Meetings Attended

The Functional Gene Annotation team participates in relevant consortium meetings as well as specific biomedical meetings, such as those focused on the cardiovascular or neurological domain.

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 2nd-4th October 2017

2021-2022

HUPO PSI spring meeting
Hinxton, 11-13th May 2022
Ruth invited to give a talk, entitled Gene Ontology annotation of microRNAs

ISB UK-local biocuration conference
Hinxton, 5-6th May 2022
Ruth invited to give a talk, entitled Gene Ontology annotation of microRNAs and was awarded a runner-up prize for her poster entitled:

Annotation Projects A Student Perspective

Annotation Projects A Student Perspective

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Alzheimer's Research UK Conference
Virtual meeting, 23rd-26th April 2021
Ruth invited to provide a 2-minute poster presentation entitled:

Gene Ontology annotation of the Blood-Brain Barrier

Gene Ontology annotation of the Blood-Brain Barrier

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BHF student conference
Virtual meeting, 16th April 2021
Kan Yan Chloe Li invited to present a poster using GO to describe cardiac conduction system development

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2020

eCOST Meeting Gene Regulation Ensemble Effort for the Knowledge Commons: transcription annotation guidelines and review of (Db)TFs.
London, UK, 21st-24th January 2020
Ruth organised a meeting at UCL to review the GO annotation of human DNA binding transcription factors and develop guidelines to ensure consistent annotation.

eCOST Meeting Gene Regulation Ensemble Effort for the Knowledge Commons
Rende, Italy, 18th-19th February 2020
Ruth invited to give a presentation summarising the January UCL meeting and the development of GO subtree.

Alzheimer’s Research UK 2020
Newport, Wales, March 2020, Cancelled
Ruth invited to present a poster entitled:

Gene Ontology annotation of the Blood-Brain Barrier

Gene Ontology annotation of the Blood-Brain Barrier

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eCOST Meeting Gene Regulation Ensemble Effort for the Knowledge Commons: transcription annotation consistency workshop.
Virtual meeting, UK, 27th-29th April 2020
Pascale Gaudet, Sandra Orchard and Ruth organised a training workshop to review the GO annotation of DNA binding transcription factors and test guidelines to ensure consistent annotation.

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Virtual meeting, 12th-14th May 2020
Ruth participated in discussions on latest Gene Ontology updates.

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Virtual meeting, 6th-8th October 2020
Ruth participated in discussions on latest Gene Ontology updates.

Gene Ontology GO-CAM Jamboree
Virtual meeting, 16th-19th November 2020
Ruth created two draft GO-CAM graphs while learning how to use the Gene Ontology Consortium curation tool, Noctua.

RNAcentral Consortium Meeting
Virtual meeting, 20th November 2020
Ruth attended this meeting.

UCL ARUK Network Scientific Meeting
Virtual meeting, 27th November 2020
Ruth attended this meeting.

London Genetics Network
Virtual meeting, 4th December 2020
Ruth attended this meeting.

2019

eCOST meeting Gene Regulation Ensemble Effort for the Knowledge Commons: The role of text mining in curation workflows
Malaga, Spain, 21st-22nd February 2019
Ruth invited to give a presentation entitled Protein level: transcription factors and co-factors and participated in discussions and an annotation jamboree, aimed at providing training sentences, describing transcription regulation, for text miners.

Alzheimer's Research UK Conference 2019
Harrogate, UK, 19th-20th March 2019
Posters presented by Barbara and Ruth entitled:

Gene Ontology annotation of microglial proteins associated with dementia

Gene Ontology annotation of microglial proteins associated with dementia

 and: 

Functional annotation of dementia-related miRNAs using Gene Ontology

Functional annotation of dementia-related miRNAs using Gene Ontology

Biocuration 2019 Conference
Cambridge, UK, 7th-10th April 2019
Posters presented by Barbara and Ruth entitled:

Gene Ontology annotation of microglial proteins associated with dementia

Gene Ontology annotation of microglial proteins associated with dementia

 doi: 10.7490/f1000research.1116769.1 and:  

Functional annotation of dementia-related miRNAs using Gene Ontology

Functional annotation of dementia-related miRNAs using Gene Ontology

 doi: 10.7490/f1000research.1116568.1

During the Pre-conference workshop Developing the Gene Regulation Knowledge Commons, Ruth invited to give presentation entitled: Defining what we want to annotate and Ruth was a panelist during the How should biological resources be evaluated? Ruth and Barbara also met up with ex-UCL team members.

