The Devos Lab at the University of Georgia is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on the functional validation of candidate genes for select traits in economically important grasses, including the salt tolerant species seashore paspalum and the bioenergy crop
What’s coming in SorghumBase Release 5?
SorghumBase release 5 is expected in November 2022. This release will feature 10 sorghum genomes from the Carbon-Partitioning Nested Association Mapping (CP-NAM) panel: Chinese Amber [PI 22913], Grassl [PI 154844], Leoti [PI 586454], PI 229841, PI 297155, PI 329311, PI
Job Opening – USDA-ARS National Program Leader, Grain Crops – Beltsville, Maryland
The USDA-ARS Office of National Programs in Beltsville, Maryland is seeking a National Program Leader to provide leadership and direction for national and regional research programs related to grain crop improvement, production and protection. Specific responsibilities include leading and coordinating
Job Opening – Research Scientist at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center – St. Louis, Missouri
The Shakoor Laboratory at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri is seeking a Research Scientist to join their team in studying the effects of phenotype, genotype, and environment on crop productivity.
Job Opening – Engineering Research Scientist at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center – St. Louis, Missouri
The Shakoor Laboratory at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri is seeking an Engineering Research Scientist to join their team in studying the effects of phenotype, genotype, and environment on crop productivity.
Job Opening – Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas Tech University – Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
The Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to perform research focused on crop-climate modeling, aimed at identifying and classifying the target population of environments based on soil and climatic parameters.
Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Genomics of Energy & Environment Conference, August 29-31, 2022
The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is hosting the Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting, which will take place both in-person at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and virtually.
SorghumBase Present at the 2022 ASPB Conference: with Workshops, Posters and Talks
The Bioinformatics workshop included a SorghumBase talk by Janeen Braynen, a member of Doreen Ware’s lab at CSHL.
CSHL Biological Data Science meeting, Nov. 9 – Nov. 12, abstracts due Aug. 26/Oct. 1
CSHL to host Biological Data Science meeting on November 9 – 12, 2022. Abstracts for talks are due on August 26 and for posters on October 1.
SorghumBase release 4 is out with updated gene and transcript names and synonyms for BTx623
The SorghumBase Team is pleased to announce the 4th release of SorghumBase, which includes the genome assembly and annotation of the poplar tree, and updated gene and transcript names of the sorghum BTx623 reference models.