Cyberinfrastructure Workshop

The iPlant Collaborative will hold a Cyberinfrastructure Workshop at Biosphere2, near Oracle, AZ: http://www.b2science.org/b2institutefacilities.html. The workshop will run from the evening of Wednesday, January 7th until the afternoon of Friday, January 9th. For more information on the workshop please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Grand Challenge Workshops in 2008

The Collaborative's external Board of Directors met July 8 and 9, 2008, to review 9 Grand Challenge Workshop proposals. Four workshops were recommended to be held during the autumn of 2008. One or two additional workshops could be held in early 2009 (or 2008, if feasible). Below are links to one page summaries of the four prioritized workshops. Also, the Board recommended that the iPC's core project team begin work on 'preprojects' with the last two groups listed below, in order to give the team experience in working with "proto" Grand Challenge Teams and to initiate development of CI components that will be broadly useful. Workshops will still be held and full proposals will be required of these two groups before the Board commits to support of a full GC project.

Workshops are held in the conference facilities of the Biosphere 2, near Oracle, AZ: http://www.b2science.org/b2institutefacilities.html. (Future workshops may also be held at Cold Spring Harbor Lab's Banbury Conference Center on Long Island in NY.)

• Computational Morphodynamics of Plants - Eric Mjolsness, lead organizer. To be held at Biosphere 2; arrival Dec. 15 - departure Dec. 18, 2008
  • Summary
  • Proposal
  • Agenda (pdf)
  • Events Website (link)

EOT Information for Workshop Participants

• Discovery Environments
• EOT in GCs

Past Workshops

• Mechanistic Basis of Plant Adaptation - David Salt, lead organizer. To be held at Biosphere 2; arrival September 30 - departure October 3, 2008
  • Summary
  • Proposal
  • Agenda
  • Workshop Notes:
    • Transcript 1 (by scribe)
    • Transcript 2 (by an attendee)
    • Breakout Notes


• Impacts of Climate Change on Plant Productivity World-Wide: Prediction of Phenotype from Genotype, Data Integration for Analysis, and Prediction Across Process Scales - Ruth Grene, lead organizer. To be held at Biosphere 2; arrival September 30 - departure October 3, 2008
  • Summary
  • Proposal
  • Agenda
  • Workshop Documents
    • Executive Summary
    • Climate Change Workshop Figures
  
  
  • Developing common models for molecular mechanisms, crop physiology, and ecological studies: rhythms, stress challenges and growth opportunities. Stacey Harmer, lead organizer. To be held at Biosphere 2; arrival November 7 - departure November 10, 2008
    • Summary
    • Proposal
    • Workshop Documents
      • Workshop Wrap Up
      • Breakout Session Notes
  
  
  • Assembling the tree of life to enable the plant sciences (iPTOL): A proposal for an iPlant Grand Challenge Workshop - Michael Donoghue, lead organizer. To be held at Biosphere 2; arrival November 19 - departure November 23, 2008
    • Summary
    • Proposal

  
  Please see Information for Invited Participants (PDF) for travel information.

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