The Fifth Annual BeeSpace Workshop will take place May 21 and 22 (Thursday and Friday) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Workshop will be held in the Institute for Genomic Biology (www.igb.uiuc.edu), a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of campus.
Highlights of the Workshop include project status talks by the BeeSpace faculty investigators for general audiences and working sessions of the BeeSpace environment for project members. Slides and videos of the talks are available under BeeSpace Workshop 2009.
BeeSpace is a National Science Foundation-funded project whose five-year mission is to develop a cutting-edge bioinformatics resource for functional analysis of social behavior, leveraging the honey bee research community. The BeeSpace environment enables users to navigate a uniform space of diverse databases and literature sources for hypothesis development and testing.
| Thursday, May 21 | ||
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00- 4:00 | Doctoral Forum (student talks, each 20 minutes) | |
| Bioinformatics | ||
| Xu Ling (Computer Science), Entity Summarization for Biological Literature | ||
| Xin He (Computer Science), Functional Analysis for Biological Literature | ||
| Brant Chee (Information Science), Interactive Clustering of Biomedical Literature | ||
| Heather Adams (Animal Sciences), Statistical Analysis for Expression Experiments | ||
| 20-minute Break | ||
| Genomic Biology | ||
| Zhengzheng Liang (Neuroscience), Genomic Analysis of Animal Personality: Scout Bees | ||
| Nick Naeger (Entomology), Appointment Keeping in Honey Bees: Molecular Clocks | ||
| Jim Buell (Instructional Technology),
Experiencing BeeSpace: Educational Explorations in Behavioral Genomics for High School and Beyond |
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| 4:30-6:30 | Dinner | |
| Friday, May 22 | |||
| 8:30-12:00 | Research Forum (faculty talks) | ||
| Introduction and Biology | |||
| UI Welcome (10) | Ravi Iyer, Vice Chancellor Research, UIUC | ||
| IGB Welcome (10) | Harris Lewin, Director IGB | ||
| Project Overview (20) | Bruce Schatz, BeeSpace Principal Investigator | ||
| Nature-Nurture Dissection (30) | Gene Robinson, Entomology and Neuroscience | ||
| Expression Analysis (10) | Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, Animal Sciences | ||
| Anatomical Localization (10) | Susan Fahrbach, Biology at Wake Forest University | ||
| Expression Meta-Analysis (10) | Nathan Price, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | ||
| 30-minute break | |||
| Informatics and Education | |||
| BeeSpace System (30) | Bruce Schatz, Medical Information Science | ||
| Informatics Algorithms (30) | ChengXiang Zhai, Computer Science | ||
| Education and Outreach (20) | Susan Fahrbach, Wake Forest University | ||
| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch | ||
| 1:00- 4:30 | Software Forum (staff demos) | ||
| 60 minutes of demonstrations | |||
| BeeSpace production system v4 (45) | David Arcoleo, Moushumi Sen Sarma | ||
| BeeSpace research system v5 (15) | |||
| 30-minute Break | |||
| Interactive sessions with BeeSpace Systems | staff and students | ||
| I and II - two identical 60 minute sessions interactive training | |||
| 5:00-7:00 | Grand Finale Dinner | ||