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Cambridge, UK, 11th-12th April 2019
Ruth and Barbara participated in discussions on latest Gene Ontology updates.

9th UCL Neuroscience Symposium
London, UK, 21st June 2019
Poster presented by Ruth entitled: 

Functional annotation of dementia-related miRNAs using Gene Ontology

Functional annotation of dementia-related miRNAs using Gene Ontology

The Road to a Well-constructed Knowledge Commons for the Life Sciences
Trondheim, Norway, 25th-26th June 2019
Ruth invited to give a presentation entitled: What is the biological knowledge represented in the Gene Ontology and how does it contribute to the Knowledge Commons and participated in discussions on about how community efforts can help to advance the Knowledge Commons. 

Anti-Doping Lab Qatar Seminar Series
Doha, Qatar, 29th August 2019
Barbara invited to give a presentation entitled: Gene Ontology: a resource for analysis and interpretation of high-throughput data.

Qatar University Laboratory Animal Research Center (LARC) Seminar Series
Doha, Qatar, 5th September 2019
Barbara invited to give a presentation entitled: Gene Ontology: a computerised catalogue of biology.  

RNA informatics 2019
Hinxton, UK, 9th-11th September 2019
Ruth invited to give a presentation entitled: Functional annotation of human microRNAs using the Gene Ontology and presented a poster entitled: Functional annotation of human microRNAs using the Gene Ontology

CompBioMed Conference 2019
London, UK, 25th-27th September 2019
Poster presented by Shirin entitled:

Describing the role of microRNAs in Alzheimer’s disease using a bioinformatic approach

Describing the role of microRNAs in Alzheimer’s disease using a bioinformatic approach

8th Annual UCL Cardiovascular Symposium
London, UK, 9th October 2019
Poster presented by Shirin entitled: 

Capture of cardiovascular knowledge using Gene Ontology

Capture of cardiovascular knowledge using Gene Ontology

GO Consortium meeting
Berkeley, California, USA, 7th-10th October 2019
Ruth participated in discussions on ontology and annotation revisions and gave a short presentation in the GO users meeting entitled: Interpreting microRNA networks with GO.

eCOST meeting Gene Regulation Ensemble Effort for the Knowledge Commons
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 5th-6th November 2019
Ruth attended and participated in discussions about annotation of transcription factors.

RNAcentral Consortium Meeting
EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK, 15th November 2019
Ruth gave a short presentation entitled: Functional annotation of human microRNAs using the Gene Ontology and participated in discussions on RNAcentral data integration and usability.

International Parkinson's Disease Genomic Consortium (IPDGC) Meeting
London, UK, 18th-19th December 2019
Poster presented by Ruth entitled:

Connecting the Gene Ontology to Parkinson's Disease

Connecting the Gene Ontology to Parkinson's Disease

2018

Festival of Genomics
London, UK, 30th-31st January 2018
Poster presented by Rachael entitled: Functional Annotation of Cardiovascular microRNAs with GO

eCOST meeting Gene Regulation Ensemble Effort for the Knowledge Commons
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 12th-15th February 2018
Ruth invited to give a presentation entitled: Conceptual thinking about gene regulation for biocuration

119th Meeting of the British Neuropathological Society
Institute of Child Health, London, UK, 1st March 2018
Barbara invited to give presentation entitled: Neurological gene ontology development and annotation of dementia relevant proteins (Abstract O07)

Alzheimer's Research UK Conference 2018
London, UK, 20th-21st March 2018
Poster presented by Barbara and Ruth entitled: Neurological Gene Ontology development and protein annotation facilitate more informative data analysis and interpretation

