Past Events

European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) will be hosting this course. Applications open May 7, 2024.

The Genome Informatics conference will focus on large-scale approaches for understanding the structure and biology of genomes.

The sixth meeting on Biological Data Science is taking place at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The conference will focus on the infrastructure, software, and algorithms needed to analyze large data sets in biological research.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting a course titled, “Advanced Sequencing Technologies & Bioinformatics Analysis,” which explores the use and applications of massively parallel sequencing technologies, with a focus on data analysis and bioinformatics.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting a course titled “Tutorials in Genomics & Bioinformatics: Genome Variation,” an intensive two-day introductory course to genomics and bioinformatics.

Speaker: Nicholas Gladman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and USDA-ARS

SorghumBase

Time: 11:00 CT

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is offering a course, “Programming for Biology.” The class is designed for lab biologists with little or no programming experience.

Speaker: Jurandir Vieira de Magalhaes, Researcher, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Embrapa Maize & Sorghum

Time: 11:00 CT

Speaker: Yinghua Huang, Research Geneticist, Peanut and Small Grains Research Unit, USDA ARS

Time: 11:00 CT

Speaker: Junping Chen, Geneticist, Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Unit, USDA ARS

Time: 11:00 CT

Speaker: Alexander Bucksch, Associate Professor, School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona

Time: 11:00 CT

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is offering their Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science course. Emmanuelle Bayer from the University of Bordeaux in France, Siobhan Brady from the University of California, Davis and Niko Geldner from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland will be teaching the course. The application deadline is March 15, 2024.

The American Society of Plant Biologists is hosting the Plant Biology 2024 conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, which focuses on bringing together members of the plant science community to help advance plant science and scientific careers.

Speaker: Tesfaye Mengiste, Professor of Plant Pathology, Purdue University

Time: 11:00 CT

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting the course, “Statistical Analysis of Genome Scale Data,” which focuses on building competence in statistical methods for analyzing high-throughput data in genomics and molecular biology in both experimental and computational biologists.

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology is hosting the CROPS conference in Huntsville, Alabama.

The Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) is hosting a virtual workshop titled, “Combined GWAS and TWAS using SVEN,” from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (US Central Time).

Speaker: Luis Herrera-Estrella, President’s Distinguished Professor of Plant Genomics, Director of IGCAST, Texas Tech University

Time: 11:00 CT

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting the 37th annual Biology of Genomes meeting which will focus on DNA sequence variation and its role in molecular evolution, population genetics, complex diseases, comparative genomics, large-scale studies of gene and protein expression, and genomic approaches to ecological systems.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting a course, “Tutorials in Genomics & Bioinformatics: RNA-Seq Analysis,” an intensive two-day introductory course to genomics and  bioinformatics.

Speaker: Brian Rice, Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Time: 11:00 CT

The SorghumBase workshop will be held from 3:45-5:00 p.m. SorghumBase, a USDA-ARS funded resource, is dedicated to supporting the sorghum research community by providing curated genomic and genetic data sets, research updates, and more.

The CROPS conference is taking place in Huntsville, Alabama, June 3 – 6, 2024.

The Sorghum Improvement Conference of North America (SICNA) will be held April 2-4, 2024 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The CROPS conference is taking place in Huntsville, Alabama, June 3 – 6, 2024.

The Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) is hosting a virtual field day, “Phenomic Prediction & Bioinformatic Workflows – AG2PI “Coconut” Grant Outcomes,” from 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT. The meeting will highlight two “cocunut” (large seed) grant projects.

The Sorghum Improvement Conference of North America (SICNA) will be held April 2-4, 2024 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Speaker: Dae Kwan Ko, Assistant Professor – Fixed Term Plant Research Laboratories, Michigan State University

Time: 11:00 CT

The Maize Genetics Meeting will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Speaker: Fadi Aramouni, Research Leader, Grain Quality and Structure Research Unit, USDA ARS

The Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance VII Conference will take place in Vienna, Austria.

The Plant Biotic Stresses & Resistance Mechanisms V Conference will take place in Vienna, Austria.

Speaker: Jesse Tack, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University

The Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG31) will be held in San Diego, California.