Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/27/2012 - 13:14
Left to right: Donghui Li (TAIR), Laurel Cooper (Plant Ontology), Sylva Donaldson (BAR), Steve Goff (iPlant), Kate Dreher (PMN), Eva Huala (TAIR), Doreen Ware (Gramene), and Ken Youens-Clark (Gramene). Josh Stein (Gramene & iPlant) who contributed this blog, is missing in this group photo.
Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 20:06
Visit our Plant Genome Resources Outreach Booth #215 at the annual Plant Biology meeting of the ASPB to meet representatives of Gramene, PMN, PO/TO, BAR, TAIR, iPlant, and KBase. A complete schedule for the booth is available here. Also available at the booth are brochures for MaizeGDB, SoyKB, and SolGenomics.
Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 17:59
Gramene will be present at this week's Plant Biology 2012, the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), in Austin, TX from July 20-24, 2012. On Saturday, July 21, Principal Investigator Doreen Ware will present an overview of Gramene in the Plant Informatics Workshop from 7:30-10:30 PM.
Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 16:37
EMBL-EBI is organizing a hands on phytopathology training course for PhD and post-doc researchers who are working on all aspects of fungal and oomycete-induced disease in plants at Hinxton, Cambridge, UK on 19-20 September, 2012. This course will provide an overview with the toolset and data available for analysis of host and pathogen genomes, and infectious phenotypes.
Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 15:25
Many users download the TASSEL standalone zip distributions instead of using the web site launch links. This is primarily, so that the maximum heap size available to the application can be increased (by editing either start_tassel.pl or run_pipeline.pl).
Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 12:38
The 23rd ICAR will be taking place at the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria on July 3-7, 2012. This annual conference is the largest gathering of scientists working on Arabidopsis. It is expected that over 800 participants from around the world will attend.
Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 14:35
The Gramene Team is happy to announce its 35th release.
Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 13:41
Recently, the Committee on Gene Symbolization, Nomenclature and Linkage of the Rice Genetics Cooperative and the authors of publications on rice WRKY gene family members identified gene nomenclature conflicts. This finding lead to the creation of the rice WRKY working group to resolve rice WRKY gene family nomenclature. The full report and findings of the group is published in the journal Rice.
Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 13:27
Four post-doctoral positions are available at the Soybean Genomics Laboratory at the University of Missouri. Please direct all correspondence to the following:
Dr. Henry Nguyen
National Center for Soybean Biotechnology
Division of Plant Sciences
1-31 Agriculture Building
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
Tel: (573) 882-5494
Post Doctoral Research Associate Position in Soybean Oil Engineering
Submitted by admin on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 14:50
Gramene project manger Marcela Monaco is at this weekend's Maize Genetics Conference in Portland, Oregon. She will be present at our poster (P261, Gramene: a resource for comparative plant genomic. Monaco, MK; et al. 2012. Maize Genetics Conference Abstracts. 54:P261) from 1:30-3 today and tomorrow. Project member Joshua Stein is also presenting poster P276 (The Maize Genome Project, an Update. Stein, JC; et al. 2012. Maize Genetics Conference Abstracts. 54:P276) on the maize sequencing project.
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