[Go] Outreach and Advocacy

[Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)]

Hi,

Jane and I are writing the outreach and advocacy report for June now. If 
you have done anything to bring on new annotation groups, or to teach 
users about GO then we'd really appreciate if you could add your report 
directly to the wiki:
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Outreach_June_2009_Report

If you have given any GO talks, or produced GO posters or papers then it 
would be great if you could also post these at:
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Publications%2C_Talks%2C_Posters_2007-2009

May Report
==========

May was a good month for outreach and advocacy, with several new 
developments:

* Jim Hu and Debby Siegele attended the American Society for 
Microbiology Conference on Undergraduate Education (ASMCUE), where they 
discussed the importance of GO for microbiology, and using GONUTS in 
education.

* Alexander Diehl attended the first NIGMS Cell Behavior Ontology 
Workshop, May 4-6, 2009, as the invited representative of the GO 
Consortium, where he gave a talk "Introduction to the Gene Ontology" and 
provided advice on ontology development during the workshop sessions of 
the meeting.

* GO News site is launched!
http://go.berkeleybop.org/news4go/

Thanks for letting us know about these events, and please keep the news 
coming.

Best wishes,

Jennifer Deegan
GO Curator