The Center for Sorghum Improvement (CSI) is hosting a virtual seminar given by Dr. Junping Chen, Research Geneticist at the Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Unit, USDA-ARS at Lubbock, TX on Tuesday, August 13 at 11 AM CT. The title of his talk is “Impacts of heat stress on gene expression during sorghum seed development.”
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting a course titled, “Advanced Sequencing Technologies & Bioinformatics Analysis,” from November 10 to 23, 2024. The course explores the use and applications of massively parallel sequencing technologies, with a focus on data analysis and
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Office of National Programs (ONP) invites applications for a permanent, full time National Program Leader (NPL) in Plant Health to provide national and international leadership in coordinating agricultural research programs relating to
The ASPB 2024 conference in Honolulu celebrated its centennial by bringing together over 1400 participants to discuss advancements in plant science, including machine learning, regenerative agriculture, and climate change, highlighted by workshops, poster sessions, and plenary talks on topics like FAIR data practices, genotype-phenotype connections, and sustainable food systems.
The Center for Sorghum Improvement (CSI) is hosting a virtual seminar given by Alexander Bucksch, Associate Professor in the School of Plant Sciences (SPLS) at the University of Arizona. on Tuesday, July 9 at 11 AM CT. The title of his talk is “Advances in root phenotyping reveal new functional and genetic insights from the cell to the population level.”
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is offering a course, “Programming for Biology,” from October 13-29, 2024. The class is designed for lab biologists with little or no programming experience and aims to give students the bioinformatics and scripting skills they need to derive biological insights from the abundance of data commonly encountered today.
Members of the AgBioData Consortium Research Coordination Network (www.agbiodata.org), which include members of the SorghumBase and Gramene Teams, will be holding a workshop titled, “Plant Bioinformatics Resources for FAIR Agricultural Data Discovery and Reuse,” on Saturday, June 22nd from 10:00
The CROPS conference took place from June 3rd to 6th at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama. The meeting focused on the application of genomic technology to crop improvement and brought together over 100 leading crop scientists and
