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

SorghumBase Team
12 June 2023

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 Team
06 June 2023

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).

SorghumBase Team
01 June 2023

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

SorghumBase Team
15 May 2023

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.

SorghumBase Team
08 May 2023

The National Agricultural Producers Data Cooperative Inaugural Conference is taking place at the Nebraska Innovation Campus in Lincoln, Nebraska from May 10-12, 2023.

SorghumBase Team
04 May 2023

The Collaborative Sorghum Investment Program (CSIP) is requesting proposals for two projects they will be funding.

SorghumBase Team
24 April 2023

The International Plant and Animal Genome Conference will be held in Perth, Australia from September 20-22, 2023.

SorghumBase Team
12 April 2023

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is holding the “Chromatin, Epigenetics & Gene Expression” advanced course from July 26 – August 15, 2023.

SorghumBase Team
11 April 2023

Sorghum researchers and breeders are invited to participate in the validation phase of a Sorghum SNP array as a part of the community sorghum marker panel development initiatives that SorghumBase is helping coordinate.

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

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

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

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

National Agricultural Producers Data Cooperative Inaugural Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska, May 10-12, 2023

Collaborative Sorghum Investment Program Seeks Proposals in Systems Data and Modeling, and Trait Discovery, Submissions Due June 16

PAG Australia, Sept 20-22, Perth, Poster Abstracts due Aug. 25

Chromatin, Epigenetics & Gene Expression, CSHL July 26 – Aug. 15

Sorghum Marker Panel Update