AGENDA
i5K Coordinating Group
17 April 2024
11:00-12:00 EDT
Meeting Chair: Sue Brown
Attending: Sue Brown, Monica Poelchau, Chris Childers, Marc Halfon, David Molik, Brad Coates, Josh Benoit, Duane McKenna, Terrence Sylvester, Jay Evans, Kevin Hackett, Brian Scheffler, Anna Childers, Rob Waterhouse, Glenn Hanes
Regrets:
- Approval of previous meeting’s minutes.
- New member introductions
- CC member cameo of the month: Sarthok Rahman (10 min) not in attendance
- Working group highlights (can change order)
- Community building and outreach
- AGSx https://i5k.github.io/agsx2024Notes from AGSx from Anna
Upcoming sessions:
Session 3: Beenome100 and Comparative Bee Genomics, Tuesday, April 30 at 11am-1pm EDT. Moderators Jay Evans & Michael Branstetter.
Session 4: NCBI Comparative Genomic Resources, Tuesday, May 21 11am-1pm EDT. Moderated by Terence Murphy.
Arthropod Genomics Symposium, June 25-27 at KCB Leadership Centre, Nairobi, Kenya Nairobi, Kenya. Host: Kenyan Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). Detail at https://bit.ly/ags2024 https://i5k.github.io/agsx2024 asking presenters if talks might be recorded
Biodiversity genomics (BG24) 28th Oct - 1st Nov 2024
proposed 3 i5k sessions -
beenome100 and Ag100Pest Initiatives, Jay Evans and Anna Childers
BEETLE TREE OF LIFE Duane McKenna
i5K COMMUNITY would like to hold a meeting, Brad S. Coates and Monica Poelchau
International Congress in Entomology 2024 (ICE24) August 25-30, 2024, Kyoto
Symposium “International sequencing initiatives: Building genomic resources and bridging research disciplines”, organized by Brad Coates
Includes presentation “USDA ARS’s Ag100Pest Initiative and Beenome100: From Pests to Pollinators and Beyond”, Anna Childers USDA-ARS
Entomological Society of America National Meeting, November 10-13 in Phoenix, AZ, Section Symposium “Genomic Approaches to Empower the Coexistence of Pest Control and Pollinator Protection” organized by Brad Coates and Sarthak Rahman
Accepted and in planning
- Standards. Continuing to work on outline of standards + gaps white paper. Includes discussion on genome notes/reports standardization to decrease burden on reviewers.
- Comment - it would be good to write a standalone discussion paper on this which includes the history of the genome paper (from large-scale analyses in the past, to current notes model). This would be useful for the entire community. Would need to consider including editors of journals
- Note that the standards should go beyond the numbers, but what other content is expected to be included.
- Wellcome trust is planning to release their software that automatically generates genome notes (without the intro)
- Comment that the name ‘note’ may not fully capture what these papers can be. E.g. distinction between taxonomic descriptions that are basic vs. those that propose new ideas.
- It would be worth defining what a ‘genome note’ or ‘genome report’ is vs. fuller description
- Exec committee.
- Discussion on delegation of some EBP votes to non-USDA i5k member. Discussion on activities to increase outreach/interest in i5k - ‘hot topic’ paper reviews similar to MGC (https://maizegdb.org/hot_new_papers);
- Podcast interviews of scientists and their genome project
- Training no meeting
- Genome Project Coordination next month discussion with Cibele on interactions with GOAT. What is a genome project group? How many genomes constitutes a group? How to submit progress on genome projects?
- Working group additional items (example: AGS organization discussion from the Outreach WG)
- Other items from the community germane to the cc (e.g. relevant EBP updates, new funding opportunities, meetings/conferences)
- There was an EBP member meeting 4/4
- Should we advertise AGS-X on the EBP twitter feed? They are looking for material to post/retweet. We should take advantage of this, this feed gets thousands of views. https://twitter.com/EBPgenome . We could re-tweet their job announcements - not sure what our X/twitter process is right now
- JEDI committee is finishing up a white paper to be published in a peer-reviewed journal
- Reminder about EBP protocols.io channel. https://www.protocols.io/workspaces/earth-biogenome-project
- A Primer on Science Policy for Biodiversity Research - Webinar Series https://www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/a-primer-on-science-policy-for-biodiversity-research-webinar-series
- GoaT 2023 report: _ToL Genomes on a Tree (GoaT) Report 2023 See table 3, page 21 for i5k stats
- Presentation on project Psyche by Charlotte Wright. https://www.projectpsyche.org/ . Generating 2000 lep genomes in the first 2 years of the project. 5000 and 11000 in years 3.5, 5. 17 countries, 49 institutes.
- Should i5k reach out - invite them to present here, or have an i5k rep join their meetings?
- They have worked on developing standards for leps, and have working groups for many scientific questions
- They are creating standardized resources: alignments; protein orthology; repeats; variants; ncDNA
- Can join via https://www.projectpsyche.org/participate/
Discussion topics:
- Should we feature monthly Discussion Topics for this meeting and if so, of what sort?
- Possibility of creating a curated list of ‘hot papers’ and/or interviews/podcasts with authors
- What to advertise in email meeting reminder
- Link to next month’s agenda: Email Marc (mshalfon@buffalo.edu) or add directly using this link: Provisional Agenda 15 May 2024 i5k coordinating committee
NEXT MEETING: 15 May 2024
11:00-12:00 EDT