Online Agenda

The meeting will run from: 9am Tuesday August 6th through lunchtime on Friday August 9th, 2024.

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Agenda Schedule

• Monday, August 5 GSC board meeting Bio5
  • 1:00-4:00 pm: Board Meeting; 5:30 pm: Board Dinner
• Tuesday, August 6 GSC main meeting (8:45 am - 5:00 pm)
  • Session 1: Reproducibility Challenges
  • 8:45-9:00 Check In; Meeting Opening: GSC President: Lynn Schriml, Local Hosts: Bonnie Hurwitz & Ramona Walls
    • 9:00-9:30am: Keynote: Greg Caporaso (Northern Arizona University, The Translational Genomics Research Institute): Reproducing, replicating and replaying bioinformatics workflows.
    • 9:30-9:50 Chris Hunter (GigaScience): The reproducibility challenges in publishing.
    • 9:50-10:10 Susanna-Assunta Sansone (OICR, University of Oxford, UK): FAIRsharing, FAIRshake – challenges: Reproducibility across contexts: spotlight on TIER2.
    • 10:10-10:20 Shawn Levy, Element Biosciences: Avidity Sequencing on the AVITI System - Sequencing Reimagined.
    • 10:20-11:00 Coffee Break
    • 11:00-11:20 João Carlos Setubal (University of São Paulo): An Anecdote regarding Metagenome Data Access, and the lessons we can learn from it.
    • 11:20-11:40 Bonnie Hurwitz (University of Arizona, Bio5 Institute): Planet Microbe: a platform that integrates microbiological, genomic, ecological, oceanographic, and computational methods through FAIR data.
    • 11:40-12:00 Taukondjo Shikongo (Convention on Biological Diversity):Nagoya Protocol and Digital Sequence Information Rights. (Zoom)
    • 12:00-1:30 pm Lunch
    • 1:30-2:00 Dawn Field Award: Savvas Paragkamian (Institute of Marine Biology,Biotechnology and Aquaculture (IMBBC)):Data integration and reproducibility, the case of the Island Sampling Day in Crete.
    • 2:00-3:00 pm: Panel: Reproductibility Challenges panel discussion
    • 3:00-3:30 Coffee Break & Group Photo
    • 3:30-4:45 Afternoon Working Groups
      • CIG - MIxS standards & GA4GH experimental metadata hackathon
    • 4:45pm Reception transportation pickup, departing from Bio5
    • 5:30-7:30 pm: Opening Reception at Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
      • Transportation provided
• Wednesday, August 7 GSC main meeting and Standards Working Groups
  • Session 2: Virome Genomic Standards
  • 8:45-9:00 Day 2 Announcements
    • 9:00-9:20 Stacy Carrington-Lawrence (NIH/NIA Division of Aging Biology): NIH Human Virome Program; Opportunities and Challenges for Cross Consortium Standardization.
    • 9:20-9:40 Arvind Varsani (Arizona State University):The diverse world of eukaryote-infecting viruses + genomic standards = huge challenge.
    • 9:40-10:00 Simon Roux (DOE Joint Genome Institute): 5 years of viromics standard: success, challenges, and future of the MIUViG checklist.
    • 10:00-10:15 Yi Xu (Zymo): One for All: RNA-Seq’s Growing Role in Unraveling Microbial Transcriptomes.
    • 10:15-11:00 Coffee Break
  • Session 3: Omic Standards
    • 11:00-11:20 Ramona Walls (Critical Path Institute): The Research, Technology, Standards Triangle in ‘Omics.
    • 11:20-11:40 Ruth Timme (FDA, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition): GenomeTrakr’s Efforts to Improve Pathogen Data Standards: Advancing Interoperability for Public and Private Repositories.
    • 11:40-12:00 Tim Van Den Bossche (Ghent University):Challenges and solutions for metadata management in metaproteomics.
    • 12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
    • 1:00-1:20 Peter Woollard (EMBL-EBI): eDNAqua-Plan: Exploring Standards in Aquatic eDNA, Presented by Peter Woollard, EMBL-EBI.
    • 1:20-1:40 Neil Davies (Gump South Pacific Research Station): Sampling Nature and Omic Observatories in an AI World.
    • 1:40-2:00 Briana Benton (ATCC): Setting the Standard in Microbial Genomics: Using Reference Assemblies from the ATCC® Genome Portal as Ground Truth.
    • 2:00-2:20 Tianyi Wang (George Washington University):BioCompute Objects: A Standard for Transparent and Reproducible Omic Data Analysis Communication.
    • 2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
    • 3:00-5:00 Workshops: Afternoon Working Groups
      • TWG - CIG interactions & NMDC Field Notes mobile app workshop.
• Thursday, August 8 GSC main meeting
  • Session 4: Challenges of ‘Omic data reuse - IMMSA (International Microbiome and Multi’Omics Standards Alliance) Session Chairs: Ishi Keenum and Jason Kralj
    • 8:45-9:00 Day 3 Announcements
    • 9:00-9:10 Scott Jackson (NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology): History of IMMSA.
    • 9:10-9:30 Ben Callahan (NC State University, College of Veterinary Medicine): Training on one study and predicting on another using publicly available microbiome datasets.
    • 9:30-9:50 Julie Dunning Hotopp (Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine):A “Research Parasite’s” Perspectives on the Challenges of Data Reuse.
    • 9:50-10:30 Coffee Break
  • 10:30-11:45 Panel: IMMSA Panel Discussion Panel: Data reuse challenges identified in the last year.

  • 11:45-1:00 pm Lunch

  • Session 5: Genomics and Standards challenges
    • 1:00-1:20 Melanie Culver (University of Arizona):Genomic Challenges in Non-Model and Endangered Species.
    • 1:20-1:40 Dario Copetti (Arizona Genomics Institute):Saguaro genomics across technologies and (new) standards.
    • 1:40-2:00 Ryan Bartelme (Pivot Bio):Challenges with ‘omics operations and standards in agriculture technology.
  • 2:00-2:30 pm Keynote: Jack Gilbert (UCSD): Precision microbiome medicine and standards.
  • 2:30-3:30 Coffee Break
  • 3:30-5:00 Afternoon Working Groups: iSamples/OmicBON
• Friday, August 9 GSC main meeting
• 8:45 Handoff GSC26
  • 9:00-9:30 Keynote: Elisha Wood-Charlson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, KBase): Going beyond FAIR to COPE with complex biological data.

  • 9:30-10:00 Coffee Break

  • Session 6: Discussion of Reproducibility Challenges to Solutions
  • 10:00-12:00 Panel:Discussion of Challenges to Solutions.
  • 12:00 pm Lunch

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