GlyGen 2024 All Hands Meeting

The annual GlyGen All Hands meeting is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, June 12th and 13th, 2024. It is an exciting opportunity for all GlyGen collaborators to convene in person and dive into discussions about our future prospects and project plans for the upcoming year.

Program and Information

Accommodation and Meeting venue

Meeting Venue (Suite G1 - Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Georgetown University) (Map) (Parking)

Day 1 Wednesday June 12 - Suite G1

Day 2 Thursday June 13 - Suite G1

Parking is at Colonial Parking - 2115 and 2121 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20007. The parking ticket will be validated. Contact Jeet Vora.

Accommodation - Closet Hotel to the venue is the The Glover Park Hotel in Glover Park. Other hotels are in Georgetown and Foggy Bottom which are a short ride from the venue.

For entering the building ID is required. In the morning, GW members will be in the courtyard or near the security desk to sign you in and hand out your badges.

For any assistance call Karina (804-868-0809) or (Raja (703-608-9785) or Jeet (202-816-0104)

Travel from DCA or IAD Airport:

The accommodation and meeting venue near/in Georgetown/Glover Park is approximately 7 miles away from Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) and 27 Miles from Dulles International Airport (IAD). A taxi ride should take around 20 minutes from DCA and 50 Minutes from IAD.

There is no Metro station near the venue. The closest Metro station is Foggy Bottom (2 miles away). The Metrorail Blue line connects the DCA airport and the Foggy Bottom Station, in direction of Largo Town Center. There is a Silver line metro that directly connects IAD Dulles Airport Station to Foggy Bottom Station, in direction of Largo Town Center) and takes about 60 mins from IAD. (Metro Map , WMATA)

Virtual Meeting

The Zoom Link will be used for the virtual attendees - https://gwu.webex.com/meet/jeetvora

Fun activity

We request you to bring a snack/candy - that is your favorite; reminds you of childhood; popular in your region/culture/country. You may be asked to briefly talk about it during your introduction. The candy/snack will be relished during the meeting and the breaks.

Group Dinner

Group dinner on Day 1 will be at ….There is a … menu for the dinner which will be paid for by GlyGen.

Alcoholic Drinks - Buy Your Own Drink.

Agenda

Day 1 (Wednesday June 12th) All Hands Meeting

Time (ET)	Agenda	Description	Presenter
8:30am                                                                                                      Breakfast
9:00am	Welcome	Welcome Individual + Snack Introduction Plan for the Meeting	MikeT & Raja (10min)
9:20am	GlyGen Year 3,4,5 Plans	Overall aims for GlyGen for Year 3,4,5	MikeT & Raja (20min)
9:40am	Year 2 progress	Portal (Year 2) Data (Year 2)	MikeT & Raja (20min)
10:00am	Tool game/data	What tools do we need for GlyGen What data/species do we need for GlyGen	Rene (45 min)
10:45am                                                                                                          Coffee break (15min)
11:00am	Portal Year 3 Plan	Portal Plans for Year 3	MikeT (20min)
11:20am	Data Year 3 Plan	Data Plans for Year 3	Raja (20min)
11:40am	Open Discussion	Discussion Session	All (30min)
12:10pm	Photo & Lunch break (60min)
1:10pm	Subcontract I - Protein Data	Year 2 summary Year 3 Protein Data Plan Publication/Outreach plans	Maria (20min)
1:30pm	Subcontract II - Lit. Mining	Current Progress Overall Lit Mining Plans Year 3 plans Publication /Outreach plans	Vijay Shanker (20min)
1:50pm	Subcontract III - Glycan	Year 2 summary Year 3 Glycan Data Plan Publication /Outreach plans	Nathan (20min)
2:10pm	GlyGen-PubChem-ChEBI	Current status on GlyGen PubChem collaboration Current status on GlyGen ChEBI collaboration Year 2 plans	Nathan, Evan and Karina (20mins)
2:40pm	Discussion session	Discussion	All (40 min)
3:10pm	Coffee break (15mins)
3:25pm	Collaboration plans between GlyGen and GlyCosmos/GlyTouCan	Current status Future plans Grant submission ideas Publications Outreach Plans	Kiyoko (10min)
3:35pm	Collaboration plans between GlyGen and GlyConnect/SIB	Current status Future plans Grant submission ideas Publications Outreach Plans	Frederique (10 min)
3:45pm	Open discussion	Discussion	All (20 min)
4:05pm	Meeting Adjourned
4:10pm-6pm	GlySpace Alliance Meeting		Raja, Mike, Kiyoko, Frederique, Rene
6:30pm	Group Dinner ??

Day 2 (Wed June 13th) General

Time (ET)	Agenda	Description	Presenter
8:30am                                                                                                      Breakfast
9:00am	Welcome	Welcome	MikeT & Raja (5min)
9:05am	Review day 1	Tasks and To-do's	Rene (10min)
9:15am	Outreach	Status of Year 2 outreach External Meetings Webinars Workshops Talks Google Analytics	Jeet (15min)
9:30am	Outreach discussion	Discussion	All (30 min)
10:00am	Publication plans	Overall Publication Plans	Karina (10min)
10:10am	Discussion	Discussion	All (20min)
10:30am	Coffee break (15 min)
10:45am	Machine learning and literature mining in GlyGen	Literature Mining Status Machine learning ready datasets New Ideas	Robel & Nathan(30min)
11:15am	Open Discussion	Discussion	All (45min)
12:00pm	Lunch break and (60min)
12:10pm	Executive Session with Advisors and NIH Guests, if available (60min)
1:00pm	General Meeting adjourned