2017

Cardiovascular Human Phenotype Ontology Hack-a-thon
Stanford, California, USA, 15th-16th March 2017
Ruth contributed to development of this ontology

Alzheimer's Research UK Conference
Aberdeen, 14th-15th March 2017
Poster presented by Barbara entitled: Capturing amyloid-ß-relevant knowledge with Gene Ontology

UCL Cardiovascular Symposium
UCL, London, 16th March 2017
Poster presented by Nancy entitled: Telomerase Holoenzyme Complex: The Impact of Focused Gene Ontology Curation

Keystone Symposium RNA-based Approaches in Cardiovascular Disease
Keystone, Colorado, USA, 26th-30th March 2017
Poster presented by Rachael entitled: Functional annotation of cardiovascular microRNAs using GO

eCOST meeting Gene Regulation Ensemble Effort for the Knowledge Commons
University of Malta, Msida, Malta, 3rd-4th April 2017
Ruth and Rachael were invited to give presentations entitled: Using Gene Ontology to describe transcription factors and A functional annotation resource for microRNAs

Translational Bioinformatics
Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, 12th-13th June 2017
Poster presented by Rachael entitled: Functional Annotation of Cardiovascular microRNAs with GO

UCL Neuroscience Symposium
UCL, London, 16th June 2017
Poster presented by Barbara entitled: Neurological Gene Ontology (GO) annotation initiative: curation of amyloid-ß species and their binding partners

GO Consortium meeting
Corvallis, Oregon, USA, 1st-3rd June 2017
Ruth invited to give a presentation entitled: Transcription guidelines
Also, three posters presented by Ruth entitled: Neurological Gene Ontology (GO) annotation initiative: curation of amyloid-ß species and their binding partners; Functional Annotation of Cardiovascular microRNAs with GO;Telomerase Holoenzyme Complex: The Impact of Focused Gene Ontology Curation

Gene Ontology workshop: Where are we now and what's next?
Part of the 13th (BC)² Basel Computational Biology Conference.
Basel, Switzerland, 12th-15th September 2017
Ruth invited to give a presentation entitled: Gene Ontology - annotation extensions.

British Atherosclerosis Society Autumn meeting: The role of immunometabolic pathways in atherosclerosis
Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 14th-15th September 2017
Poster presented by Rachael entitled: Functional Annotation of Cardiovascular microRNAs with GO

Synapse Annotation (SynGO) Meeting
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 23rd September 2017
Meeting, hosted by the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Ruth and Barbara invited to share GO annotation advice with synapse experts

Stanley Center biennial Symposium on Severe Mental Illness
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 25th - 26th September 2017
Poster presented by Ruth entitled: Neurological Gene Ontology (GO) annotation: curation of amyloid-ß species and their binding partners

GO Consortium meeting
Cambridge, UK, 2nd-4th October
Ruth invited to give presentations on: Annotation extensions, Neurological curation and Transcription guidelines
Also, three posters presented by Barbara, Rachael and Nancy entitled: Neurological Gene Ontology (GO) annotation initiative: curation of amyloid-ß species and their binding partners; Functional Annotation of Cardiovascular microRNAs with GO;Telomerase Holoenzyme Complex: The Impact of Focused Gene Ontology Curation

eCOST meeting Gene Regulation Ensemble Effort for the Knowledge Commons
Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 23rd-24th October 2017
Ruth was invited to give presentation entitled: Transcription and Gene Ontology

RNAcentral Consortium meeting
Hinxton, UK, 6th-7th November 2017
Rachael invited to contribute to discussions.

ELIXIR Curation workshop on molecular and causal interactions
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, 5th-7th December 2017
Ruth invited to give a presentation entitled: The Annotation Extension field of GO