News & Events

Registration is open for the FaceBase Community Forum on Tuesday, June 13th! (09 May 2023)

We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the 3rd Annual FaceBase Community Forum!

This year’s Forum promises to be a unique opportunity for the craniofacial research community to come together and share knowledge. The event will be held both in-person at the HSC Conference Center at University of Southern California in Los Angeles and virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, June 13th.

The agenda includes an impressive lineup of special invited talks, a panel, learning about how FaceBase can help comply with the new NIH Data Management Sharing plans and a poster session. Whether you’re joining us in-person or remotely, you’ll have access to engaging discussions and opportunities to interact with other members of the community.

Visit our event page to learn more about the exciting happenings at this year’s FaceBase Community Forum and to register today!

Application For Data And Technology Advancement National Service Scholar Program Is Open (29 March 2023)

Here is notice of an important program from NIDCR that our users may be interested in:

The Data and Technology Advancement (DATA) National Service Scholar Program, organized by the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS), seeks and supports experienced data and computer scientists and engineers to tackle challenging biomedical data problems with the potential for substantial public health impact. Each year, projects are selected from proposals submitted by NIH institutes for the applicants to apply for. NIDCR’s project is among the 13 that are selected this year.

Application for the Program is now open here. The due date is May 15, 2023. Please help spread the word among your networks to help NIDCR to attract strong and interested candidates.

Introducing the EnamelBase resource (13 March 2023)

FaceBase is excited to introduce EnamelBase hosted by FaceBase, a sharing site for data, tools, and resources to accelerate scientific and technical progress in studying a multi-stage process of dental enamel formation called amelogenesis.

Tools and resources are available now and coming soon at https://www.facebase.org/resources/enamelbase/, including:

• Mouse Models: 20+ mutant, conditional-ready, Cre-driver, and reporter models available at MMRRC.
• In vitro bioreactor: A 3D co-culture system for the expansion and maintenance of ameloblast-like cells
• Protocols: To support secondary use of models and generation of enamel-focused datasets
• Multiple Data Types: Morphological, biochemical, histological, biophysical, high-resolution structural images, and multi-scale omics data

Save the date for the 3rd Annual FaceBase Community Forum on Tuesday, June 13th! (14 February 2023)

Join the craniofacial research community for a day of in-person and virtual knowledge sharing at the 3nd Annual FaceBase Community Forum!

The FaceBase Hub will be hosting this year’s Forum at the at the Health Sciences Campus at University of Southern California on Tuesday, June 13th.

Check this event page, your inbox (if you’re a subscriber or member), and our Twitter account for more details as they’re confirmed!

New video available describing images and imaging resources in FaceBase (13 September 2022)

The FaceBase Hub is happy to release a new video that walks you through the rich variety of imaging data and imaging resources available in FaceBase for the craniofacial research community.

View the video below (running time 5:55):

Here is a list of specific resources referenced in the video:

Histological Image Viewer

• Dataset “Activity of human neural crest enhancer near GPR158 in E11.5 transgenic mouse embryo – Tg(hg38_chr10:25522061-25522992::LacZ).”: https://www.facebase.org/id/1-3SF2

• Annotations Editor example from Dataset “Histology and schematic overview of mouse molar root development”: https://www.facebase.org/id/1-W96W

Volumetric Image Viewer

• Dataset “microCT - Soft Tissue of C57BL6 mouse at E15.5”: https://www.facebase.org/id/TJR

Surface Mesh Viewer

• Dataset “E18.5 wildtype mouse microCT”: https://www.facebase.org/id/3V4A

Curated Imaging Resources

• Facial scans datasets:

  • Data Access Request process: https://docs.facebase.org/docs/human-data/

  • 3D Facial Images - Tanzania: https://www.facebase.org/id/TX4

  • 3D White Light Photogrammetry Images of North American Children from Denver and San Francisco: https://www.facebase.org/id/TK0

  • Developing 3D Craniofacial Morphometry Data and Tools to Transform Dysmorphology: https://www.facebase.org/id/TJ0

• 3D Facial Norms: https://www.facebase.org/resources/human/facial_norms/

• FishFace Atlas: https://www.facebase.org/resources/zebrafish/fishface/home/

• Interactive Zebrafish Craniofacial Atlases: https://www.facebase.org/id/1-517M

• Mouse Anatomy Atlas: https://www.facebase.org/resources/mouse/mouseanatomy/

• Anatomical Image Navigation: https://www.facebase.org/resources/mouse/anatomical-nav/