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!
Dr. Sunita Kumari, a senior bioinformatics scientist of the Ware Lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, will be giving a talk, “Advancing Plant Expression Resources: Gramene–Expression Atlas Collaboration on Bulk and Single-Cell Data Curation,” at 12.15PM on January 11 in Town and Country D during the Integrated Genome Resources at EMBL-EBI Workshop.
Additionally, on January 11, Dr. Sunita Kumari, is co-organizer of The AgBioData Consortium workshop titled “Challenges and Recommendations for FAIR Genetic, Genomic and Breeding Data.” The session starts at 4:00 PM in Palm 1-2. Talks in the session include:
- “NLP4Biocuration Working Group Update: Shared Learning and Knowledge Sharing” – Tanya Z. Berardini
- “Developing FAIR Open-Source Interactive Web Browsers for Individual Labs to Explore Single-Cell Data: Shiny-PIGGI as an Example from the Agbiodata Single Cell Working Group” – Muskan Kapoor
- “Integrating Phenomics and Phenotypes into Agricultural Databases” – John McNamara
- “AgBioDatabase Finder: An Online Tool to Help Researchers Find and Submit Agricultural Genomic, Genetic, and Breeding Data” – Leonore Reiser
- “From Fragmented Data to Shared Knowledge: Adopting rsIDs in Agricultural Genomics” – Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz
- “Update on Agbiodata Database Resource Sustainability” – John McNamara
Dr. Nicholas Gladman, a USDA-ARS scientist also located at CSHL, will be giving a talk titled, “Sorghum Pan-Genomic Resources Reveal Novel Genetic Networks for Trait Discovery,” at 1:50 PM on January 13 in Town and Country D during the CSSA: Translational Genomics. Workshop.
Dr. Gladman is the organizer and presenter of the USDA Databases session; “USDA Databases: Numerous Genomic, Phenotypic, and Computational Resources for Agricultural Researchers,” on January 13 at 6;20 PM in Palm 8. Dr. Gladman will give his talk, “Gramene Plants: Advancing Pan-Genome Resources and Community Standards for Comparative Plant Genomics,” at 6:40 PM. The session starts at 6:20 and includes the following talks:
- “USDA-ARS Database Interoperability: Where We Are and What’s Required to Get There” – Amanda Hulse-Kemp
- “Expanding the Maize Genomic Landscape: New Accessions and Variant Visualization at MaizeGDB” – Jacqueline Campbell
- “Soybase and Legumeinfo Databases In Support of Legume Crop Improvement and Research” – Jacqueline Campbell
- “GrainGenes: Genetics, Genomes, and Pangenomes” – Tanner Zen
- “Identifying Gaps In Insect Genome Annotation via Systematic Analysis of Community-Curated Genes” – Monica Poelchau
Dr Kumari and Dr. Gladman will also present the following posters:
- Dr. Kumari:
- “P282 Gramene Plants: Advancing Pan-Genome Resources and Community Standards for Comparative Plant Genomics”
- Dr Gladman:
- “P635 Black Pericarp Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) Genome Assembly and Pre-Programing during Early Floral Meristem Development for Downstream UVB Induced 3-Deoxyanthocyanidins Sorghum Grain”
- “P636 SorghumBase as a Knowledgebase for Sorghum Genomic Data and Community Interaction”
Please stop by and see us at the AgBioData Booth (#223)!
For more information, visit the conference website.