Integrating Systems Biology: From Networks to Mechanisms to Models, EMBO Workshop
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, 15th-17th April 2018
Poster presented by Ruth entitled: Telomerase Holoenzyme Complex: The Impact of Focused Gene Ontology Curation

HUPO PSI spring meeting 2018
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, 18th-20th April 2018
Ruth invited to give a presentation entitled: Annotation of transcription factor binding and activation using the Gene Ontology

Genomics of Brain Disorders 2018
Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK, 23rd-25th April 2018
Poster presented by Paola entitled: Expanding the Gene Ontology to improve representation of proteins involved in dementia to support data analysis

eCOST meeting Gene Regulation Ensemble Effort for the Knowledge Commons
Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, 26th-27th April 2018
Ruth invited to give presentation with Astrid Lagreid (NTNU) entitled: Transcription regulation concepts cartoons: visual support for GRO development

GO Consortium meeting
New York, US, 12th-14th May 2018
Ruth invited to give a presentation on: JAK/STAT cascade

7th UCL Cardiovascular Symposium
London, UK, 21st May 2018
Ruth invited to give a presentation entitled: Exploiting Knowledge to Tackle Cardiovascular Disease

ARUK Grant Review Board meeting - an opportunity for Early Career Researchers
Birmingham, UK, 12th-13th June 2018
Barbara invited to observe the Grant Review Board meeting. You can read about Barbara's impressions and tips for writing grant applications in this Dementia Researcher blog collection: A unique valuable opportunity to gain 'insider knowledge'

9th UCL Neuroscience Symposium
London, UK, 22nd June 2018
Poster presented by Barbara and Ruth entitled: Neurological Gene Ontology development and protein annotation facilitate more informative data analysis and interpretation

SIMDAS and Vi-SEEM Workshop: Data Management and Semantic Structures for Cross-disciplinary Reaserch in the SEEM Region
Nicosia, Cyprus, 25th-27th June 2018
Ruth invited to give a presentation entitled: The evolution of an ontology.

UCL ARUK Network Scientific Meeting
London, UK, 7th September 2018
Barbara invited to give a 'flash presentation', entitled: Gene Ontology annotation of dementia-relevant genes and present a poster, summarising the ARUK-UCL GO annotation project, entitled: Neurological Gene Ontology development and protein annotation facilitate more informative data analysis and interpretation

GO Consortium Meeting
Montreal, Canada, 17th-19th October 2018
Ruth participated in discussions on transcription.

RNAcentral Consortium Meeting
EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK, 19th October 2018
Rachael participated in discussions on RNAcentral data integration and usability.

14th Fisher Centre meeting
UCL, UK 7th November 2018
Ruth presented a poster entitled: Neurological Gene Ontology development and protein annotation facilitate more informative data analysis and interpretation

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

2016

UCL Cardiovascular Symposium
UCL, London, 18th January 2016
Attended by: Rachael, Ruth, Jess and Barbara
Poster presented by Rachael entitled: Functional annotation of cardiovascular microRNAs with GO
Poster presented by Jess entitled: Using focused Gene Ontology curation to describe human telomere biology

Queen Square Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Group Forum
UCL, London, 8th April 2016
Attended by: Rebecca

9th International Biocuration Conference
Geneva, 10th-14th April 2016
Two posters presented by Ruth entitled: Functional annotation of cardiovascular microRNAs with GO and Exploring Autophagy with Gene Ontology

Gretschen Amphlet Memorial Lecture
Can stem cells deliver on their promise for Parkinson's?
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 12th April 2016
Attended by: Rebecca

GO Consortium meeting
Geneva, 15th-16th April
Ruth was invited to give two 10 min presentations entitled: Community Annotation and Synapse annotation project

Genomics of Brain Disorders
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, 26th April 2016
Attended by: Rebecca

BSCR/BAS spring meeting - New Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science 2016
Manchester, 6th-7th June 2016
Ruth was invited to give a 20 min presentation entitled: Gene Ontology annotation of cardiovascular-relevant microRNAs

