News & Events
Slides and Videos available from the 2019 Final Recap Webinar (22 May 2019)
Thank you to so many people who attended our webinar on Monday. We had about 86 attendees overall and over half of those came from outside the consortium! That indicates a lot of interest in the kind of resource FaceBase has become for craniofacial research.
We’ve posted presentations and videos from May 20th that have been approved for public viewing.
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Final Recap Webinar on Monday, May 20th (29 April 2019)
As we close the second phase of FaceBase at the end of this month, we invite the craniofacial research community to join us for a special FaceBase 2 Recap webinar on Monday, May 20th where the FB2 projects will summarize their research and findings over the past 5 years. We will also delve into what the future of FaceBase will bring to the craniofacial research community.
If you would like to join us, please register using this form and we will send you the videoconferencing information and keep you updated on the details.
Date: Monday, May 20th
Start Time: 11:00 am Eastern / 8:00 am Pacific
End Time: 5:20 pm Eastern / 2:20 pm Pacific
You can find an agenda for the webinar here.
Photos, Slides and Videos available from the 2018 FaceBase Annual Meeting (30 May 2018)
This year’s annual meeting was another great opportunity for our spoke projects to see what everyone’s been up to and to share their work with the broader community. We now have posted the slides and videos from each of the talks on May 15th (Note that there are a couple that are not approved for sharing outside of the meeting.)
Special thanks go to Yang Chai, Linda Hattemar and the rest of the folks at the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology for organizing a wonderful, collaborative event for all.
We’ve posted presentations and videos from May 1st that have been approved for public viewing.
Here are some more photos from the meeting!
FaceBase Annual Meeting - Open to the Public on May 15, 2018 (09 April 2018)
The next annual meeting of the FaceBase Consortium will be held May 15-16 in Los Angeles, CA. The venue will be the Tutor Campus Center on the main campus of the University of Southern California. The first day of the meeting – Tuesday, May 15th – will be open to the general craniofacial research community and will be webcast.
During this day-long meeting, each FaceBase project will describe their project and the progress they’ve made in their particular focus on craniofacial research during the past year for FaceBase.
We are also excited to announce the Dr. Andrew McMahon, Director of the Stem Cell Institute, will be giving a talk at 3:00pm on “New Developments in GUDMAP and Possible Collaborations”.
To participate:
- Read the agenda for the public portion of meeting
- RSVP to attend Tuesday, May 15th either onsite or via webcast
(If you are a member of the FaceBase consortium, please contact help@facebase.org if you need help with internal registration/information.)
You can find more information on the event page.
UI Updates, New Datasets and Annual Meeting Dates (13 February 2018)
Read on for information about our latest data offerings, the latest UI updates to the Data Browser and dates for the next Annual Meeting.
Latest Datasets
Here are the latest data offerings from the FaceBase projects:
From Integrated research of functional genomics and craniofacial morphogenesis:
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MicroCT scans of the head tissue of Wnt1-Cre;Alk5fl/fl at P0 (FB00000911, FB00000915 and FB00000916)
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Another dataset of microCT scans of the skull of Wnt1-Cre;Alk5fl/fl at P0
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Cell Proliferation Heat Maps of:
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E 10.5 mouse embryo (two replicates: FB00000918 and FB00000919),
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From Genomic and Transgenic Resources for Craniofacial Enhancer Studies:
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4 datasets of transgenic mouse enhancer assays: mm1089, mm1094, mm1096, mm636
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ChIP-seq of multiple histone marks and RNA-seq from CS18 human embryonic face tissue
UI Updates
We’ve been taking feedback from users and submission projects and are constantly working to improve the Data Browser experience. Below are some of the recent steps we’ve taken but there’ll be many more to come in the next couple of months!
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Mouse age stages are sorted according to developmental stage (E8.5, …E10,… P0) rather than alphabetically.
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No longer displaying the dataset thumbnails.
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PubMed IDs are now displayed as either “PMID:xxxxx” or “Link to PubMed (PMID:xxxx)” depending on where they are displayed.
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Vocabulary tags (phenotype, age stage, organism, experiment type, etc.) are now displayed towards the top of the page for a dataset rather than in a new section w/ heading for each.
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Chromosome (when shown on a dataset page) is formatter per usual convention “chrN: start – end”
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We’ve stopped automatically opening a new browser tab for every new page.
FaceBase Annual Meeting 2018
We also are happy to announce the next FaceBase Annual meeting is May 15th and 16th in Los Angeles. The first day will be open to the public and you can attend either onsite or virtually. Be on the look out for the public registration form.