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Dr. Ted DeJong, Vice-President of the International Society for Horticultural Science, has initiated the launch of “Hort Forum,” a series of webinars followed by panel discussions and open questions that open up the opportunity for open discussion and debate. The seventh installment, organized by Dr. DeJong and Dr.

The 24th North American Barley Researchers Workshop, organized by Dr. Bob Brueggeman, is taking place July 15-17 at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington..

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is holding the “Chromatin, Epigenetics & Gene Expression” advanced course from July 22 - August 10, 2025.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is offering their Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science course from June 26 to July 17, 2025.

AG2PI is hosting an Ag Single cell workshop March 29-31, immediately prior to the AGBT-Ag meeting in Orlando, Florida.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting the course, “Statistical Analysis of Genome Scale Data,” from June 6-20, 2025. Harmen Bussemaker, from Columbia University, Sean Davis, from the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Hans Tomas Rube, from the University of California Merced and Min Zhang, from the University of California, Irvine will serve as the course instructors.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting the 38th annual Biology of Genomes meeting from May 6 to 10, 2025. The meeting will focus on DNA sequence variation and its role in molecular evolution, population genetics, complex diseases, comparative genomics, large-scale studies of gene and protein expression, and genomic approaches to ecological systems.

To celebrate Love Data Week, ICPSR at the University of MIchigan is hosting the webinar series, “Whose Data Is It Anyway?” from February 10th to 14th. The series explores data ownership versus usage and seeks to help users remember to consider where the data came from before using it.

A series of four “Field Days” on single-cell genomics in agriculture are being offered free of charge February 5th and 12th and March 5th and 12th at 11:00 - 12:30 (US EST). The topics for these training sessions are as follows:

The International Society for Horticultural Science is hosting the IV International Symposium on Germplasm of Ornamentals (ISGO) from August 3-8, 2025, in Fort Collins, Colorado. The symposium focuses on the use of science and technology dedicated to explore, preserve, and enhance the germplasm of ornamentals.

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