International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium Meeting 2016
Berlin, 19th June 2016
Paul was invited to give a 10 min presentation entitled: Using Gene Ontology to characterise key players in Parkinson's

20th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders 2016
Berlin, 19th-23rd June 2016
Poster presented by Paul entitled: Using Gene Ontology to characterise key players in Parkinson's disease

UCL Neuroscience Symposium 2016
UCL, London, 24th June 2016
Poster presented by Rebecca entitled: Connecting the Gene Ontology to Parkinson's Disease

SynGO meeting
Broad, Cambridge, 25th June
Attended by: Ruth

eResearch Domain Launch
UCL, London 29th June
Barbara was invited to give a 1 min presentation entitled: GO annotation of cardiovascular-related microRNAs

Advances in Rare Cardiovascular disease symposium
UCL, London 1st July
Attended by: Ruth and Barbara

2016 BHF Centre of Research Excellence Annual Symposium
Imperial College London, 18th July
Poster presented by Rachael entitled: Functional annotation of cardiovascular microRNAs with GO

Noctua training
EBI, Hinxton, 31st August-2nd September
Attended by: Ruth, Rachael and Barbara

eCOST meeting Gene Regulation Ensemble Effort for the Knowledge Commons
Brussels, Belgium, 8th September
Attended by: Ruth

2nd Computational RNA Biology Conference
Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, 17th-19th October
Poster presented by Rachael entitled: Functional annotation of cardiovascular microRNAs with GO

GO Consortium meeting
Los Angeles, 4th-6th November
Ruth was invited to give three presentations entitled: Flowchart guidelines for transcription factor annotation; Guidelines for annotating proteins as 'integral to membrane'; Guidelines for annotating high-throughput experiments

Parkinson's UK Research Conference 2016
Leeds, 7th-8th November
Poster presented by Barbara entitled: Connecting the Gene Ontology (GO) to Parkinson's disease

2015

Biomarkers for Brain Disorders: Challenges and Opportunities
Hinxton, 1st-3rd February 2015
Attended by: Rebecca

83rd European Atherosclerosis Society Congress
Glasgow, 22nd-25th March 2015
Poster presented by Ruth (during moderated poster session) entitled: The Cardiovascular Gene Annotation Initiative: Current and Future Aims

First UK Autophagy Network Meeting
Warwick, 6th-7th May 2015
Poster presented by Paul entitled: Autophagy to GO

UCL Neuroscience Symposium
UCL, 19th June 2015
Attended by: Ruth and Paul. Poster presented by Paul entitled: Using Gene Ontology to characterise key participants in Parkinson's disease

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Washington DC, 30 August-2nd September 2015
Ruth was invited to give two 10 min presentations entitled: PSICQUIC GO annotations and Strategies for independent funding of targeted curation projects.
Rachael was invited to give two 30 min presentation entitled: Progress on Annotation extension relations and microRNA GO annotation

International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium Meeting
UCL, London, 11th-12th September 2015
Paul was invited to give a 20 min presentation entitled: Parkinson's Disease and Gene Ontology Annotation

10th International Meeting on MicroRNAs, non-coding RNAs and Genome Editing
Cambridge, 2-3 November 2015
Rachael was invited to give a 20 minute presentation entitled: MicroRNA functional annotation

RNAcentral Consortium and Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
Hinxton, 30 November-1 December 2015
Rachael was invited to give a 15 minute presentation entitled: MicroRNA functional annotation

LEGO Jamboree
Geneva, 8-10 December 2015
Attended by: Ruth

2014

2nd RA Fisher Centre Meeting
London, 17th February 2014
Attended by Ruth, Anna and Paul

6th Crick Symposium: Rare diseases
London, 20th February 2014
Attended by Anna

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Texas, 15-18th March 2014
Ruth invited to give presentations entitled: miRNA guidelines

UCL Neuroscience Symposium
London, 19th June 2014
Poster presented by Rebecca: Using the Gene Ontology to characterise key players in Parkinson's Disease

UK Parkinson's Disease Consortium Symposium
London, 23rd July 2014
Poster presented by Rebecca: Using the Gene Ontology to characterise key players in Parkinson's Disease

