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NIF All Hands Meeting 2009

When and Where

NIF All Hands Meeting 2009: June 11-12 at NIH Neurosciences Center, Bethesda, MD

The 2-day NIF All-Hands Meeting 2009 will be held June 11-12, 2009 at the NIH Neurosciences Center in Bethesda, Maryland. This meeting will feature:

• Presentations
• Interactive Demonstrations
• Planning Sessions
• Feedback & Discussion Forums
• Tutorials
• Registration Information

Sessions will run from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm with breaks provided throughout the day. NIF All Hands Meeting 2009 will present the newest NIF release capabilities and functionality to the participants.

A tentative schedule for this year's NIF AHM can be accessed below under Program Information. This program may be revised or updated as final details are worked out.

Interested applicants of all levels are encouraged to attend.

The NIF is made possible through funding provided by the National Institutes of Health (http://www.nih.gov/).

The application deadline for the NIF All Hands Meeting 2009 is June 1st. Please register at your earliest convenience.

Questions may be directed to smcmunn@ncmir.ucsd.edu.

LODGING

A block of hotel rooms has been reserved, beginning on Wednesday, June 10, and ending Saturday, June 13, at the reduced rate of $209.00 per night, plus 13% sales tax at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center.

To reserve a room at this hotel, please call 1-800-859-8003 and refer to the "NIF All Hands Meeting" before Wednesday, May 20, 2009.

Attendees preferring to stay elsewhere may make alternate lodging arrangements.

FOOD

No meals will be provided. However, there is a cafeteria located in the NIH Neurosciences Center containing a salad bar, a hot meal food bar, and a hot and cold sandwich line. The cafeteria also sells bottled juices and coffee and pre-wrapped pastries, cookies, and other snacks. Attendees may bring food/beverages from the cafeteria into the meeting rooms, if desired. Additionally, there is a coffee/snack cart on site.

Program Information

 

10th June 2009, Wednesday		Tutorials
9:00-11:00 AM		Training on "How to use NIF?” including Q&A and discussion Speaking Anita Bandrowski, Ph.D.  and Jeffrey Grethe, Ph.D.
12:00-2:00 PM
2:30-4:30 PM
11th June 2009, Thursday		Introduction and Welcome
9:00 - 9:15 AM		Welcome & Introductory Remarks  -  Speaking  Maryann Martone, Ph.D. and Karen Skinner Ph.D.
		State of the NIF
9:15 - 9:40 AM		Overview of current NIF (v1.6)  -  Speaking Maryann Martone, Ph.D.
9:40-10:10 AM		Current usage of NIF and increasing NIF's visibility  -  Speaking Jeffrey Grethe, Ph.D. and Ashraf Memon, Ph.D.
10:10 -10:30 AM		Break
10:30 -11:00 AM		NIF Tools and Resource Curation  -  Speaking Anita Bandrowski, Ph.D.
11:00 -11:45 AM		Level II & III Integration Tools: Current State of Tools and Future Plans -- Speaking Jeffrey Grethe, Ph.D. and Perry Miller, M.D., Ph.D.
11:45 -12:15 PM		NIF Vocabularies: Current state, future plans and community collaboration  -  Speaking Maryann Martone, Ph.D. and Giorgio Ascoli, Ph.D.
12:15 - 1:15 PM		Working Lunch with Live Demonstrations / Q&A Session
1:15 - 1:45 PM		NIF Literature: Resource discovery and Entity Mapping using Textpresso  -  Speaking Paul Sternberg, Ph.D.
1:45 - 2:15 PM		Training and dissemination  -  Speaking David Van Essen, Ph.D.
2:15 - 2:45 PM		NIF Report card and NIF 2.0 Plans - Speaking Maryann Martone, Ph.D.
2:45 - 3:05 PM		Break
		Plans for the Future of NIF
3:05 - 4:00 PM		Beyond NIF 2.0  -  Speaking Maryann Martone, Ph.D., Jeffrey Grethe, Ph.D., and Amarnath Gupta, Ph.D.
4:00 - 5:00 PM		Feedback & Discussion:  AdCom with NIF Leadership

 

12th June 2009, Friday	Breakout Sessions
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM	One Hour Breakout Sessions To Cover Topics Such As: Vocabularies, Literature, Curation, Databases
	Face to Face meetings NIF project members and AHM Participants
	9:00 - 10:15 Disco Session Leader: Jeffrey Grethe, Ph.D.  DISCO Interoperability with BioSiteMaps Cell Ontology Session Leader: Maryann Martone, Ph.D. Cell Task Force   10:15-10:30 Break 10:30 - 12:00 Textpresso Session Leader: Amarnath Gupta, Ph.D. Curation Session Leader: Anita Bandrowski, Ph.D. Bringing resources to the table. How NIF members can help. Level 1, 2 and 3 tool integration   12:00 - 12:30 Plenary discussion and report from the breakouts
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Additional Training if there is a need

Registration for NIF All Hands Meeting

Please Register for NIF AHM here at your earliest opportunity.

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