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Job Opening – Engineering Research Scientist at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center – St. Louis, Missouri

The Shakoor Laboratory at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri is seeking an Engineering Research Scientist to join their team in studying the effects of phenotype, genotype, and environment on crop productivity.

Job Opening – Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas Tech University – Department of Plant and Soil Sciences

The Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to perform research focused on crop-climate modeling, aimed at identifying and classifying the target population of environments based on soil and climatic parameters.

Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Genomics of Energy & Environment Conference, August 29-31, 2022

The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is hosting the Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting, which will take place both in-person at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and virtually.

SorghumBase Present at the 2022 ASPB Conference: with Workshops, Posters and Talks

The Bioinformatics workshop included a SorghumBase talk by Janeen Braynen, a member of Doreen Ware’s lab at CSHL.

CSHL Biological Data Science meeting, Nov. 9 – Nov. 12, abstracts due Aug. 26/Oct. 1

CSHL to host Biological Data Science meeting on November 9 – 12, 2022. Abstracts for talks are due on August 26 and for posters on October 1.

SorghumBase release 4 is out with updated gene and transcript names and synonyms for BTx623

The SorghumBase Team is pleased to announce the 4th release of SorghumBase, which includes the genome assembly and annotation of the poplar tree, and updated gene and transcript names of the sorghum BTx623 reference models.

AG2PI Workshop, Intermediate Omics Data-Enabled Genomic Prediction and Mediation Analysis, July 26

The Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) is hosting a virtual workshop entitled “Intermediate Omics Data-Enabled Genomic Prediction and Mediation Analysis” on July 26 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM EST.

ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting, Abstracts Due July 12

Abstracts for the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America international meeting are due July 12.

Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science workshop, July 1-21 at CSHL

The Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science workshop will be held at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from July 1st to July 21st, 2022.