WBConfCall 2023.06.15-Agenda and Minutes

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IWM23 workshop - discuss online resources for worms other than C. elegans

Dear Dr. Kishore, Harris, Cain, Raciti, van Auken and all Wormbase staff,

My name is Itai Toker, I am a postdoc in the Hobert lab. I am organizing a workshop for the upcoming worm meeting in Glasgow entitled “expanding the worm model repertoire”, which will focus on research done in worms other than C. elegans. The workshop’s aims are to unite together researchers with common interests and dealing with common challenges of working with other species, to share recent technical advances that make new species more accessible for mechanistic inquiries, and hopefully to convince C. elegans researchers that now is the best time to adopt new species in their labs.

I am contacting you personally because a big portion of the workshop will be devoted to an open discussion involving the audience and panelists. One of the topics we surely plan to address are the online resources that assist research in various worms: what resources are available for other worms, what is missing and could ease ongoing and future research, how as a community could we improve existing resources and efficiently feed them with new data, etc. 

Given your expertise at Wormbase, your perspective would be extremely valuable. I am therefore warmly inviting you to come to the workshop so that we could hear your insight and comments on the subject, exchange ideas, and hopefully generate opportunities for new collaborations. 

I included in this email the participants of the Wormbase workshop and the general Wormbase email addresses as they appear online. If you know of more online resources experts (Wormbase or not) that plan to be in Glasgow please feel free to forward my invitation to them or point me in their direction so that I can contact them myself.

The workshop will take place on Monday June 26th at 1PM (Clyde Auditorium). I hope to see you there. 

Looking forward to meet you all in Glasgow and to fruitful discussions, 

Best wishes,

Itai

Sarah will touch base with Paul S and contact Itai for possible plans of collaboration. Those who can attend the workshop will gather information to report back to the group.

IWM2023 WB Workshop

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• From the organizers:
  • The workshops will be for in-person attendees only. They will not be live streamed.
  • The speakers in every workshop should upload their presentation in the Speaker Ready Room located in Etive Meeting Room on the ground level of the SEC. They will not be able to upload on the PC (MACs will not provided) in the room. The presentations will be sent to the computers in the room. Please contact your speakers with this information.
  • The room is equipped with a computer, screen, podium microphone, aisle microphone and a speaker timer. Laser pointers will not be available because we are not having them for the live streamed sessions. The presenters are using the computer mouse. You are welcome to bring a laser pointer for your speakers to use if you prefer.

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