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Advancing Maize Genetics: Insights from the 66th Annual Meeting

The 66th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting was held from February 29 - March 3, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The conference focuses on the most current scientific and technical advances in maize genetics. 

AG2PI Virtual Field Day: “Phenomic Prediction & Bioinformatic Workflows - AG2PI "Coconut" Grant Outcomes" on Mar. 20, 2024

The Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) is hosting a virtual field day, Phenomic Prediction & Bioinformatic Workflows - AG2PI "Coconut" Grant Outcomes,” on March 20 from 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT.

CROPS Conference in Huntsville, Alabama, June 3 - 6, Abstracts due Mar 22

The CROPS conference is taking place from June 3rd to 6th at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama.

CSHL Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science course, June 27 - July 18, 2024, Applications Due March 15

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is offering their Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science course from June 27 to July 18, 2024. Emmanuelle Bayer from the University of Bordeaux in France, Siobhan Brady from the University of California, Davis and Niko Geldner from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland will be teaching the course.

Gramene and SorghumBase Represented at the 2024 Maize Genetics Meeting in Raleigh, NC, Feb 29 to Mar 3

The 66th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting will be held from February 29 - March 3, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. A Gramene workshop will be held on Thursday, February 29th from 3:00 - 4:00 PM in room 304.

Gramene Maize Release 4 is out with the Teosinte Til11 Genome and Expression Tracks from the MaizeCODE and NAM Projects!

The Gramene Maize Knowledgebase Team is pleased to announce its fourth data release with the following highlights:

  • Comparative Genomics:

    • Addition of a new maize reference genome, Til11, to a total of 35 maize genomes.

Gramene Vitis Release 4 is out with 11 New Grape Reference Genomes!

The Gramene Vitis Knowledgebase Team is pleased to announce its fourth data release with the following highlights:

  • Comparative Genomics:

The 66th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting will be held Feb 29 - Mar 3 in Raleigh, North Carolina

The 66th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting will be held from February 29 - March 3, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The meeting includes invited talks in genetics and plant biology, oral and poster presentations and networking opportunities. The invited speakers include Natalia de León, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Terri Long, from North Carolina State University, Anna Stepanova, from North Carolina State University, and Peter Balint-Kurti, from the USDA-ARS.

CSHL Statistical Analysis of Genome Scale Data Course, June 7-21, Applications due March 1

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting the course, “Statistical Analysis of Genome Scale Data,” from June 7-21, 2024. Harmen Bussemaker, from Columbia University, Sean Davis, from the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Hans Tomas Rube, from the University of California Merced, and Min Zhang, from the University of California, Irvine will serve as the course instructors.

CSHL Tutorials in Genomics & Bioinformatics: RNA-Seq Analysis Course, Apr 28-30

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting a course, “Tutorials in Genomics & Bioinformatics: RNA-Seq Analysis,” an intensive two-day introductory course to genomics and  bioinformatics, from April 28-30, 2024. The course is broken into modules that are each designed to give a broad overview of a given topic; a brief lecture describing the theory, methods and tools is followed by a set of worked examples that students complete.

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