PDF file: EURASNET Annual Report 2008

5.2 Consortium Management (Work package 22)monthplanned achieveddeliverables: 127 Prepare Annual Report for 2007 period (month 25). 25 27257 Report on decisions made during the Annual Meeting 2008(month 30).30 32258 Prepare Annual Report for 2008 period (month 38). 38 39259 Steering Committee Meetings at month 27,30, 33, 36, 39, 27-42 27-3842260 Quarterly network e-mail at months 27,30, 33, 36, 39, 42 27-42 27-38Management (Göttingen) was actively involved in the planning and organization of the 2008 InternationalMeeting in Krakow, Poland. Minutes of the Annual Conference were forwarded to the EC.Management (Göttingen) prepared the Annual Report for 2008 (month 25-42) and submitted the report inMarch 2008. This relatively minor delay was due to the slow return of financial documents from severalmembers and the need to include an amendment for the leaving member Stefan Stamm.Also in 2008 the steering committee convened frequently to discuss major administrative decisions andscientific problems of the network. Major discussions and decisions in 2008 centered around the planning of theInternational Meeting in Krakow and the finalization of the microarray initiative.The Göttingen based management team served as a hub for the distribution of help on all scientific, financialand legal questions, in particular during the reporting period, and on matters of meeting and workshop activities.The team maintained the contacts to the EC, the SAB, the network members and their labs, their legal andfinancial departments. Göttingen managed all financial traffic within the network including travelreimbursement.The Barcelona based management team was in charge of dissemination activities and was heavily involved inorganizing several of the network's workshops and meetings. They again played a crucial role in organizing theKrakow International EURASNET meeting 2008. Juan Valcárcel, together with Chris Smith, continues to havea leading role in all Network decisions related to microarray technologies. The Barcelona team is also heavilyinvolved in the 2009 Assisi mouse IFM.Integrating activities, in particular related to the Web site, are since July 01, 2007 managed by EURASNETmember John Brown (participant 14) and his team. They completely redesigned the EURASNET website in2008. To fully describe the scope of the integrating management activities we refer to the reports of workpackages 1 and 21.Additional coordination and intra-work package meetingsSection 15.1 of this report again contains an outlook on EURASNET activities during the remaining networktime. Interactions between two or more network members are described in the diagram of section 15.3.The network members working with plants (Barta, Brown and Jarmolowski) are working as a highly integratedunit. The plant groups organized a special intra-work package meeting in Vienna Oct 2008.Participant Jean Beggs, in January 2008, organized a workshop of the British EURASNET members to discussways in which to promote alternative splicing research in the UK RNA community and the UK generally.In conjunction with the 2009 Assisi Annual Meeting EURASNET organizes an IFM on the impact of mousemodels in alternative splicing. This meeting was organized in direct response to reviewer's criticism expressedin 2008.91