Fluid-preserved Specimen Imaging Workshop
General Information
When: March 3-4, 2020 (Travel: March 2nd & 5th)
Where: Dickinson Hall, University of Florida; Gainesville, FL
Organizers: Dave Blackburn, Jill Goodwin, Gil Nelson, Emily Braker, Zach Randall, and Molly Phillips
Expected number of participants: 20
Overview
This is an invited workshop of fewer than 20 attendees and will focus on high level discussions of the solutions, challenges, and bottlenecks as well future enhancements and improvements required to advance the quality, imaging efficiency, and research use of fluid-preserved specimen images. This is not a typical iDigBio imaging training workshop. We hope to come out of this event with results to define the course forward for expanding and enhancing the use of fluid-preserved specimen images across all domains.
Logistic Information
Airport: Gainesville Regional Airport
Airport transportation: hotel shuttle, taxi, uber, lyft
Workshop hotel: Holiday Inn (walking distance of workshop venue)
Workshop venue: Dickinson Hall, University of Florida
Invited participant support: Hotel cost covered; flight and per diem expenses reimbursed.
Agenda
Details of agenda will be updated and finalized at a later point, however we anticipate using the format below.
| Day 1 | |||
| TIME | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 8-8:30 | Check in, coffee, breakfast | ||
| 8:30 | Workshop Overview and Framing | Gil Nelson | |
| 8:50 | A Glimpse at the Future of Specimen Imaging | Dave Blackburn | |
| 9:10 | Photogrammetry | Nelson Rios | |
| 9:30 | 3D Surface Scanning | Zach Randall & Ed Stanley | |
| 9:50-10:30 | Brainstorm session #1: Sky's the limit--free of financial and other constraints: Aspirations outside the box for imaging technologies, challenges, and protocols (artificial intelligence? Machine learning? Conveyor belts?) | Emily Braker | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00-11:45 | Brainstorm session #2: Current Challenges and Bottlenecks for Creating and Using Images | Gil Nelson | |
| 11:45-1:00 | Lunch (provided) | ||
| 11:00-11:45 | Brainstorm session #3: Image Quality and Research Uses | Ed Stanley | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Brainstorm session #4: Non-research uses of Images (Outreach, Education) | Molly Phillips | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Brainstorm session #5: Enriching Data through Trait Extraction from Images | Jill Goodwin | |
| 1:00-5:00 | Breakout group discussion | ||
| Day 2 | |||
| TIME | |||
| 8-8:30 | Coffee, breakfast | ||
| 8:30-10:15 | |||
| 10:15-10:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 10:30-12:30 | Speakers | ||
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch (provided) | ||
| 1:30-3:30 | Breakout group discussion | ||
| 3:30-5:00 | Gather concluding perspectives/ Wrap up |