news

AG2PI Virtual Field Day: “Public-Private Partnerships in Education and Commercialization” on July 19, 2023

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. Dr. Addie Thompson, from

AG2PI CartograPlant Virtual Workshop: “Integrating, Visualizing and Analyzing Genotype, Phenotype, and Environmental Data from Geo-Referenced Plants” on July 12, 2023

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.

Plant Genomes, Systems Biology & Engineering meeting, CSHL Nov 29 – Dec 2, Abstracts Due Sept 22

Save the Date! The Plant Genomes, Systems Biology & Engineering meeting is taking place November 29 to December 2, 2023 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.  Abstracts are due by September 22. Regular registration fees apply through November 24th at 5:00

Advanced Sequencing Technologies & Bioinformatics Analysis, CSHL Nov. 6 – 19, Applications Due July 15

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will host an intensive, two week course, “Advanced Sequencing Technologies & Bioinformatics Analysis,” from November 6 – 19, 2023.

International Year of Millets 2023 – a Year Long Celebration Focused on Millets and Their Multi-Beneficial Role in a Global Society

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has declared 2023 the International Year of Millets (IYM 2023). Focusing the year on these important crops affords the opportunity to direct attention to the nutritional and health benefits of

Texas Tech to Host the Third Global Sorghum Conference, September 14-18, 2026

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.

SorghumBase release 6 is out with BTx623 v5.1 and over 40 million new SNP and EMS variants

The SorghumBase Team is pleased to announce the sixth release of SorghumBase (https://www.sorghumbase.org) (see release notes #6). The current release includes the assembly version 5.1 of the Sorghum bicolor BTx623 genome from JGI’s Phytozome (restricted by the Ft Lauderdale Accord).

The American Society of Plant Biologists Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia, Aug 5-9, Early Registration Ends June 2, Poster Abstracts Due July 5

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

Programming for Biology, CSHL Oct. 16-31, Applications Due July 15

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.