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PAG33 Highlights: Advancing Genomic Resources, FAIR Data, and Crop Trait Discovery
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 30 January 2026

The International Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG33) took place on January 9-14, 2026 in San Diego, California. The meeting focused on fostering an opportunity to exchange ideas and share recent developments and future plans for plant & animal genome projects through technical presentations, poster sessions, exhibits and workshops. This conference brought together over 3000 leading plant and animal scientists and researchers, and over 100 exhibits, 200 workshops, 700 posters.

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Three-Part Data Reproducibility Workshop Series! February 9-11, 2026 ​9:00 AM PST / 12:00 PM EST
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 28 January 2026

The Data Management and Infrastructure and Single-Cell Sequencing committees of the Plant Cell Atlas are organizing a workshop series that aims to equip participants with essential skills and knowledge to achieve the critical goal of ensuring data reproducibility in single-cell research,

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CSI Seminar Brent Crafton, Lanier Dabruzzi, Shelee Padgett and Zach Simon Jan 13 at 11 AM CT
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 08 January 2026

The Center for Sorghum Improvement (CSI) will host a virtual seminar given by Brent Crafton, Lanier Dabruzzi, Shelee Padgett and Zach Simon, members of the Sorghum Checkoff Marketing Team, on Tuesday, January 13 at 11:00 AM CT. Their talk, “Moving

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Gramene and SorghumBase Teams at PAG33 in San Diego, California, January 9-14, 2024
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 06 January 2026

The International Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG33) will take place on January 9-14, 2026 in San Diego, California and the SorghumBase and Gramene teams will be there!

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Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression, CSHL Mar 11-14, Abstracts Due Jan 9
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 05 January 2026

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting the Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression meeting March 11-14, 2026. The focus of the meeting will be on encouraging collaboration between experimental and computational biologists exploring the structure and regulation of complex transcriptional networks in eukaryotic systems.

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Job Opportunity: Chemist/Technician to Support Barley and Malt Quality Analysis Service and Research Efforts at North Dakota State University
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 15 December 2025

The Department of Plant Sciences at North Dakota State University welcomes applications for a skilled and motivated chemist/technician to support our barley and malt quality analysis service and research efforts in the Department of Plant Sciences at North Dakota State University (NDSU).

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The 2026 Annual Maize Genetics Meeting will be held Feb 26-Mar 1 in Cologne, Germany, Abstracts and Registration due Dec 19
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 12 December 2025

The 2026 Maize Genetics meeting, hosted by the Maize Genetics Cooperation, will take place from February 26 to March 1 in Cologne, Germany.  The meeting will include invited talks in genetics and plant biology, sessions covering broad subject areas to stimulate new ideas, oral presentation, poster sessions and networking opportunities.

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CSI Seminar Daran Rudnick, Dec 8 at 11 AM CT
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 03 December 2025

The Center for Sorghum Improvement (CSI) will host a virtual seminar by Dr. Daran Rudnick, Professor and Director of Sustainable Irrigation in the Carl and Melinda Helwig Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Kansas State University Research and Extension, on Tuesday, December 8 at 11:00 AM CT. His talk is titled, “Connecting Sorghum Production to Groundwater Outcomes: Perspectives from TAPS.”

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Unlocking Plant Secrets One Cell at a Time: Reflections from GRC 2025
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 02 December 2025

This August, I had the honor of representing the AgBioData Single-Cell Biocuration Working Group at the Gordon Research Conference on “Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology” in Portland, Maine. Thanks to the AgBioData Ambassador Award, I joined an incredible community of researchers from August 10-15 to explore how we are revolutionizing plant science by zooming in to the cellular level. Single-cell technologies let us see what individual cells are doing, and the insights are transforming everything from basic biology to crop development.

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