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Gramene team members Pankaj Jaiswal and Palitha Dharmawardhana from Oregon State University contributed to a recent publication in PLoS ONE entitled "Global Profiling of Rice and Poplar Transcriptomes Highlights Key Conserved Circadian-Controlled Pathways and cis-Regulatory Modules.

Gramene is sending a member to the International Grape Genome Program's (IGGP) 3rd Annual Grape Research Conference happening this weekend in Lake Tahoe, CA. We will present many resources available within Gramene for grape researchers such as our grape genome browser, BLASTZ alignments, tandem genes, split paralogs, gene trees, orthologs, and visualizing custom data.

Marcela Monaco, who works on Gramene's pathways section, will be presenting a poster on Gramene's 33rd build at the Biology of Genomes meeting being held this week at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. Stop by for a chat if you are in town.

The Gramene team is happy to announce the 33rd release is available at www.gramene.org.

Postdoctoral Fellow in Heterosis Studies

Job Description:

The iPlant Collaborative is a cyberinfrastructure collaborative, working to address grand challenges identified by the plant sciences community. The iPlant Collaborative seeks to develop a comprehensive national cyberinfrastructure which will unite researchers in every plant biology discipline--from those working at the microscopic level, such as molecular biologists, cellular biologists and geneticists, to those working on the ecosystem and planetary level.

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EPIC, the Epigenomics of Plants International Consortium, is a new initiative supporting the efforts of the international community studying epigenomics and epigenetics in plants. EPIC is currently funded by a research collaborative network grant from the NSF. The goal of EPIC is to identify key intellectual questions, potentially transformative methodologies, as well as training and infrastructure needs of the epigenomics community and then communicate these to international funding agencies in order to establish a coordinated plant epigenomics initiative.

A story in today's NZ Herald reports that Pepsi is moving to bottle their drinks in a new plastic derived from plants rather than petroleum. "The bottle is made from switch grass, pine bark, corn husks and other materials," reports the story.

The USDA-ARS R.W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health in Ithaca, NY, on the campus of Cornell University seeks a database programmer to support the database and bioinformatics component of the Triticeae Coordinated Agricultural Project. The overall project is a five-year, $25 million effort to accelerate the improvement of wheat and barley for performance under stress from climate change. Over $1.5 million will be spent adding functionality to a dedicated relational database, “the triticeae toolbox” or T3, for public-sector breeding of wheat, barley, and oat (http://triticeaetoolbox.org).