Apr
21
Thu
BMIR RESEARCH IN PROGRESS – “Challenges for ontology repositories: reusing NCBO technology for other languages (French) and other domains (Agronomy)” @ MSOB Conference Room X-275
Apr 21 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
BMIR RESEARCH IN PROGRESS - “Challenges for ontology repositories: reusing NCBO technology for other languages (French) and other domains (Agronomy)” @ MSOB Conference Room X-275 | Stanford | California | United States

Presenter: Clement Jonquet, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Montpellier

About the Event:

 

Abstract:
A key aspect to address data integration and semantic interoperability is the use of terminologies and ontologies. Ontology repositories, have been developed to facilitate the identification, reuse and valorization of ontologies. The NCBO BioPortal, for instance, allows anyone to locate, select, browse, search, comment and use for annotation, any of the +500 biomedical ontologies available within the portal. It also stores (and generates some) mappings between these ontologies and indexes relevant biomedical resources. The success of the NCBO BioPortal motivates other domains to actually provide such a resource to their communities (e.g., agronomy, environmental sciences, etc.) and the question of reusing available technology obviously raises first to avoid redeveloping software and tools that have been designed and extensively used and second, to facilitate interoperability between the domains. In this talk, I will review our work achieved within the Semantic Indexing of French Biomedical Data Resources (http://www.lirmm.fr/sifr) and AgroPortal (http://agroportal.lirmm.fr) projects in which we (i) build ontology-based services to index, mine and retrieve French biomedical data; (ii) develop and support a reference ontology repository for the agronomic domain. In both cases, we are reusing the NCBO technology and identifying new use cases and challenges in managing ontologies and ontology-based services. I will present our platforms, the genericity/specificity of our approach and try to discuss a vision of mutual cooperative efforts that can benefit any users interested in ontologies, in any languages and in any domain.
References
Clement Jonquet, Esther Dzalé-Yeumo, Elizabeth Arnaud & Pierre Larmande. AgroPortal : a proposition for ontology-based services in the agronomic domain, In 3ème atelier INtégration de sources/masses de données hétérogènes et Ontologies, dans le domaine des sciences du VIVant et de l’Environnement, IN-OVIVE’15. Rennes, France, June 2015. pp. 5.
Clement Jonquet, Vincent Emonet & Mark A. Musen. Roadmap for a multilingual BioPortal, In 4th Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web, MSW4’15. Portoroz, Slovenia, June 2015. pp. 12.
Amina Annane, Vincent Emonet, Faical Azouaou & Clement Jonquet. Multilingual Mapping Reconciliation between English-French Biomedical Ontologies, In 6th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, WIMS’16. Nimes, France, June 2016. ACM.
Clement Jonquet, Amina Annane, Khedidja Bouarech, Vincent Emonet & Soumia Melzi. SIFR BioPortal : Un portail ouvert et générique d’ontologies et de terminologies biomédicales françaises au service de l’annotation sémantique, In 16th Journées Francophones d’Informatique Médicale, JFIM’16. Genève, Suisse, July 2016.

 

Jun
9
Fri
SCCR Virtual Science Series: The Stanford experience: Pioneering the clinical treatment of mixed hematopoietic chimerism to induce transplantation tolerance @ Zoom Meeting Link
Jun 9 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am
SCCR Virtual Science Series: The Stanford experience:  Pioneering the clinical treatment of mixed hematopoietic chimerism to induce transplantation tolerance @ Zoom Meeting Link


Speakers: Dr. Everett Meyer, MD, PhD, and Dr. Stephan Busque, MD

Click HERE to Register!

Zoom Class Link

The mission of the Stanford Center for Clinical Research (SCCR) includes offering educational resources, training, and support for investigators and research staff.  We have invited the Associate Professor of Medicine, BMT and Cell Therapy, Dr. Everett Meyer, MD, PhD, and the Professor of Surgery and Abdominal Transplantation, Dr. Stephan Busque, MD, to provide you with the Stanford Experience on the Cell Immune Therapy Tolerance, and discuss a patient experience as CIT trial participant. The speakers will review the genesis and development of the “Strober Protocol” where kidney transplant patients also get a minimally intensive allogeneic hematopoietic transplant from their patient. They will review how clinical trial conduct has been implemented and developed.

At the conclusion of this class, you will be able to:

  • Explain the biology and science of how mixed hematopoietic chimerism induces immune tolerance.
  • Review two decades of clinical trial results testing kidney and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at Stanford.
  • Understand clinical trial conduct and successes and challenges of these trial.
  • Discuss patient experience being a trial participant.

Attendance is open to all research staff.

About the Presenters:

Dr. Everett Meyer, MD, PhD, MS, is an Associate Professor in the division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, with courtesy appointments in Surgery and Pediatrics. He has a focus on the pre-clinical and clinical study of immune tolerance. He serves as director of the Cellular Immune Tolerance program supported by DOM and Surgery and which receives critical clinical trial support from SCCR. His scientific focus is the study of hematopoietic chimerism and T regulatory cell therapy.
Dr. Stephan Busque, MD, is a Professor in the division of Abdominal Transplantation Surgery. He serves as Director Adult Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program and Surgical Director of the Cellular Immune Tolerance Program and is widely regarded as a leading expert in the clinical implementation of immune tolerance in kidney transplantation. His research interest is focused on the improvement of clinical immunosuppression. He is involved in the evaluation of new immunosuppressive drugs, potentially more efficacious or less toxic, with the ultimate goal to achieve tolerance.

BRN OPTIONAL 

Spectrum is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP15435 for 2 contact hour(s).
To receive your certificate with BRN credit, you are required to complete an evaluation at the conclusion of this class.
BRN Cancellation Policy: If you wish to cancel your registration, please contact the course coordinators, Susan Saba, ssaba@stanford.edu.