Workshops for the 56th Annual Maize Genetics Conference

Schedule:

  • Thursday, March 13, 2014 @ 12:00 - 2:00 pm - Positional Cloning in Maize workshop
  • Thursday, March 13, 2014 @ 2:00 - 4:00 pm - MaizeGDB workshop
  • Thursday, March 13, 2014 @ 4:00 - 6:00 pm - Gramene workshop
  • Friday,     March 14, 2014 @ 4:00 - 6:30 pm - iPlant collaborative workshop

Location:

All workshops will be located in Conference Room 303.

Deadline:

Registration should be submitted by February 28, 2014. The registration may be limited to the first 40 applicants for each workshop.

Register:

Click here to register for a 2014 Maize Meeting Workshop

Workshop summaries:

2014 Positional Cloning in Maize Workshop

This workshop is full. A workshop in association with the 2014 Maize Genetics Conference in Beijing China.
Thursday March 13th 12:00pm - 2:00 pm. Conference Room No. 303

In this workshop we will discuss both the practice and theory of positional cloning approaches in maize. We will cover the entire cloning process from generating mapping populations to confirming candidate genes. This workshop would be appropriate for those interested in initiating a positional cloning project, but unfamiliar with the process, or those who have experience with positional cloning, but want to know more about how it is implemented with maize.

For more information for the workshop email Clinton Whipple: whipple@byu.edu

2014 MaizeGDB Workshop

MaizeGDB is offering two different "How to" tutorials before the Maize Meeting.

These hour long tutorials will be offered at 2:00 and 3:00pm on Thursday, March 13, 2014 in Conference Room 303. You can come to one or both tutorials. If you have attended a MaizeGDB tutorial in the past, you may not need to attend the MaizeGDB Basics. The Advanced MaizeGDB Usage tutorial will have all new content. These tutorials are also a great opportunity to meet MaizeGDB staff!

MaizeGDB Basics (2- 3pm). This tutorial will include:
  • Searching for data using simple and advanced searches
  • Use the MaizeGDB Genome Browser, new BLAST interface
  • Learn about the B73 RefGen_v3 assembly and structural annotations
  • See how the Gene and Gene Model pages have been integrated
  • Ask your own specific questions too!
MaizeGDB Advanced Usage (3-4pm). This tutorial will include:
  • How to use the Cyc metobolic databases, with usage cases
  • How to find and use the gene expression resources
  • Other advanced features and usages cases
  • Ask your own specific questions too!
In addition, MaizeGDB staff will be available through the whole meeting to answer your questions and to hear your feedback.

For specific questions please email Lisa Harper: ligule@berkeley.edu.

2014 Gramene Workshop

Please join the Gramene Team for their upcoming workshop at the Maize Genetics Conference 2014!

Learn the latest updates to Gramene's comparative genomics and pathways visualization/mining tools to aid your research of plant models and crops.

This workshop will give a broad overview of Gramene's database resources and demonstrate many specific topics like how to:
  • Explore plant reference genomes with value-added functional annotation, population data, and phylogenomic comparisons
  • Navigate metabolic and regulatory pathways
  • Analyze gene expression with the new Plant Reactome
  • Visualize your data on Gramene's genome and pathway browsers
  • Mine mutant genes from our extensive germplasm genotype database
  • Download images, sequences, orthologs, gene-trees, and many other data in a variety of conventional formats
  • Give feedback and get help!
Meet with Gramene staff to explore what Gramene can do for you.

Join us for one-on-one assistance or just to say 'Ni hao ma'!

Details: http://outreach.gramene.org/gramene-outreach/index.php/Maize_2014_Workshop

2014 iPlant Collaborative Workshop

This workshop will demonstrate some of the science you do using cyberinfrastructure developed by the iPlant Collaborative. Hands-on demos and guided exercises will take you through genome assembly and annotation using iPlant Resources. We will also cover topics in RNA-Seq analysis. All tools are freely accessible with an iPlant account (please obtain an account prior to the workshop at (www.iplantcollaborative.org). Participants will get hands-on experience with the following iPlant cyberinfrastructure components.

  • Discovery Environment: A powerful web portal to manage data, conduct analyses, and build workflows. Complex bioinformatics applications can be run without command line programming, and users can integrate their own tools.
  • Data Store: Scalable, secure, and reliable storage for large datasets.
  • Atmosphere: One-click, on-demand cloud computing.
Who Should Attend?

Any investigator (PIs, post-docs, grad students, industry users) who is or will be working with large datasets and computation-intensive research questions in the life sciences (plants and animals!).

What Should I Bring?

This workshop is hands-on so please bring a Wi-Fi enabled laptop.

The iPlant Collaborative is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation Plant Cyberinfrastructure Program (#DBI-0735191).