Plant Postdocs, are you coming to #MGM2023? 🌽🌽🌽 Please come and join the postdoc meet up on March 18th (10:00-10:40am) at the refreshment area. Use #MGMPostdocMeetUp to connect with other postdocs and we can re-tweet about your talk, poster & networking sessions.

Plant breeders use genetic information to predict how well their crops will perform. For some traits, we can improve prediction accuracy when using all available information in the plant genome, including structural variants! More on our #biorxiv preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 We've got a new preprint out 🚨 - We developed a series of logical frameworks for analyzing how transposable element content contributes to structural variation (SV) within maize 🌽🧬🌽. How'd we do this + what did we find?? - 1/11

Attention plant science students and postdocs! Take charge of your career path and enhance your skills with our exclusive Career Development Workshop, sponsored by the Maize Genetics Cooperation (MGC) Membership Committee. iastate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5B…

On my way to #MGM2023, excited to meet and talk with folks -- I'll be talking Saturday at 7:20 PM about our work looking at how TEs contribute to structural variation in inbred maize lines 🌽🌽

If you are at #MGM2023, stop by poster 198 to learn about my research developing an image analysis pipeline to quantify pericarp retention in nixtamalized maize kernels!

.Manisha Munasinghe with a wonderful talk on TE polymorphisms in maize, alaso sharing her shiny app for visualing maize assembly comparisons mmunasin.shinyapps.io/nam_sv/

The Josephs lab is hiring a research technician (as our current tech Mia Stevens is heading to grad school this fall!). See here for specific details: careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5143…

Congratulations to this year's Hayes Philips and Alumni Award recipients! All are welcome to join for the coffee reception and award ceremony from 10:00-10:30 AM &10:30-12:00PM, May 5th. Coffee reception will take place in the Cargill Atrium followed by the ceremony in Room 105.

Congratulations to Michael Burns on being awarded the Hayes Phillips Award! Im so proud of you and all that you have accomplished.

A new pathogen called #CornTarSpot is causing significant yield loss in MN. José E. Solórzano et al. have published a diagnostics guide to help recognize the symptoms and signs of disease. mitppc.umn.edu/news/corn-tar-… UMN Plant Pathology U of MN Extension Research funded by MN ENRTF

If you are at the #ACSMtg, stop by poster 1186 on Tuesday to talk about recent developments in predicting corn chip quality traits based on NIR spectroscopy!

Cory Hirsch, University of Minnesota "Rover Based Field Detection and Quantification of FHB" #nfhbforum23

Excited to share AnnoSINE_v2 that can annotate SINEs in large plant and animal genomes! Available via bioconda: anaconda.org/bioconda/annos…

I am hiring a postdoc to work on evolutionary genomics projects with maize and its wild relatives. This is part of a broad collaborative project known as CERCA that aims to improve maize with adaptations from the wild. Please share or consider applying! isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJobs/…

Congrats to Rita Hayford on the publication of her work mapping RNA-Seq reads from 24 publicly available datasets (17 abiotic & 7 biotic studies) to B73v5 and annotating over 3k stress-related functional annotation of maize gene models. doi.org/10.1186/s12864…

Here, Woodhouse et al (Agricultural Research Service, Iowa State University, Mizzou) provide an overview of the key resources available at MaizeGDB, including #maize genomes, comparative genomics, and pan-genomics tools. cshprotocols.cshlp.org/content/early/…

Happy to share a short review of how TEs and other repeats can contribute to biological functions in maize: cshprotocols.cshlp.org/content/early/…. Thanks to the reviewer and editorial office for all the great suggestions!

Happy to share four strategies to annotate TEs and other repeats in maize and other plant genomes. You can shop for an approach depending on the goal, including gene-focused annotation, TE-focused study, comprehensive annotation, and pan-genome annotation: cshprotocols.cshlp.org/content/early/…

How TEs gain and lose between tropical and temperate maize inbreds? We found that tropical corns have 35Mb more TEs than temperates, and it's mainly due to a small number of LTR families that are young, less methylated, and more expressed in tropical maize.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39251347/