Meetings at which PATRIC was represented

• PATRIC Researcher is invited to Idexx Laboratories
  Computational Biologist with the PATRIC group, Joshua Shallom was invited to present a seminar at Idexx Laboratories (Portland, Maine) on April 11, 2008. His presentation, "Bioinformatics data and tools used to identify outer membrane/secreted proteins in Gram-negative bacteria: Rickettsia conorii as a model organism" described the PATRIC curation of Gram-negative bacteria as well as the pipeline developed to predict potential outer membrane/secreted proteins. Idexx Laboratories, Inc. is a worldwide leader in the development and commercialization of innovative technology-based products and services for veterinary, food and water applications. (Slides)
• 6th Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Response
  Sakamoto, J.M, Gillespie, J.J., Beier, M.S., Azad, A.F. (2007) Investigating the role of Rickettsia felis plasmid pRF genes in pathogenicity. Joyce Sakamoto (Azad lab) presented preliminary laboratory work on determining the role of the R. felis plasmid in pathogenicity. (Poster)
• "From bugs to bioinformatics: anything is possible", 2007, University of Maryland (Baltimore County campus), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  Joseph J. Gillespie presented a seminar on career opportunities for a graduating class of bioinformatic majors at University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus. (Slides)
• 12th International Conference of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Pacific Rim: December 4-7, 2007, Haikou, Hainan Island, China.
  Anjan Purkayastha presented a workshop on using the resources for Coronaviruses offered at the PATRIC website. (Tutorial)
• PATRIC Researcher Invited to Oklahoma State University: October 15, 2007, Stillwater, OK.
  Joshua Shallom gave an invited talk at the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University. He spoke about bacterial genome curation at PATRIC and bioinformatic approaches to identifying outer membrane proteins. The title of his talk was "Bioinformatics data and tools used to identify outer membrane proteins in Coxiella and Rickettsia" (Slides)
• 21st Meeting of The American Society For Rickettsiology: September 8-11, 2007, Colorado Springs, CO
  Joshua Shallom made an oral presentation on bioinformatic methods used to identify outer membrane proteins in Rickettsia conorii. Joseph Gillespie presented a poster on the phylogenomic analysis of ten rickettsial genomes. (Protein Slides) (Phylogenomics Poster)
• ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting: February 27 - March 2, 2007, Washington, DC.
  Bruno Sobral made an oral presentation on the Discovery of Vaccines, Diagnostics, and Therapeutic Targets Using Bioinformatics Resources. PATRIC also co-sponsored a vendor booth with three sister BRCs at this meeting.
• 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  Gillespie, J.J., Beier, M.S., Rahman, M.S., Ammerman, N.C., Purkayastha, A., Shallom, J.M., Sobral, B.S., Azad, A.F. (2006) Horizontal inheritance of plasmid genes in Rickettsia felis. Magda Beier (Azad lab) and Abdu Azad (PATRIC Rickettsia organism expert) presented a poster on the evolution of the R. felis plasmid genes (Poster)
• 9th Annual Computational Genomics Conference: October 28-31, 2006, Baltimore, MD
  Eric Snyder attended this meeting and presented two posters from the PATRIC project. One poster highlights the use of dynamic programming to identify orthologs based on sequence similarity and synteny. The second poster describes a novel application, GenVar to identify missed genes, frameshifts, and indels among related genomes. (GenVar Poster, Orthologs Poster)
• 20th Meeting - Joint meeting of the American Society of Rickettsiology and The 5th International Conference on Bartonella as Emerging Pathogens: September 2 to 7, 2006, Asilomar, CA.
  Two posters were presented on PATRIC's behalf. Joshua Shallom presented a poster highlighting a workflow for identifying potential vaccine candidates in Coxiella burnetii. Joseph Gillespie prepared a poster in collaboration with our Rickettsia and Coxiella organism expert, Abdu Azad, describing the analysis of hypothetical protein conservation in Rickettsial genomes and a new phylogeny of Rickettsial species based on 21 hypothetical proteins. (Coxiella Poster, Rickettsia Poster)
• The American Society for Virology 25th Annual Meeting: July 15 to 19, 2006, Madison, WI.
  Lucas Mackasmiel presented a poster describing the PATRIC resource with a focus on viral resources. Lucas and Gongxin Yu also represented PATRIC at a vendor booth cosponsored with the two other BRCs housing viral genomic information, VBRC and Biohealthbase. (Poster)
• 12th International Symposium on Viral Hepatitis and Liver Disease: July 1 to 5, 2006, Paris France.
  Joshua Shallom presented a poster describing the PATRIC resources for viruses focusing on Hepatitis A and Hepatitis E. (Poster)
• PATRIC Researchers Attend ASM General Meeting. (21 May 2006)
  This year's general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology is being held in Orlando, Florida, May 21-25. Anjan Purkayastha, lead computational biologist, and Eric E. Snyder, lead bioinformatician and software development coordinator, will co-host an exhibit with fellow Bioinformatics Resource Centers NMPDR, ERIC, and Pathema. The PATRIC researchers will be available to demonstrate the web site and discuss scientific and computational matters relevant to the project. We are also anxious to discuss how PATRIC can better meet the needs of our research communities, particularly in providing data and resources to facilitate the development of drugs, vaccines and diagnostics. If you are unable to speak with a PATRIC representative directly, we encourage you to complete this SURVEY.
• American Society for Microbiology Biodefense: February 15 to 18, 2006, Washington, DC.
  Mark Hance presented a poster describing two bioinformatic resources maintained at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, the PATRIC BRC, and the VBI Protein Data Center. (Poster)
• 2005 Brucellosis Research Conference, October 15-19, 2005. Merida, Mexico.
  Oswald Crasta presented an oral presentation to provide an update on the status of the PATRIC project. (Slides)
• International Union of Microbiological Societies 2005 Meeting, July 23-28, 2005. San Francisco, CA. Anjan Purkayastha and Gongxin Yu presented a poster at a vendor booth jointly with the VBRC. (Poster)
• 10th International Nidovirus Symposium, June 25-30, 2005. Colorado Springs, CO. Coronavirus organism expert, Susan Baker, presented a poster for PATRIC. (Poster)
• 4th International Conference on Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases, June 18-21, 2005. Logrono, Spain. Michael Czar attended in Bruno Sobrals place for an oral presentation. (Abstract, Slides)
• International Virus Database Network (IVDN), June 27-28, 2005. St. Louis, MO. Anjan Purkayastha and Eric Snyder made oral presentations. (Slides)
• International Conference on Microbial Genomes. April 13-16, 2005. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Michael Czar attended and made an informal poster presentation. (Poster)
• International Symposium on Hepatitis E Virus. Feb. 17-18, 2005. New Delhi, India. Hepatitis E organism expert, X.J. Meng, used some of his oral presentation to introduce PATRIC to the Hepatitis E community. (Slides)
• 2004 Brucellosis Research Conference, November 13-14, 2004. Chicago, IL. Oswald Crasta and Yongqun He attended, and introduce PATRIC in an oral presentation. (Slides)

Symposiums Offered

Web Services Symposium (4 April 2005)

The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Sun Microsystems are working together to offer an "International Symposium on Web Services for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics." The Symposium will be held at VBI on May 26 and 27, 2005. Please visit http://www.cpe.vt.edu/webconference.vbi/ for registration and additional information.