Bioinformatics for Clinicians workshop
Norwich, 22nd September 2014
Attended by Ruth

British Atherosclerosis Society meeting
Cambridge, 25-26th September 2014
Poster presented by Ruth: The Cardiovascular Gene Annotation Initiative: Current and Future Aims

2nd International Parkinson's Disease Symposium
Luxembourg, 3-4th October 2014
Poster presented by Rebecca: Using the Gene Ontology to characterise key players in Parkinson's Disease

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Barcelona, 13-15th October 2014
Ruth invited to give presentations entitled: Annotation extension relationships: how to use them

Parkinson's UK Research Conference
York, 3rd-4th November 2014
Rebecca was invited to give a 10 min presentation entitled: Using Gene Ontology to Characterise Key Players in Parkinson's Disease
Poster presented by Rebecca and Paul: Using the Gene Ontology to characterise key players in Parkinson's Disease
During the poster sessions Paul and Rebecca provided a live demonstration of Gene Ontology resources on a laptop

2013

Biocuration 2013
Cambridge, 07-10th April 2013
Poster presented by Ruth: The impact of focused Gene Ontology annotation efforts on high-throughput data analysis

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Cambridge, 11-13th April 2013
Attended by Ruth

Innovations in Cardiovascular Science Symposium
London, 22nd April 2013
Poster presented by Ruth: The impact of focused Gene Ontology annotation efforts on high-throughput data analysis

Annotating the Genome - BCGES Annual Meeting in conjunction with Statistics and South of England Genetic Epidemiology Group
London, 12th June 2013
Ruth was invited to give a 20 min presentation entitled:  Gene Ontology: progress and priorities for annotating the human genome

Computational Life & Medical Sciences 3rd Annual Symposium
London, 28th June 2013 
Poster presented by Ruth: The impact of focused Gene Ontology annotation efforts on high-throughput data analysis

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Bar Harbor, 3rd-6th October 2013
Attended by Ruth

Cardiac failure 2013: Epigenetics, MicroRNA and Mitochondria
London, 31st October
Attended by Ruth, Anna and Nancy

RA Fisher Centre Meeting
London, 8th November 2013.
Attended by Ruth, Anna and Nancy
Poster presented by Nancy: Gene Annotation at UCL

2012

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Stanford, 26-28th February 2012
Attended by Ruth and Varsha

34th London Vascular Biology Forum
St Thomas' Hospital, London, 21st March 2012
Attended by Varsha

Human Variome Project Biennial Meeting
Paris, France, 11-15th June 2012
Ruth was invited to give a 10 min presentation entitled: HVP and GO annotation during the HVP cardiovascular satellite session
Poster presented by Ruth: Can HVP GO further? Expanding human Gene Ontology……

2nd Annual Computational Life and Medical Sciences Symposium
UCL, 28th June 2012
Poster presented by Ruth and Varsha: The impact of focused Gene Ontology annotation efforts on high-throughput data analysis
12th London Heart Development Meeting
Institute of Child Health, London, 17th July 2012
Attended by Varsha

Cambridge University Genetics Centenary Symposium
Churchill College, Cambridge, 7th September 2012
Attended by Ruth

2011

Computational Biology Symposium
UCL, 15th February 2011
Poster presented by Ruth and Varsha: Bringing Gene Ontology to cardiovascular research

Signalling Ontology workshop
EBI, 16-17th February 2011
Attended by Ruth and Varsha

ENFIN Enabling Systems Biology Conference & Bioinformatics Workshop
UCL, 11-14th April 2011
Poster presented by Ruth and Varsha entitled: Bringing Gene Ontology to cardiovascular research

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
University of Southern California, 19-21st May 2011
Ruth was invited to give two 10 min presentations entitled: Community annotation and Focused annotation

Apotosis Ontology workshop
EBI, 1st June 2011
Attended by Ruth

HUPO 2011 World Congress
Geneva, Switzerland, 3-7th September 2011
Henning Hermjakob from the EBI, kindly presented the Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Initiative under the imaginative title Human Protein Knowledgebase for the Heart and Soul.
 

