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AG2PI is hosting an Ag Single cell workshop titled, “Enpowering G2P in Agriculture: building a collaborative environment for single-cell applications,” March 29-30, immediately prior to the AGBT-Ag meeting

The 2025 Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies has been awarded to Dr. Ed Buckler, a USDA Research Geneticist and Adjunct Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University.

Save the Date! The 24th North American Barley ResearchersWorkshop (NABRW) is taking place from July 15-17, 2025 on the Washington State University campus in Pullman, Washington. Details, including a call for abstracts, will be released in the subsequent months.

The G2F initiative (www.genomes2fields.org), which has collected data on over 180,000 corn field plots including over 5,000 hybrids and 280 unique environm

The Sorghum and Millet Workshop will be held at the Plant & Animal Genome Conference (PAG 32 – January 10-15, 2025) on Sunday, January 12, 2025, San Diego, California. The workshop offers sorghum and millet researchers the opportunity to meet annually and share their latest research findings. The focus of the 2025 workshop will be the growing role of genomics in sorghum and millet research, with two specific goals:

The 20th anniversary of the International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics (2024 ISRFG) was celebrated during the 2024 conference in Little Rock/Stuttgart Arkansas from September 9-11, 2024.

The Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) award, which celebrates and empowers women in the field of wheat science. is now accepting nominations for their 2025 Early Career Awards. Self-nominations are accepted.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting a course titled, “Tutorials in Genomics & Bioinformatics: Genome Variation,” from November 10 to 12, 2024.  This intensive two-day introductory course to genomics and bioinformatics is broken into modules featuring a brief lecture describing the theory, methods and tools to give a broad overview of a given topic and are followed by examples chosen by the instructors that students complete.

The 24th Genome Informatics meeting will be held November 13-15 on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, U.K. Virtual attendance is available. The 2024 conference will focus on large-scale approaches to understanding genome structure and biology and showcase a range of methods for large genomic data set analysis. Topics will include:

• Pangenome