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Look for SGD at TAGC 2016!

July 05, 2016


SGD staff will be attending The Allied Genetics Conference 2016 (TAGC) on July 13-17, 2016, in Orlando, Florida. We will be hosting a Workshop, Posters, and an Exhibit Booth. We’ll be available during the entire conference to hear your comments or suggestions about SGD and answer your questions.

Five different model organism databases – SGD, WormBase, FlyBase, MGI, and ZFIN – will also be doing open demonstrations and tutorials in the Demo Room (Palms Ballroom Canary 3-4). There will be scheduled group presentations, one-on-one tutorials, troubleshooting and discussions.

Follow @yeastgenome and #TAGC16 on Twitter for the latest research being presented at TAGC.

Workshop: “Getting Even More out of SGD”

Saturday, July 16, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, Crystal Ballroom G2

We’ll be discussing our curation efforts in capturing yeast-human functional complementation data, the new sequence Variant Viewer, new genome browser, new data in YeastMine, and more. Bring your questions and comments – we love feedback!

Exhibit Booth

SGD will also have an exhibit booth at the conference, in conjunction with WormBase and FlyBase! Come by booth #530 (right across from the GSA booth) to take a spin on our site, learn about various features of the databases, and provide us with feedback as to what we can do to improve your SGD experience. You might even receive a prize for a good question or suggestion!

…and Psst! Be sure to ask about the newly-formed Alliance of Genome Resources

Posters

In addition to the Workshop, SGD staff will present five posters – please stop by and chat with us.

Poster no. Title Presenter Location Time/Day
Y3076/A The Saccharomyces Genome Database Variant Viewer Olivia Lang Cypress Ballroom 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Thursday, 7/14
Y3168/C Saccharomyces Genome Database: How to find what you are looking for Gail Binkley Cypress Ballroom 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Thursday, 7/14
Y3170/B Saccharomyces Genome Database: Outreach and online training services Kevin MacPherson Cypress Ballroom 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Thursday, 7/14
Y3191/B Integrating Post-Translational Modification Data into the Saccharomyces Genome Database Sage Hellerstedt Cypress Ballroom 2:30pm – 3:30pm, Thursday, 7/14
Y3157/A Homology curation at SGD: budding yeast as a model for eukaryotic biology Stacia Engel Cypress Ballroom 2:30pm – 3:30pm, Thursday, 7/14

Demo Room

SGD, WormBase, FlyBase, MGI, and ZFIN invite all Conference registrants to come to the Demo Room (Palms Ballroom Canary 3-4) to learn how to make the best use of MOD tools and features for your research and teaching.

All day on Thursday 7/14 and Friday 7/15, other than during scheduled group presentations from 12:45pm – 1:30pm and 6:15pm – 7:30pm, personnel are available in the demo room for one-on-one tutorials, troubleshooting and discussions. Make sure you don’t miss the SGD Demo Room presentations on Thursday 7/14 from 6:15pm – 6:30pm and Friday from 12:45pm – 1:00pm!

Find these SGD staff members at the conference:


Mike Cherry
Stacia Engel
Stacia Engel
Pedro Assis
Pedro Assis
Gail Binkley
Gail Binkley
Sage Hellerstedt
Sage Hellerstedt
Kalpana Karra
Kalpana Karra
Olivia Lang
Olivia Lang
Kevin MacPherson
Kevin MacPherson

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