitled GeneLab: Scientific partnerships and an open-access database to maximize usage of omics data from space biology experiments. Dr. Reinsch's co-authors are Jonathan Galazka, Dan Berrios, Kaushik Chakravarty, Homer Fogle, San-huei Lai, Valery Boyko, Linda Timucin, Peter Tran, and Mike Skidmore.

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Sincerely,
The GeneLab Team