Past Events

Speaker: Alexander Bucksch, Associate Professor, School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona

Time: 11:00 CT

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is offering their Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science course. Emmanuelle Bayer from the University of Bordeaux in France, Siobhan Brady from the University of California, Davis and Niko Geldner from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland will be teaching the course. The application deadline is March 15, 2024.

The American Society of Plant Biologists is hosting the Plant Biology 2024 conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, which focuses on bringing together members of the plant science community to help advance plant science and scientific careers.

Speaker: Tesfaye Mengiste, Professor of Plant Pathology, Purdue University

Time: 11:00 CT

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting the course, “Statistical Analysis of Genome Scale Data,” which focuses on building competence in statistical methods for analyzing high-throughput data in genomics and molecular biology in both experimental and computational biologists.

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology is hosting the CROPS conference in Huntsville, Alabama.

The Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) is hosting a virtual workshop titled, “Combined GWAS and TWAS using SVEN,” from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (US Central Time).

Speaker: Luis Herrera-Estrella, President’s Distinguished Professor of Plant Genomics, Director of IGCAST, Texas Tech University

Time: 11:00 CT

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting the 37th annual Biology of Genomes meeting which will focus on DNA sequence variation and its role in molecular evolution, population genetics, complex diseases, comparative genomics, large-scale studies of gene and protein expression, and genomic approaches to ecological systems.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting a course, “Tutorials in Genomics & Bioinformatics: RNA-Seq Analysis,” an intensive two-day introductory course to genomics and  bioinformatics.

Speaker: Brian Rice, Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Time: 11:00 CT

The SorghumBase workshop will be held from 3:45-5:00 p.m. SorghumBase, a USDA-ARS funded resource, is dedicated to supporting the sorghum research community by providing curated genomic and genetic data sets, research updates, and more.

The 2024 Sorghum Improvement Conference of North America is taking place in Oklahoma City, OK. Oral Abstract Submissions are due by Friday, October 13. Poster abstracts are due on Friday, February 2.

The CROPS conference is taking place in Huntsville, Alabama, June 3 – 6, 2024.

The Sorghum Improvement Conference of North America (SICNA) will be held April 2-4, 2024 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The CROPS conference is taking place in Huntsville, Alabama, June 3 – 6, 2024.

The Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) is hosting a virtual field day, “Phenomic Prediction & Bioinformatic Workflows – AG2PI “Coconut” Grant Outcomes,” from 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT. The meeting will highlight two “cocunut” (large seed) grant projects.

The Sorghum Improvement Conference of North America (SICNA) will be held April 2-4, 2024 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Speaker: Dae Kwan Ko, Assistant Professor – Fixed Term Plant Research Laboratories, Michigan State University

Time: 11:00 CT

The Maize Genetics Meeting will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Speaker: Fadi Aramouni, Research Leader, Grain Quality and Structure Research Unit, USDA ARS

The Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance VII Conference will take place in Vienna, Austria.

The Plant Biotic Stresses & Resistance Mechanisms V Conference will take place in Vienna, Austria.

The meeting is being held April 2-4, 2024 in Oklahoma City, OK.

Speaker: Jesse Tack, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University

The Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG 31) will be held from January 12-17, 2024 in San Diego, California.

The Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG31) will be held in San Diego, California.

The Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG31) will be held in San Diego, California.

The CSHL advanced course on Computational Genomics will take place at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

The meeting is being held April 2-4, 2024 in Oklahoma City, OK.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will host an intensive, two-week course: “Advanced Sequencing Technologies & Bioinformatics Analysis.”

The Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG 31) will be held from January 12-17, 2024 in San Diego, California.

The Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG 31) will be held from January 12-17, 2024 in San Diego, California.

Simon Prochnik, from Circularis Biotech Inc., and Sofia Robb, from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, will be teaching the “Programming for Biology” course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

This third webinar will be held at 14:00-15:00 CEST. Registration is required.

The American Society of Plant Biologists is hosting their annual Plant Biology Conference in Savannah, Georgia. This year’s plenary speakers are Chefarmer Matthew Raiford, owner of Gilliard Farms, Barbara Schaal, from Washington University in St Louis, Terri Long, from North Carolina State University, and Matteo Dell’acqua, from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA). Members of the SorghumBase team will be attending the meeting.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is holding the “Chromatin, Epigenetics & Gene Expression” advanced course. Jill Dowen from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Michael Guertin from the University of Connecticut, Aaron Johnson from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Marc Mendillo from Northwestern University School of Medicine, will instruct the class.

AG2PI is hosting a virtual field day entitled  “Public-Private Partnerships in Education and Commercialization.”