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• Title: Breeding Bioinformatician/Programmer

The Gramene Team is pleased to announce its release #41. In collaboration with Ensembl Plants we are providing in this release:

For the first time in the context of the Maize Genetics Conference (Beijing, China on March 13-16, 2014), Gramene seized the opportunity to present a workshop for the maize community. The meeting brought about 600 maize researchers from around the World. Among those, about 100 meeting participants from Asia, Europe, and North America attended the Gramene workshop. The workshop provided an overview of Gramene’s comparative genomics and variation resources, including the Ensembl genome browser, BLAST and BioMart.

22nd Plant and Animal Genome conference was held from Jan 11 to 16 2014, in San Diego CA.

Please join the Gramene Team for their upcoming workshop at the Maize Genetics Conference 2014!

Learn the latest updates to Gramene's comparative genomics and pathways visualization/mining tools to aid your research of plant models and crops.

This workshop will give a broad overview of Gramene's database resources and demonstrate many specific topics like how to:

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
(http://bpp.oregonstate.edu/) at Oregon State University (OSU) seeks applicants for a 9-month, full-time
(1.0 FTE), tenure-track faculty position in Plant-Microbe Interactions.
(position link: http://jobs.oregonstate.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=63597)

ABA regulates a variety of divergent processes in plants from seed development and prevention of viviparity to plants’ response to osmotic stress. The latter is the best known of all the functions attributed to ABA, where ABA causes stomatal closure to reduce transpirational water loss. Since ABA is essential for mediating plants’ response to drought stress, which is crucial for growth and survival under limited water, ABA would have played a pivotal evolutionary role in plants’ ability to colonize land.

Research groups are located at Iowa State University (Ames, IA) and at NCGR (Santa Fe, NM) are looking for a postdoctoral candidate with good computational skills and interest in plant evolutionary biology for a project involving construction and analysis of plant gene families and phylogenies, particularly focusing on the large legume family, and development of a corresponding database and on-line tools for accessing and exploring gene families and associated annotations.

Last Friday, the Gramene website underwent a dramatic facelift. We hope that this has positively impacted your research, but we probably can do a lot more to improve.

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The Gramene Team is pleased to announce its release #40.

You'll notice we have a new look --- You can find all the old stuff at Gramene's Archive

In collaboration with Ensembl Plants we are providing in this release:

1. Updated gene models for Oryza sativa japonica from RAP-DB.
2. Gene models for Triticum aestivum (bread wheat) chromosome survey sequences from MIPS.
3. MaizeCyc updated to version 2.2 including new GO associations.