News & Events
Winners of the 2022 FaceBase Poster Competition! (21 June 2022)
We had an amazing time at the 2022 FaceBase Community Forum last week with great talks and interactions. Needless to say, it was also a joy to be able to see colleagues in person for the first time in years! We’ll be posting some materials available for the public soon.
But first, we wanted to celebrate our poster finalists! The posters with the top scores were:
First Place (Tie)
- Ching-Fang Chang (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital), “Alleviation of Ciliopathic Craniofacial Anomalies by Disrupting Sufu-Gli Interaction”
- Junjun Jing (USC), “Spatiotemporal Single-cell Atlas Reveals Cell Lineage Diversification During Tooth Morphogenesis”
- Tiange Qu (UCSF), “Deconstructing Calcineurin/NFAT Signaling in Species with Distinct Midfacial Outgrowth “
Second Place (Tie)
- Brandon Chacon (UCSF), “Midface Epithelium scRNAseq Reveals Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Cleft Lip/Palate Model”
- Viviana Hermosilla Aguayo (UCSF), “Tissue-specific Roles of ESCRT Machinery Component VPS25 in Craniofacial Morphogenesis”
Third Place (Tie)
- Azeez Alade (Iowa Institute for Oral Health Research), “Shared Genetic Risk Between Cleft Subtypes in the African Population”
- Jifan Feng (USC), “TGF-β Signaling Regulates Pharyngeal Muscle Development via Mediating Cell-cell Interaction”
- Mingyi Zhang (USC), “Arid1b is Indispensable in Regulating Mesenchymal Stem Cell Homeostasis”
Congratulations to our winners and all of the poster presenters at this year’s Community Forum!
Registration is open for the FaceBase Community Forum on Tuesday, June 14th! (22 April 2022)
Registration is now open for the 2022 FaceBase Community Forum!
Join the craniofacial research community for a day of in-person and virtual knowledge sharing at the 2nd Annual FaceBase Community Forum!
This year, we’ll be holding the Forum in-person at the Bolger Center in Bethesda, Maryland on Tuesday, June 14th. There will be invited talks, a forum panel, poster competition and special trainee programming!
You still have the option to join remotely via Zoom for the main meeting. However, in-person attendees will have access to special demos and workshops before the main meeting and showing their posters in the poster hall.
Check out the event page for more complete information!
Save the date for the 2nd Annual FaceBase Community Forum on Tuesday, June 14th! (13 April 2022)
Join the craniofacial research community for a day of in-person and virtual knowledge sharing at the 2nd Annual FaceBase Community Forum!
This year, we’ll be holding the Forum in-person at the Bolger Center in Bethesda, Maryland on Tuesday, June 14th. There will be invited talks, a forum panel, poster competition and special trainee programming!
You still have the option to join remotely via Zoom for the main meeting. However, in-person attendees will have access to special demos and workshops before the main meeting and showing their posters in the poster hall.
Registration will open next week and will include more information on fees and logistics for in-person attendance.
Check this event page, your inbox (if you’re a subscriber or member), and our Twitter account next week for the links!
Upcoming FaceBase Bootcamp for Users & Data Contributors on April 27th (24 March 2022)
FaceBase is hosting another bootcamp which includes sessions for both users of FaceBase and those who wish to contribute data. We will also be introducing new features such as imaging data search, an updated imaging data pipeline and annotations capability.
Date and Times
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
12:00 pm to 4:30 pm EDT / 9:00 am to 1:30 pm PDT
Format
The bootcamp has two scheduled tracks - one focused for users and one for data contributors:
- 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Eastern - Users track - FaceBase will walk through the resources available on FaceBase, best practices for using the search interface, proper citation practices and how to export data.
- 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm Eastern - Data Contributors track - Learn about contributing data and how data is curated along with a live demonstration of adding metadata and uploading data.
Zoom
Zoom details will be emailed to registrants and replay videos will be available after the event.
Details
Just click this link for details and how to register: https://www.facebase.org/training/2022-04-27/
If you have any questions, please send them to help@facebase.org.
Office Hours on Wed, March 30th (14 March 2022)
Are you interested in submitting data but have some lingering questions? Is there data you’re trying to find but aren’t sure where to start?
If you have any questions about submitting your data, requesting controlled-access human data, how to best find certain data, or any other aspect of interacting with FaceBase, please register via Zoom. Once your registration has been approved, you will receive the login information. The registration form allows you to submit your question or topic ahead of time, but if you forget, you can always send it to our contact email at help@facebase.org).
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER VIA ZOOM
Wednesday, March 30th
Start: 1:00 pm Eastern / 10:00 am Pacific
End: 2:00 pm Eastern / 11:00 am Pacific
We look forward to talking with you!