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December 2007
- Dec 1st
BioSynC staff officially moved into the temporary office space. The new space is very exciting, complete with wonderful furniture donated by Bob Crawford and the Brook Furniture Foundation.
- Dec 3rd
Synthesis Meeting "Visualizing the Tree of Life II: Developing a Graphic Interface for the EOL" was held at Adobe Corporation in San Francisco,CA. Hosted by Mark Westneat, Rick Ree and Gever Tulley (Adobe), the meeting focused on developing a visualization interface for the "Tree of Life" which may serve as a gateway to the EOL. Mark and Rick will be joined by several of the premier thinkers in phylogeny visualization: David Maddison (Arizona), Mike Sanderson (Arizona), Bill Piel (Yale), and David Patterson (EOL at MBL). Adobe is lending some great minds to the effort, including Gever Tulley, Marcos Weskamp, Simon Smith, and Mike Sundermeyer.
- Dec 6th
Brian Weigman (NC State) visited BioSynC to discuss Fly Tree of Life projects in the EOL with Mark Westneat.
- Dec 10th
Mark Westneat presented EOL and BioSynC to the Bivalve Tree of Life Project.
- Dec 12th-15th
Synthesis Meeting: "Planning BryoZone: A Unified Bryozoan Reference on the Web" The Biodiversity Synthesis Center will host the first of many organism-focused meetings. These meetings bring together the majority of the world's experts on a particular topic to set the agenda for future research in the field and organize the group for incorporation into the EOL. This meeting focuses on the Bryozoa, a cosmopolitan group of aquatic invertebrates that are found in all water depths and salinities, including freshwater. Bryozoans are an important group of microscopic animals that band together to create large skeletonized colonies, similar to tiny coral animals forming coral heads. The synthesis meeting will bring together experts from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Colombia, the United
Kingdom, and the United States to plan future research for the group. The meetings goals include producing a large grant proposal for the National Science Foundation, designing and testing internet data that will become part of the EOL, and organizing the large but disparate existing data on these animals.
- Dec 21st
Construction of our new Center officially began! Plans for the 3500 sq ft space in Hall C include two 150 sq ft offices for administrative staff, three shared 150 sq ft offices for postdoctoral and academic staff, an office cubicle area for students and interns, a conference room (300 sq ft), a seminar room (600 sq ft), a reception and discussion area complete with coffee and refreshment bar as well as a Tech Center with EOL consoles. The conference and seminar rooms will be fully AV and internet equipped. Six weeks into construction things are looking good, and we look forward to hosting biodiversity groups in our new space as soon as possible.
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