The 24th Genome Informatics meeting will be held November 13-15 on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, U.K. Virtual attendance is available.
Job Opening: Spark Climate Solutions – Program Lead, Agricultural Nitrogen Systems
Spark is looking for a candidate who is deeply motivated by climate action, pollution abatement, and food security issues and is excited to engage with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
Biological Data Science Conference from Nov 13-16 at CSHL, Oral Abstracts due Aug 23, Poster Abstracts due Oct 1
The sixth meeting on Biological Data Science is taking place at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from November 13 to 16, 2024. The conference will focus on the infrastructure, software, and algorithms needed to analyze large data sets in biological research.
Computational Genomics course from Dec 3-11, 2024 at CSHL, Applications Due Aug 15
The Computational Genomics course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory presents a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of computational methods for the characterization of functional elements in DNA and RNA sequence data.
CSI Seminar Junping Chen, POSTPONED to August 20 at 11 AM CT
The Center for Sorghum Improvement (CSI) is hosting a virtual seminar given by Dr. Junping Chen, Research Geneticist at the Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Unit, USDA-ARS at Lubbock, TX on Tuesday, August 13 at 11 AM CT. The title of his talk is “Impacts of heat stress on gene expression during sorghum seed development.”
CSHL Advanced Sequencing Technologies & Bioinformatics Analysis Course, Nov 10-23, Applications due Aug 15
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is hosting a course titled, “Advanced Sequencing Technologies & Bioinformatics Analysis,” from November 10 to 23, 2024. The course explores the use and applications of massively parallel sequencing technologies, with a focus on data analysis and
Job opening: National Program Leader in Plant Health
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Office of National Programs (ONP) invites applications for a permanent, full time National Program Leader (NPL) in Plant Health to provide national and international leadership in coordinating agricultural research programs relating to
A Century of Plant Science: Highlights from the ASPB 2024 Centennial Conference
The ASPB 2024 conference in Honolulu celebrated its centennial by bringing together over 1400 participants to discuss advancements in plant science, including machine learning, regenerative agriculture, and climate change, highlighted by workshops, poster sessions, and plenary talks on topics like FAIR data practices, genotype-phenotype connections, and sustainable food systems.
CSI Seminar Alexander Bucksch, July 9 at 11 AM CT
The Center for Sorghum Improvement (CSI) is hosting a virtual seminar given by Alexander Bucksch, Associate Professor in the School of Plant Sciences (SPLS) at the University of Arizona. on Tuesday, July 9 at 11 AM CT. The title of his talk is “Advances in root phenotyping reveal new functional and genetic insights from the cell to the population level.”
CSHL Programming for Biology Course, Oct 13-20, 2024, Applications due July 15
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is offering a course, “Programming for Biology,” from October 13-29, 2024. The class is designed for lab biologists with little or no programming experience and aims to give students the bioinformatics and scripting skills they need to derive biological insights from the abundance of data commonly encountered today.