AHM Planning 7/7/05: Minutes

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Next AHM Planning Meeting

  • Tuesday, 7/12 at 1pm PDT/4pmEDT
  • Call in numbers: 800-820-4690 / Code 9885076#

Action items before next AHM Planning meeting

  • Contact members of the working groups and explain their mission – pick a leader, develop an agenda, determine what needs to be done before the AHM, including homework, and create a work plan while at the AHM. Also, outline all the other parallel groups that are being considered and request feedback, specially for those which are tentative, like Mouse/Human Integration, Image Calibration, Statistcis/Datamining.
    • Jeff will contact database group members, confirm their participation, define replacements if necessary and get the group's agenda planning rolling.
    • Jorge will contact visualization group members, confirm their participation and define replacements if necessary and get the group's agenda planning rolling.
    • Jessica will contact ontology group members, confirm their participation and define replacements if necessary and get the group's agenda planning rolling.
    • Jyl will get feedback from colleagues on who is best to serve on visualization group.
  • Preparations for Society for Neuroscience
    • Each of the Project Managers will start listing the tools (data, software, atlases, etc.) that each testbed is willing to make publicly available through the Portal at the SFN Nov 2005 meeting
    • The Project Managers will also request from the tool developers the minimum set of licencing/registration requirements

Tentative agenda draft for next AHM Planning meeting

  • Where do the database and IT task forces fit in?
  • How do we address statistics/data mining, mouse/human integration (this includes both structural and functional areas) and calibration?
  • Guest speaker or speakers?
  • Draft program schedule – Tuesday, 10/18 and Wednesday, 10/19
    • How key people can be assigned to working groups so they can effectively attend parallel sessions?
    • Define template guidelines for the agendas: Can we take one of the working groups and use it as an example, thus killing two birds with one stone?
    • Guidelines for homework that these groups will have to do prior to the meeting: Backout schedule for preparing progress reports and distribution to the AHM attendees.
  • External matters
    • Society for Neuroscience meeting in November.
      • Who should be part of that group?
      • What data will be available?
      • What are the deadlines?
    • Other matters with external components
      • Tool distribution (technical and clinical)
      • Software/portal development
      • GCRCs

Participants on 7/7/05

  • Jyl Boline, Jeff Grethe, Bret Peterson, Elaine Collier, Jorge Jovicich, Jessica Turner, Joe Ames

Summary Minutes 7/7/05

  • The core committee decided on four integration areas as priorities for work at the AHM. The areas are: database/database integration; workflow process/analysis; visualization/portal and ontologies.
  • Other areas of interest that may be included are statistics/data mining, mouse/human integration (this includes both structural and functional areas) and calibration.
  • For the major areas, the people listed below were identified as key players to develop the agenda for each area for the AHM and deliver a work plan. There may be others who should be added to make sure we have all the necessary horsepower.
  • A core committee member (in parentheses below) has been identified as responsible for talking to the people in the group before our next meeting, Tuesday, 7/12.
  • Each group will have to choose a leader (who will join the core committee), develop an agenda and follow through on development of a work plan.
    • Database/database integration (Jeff Grethe)
      • Members: David Kennedy, Heidi Schmidt, Dan Marcus (MBIRN), Dave Keator, Stephen Wong (FBIRN), Karen Crawford, Maryanne Martone, Bill Bug, (Mouse BIRN) Burak Ozyurt, Amarnath Gupta, Vadim Astakhov (BIRN-CC)
    • Visualization/Portal (Jorge Jovicich)
      • Members: Steve Pieper, Doug Greve (FBIRN), Jason Novotny and/or Jeff Grethe (BIRN-CC), Anthony Kolasny, (MBIRN). Jyl was going to choose reps after a meeting in a few days.
    • Ontologies (Jessica Turner)
      • Members: Carol Bean (NCRR), Jessica Turner (FBIRN), Christine Fennema-Notestine (MorphBIRN) and Maryanne Martone (Mouse), Amarnath Gupta, Jeff Grethe (BIRN-CC)
    • Workflow process/analysis
      • Members: The selection of members of this group will be done on 7/18 at the UCSD conference on this topic.


  • External matters
    • The core committee also decided that some planning needs to happen soon for the Society of Neuroscience meeting in November.
    • This planning, plus other issues with external components such as tool distribution (technical and clinical) and software/portal development need to be included in the fourth day of the AHM.
    • A separate set of meetings will be held to get that going.
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