Dear Colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to a Wiki site http://npgi-workshop.wetpaint.com/?mail=1128
that describes a summary of a recent workshop entitled:

"The National Plant Genome Initiative at Ten Years: A Community
Workshop"

This site contains information (agenda, Rapporteur's summaries,
session/Q&A notes, list of meeting participants and a meeting summary)
related to the recent National Plant Genome Initiative Workshop held
at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Conference Center of the National
Academies in Irvine California on August 26-28, 2008.

The purpose of the meeting was to bring a broad group of stakeholders
together to discuss the outcomes of the first ten years of the US
National Plant Genome Initiative (NPGI) as well as the challenges and
opportunities ahead for the next five to ten years. The NPGI started
in 1998 and is managed by the Interagency Working Group on Plant
Genomes (IWG-PG). The IWG-PG is currently in the process of developing
a new five-year plan using a variety of inputs, including the outcomes
of this workshop.

I hope that you find the information provided useful.

Hello!

I am looking into buying FM4-64 to stain cell membranes in living
Arabidopsis shoots. I see that i can buy 1 mg of FM4-64 from
Invitrogen/Molecular Probes for about $400 (CAD.) I've also found a
second supplier, Calbiochem, that sells FM4-64 under the name
SynaptoRed for $240 (CAD) for 5 mg. The publications i've looked at
have all used FM4-64 from Molecular Probes. I'm wondering if anyone
has used Calbiochem's SynaptoRed/FM4-64 in Arabidopsis, and if they
could comment on it's efficacy at staining cell membranes.

Thanks very much,

danielle

POST DOCTORAL POSITIONS IN PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF
MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA

Expressions of interest are sought to fill postdoctoral positions within the
Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology group, at the Melbourne School of
Land and Environment at The University of Melbourne, highest ranked Research
University in Australia. We are interested in recruiting highly motivated
individuals with a desire to succeed and contribute to the internationally
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mechanisms of differentiation and cell specific gene regulation during
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brief description of research projects is provided below.

MicroRNAs and Epigenetic Regulation of Meristem Development

POST-DOCTORAL POSITION
IJPB, Versailles, France

Recent results obtained in our group on the characterization of the
TON1, FASS/TON2 proteins and their partners uncovered converging
evidences pointing towards evolutionary conservation of some
centrosomal...

If you are interested in seeing a summary of responses to the Arabidopsis
conference survey please see:
http://www.arabidopsis.org/portals/masc/journal.jsp#survey08

Dear Colleague:

You are invited to attend the 9th International Congress of
Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB), October 25-30, 2009 taking place
in St. Louis, Missouri. Please look at the following website for
all necessary information on this Congress which is composed of
53 symposia and 9 Plenary Lectures on all aspects of plant
molecular biology.

http://www.ipmb2009.org

Sincerely,

Perry Gustafson - Chair IPMB 2009

Dear all,

I am trying to rescue the T-DNA insertion and try to know the sequence which is flanking the T-DNA left or right border in the plant transformants. The transformed plants have a big genome. Now I try to find a very useful method to know the insertion site in the plant genome.

Do you know any methods or have any experiences or suggestions in how to rescue / recover the T-DNA insertion? Could you let me know?

please email me: xwwang@uga.edu

Thanks

xuewen

I realize that Medicago is not Arabidopsis, but it is another model
organism. You might be interested in this.

Bioinformatics Analyst

Requisition Code:

PLAN688

Location:

Rockville, Maryland

Department:

Plant Genomics

Schedule:

Full Time

Job Responsibilities: The Bioinformatics Analyst will work on the
curation and annotation of the M. truncatula genome sequence.
Responsibilities will include design and maintenance of web pages
providing access to Medicago genome sequence and annotation and
associated data, including outreach to the users through a community
annotation portal. The ideal candidate will have hands-on research
experience in Medicago genomics and demonstrated competence in
bioinformatics including Perl, SQL, HTML and cgi-scripting.

Qualifications: Successful candidates will have a Bachelor's or Master's
degree in the Biological Sciences, plus experience working with
computers in the field of biological sciences and a familiarity...

i am working on tomato disease resistant gene screening i.e MAS( marker
assisted selection) . i have did the DNA isolation from
green house plant and open field plant. and complete the pcr for diffent
resistant gene. for near about 1500 sample the pcr is working fine got the
good amplification, but when i have again collected the samples after 30 day
the DNA Quality looks good on gel ,but not get amplified in pcr reaction. we
are tried the things but its not working. i would be thankful if some one
suggest me to over come the problem.

lookinforward for suggestion

With Regards

Rupesh

Please post this job to the list serve. Thank you. If you have any
questions, please let me know.

Lucy

*Postdoctoral Positions to Characterize Salicylic Acid Signaling Network
in Plants at Cornell Univ./BTI*

The plant hormone salicylic acid (SA) affects many diverse processes in
plant growth and development and plays important role(s) in response to
abiotic and biotic stresses. Its role(s) in disease resistance...