The Maize Genetics Cooperation is hosting its 67th annual meeting from March 6th to the 9th of 2025 in St. Louis, Missouri. The meeting will include plenary talks, oral presentations, poster sessions, and opportunities for networking. The invited speakers are:
Doreen Ware, USDA-ARS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, “Plant genomes: Understanding their past and managing their future”
Jonathan F. Wendel, Iowa State University, “Genes, jeans, genomes, and the wonders of polyploidy in plants”
Ivan Baxter, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, “You need a real maize geneticist”
Sióbhan Brady, HHMI and UC Davis, “Environmental integration with root cell type development”
Helen Anne Curry, Georgia Tech, “Input, Insurance, Objective: Reflections on diversity from the history of crop science”
Edward S. Buckler IV, USDA-ARS, the McClintock Prize awardee
Conference topics include:
Biochemical and Molecular Genetics
Cell and Developmental Biology
Computational and Large-Scale Biology
Cytogenetics
Education & Outreach
Evolution & Population Genetics
Quantitative Genetics & Breeding
Transposons & Epigenetics
Registration and abstracts are due by January 8, 2025. For more information see the conference website.