UniProt usability workshop
EBI, Hinxton, 29th October 2011
Varsha was invited to participate in this workshop aimed at improving the usability of the UniProt website

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
UCL, 7-9th November 2011
Organised by Ruth and Varsha

Cardiac Conduction Ontology workshop
UCL, 10-11th November 2011
Organised by Ruth and Varsha; Led by Ruth

2010

Computational Biology Town Meeting
UCL, 26th January 2010
Attended by Varsha
Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Stanford, 30th March - 1st April 2010
Attended remotely by Ruth and Varsha; Ruth was invited to summarise progress by the 'binding' annotation working group

Gene Ontology Annotation Camp
Geneva, 16-18th June 2010
Attended by Ruth and Varsha; Ruth co-chaired the 'binding' annotation working group discussions and Varsha co-chaired the 'downstream effect' working group discussions.

9th London Heart Development Meeting
London, 20th July 2010
Attended by Varsha

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Jackson Lab, Bar Harbor, 7-9th September 2010
Attended remotely by Ruth and Varsha; Ruth was invited to summarise progress by the 'binding' ontology working group

Cardiometabolic Network - Scientific Meeting
London, 17th September 2010
Ruth presented a poster entitled: Bringing Gene Ontology to Cardiovascular Research
Varsha presented a poster entitled: Cross-species annotation of Cardiovascular Processes

Ontology Development and Engineering: Tutorial & Training Workshop
EBI, Hinxton, 11-13th October 2010
Attended by Ruth

2009

Joint meeting of the London Hypertension Society and London Vascular Biology Forum
London, 18th March 2009
Attended by Ruth and Varsha

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Oregon, 30th March - 1st April 2009
Attended remotely by Ruth and Varsha

3rd International Biocurator Conference
Berlin, 16-19th April 2009
Poster presented by Varsha entitled: Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Annotation Initiative

British Atherosclerosis Meeting
Cambridge, 17-18th September 2009
Ruth was invited to give a 20 min presentation entitled: Meet the Experts

Heart Development Ontology Workshop
UCL, 22nd September 2009
Organised by Varsha and Ruth; Led by Varsha

Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
Cambridge, 23-25th September 2009
Varsha gave a 10 min invited presentation on the heart development ontology workshop
Ruth led a 20 min discussion on the binding ontology

Institute of Stroke Research - Scientific Meeting
UCL, 13th October 2009
Poster presented by Ruth entitled: Gene Ontology - A Way Forwards

UCL Genetics Institute - Public launch
UCL, 11th November 2009
Poster presented by Ruth entitled: Gene Ontology - A Way Forwards

8th London Heart Development Meeting
London, 1st December 2009
Varsha was invited to give a 20 min presentation entitled: Heart Development and Gene Ontology

 

2008

77th European Atherosclerosis Society Meeting,

Istanbul, 26-29th April 2008

Philippa presented a poster entitled: The Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Initiative

UCL Cardiovascular Science and Medicine Day,
London, 12th June 2008
Ruth and Varsha presented a poster entitled: The Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Initiative

7th HUPO World Congress,
Amsterdam, 16-20th August 2008
Ruth was invited to give a 20 min presentation entitled: The Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Annotation Initiative
Ruth also presented a poster entitled: Participate in the Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Annotation Initiative

British Society for Immunology Congress
Glasgow, 18-20th November 2008
Ruth was invited to give a 15 min plenary lecture entitled:  Immunology's time to GO
Ruth also presented a poster entitled:  Gene Ontology - A way forwards

2007

UCL Cardiovascular Science and Medicine Day,
London, 16th May 2007
Poster presented by Ruth: The Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Initiative

76th European Atherosclerosis Society Meeting,
Helsinki, 10-13th June 2007
Poster presented by Philippa: The Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Initiative

Genomics of Common Diseases,
Cambridge, 7-10th July 2007
Poster presented by Philippa: The Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Initiative

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The Functional Gene Annotation team is supported by Alzheimer's Research UK (grants ARUK-NAS2017A-1 and ARUK-NSG2018-003) and the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre.