The Department of Plant Sciences at North Dakota State University welcomes applications for a skilled and motivated chemist/technician to support our barley and malt quality analysis service and research efforts in the Department of Plant Sciences at North Dakota State University (NDSU).
The 2026 Maize Genetics meeting, hosted by the Maize Genetics Cooperation, will take place from February 26 to March 1 in Cologne, Germany. The meeting will include invited talks in genetics and plant biology, sessions covering broad subject areas to stimulate new ideas, oral presentation, poster sessions and networking opportunities.
The Center for Sorghum Improvement (CSI) will host a virtual seminar by Dr. Daran Rudnick, Professor and Director of Sustainable Irrigation in the Carl and Melinda Helwig Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Kansas State University Research and Extension, on Tuesday, December 8 at 11:00 AM CT. His talk is titled, “Connecting Sorghum Production to Groundwater Outcomes: Perspectives from TAPS.”
This August, I had the honor of representing the AgBioData Single-Cell Biocuration Working Group at the Gordon Research Conference on “Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology” in Portland, Maine. Thanks to the AgBioData Ambassador Award, I joined an incredible community of researchers from August 10-15 to explore how we are revolutionizing plant science by zooming in to the cellular level. Single-cell technologies let us see what individual cells are doing, and the insights are transforming everything from basic biology to crop development.
The Center for Sorghum Improvement (CSI) will host a virtual seminar by Dr. Vincent Vadez, Crop Physiologist and Agronomist for the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), on Tuesday, November 11 at 9:00 AM CT. His talk is titled, “Transpiration efficiency and response to high sowing density: Two connected opportunities for yield improvement in sorghum.”
The Global Sorghum Conference will take place at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, September 14–18, 2026. This international event will highlight sorghum’s unique role as The Resource Conserving Crop™ through technical presentations, networking opportunities, and field tours.
The Responsive Agricultural Food Systems Research Unit (RAFSRU) located at Texas A&M University has research training opportunities for highly motivated postdoctoral fellows in prevention of diet-related chronic diseases, plant genetics & biofortification and mechanistic studies in nutrition health associations.
