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.