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CSI Seminar Jurandir Magalhaes, Oct 8 at 11 AM CT

The Center for Sorghum Improvement (CSI) is hosting a virtual seminar given by Tesfaye Mengiste, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Purdue University, on Tuesday, June 11 at 11 AM CT.

Genomes to Fields (G2F) Genotype by Environment Prediction Competition

The G2F initiative is hosting a competition to develop models to predict corn yield in the 2024 G2F trials.

Sorghum and Millet Workshop at PAG32 on January 12, 2025, San Diego, CA

The Sorghum and Millet Workshop will be held at the Plant & Animal Genome Conference (PAG 32 – January 10-15, 2025) on Sunday, January 12, 2025, San Diego, California.

CSHL Tutorials in Genomics & Bioinformatics: Genome Variation Course, Nov 10-12

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting a course titled, “Tutorials in Genomics & Bioinformatics: Genome Variation,” from November 10 to 12, 2024.  This intensive two-day introductory course to genomics and bioinformatics is broken into modules featuring a brief lecture describing the theory, methods and tools to give a broad overview of a given topic and are followed by examples chosen by the instructors that students complete.

Genome Informatics Conference in Hinxton, U.K, Nov 13-15, 2024, Abstracts Due Sept 10

The 24th Genome Informatics meeting will be held November 13-15 on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, U.K. Virtual attendance is available.

Job Opening: Spark Climate Solutions – Program Lead, Agricultural Nitrogen Systems

Spark is looking for a candidate who is deeply motivated by climate action, pollution abatement, and food security issues and is excited to engage with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.

Biological Data Science Conference from Nov 13-16 at CSHL, Oral Abstracts due Aug 23, Poster Abstracts due Oct 1

The sixth meeting on Biological Data Science is taking place at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from November 13 to 16, 2024. The conference will focus on the infrastructure, software, and algorithms needed to analyze large data sets in biological research.

Computational Genomics course from Dec 3-11, 2024 at CSHL, Applications Due Aug 15

The Computational Genomics course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory presents a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of computational methods for the characterization of functional elements in DNA and RNA sequence data.

CSI Seminar Junping Chen, POSTPONED to August 20 at 11 AM CT

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.”