Archive for the ‘Meeting/symposium/workshop’ Category

See you at ASPB

Several team members of Gramene will be present at this weekend’s ASPB Plant Biology meeting including at the Plant Genome Resources exhibition booth as well as our Gene Annotation Workshop. Please find us and ask any questions you have!

Last Call: Travel awards for US participants

Apply for the travel awards to attend Gene Annotation Workshop to be held at the ASPB’s Plant Biology 2010 meeting.
If selected, the travel award will cover the cost of your registration for the entire Plant Biology 2010 meeting. We expect to award 10-20 participants.
Apply online at: http://plantontology.org/workshop/pb2010.html
Application Deadline: July 15, 2010
Workshop [...]

Rosaceae Genomics Conference in South Africa

Gramene users may be interested in the 5th International Rosaceae Genomics Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, November 14-17, 2010. For full conference details, see the RCG5 website.

Report from maize meeting in Italy

By Doreen Ware
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the 52nd Maize Genetics meeting that took place from March 18-21, 2010, in Riva del Garda, Italy. This is the first time the meeting has taken place in Italy. The science and venue set a very high bar for the future maize [...]

iPlant Genomics Education Workshops

The iPlant Collaborative (www.iplantcollaborative.org) announces free, 2-day workshops to introduce DNA Subway, iPlant’s first educational Discovery Environment. Instruction and workshop materials, lunches and coffee breaks are provided, as well as a stipend of $100 are provided. Further support for travel or other related expenses cannot be provided. DNA Subway was developed to make high-level [...]

Gramene’s outreach at RTWG

A member of the Gramene team attended The Rice Technical Working Group’s (RTWG) 33rd Meeting in Biloxi, MS February 22-25, 2010 and presented a talk titled “Rice genotype, phenotype, and germplasm data in the Gramene database” at the RTWG Applied Genomics Workshop. The goal of this presentation was to discuss the features and goals of [...]

TED talk by Carey Fowler on Crop Genetic Diversity

Enjoy

Gramene Database and Plant Ontology Workshop at the 9th IPMB Congress

We would like to invite the attendees of the 9th International Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB) Congress to be held from October 25-30, 2009 in St. Louis, MO, USA to the Gramene Database and Plant Ontology Workshop. The workshop is free and open to everyone.
Workshop Title: Comparative Plant Genomics with the Gramene database and Plant Ontology [...]

Travel Awards available for Rice Genomics Symposium in Manila

Announcing an opportunity to participate in the 6th International Rice Genetics Symposium and the 7th International Rice Functional Genomics Symposium, November 16-19, 2009 (http://www.ricegenetics.com/).

TAIR, PMN, Gramene and SGN workshop at Plant Biology 2009 meeting

TAIR Workshop II: TAIR, PMN, Gramene and SGN workshop: focus on comparative genomics and new tools
Time: Monday July 20, 7:00-8:30 pm
Speakers: Philippe Lamesch, A.S. Karthikeyan, Lukas Mueller, Pankaj Jaiswal
In this workshop, four plant genome databases, TAIR, PMN, Gramene and SGN will give an overview of new tools available on their websites, including those focusing on [...]