Sage Commons Congress

The Sage Commons is a novel information platform being built by an international partnership of researchers and stakeholders to define the molecular basis of disease and guide the development of effective human therapeutics and diagnostics.

The Sage Commons will be used to integrate diverse molecular mega-data sets, to build predictive bionetworks and to offer advanced tools proven to provide unique new insights into human disease biology. Users will also be contributors that advance the knowledge base and tools through their cumulative participation.

The public access mission of the Sage Commons requires the development of a new strategic and legal framework to protect the rights of contributors while providing widespread access to integrative genomics resources.

FULL AGENDA:

Day 1 Friday, April 23, 2010
8:00 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 am Plenary Vignettes
Andrea Califano, Columbia University Lee Hood, Institute for Systems Biology

9:00 am Purpose of the Congress
Stephen Friend, Sage Bionetworks

9:45 am Project Group Reports
* A) End-to-End Pilot Combining Data, Building Models, and Querying Them
Andrew Kasarskis, Sage Bionetworks Ilya Kupershmidt, NextBio
* B) Standards and Ontologies for Integration, Analysis, and Exchange of Global Coherent Datasets
Jessie Tenenbaum, Duke Translational Medicine Institute
* C) Sage Infrastructure Tools Project
Carol Goble, University of Manchester Ted Liefeld, Broad Institute Alex Pico, Gladstone Institutes
* Short Break
* D) Internationalization of Sage Efforts
Carolina Rossini, Berkman Center at Harvard University
* E) Citation of Network Models and Associated Data
Liz Lyon, UKOLN Carol Goble, University of Manchester Jonathan Rees, Creative Commons

11:45 am Keynote Speaker 1
Jeff Hammerbacher, Cloudera

12:20 pm Break into Lunch Tables (sponsored by NextBio)

12:30 pm LUNCH & Special Guest Speaker
Josh Sommer, Chordoma Foundation

1:15 pm Plenary Vignettes
Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego Hiroaki Kitano, Systems Biology Institute Sam Aparicio, Univ. British Columbia Rob Epstein, Medco

1:50 pm Simultaneous Working Session for Project Groups: Reaction & Conversation

3:30 pm Break

3:45 pm Reports Back to Plenary From Project Groups

5:10 pm Plenary Vignettes
Brian Yandell, University of Wisconsin
Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute

5:30 pm Transition to Evening Venue and Refreshments

5:45 pm Keynote Speaker 2
John Wilbanks, Creative Commons

6:20 pm Plenary Vignettes
Eric Schadt, Pacific Biosciences/Sage Bionetworks Vamsi Mootha, Harvard Atul Butte, Stanford

7:15 pm Forge Linkages between Workstreams and Objectives

8:15 pm Deposit Suggestions in Mailbox on exit; Post-event socializing

Day 2 Saturday, April 24, 2010

8:15 am Coffee

8:45 am Plenary Vignettes
Daphne Koller, Stanford University Geoff Ginsburg, Duke University Ken Buetow, NIH

9:15 am Workstreams Build Synthesis Reports

11:00 am Plenary Vignettes/Speakers
Laura Esserman, UCSF Garry Nolan, Stanford Yoshihiden Hayashizaki, Riken Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance

11:45 am Break into Lunch Tables (sponsored by NextBio)

12:00 pm Keynote Speaker 3 (LUNCH)
Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe

1:00 pm Presentation of Synthesis Reports

2:15 pm Summary of Statements & Next Steps
John Wilbanks, Eric Schadt & Stephen Friend

2:30 pm ADJOURN

Copies of plenary and keynote talks will be available on the Presentations Page
The Sage Commons Congress is a Sage Bionetworks initiative.

http://www.sagebase.org/commons/