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Several team members of Gramene will be present at this weekend's ASPB Plant Biology meeting including at the Plant Genome Resources exhibition booth as well as our Gene Annotation Workshop. Please find us and ask any questions you have!

Gramene is please to announce the following individuals were selected to receive travel awards to attend the Gene Annotation Workshop this Saturday, July 31, from 8:00 AM – 12:00 noon at the ASPB’s Plant Biology 2010 meeting.

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World Agriculture (WA) is a new peer-reviewed, review journal, centered on world agriculture. It is available both in print and electronically, free of charge at http://www.world-agriculture.net and the editorial board is seeking contributions from potential authors at editor@world-agriculture.net.

Nature Precedings, "a platform for sharing new and preliminary findings with colleagues on a global scale," has published a short article by Gramene staff scientist Charles Chen entitled "The Gramene Genetic Diversity Module: a resource for genotype-phenotype association analysis in grass species".

Apply for the travel awards to attend Gene Annotation Workshop to be held at the ASPB's Plant Biology 2010 meeting.

If selected, the travel award will cover the cost of your registration for the entire Plant Biology 2010 meeting. We expect to award 10-20 participants.

The Department of Crop & Soil Science at Oregon State University seeks a scientist with strong traditional and molecular plant breeding knowledge and experience to lead a dynamic wheat variety and germplasm development team.

This is a 12-month, 1.0 FTE tenure-track position available at the assistant, associate or full professor level, tenure possible with the latter, depending on candidate experience. For a position description and application procedures, see http://oregonstate.edu/jobs    (posting number 0005761).

In collaboration with Ensembl Genomes, Gramene announces an interim update to our 31st build as follows:

• Updated A. thaliana variation database including data from Norborg GWAS, 1001 Genomes Project and WTCHG
• Updated O. sativa japonica variation database including OryzaSNP data
• Updated V. vinifera variation database for new assembly
• Updated BioMart

Also included is a software update from Ensembl version 57 to 58 that provides the following:

Gramene is please to contribute to the Plant Genome Resources exhibition booth at the upcoming Plant Biology 2010 meeting July 31 - August 3.

Gramene users may be interested in the 5th International Rosaceae Genomics Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, November 14-17, 2010. For full conference details, see the RCG5 website.

US residents and researchers may apply for travel awards to attend a Gene Annotation Workshop to be held at the ASPB's Plant Biology 2010 meeting (July 31 - August 4, 2010, Montreal, Canada). If selected, the travel award will cover the cost of the Plant Biology 2010 meeting registration cost. We expect to award 10-20 participants for the "Plant Ontology and Gramene's Gene Annotation Workshop" to be held on Saturday, July 31, 2010 from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM.