Development Breakout Group

							Development Breakout Group


Theme one: Disconnect between cell development and physiology and EEBB.
Integration within biology is as much of a concern as integration between biology
and other disciplines. Built into training. Efforts at undergrad and grad level. Less
technical integration more intellectual integration.

Theme two: Integration should not be technical but intellectual, particularly as
technology is moving so fast. Policy to ensure that technology is accessible. DGRP is
a good example of this.

Theme three: Phenomics should be phenotype back to genotype rather than
genomics which is genotype out. Pulling the omics together for a more integrated
approach. Guidance on data management metadata format. Need not to be left to the
community, but should, to a certain extent, be lead, particular for cross-omic
integration (e.g. link genomics with proteomics).

Theme four: Keep sight of the animal. Tendency to disregard developmental stages
and environmental conditions that are variable. Omics also tend to (currently)
obscure the animal as a whole and as an integrative unit.

Theme five: Community support. Need to raise the bar for non-model organism,
and lower the bar for model organism. Need to get the editors on side. Dialog within
reviewers for integrative papers specifically and papers in general.

Theme six: Who else is funding integrative biology?

In general we developmental biologists deal with biology in principle versus biology
in practice.