Gramene News

See you at ASPB

kclark — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:57:55 +0000

Several team members of Gramene will be present at this weekend’s ASPB Plant Biology meeting including at the Plant Genome Resources exhibition booth as well as our Gene Annotation Workshop. Please find us and ask any questions you have!

ASPB Workshop travel awardees

kclark — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:15:07 +0000

Gramene is please to announce the following individuals were selected to receive travel awards to attend the Gene Annotation Workshop this Saturday, July 31, from 8:00 AM – 12:00 noon at the ASPB’s Plant Biology 2010 meeting.

Awardee	Institution name
Surinder Chopra	Pennsylvania State University
Tanya Falbel	University of Wisconsin – Madison
Michelle Facette	University of California, San Diego
Manoj Kumar	University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Jeonghwa Lee	University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Andreas Madlung	University of Puget Sound
Arijit Mukherjee	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Peter Lundquist	Cornell University
Fuyu Xu	University of Maine
Songqing Ye	University of Minnesota
Dazhong Zhao	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jian Zhao	The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
Lei Zhu	University of California, Riverside

New journal: World Agriculture

kclark — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:00:52 +0000

World Agriculture (WA) is a new peer-reviewed, review journal, centered on world agriculture. It is available both in print and electronically, free of charge at http://www.world-agriculture.net and the editorial board is seeking contributions from potential authors at editor@world-agriculture.net.

Nature Precedings article on Gramene diversity

kclark — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:10:29 +0000

Nature Precedings, "a platform for sharing new and preliminary findings with colleagues on a global scale," has published a short article by Gramene staff scientist Charles Chen entitled "The Gramene Genetic Diversity Module: a resource for genotype-phenotype association analysis in grass species".

Last Call: Travel awards for US participants

pankaj — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:45:24 +0000

Apply for the travel awards to attend Gene Annotation Workshop to be held at the ASPB’s Plant Biology 2010 meeting.

If selected, the travel award will cover the cost of your registration for the entire Plant Biology 2010 meeting. We expect to award 10-20 participants.

Apply online at: http://plantontology.org/workshop/pb2010.html
Application Deadline: July 15, 2010
Workshop name: Plant Ontology and Gramene’s Gene Annotation Workshop
Workshop date and time: Saturday July 31, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm

Wheat Breeding Program Leader at Oregon State University, USA

pankaj — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:58:47 +0000

The Department of Crop & Soil Science at Oregon State University seeks a scientist with strong traditional and molecular plant breeding knowledge and experience to lead a dynamic wheat variety and germplasm development team.

This is a 12-month, 1.0 FTE tenure-track position available at the assistant, associate or full professor level, tenure possible with the latter, depending on candidate experience. For a position description and application procedures, see http://oregonstate.edu/jobs (posting number 0005761).

Related Web Site: http://cropandsoil.oregonstate.edu
Job Contact Email: Jayne.Smith AT oregonstate.edu
Application deadline: July 31, 2010 for full consideration.
Level: Assistant, Associate or full professor

OSU is an AA/EEO employer.

Interim release update to Gramene’s build 31

kclark — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:25:59 +0000

In collaboration with Ensembl Genomes, Gramene announces an interim update to our 31st build as follows:

Updated A. thaliana variation database including data from Norborg GWAS, 1001 Genomes Project and WTCHG
Updated O. sativa japonica variation database including OryzaSNP data
Updated V. vinifera variation database for new assembly
Updated BioMart

Also included is a software update from Ensembl version 57 to 58 that provides the following:

Slider navigation for location views; The ramp navigation on location views has been replaced by a slider, which updates the page dynamically.
Variations on sequence views; Variations are now coloured by consequence type across all sequence views. These colours match those on the image-based views. Additionally, clicking on a variation on sequence views will display a popup with information about that variation and links to its page.
Sortable tables (all species); Numerous tables across the site now have sortable and hideable columns. In addition these tables feature pagination, where there are sufficient entries, and entry searching.

Plant Genome Resources Booth at Plant Biology 2010

kclark — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:01:17 +0000

Gramene is please to contribute to the Plant Genome Resources exhibition booth at the upcoming Plant Biology 2010 meeting July 31 – August 3. We join the Plant Ontology Consortium, Solanaceae Genomics Network, Maize GDB, The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR), and the Bio-Array Resource for Plant Functional Genomics to share resources for sequenced genomes, ontology development, genetic mapping, functional annotation of genes, mutants and phenotypes, genetic diversity and bioinformatics tools. If you are attending the meeting, please take a moment to visit with representatives of these projects to discuss your research goals and how we might assist you.

Rosaceae Genomics Conference in South Africa

kclark — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:41:37 +0000

Gramene users may be interested in the 5th International Rosaceae Genomics Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, November 14-17, 2010. For full conference details, see the RCG5 website.

Opportunity For Travel Awards Gene Annotation Workshop at ASPB ‘10

kclark — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:48:36 +0000

US residents and researchers may apply for travel awards to attend a Gene Annotation Workshop to be held at the ASPB’s Plant Biology 2010 meeting (July 31 – August 4, 2010, Montreal, Canada). If selected, the travel award will cover the cost of the Plant Biology 2010 meeting registration cost. We expect to award 10-20 participants for the "Plant Ontology and Gramene’s Gene Annotation Workshop" to be held on Saturday, July 31, 2010 from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

Please apply at the Plant Ontology website by July 15, 2010. Any scientist/researcher/student working and/or studying in the USA expected to attend the Plant Biology meeting may apply. Preference will be given to underrepresented groups such as women and minorities as well as to young US scientists including graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and young faculty.

If you have questions and or need help, please send email.

This workshop is being organized by the Comparative Plant Genomics and Community Projects on Plant Ontology project and the Gramene database.