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The Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) is hosting a virtual field day entitled  “Public-Private Partnerships in Education and Commercialization,” focused on public-private partnerships in education pertaining to agricultural genomic and phenomic analyses, on July 19th.

The Agricultural Genome to Phenome initiative (AG2PI) is hosting a virtual workshop on CartograPlant, “Integrating, Visualizing and Analyzing Genotype, Phenotype, and Environmental Data from Geo-Referenced Plants” on July 12th.

Save the Date! The Plant Genomes, Systems Biology & Engineering meeting is taking place November 29 to December 2, 2023 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will host an intensive, two week course, “Advanced Sequencing Technologies & Bioinformatics Analysis,” from November 6 - 19, 2023. Obi Griffith and Malachi Griffith, from Washington University School of Medicine, Elaine Mardis, from Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute and W.

Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock, Texas has been selected as the site of the third Global Sorghum Conference, which will take place September 14-18, 2026.

The American Society of Plant Biologists is hosting their annual Plant Biology Conference in Savannah, Georgia from August 5 - 9, 2023. The conference draws together a global group of more than 1,300 scientists and includes plenary sessions as well as workshops, symposia, poster sessions and opportunities for networking.

Save the date! The International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics is taking place in Bengaluru, India from November 3 - 5, 2023.

Penn State Eberly School of Science is hosting the 39th Summer Symposium on Chromatin and Gene Regulation from August 6-9, 2023. The conference gathers professionals from universities, public- and private-sector research organizations, and industry to cultivate new ideas and promote collaborations. Dr. Geeta Narlikar, from the University of California, San Francisco, will be the keynote speaker.

Simon Prochnik, from Circularis Biotech Inc., and Sofia Robb, from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, will be teaching the “Programming for Biology” course from October 16-31 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The class is designed for lab biologists with little or no programming experience.

The National Agricultural Producers Data Cooperative Inaugural Conference is taking place at the Nebraska Innovation Campus in Lincoln, Nebraska from May 10-12, 2023. The NAPDC was tasked with developing a framework for national cyberinfrastructure to increase production and drive innovation in agriculture.