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The Gramene Team is happy to announce its 35th release.

Recently, the Committee on Gene Symbolization, Nomenclature and Linkage of the Rice Genetics Cooperative and the authors of publications on rice WRKY gene family members identified gene nomenclature conflicts.  This finding lead to the creation of the rice WRKY working group to resolve rice WRKY gene family nomenclature.  The full report and findings of the group is published in the journal Rice.

Four post-doctoral positions are available at the Soybean Genomics Laboratory at the University of Missouri. Please direct all correspondence to the following:

Dr. Henry Nguyen
National Center for Soybean Biotechnology
Division of Plant Sciences
1-31 Agriculture Building
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
Tel: (573) 882-5494

Post Doctoral Research Associate Position in Soybean Oil Engineering

Gramene project manger Marcela Monaco is at this weekend's Maize Genetics Conference in Portland, Oregon. She will be present at our poster (P261, Gramene: a resource for comparative plant genomic. Monaco, MK; et al. 2012. Maize Genetics Conference Abstracts. 54:P261) from 1:30-3 today and tomorrow. Project member Joshua Stein is also presenting poster P276 (The Maize Genome Project, an Update. Stein, JC; et al. 2012. Maize Genetics Conference Abstracts. 54:P276) on the maize sequencing project.

Two funding opportunities for US scientists to attend the 23rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR) at the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria on July 3-7 of 2012. The North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC) applied for funding from the US National Science Foundation for:

1. Under-represented minorities, or faculty at minority-serving institutions/HBCUs (full funding)
2. early-career scientist travel grants ($1,000)

Application deadline: March 31, 2012.

Amit Dhingra has recently been awarded an NSF REU Site in Plant Genomics and Biotechnology to be hosted in the College of Agriculture, Human and Natural
Resource Sciences at Washington State University. Details about the research experience and online application are

Registration is now open for the Plant Biology 2012 meeting to be held July 22-24 in Austin, Texas.

The Gramene team is happy to announce interim release 34b.  We have now added the reference genome for Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D, a primitive unicellular red alga, which lives in acidic hot water (like hot springs), bringing us to 23 genomes.  We updated the software of our Ensembl genome browser to version 65, updated the gene models for Physcomitrella patens (moss), updated the gene and prediction tables f

The 54th Annual Maize Genetics Conference will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland, Oregon, from March 15-18, 2012. This year’s meeting will feature four plenary speakers: Bill Tracy (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Venkatesan Sundaresan (Univ. of California, Davis), Jenny Graves (Australian National University), and Thomas Dresselhaus (Univ. of Regensburg). Further details about the program, registration for meeting and housing, abstracts, and transportation are available at the meeting website.

On the morning of Sunday, February 5, 2012, the Plant Ontology Consortium will host a tutorial on bio-ontologies to take place at the New York Botanical Garden. Further details are available at bioontology.org.