GNAS 2009 Agenda
Day 1 (12th October):
Start 9.00 - coffee/tea
9.15 - 9.30 Welcome and Introduction - Elspeth Bruford
Mammalian nomenclature groups - chair Jen Harrow
9.30 - 9.55 Matt Wright: The HGNC Database: An Essential Resource For The Human Genome
9.55 - 10.20 Janan Eppig: What’s in a name? -- current nomenclature issues and activities for mouse
10.20 - 10.45 Mary Shimoyama: Nomenclature Assignment, Review and Resolution at the Rat Genome Database
10.45 - 11.15 coffee/tea
Other vertebrate nomenclature groups - chair Derek Stemple
11.15 - 11.40 Monte Westerfield: Nomenclature for zebrafish genes
11.40 - 12.05 Erik Segerdell: Xenopus gene nomenclature in Xenbase
12.05 - 12.30 John Young: Gene nomenclature for the chicken immune system
12.30 - 1.40 lunch
Mammalian genomes without nomenclature groups - chair Chris Elsik
1.40 - 2.00 Elizabeth Murchison: Gene annotation and nomenclature in marsupials and monotremes
2.00 - 2.20 Ross Tellam: Annotation of the bovine genome - the easy and the difficult
2.20 - 2.40 Jim Reecy: Porcine Gene Annotation
2.40 - 3.00 Noelle Cockett: Assembly of the Ovine Whole Genome Reference Sequence
3.00 - 3.30 coffee/tea
3.30 - 3.50 Lisa Stubbs: Rapidly evolving transcription factor genes: the KRAB-family (video-conference)
3.50 - 6.00 Discussion on nomenclature guidelines across species - chair Alan Archibald
7:00dinner
Day 2 (13th October):
Start 9.00 - coffee/tea
Gene Family Nomenclature - chair Vasilis Vasiliou
9.15 - 9.45 Jed Goldstone: Cytochrome P450 Nomenclature
9.45 - 10.15 Doron Lancet: Nomenclature for olfactory receptor
10.15 - 10.45 coffee/tea
Multi-species databases & orthology - chair Ewan Birney
10.45 - 11.15 Donna Maglott: Naming genes at NCBI
11.15 - 11.45 Albert Villela: EnsemblCompara GeneTrees: gene orthologs and paralogs in Ensembl
11.45 - 12.15 Leo Goodstadt: Accurate inferences of orthology among closely related species
12.15 - 1.15 lunch
1.15 - 3.30 Discussion on how to implement gene nomenclature across species in the databases - chair David Landsman
3.30 - 4.00 coffee/tea & summary - Elspeth Bruford
End of meeting.
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