SYNTHESYS3 Final Meeting

This meeting brought together around 75 representatives from all partners and potential new stakeholders to showcase the highlights, outcomes and successes of SYNTHESYS3.  It was also an opportunity to discuss tsustainability of the SYNTHESYS programme of working, inluding alignment with European and international initiatives. The full agenda is listed below with links to associated presentations. 

Final Meeting Programme

Day One - Tuesday, 6th June 2017

      09:30 – 10:00 Registration

      10:00 – 10:10 WelcomeVince Smith

      10:10 – 10:30  SYNTHESYS Introduction & Overview ~ Vanessa Pike

      10:30 – 11:00  Access Overview (NA1) Kristina Gorman

      11:00 – 11:30  BREAK

      11:30 – 12:30 Access Highlights

              o   Untangling the evolution of dolphin-like marine crocodiles during the Age of Dinosaurs ~ Mark Young

              o   
Discovering a new rule in the evolution of mammals ~ Andrea Cardini

      12:30 – 13:00 KEYNOTE: The value and role of natural history collections Peter Raven

      13:00 – 14:00  LUNCH

      14:00 – 14:30 Innovation, Impact & Sustainability (NA3) ~ Jiří Kvaček

      14:30 – 14:50 Highlights on sustainability ~ Christiane Quaisser

      14:50 – 15:10 International and industrial collaboration Deb Paul

      15:10 – 15:40 BREAK

      15:40 – 16:10 Moving from physical to digital collections (JRA) ~ Elspeth Haston

      16:10 – 16:30 Inselect: liberating specimen images from multi-specimen scans with flexible metadata collection ~ Ben Price and Steen Dupont

      16:30 – 16:50 Zoosphere ~ Bernhard Schurian


      16:50 – 17:10 Setting collections data free with the power of the crowd ~ Margaret Gold


      17:10 – 17:30 3D Digitisation ~ Jonathan Brecko

      17:30 – 19:00 WINE RECEPTION

Day Two - Wednesday, 7t h June 2017

      09:00 – 09:30 TEA / COFFEE

      09:30 – 10:00 Collections Management Overview (NA2) ~ Thomas von Rintelen

      10:30 – 10:20 Collections Self Assessment Tool (CSAT) Overview ~ Sue Ryder

      10:20 – 10:40 Handbooks on Best Practice ~ Christiane Quaisser

      10:40 – 11:00 Molecular collections ~ Thomas von Rintelen

      11:00 – 11:30 BREAK

      11:30 – 12:00 Overview of Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCO) ~ Dimitris Kourea

      12:00 – 12:30  SYNTHESYS Consultation Survey Results ~ Laurence Livermore

      12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH

      13:30 – 15:00 Parallel Discussions (Transnational Access, Networking - Collections, Networking - Molecular Collections, Joint Research Activities)

      15:00 – 15:30 BREAK


      15:30 – 16:10 Discussion Summary / Feedback ~ Discussion Rapporteurs

              ·      Transnational Access

              ·      Networking - Collections

              ·      Networking - Molecular Collections

              ·      Joint Research Activities (Notes)

       16:10 – 16:20 FINAL DISCUSSIONS / CLOSE ~ Vince Smith 

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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith