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 [...]
The Gramene Genetic Diversity curator, Genevieve DeClerck, traveled to USDA-ARS Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center (DB NRRC) in Stuttgart, AR June 15-17, 2009. Genevieve’s visit included presenting a talk (PDF here) about what’s new with the Genetic Diversity module and how it can be used to mine data important to rice breeding projects. Another [...]
Molecular and Cellular Biology graduate program of the Oregon State University (OSU) is organizing a Bioinformatics, Genomics and Systems Biology symposium and workshop on June 17-18, 2009. Researchers, students and postdocs living in and/or visiting the area are invited to attend the workshop. Follow the workshop link http://mcbworkshop.cgrb.oregonstate.edu for more details.
Jason Stajich from UC-Berkeley and [...]
The Sixth International Rice Genetics Symposium will be held in conjunction with the 7th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics November 15-19, 2009 in Manila. This event provides an important forum for reviewing the latest advances in rice research, how recent breakthroughs could affect global food security, and in-depth discussion and exchange of information [...]
From October 13th to 19th, 2009, Cold Spring Harbor Lab will host a workshop on cereal genomics. The workshop will feature morning and evening lectures with afternoon computer lab exercises. The workshop will also provide hands-on lab work in the comparative anatomy, phenotype and QTL sections in which participants will examine samples and make [...]
The Asian Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2010) will be held in Bangalore, India, January 18-21, 2010. This an annual forum for exploring research, development and novel applications of bioinformatics. For more details, please visit the National Centre for Biological Sciences website.
A hands-on wheat genome annotation workshop for graduate students and postdocs will be held from June 29th to July 1st, 2009 at the Institute for Genome Sciences, (UM Baltimore) as the outreach component of the NSF-funded project DBI-0638558. On-line registration open until April 15th 2009. More information can be found in the attached [...]
The 19th International Triticeae Mapping Initiative – 3rd COST Tritigen joint meeting 2009 will be held in Clermont-Ferrand, France, August 31th – September 4th 2009. Abstract submission deadline is Friday, March 20, 2009. Please see their submission form online for more information.
Members of the Gramene team (Doreen Ware and Genevieve DeClerck) will be attending this week’s 51st Annual Maize Genetics Conference in St. Charles, IL, March 12-15, and will present two posters: 1) “Gramene: A Resource for Comparative Grass Genomics”, 2) “The Gramene Genetic Diversity module: A resource for comparative genome analysis in plants.”
Members of the Gramene team will be presenting posters at this week’s Plant Genomes meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Lab. Our posters include “Plant comparative genomics at Gramene” (Will Spooner) and “An update on the Gramene database” (Ken Youens-Clark).