Submitted by marcela.karey on Fri, 06/19/2020 - 22:56
For the past six years, Gramene has celebrated Fascination of Plants Day (FoPD) with an activity designed for K-12 children to spread our appreciation for plants. The year 2020 was not the exception.
Image:

Scientists around the world are working to make reagents for plant-based COVID-19 vaccines
Submitted by Sushma Naithani on Tue, 05/26/2020 - 14:25
The advent of functional genomics has changed the scope, scale and speed at which new datasets are being generated and has posed the challenge for its comprehension and effective utilization to advance translational research. Plant Reactome portal of Gramene
Image:

Reproductive meristem phase change in O. sativa
Submitted by marcela.karey on Mon, 05/18/2020 - 15:44
Authors: Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz, Cristina Fernandez-Marco and Doreen Ware
The 2020 Virtual Maize Annotation Jamboree (VMAJ) was organized as part of the by Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory or CSHL) and Cristina F. Marco (DNALC CSHL) under the supervision of PI Doreen Ware (CSHL and USDA ARS).
Image:

Zoom gallery view of participants on the final day of the VMAJ. From left to right and top to bottom: Arun Somwarpet-Seetharam, Cristina F. Marco, Kevin R. Ahern, Brit Moss, Aman Kaur, Adrienne Kleintop, Jianing Liu, Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz, John Gray, Doreen Ware, Elly Porestky, Vincent Colantonio, Brian Zebosi, Singha Dhungana, Vivek Shrestha, Nancy Manchada, Raksha Singh, Usha Bhatta, and Ankita Abnave.
Submitted by Sushma Naithani on Wed, 05/13/2020 - 12:21
We wish and hope that in this difficult time of COVID-19 pandemic, all Gramene database users and their loved ones are doing well and keeping safe.
Submitted by Sushma Naithani on Wed, 01/22/2020 - 12:31
The recent 2020 Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) Conference, held in Town & Country Resort, San Diego, brought together over 3,000 leading researchers, scientists, software professional, and students working in plant and animal genomics research, over 135 exhibits, 180 workshops, 1,200 posters, over 2,500 abstracts and 7 Plenary talks.
Submitted by Sushma Naithani on Thu, 01/09/2020 - 17:35
The Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) XXVIII conference will kick off this coming Saturday, January 11th, 2020, in San Diego, CA. Come meet Gramene staff and get the latest updates to Gramene’s comparative genomics and pathways visualization and mining tools to aid your research on plant models and crops! At PAG 2020, we will be announcing Gramene's p
Submitted by marcela.karey on Mon, 06/03/2019 - 14:37
To celebrate Fascination of Plants Day (FoPD) 2019, on May 22nd, Gramene's project manager and outreach, education and training coordinator, Dr. Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, visited fourth graders at Bayville's Intermediate (BI) School in New York to talk about plants and the secrets in their genomes! In addition to a dynamic slideshow, students created colorful seed necklaces.
Image:

Making colorful seed necklaces with Ms. Pederson's class
Submitted by sunita on Fri, 02/19/2021 - 11:55
Dear Gramene Community
We hope this email finds you all well during this challenging time. The Agricultural Microbiomes Research Coordination Network (Ag Microbiomes RCN) is launching a community-wide survey to assess the current state of the science in our field. Specifically, we seek to assess perspectives of the research community on perceived accomplishments, outstanding gaps, priority goals, and critical needs for the future of agricultural microbiome science.
Submitted by marcela.karey on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 17:03
Registration is now open for two up-coming virtual Ensembl workshops, covering the Ensembl genome browser and the REST API, which are key to explore and query the Gramene database.
Ensembl Browser Workshop:
Submitted by marcela.karey on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 16:38
METHADA 2020 eHandsOn: Virtual Training School on transcriptomic metadata handling and data analysis
DATE: November 30th- December 4th 2020
Pages