Gramene and SorghumBase Teams at PAG33 in San Diego, California, January 9-14, 2024

The International Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG33) will take place on January 9-14, 2026 in San Diego, California and the SorghumBase and Gramene teams will be there!

Dr. Sunita Kumari, a senior bioinformatics scientist of the Ware Lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, will be giving a talk, “Advancing Plant Expression Resources: Gramene–Expression Atlas Collaboration on Bulk and Single-Cell Data Curation,” at 12.15PM on January 11 in Town and Country D during the Integrated Genome Resources at EMBL-EBI Workshop. 

Additionally, on January 11, Dr. Sunita Kumari, is co-organizer of The AgBioData Consortium workshop titled “Challenges and Recommendations for FAIR Genetic, Genomic and Breeding Data.” The session starts at 4:00 PM in Palm 1-2. Talks in the session include:

• “NLP4Biocuration Working Group Update: Shared Learning and Knowledge Sharing” - Tanya Z. Berardini

• “Developing FAIR Open-Source Interactive Web Browsers for Individual Labs to Explore Single-Cell Data: Shiny-PIGGI as an Example from the Agbiodata Single Cell Working Group” - Muskan Kapoor

• “Integrating Phenomics and Phenotypes into Agricultural Databases” - John McNamara

• “AgBioDatabase Finder: An Online Tool to Help Researchers Find and Submit Agricultural Genomic, Genetic, and Breeding Data” - Leonore Reiser

• “From Fragmented Data to Shared Knowledge: Adopting rsIDs in Agricultural Genomics” - Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz

• “Update on Agbiodata Database Resource Sustainability” - John McNamara

Dr. Nicholas Gladman, a USDA-ARS scientist also located at CSHL, will be giving a talk titled, “Sorghum Pan-Genomic Resources Reveal Novel Genetic Networks for Trait Discovery,” at 1:50 PM on January 13 in Town and Country D during the CSSA: Translational Genomics. Workshop.

Dr. Gladman is the organizer and presenter of the USDA Databases session; “USDA Databases: Numerous Genomic, Phenotypic, and Computational Resources for Agricultural Researchers,” on January 13 at 6;20 PM in Palm 8. Dr. Gladman will give his talk, “Gramene Plants: Advancing Pan-Genome Resources and Community Standards for Comparative Plant Genomics,” at 6:40 PM. The session starts at 6:20 and includes the following talks:

• “USDA-ARS Database Interoperability: Where We Are and What’s Required to Get There” - Amanda Hulse-Kemp

• “Expanding the Maize Genomic Landscape: New Accessions and Variant Visualization at MaizeGDB” - Jacqueline Campbell

• “Soybase and Legumeinfo Databases In Support of Legume Crop Improvement and Research”  - Jacqueline Campbell

• “GrainGenes: Genetics, Genomes, and Pangenomes” - Tanner Zen

• “Identifying Gaps In Insect Genome Annotation via Systematic Analysis of Community-Curated Genes” - Monica Poelchau

Dr Kumari and Dr. Gladman will also present the following posters:

• Dr. Kumari:

  • “P282 Gramene Plants: Advancing Pan-Genome Resources and Community Standards for Comparative Plant Genomics”

• Dr Gladman:

  • “P635 Black Pericarp Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) Genome Assembly and Pre-Programing during Early Floral Meristem Development for Downstream UVB Induced 3-Deoxyanthocyanidins Sorghum Grain” 

  • “P636 SorghumBase as a Knowledgebase for Sorghum Genomic Data and Community Interaction”

Please stop by and see us at the AgBioData Booth (#223)!

For more information, visit the conference website.