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.

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

Postdoctoral Position Available in Maize Gametophyte Development

FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS OF MAIZE GAMETOPHYTES

Laboratory of Matt Evans
Carnegie Institution for Science
Department of Plant Biology
Stanford, CA 94305

A postdoctoral position is available starting immediately to study
the functional genomics of maize gametophyte development. The
successful applicant will join an NSF Plant Genome Research
Program...

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.ipmb.2009.org

Sincerely,

Perry Gustafson - Chair IPMB 2009

Dear Colleague:

You are invited to attend the Plant & Animal Genome XVII Conference
(PAG-XVII), January 10-14, 2009 taking place at the Town & Country
Convention Center in San Diego, California. This is a call for
abstracts and pre-registration.

Everyone who submits an abstract is required to pay the registration
fee prior to the meeting to be included in the Final Abstract Guide
and posted on the website. You must be registered by December 1, or
your abstract will NOT be printed or posted on the website. Please
update us if you cannot attend so we may free up poster space in the
Grand Exhibit Hall where exhibits and coffee breaks are just steps
from the Atlas Foyer.

Don't forget to check out the Travel Grant Applications; the deadlines
are closing soon.

Postdoctoral Position in Maize/Rice Protein Biochemistry and
Proteomics
van Wijk lab, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
[1]http://cbsu.tc.cornell.edu/vanwijk/

Experienced Plant Protein Biochemist A postdoctoral position (2-3
years) in Plant Protein Biochemistry and Proteomics in the van Wijk
lab is available to contribute to a collaborative project...

Dear colleagues,

We invite you and your lab to participate in an upcoming conference in
the field of plant reproductive biology, "Frontiers in Sexual Plant
Reproduction III" (http://www.ag.arizona.edu/FSPRIII), that will be
held in Tucson, Arizona on October 17-19, 2008 in the Tucson Marriott
University Park.

Six major sessions have been planned for the conference:

Male gametophyte development and function,
Female gametophyte development and function,
Endosperm development and imprinting,
Compatible and incompatible pollen-pistil interactions,
Evolution of plant reproduction,
Systems biology of plant reproduction and emerging technologies

Preliminary program and information on registration, abstracts,
lodging and travel is posted at the FSPR III conference website:
http://www.ag.arizona.edu/FSPRIII.

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to participate in an upcoming conference in the field
of plant reproductive biology, "Frontiers in Sexual Plant
Reproduction III" (http://www.cals.arizona.edu/FSPRIII), that will be
held in Tucson, Arizona on October 17-19, 2008 in the Tucson Marriott
University Park.

Early bird registration closes on July 31, 2008. Please register on or
before this date to take advantage of low fees. The registration fees
for the three-day meeting includes food {Breakfast, 10/17 - 10/19;
lunch (10/17- 10/19) & dinner (10/17)}, transportation and visit to
desert museum on 10/18 and banquet dinner in desert museum on 10/18.

Participants are encouraged to submit an abstract and present a
poster. Three faculty judges will identify top three posters for a
cash award of $500 (first prize), $300 (second prize) and $200 (third
prize). The prizes will be announced and awarded during the conference
banquet dinner (October 18th, 2008).

Six major sessions have been planned for the conference:

The new DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has one
opening for postdoctoral research in a collaborative project on the
identification and characterization of Arabidopsis genes and proteins
involved in secondary cell wall biosynthesis and deposition. The
position is immediately available and is located at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. and a strong record of publication in
peer-reviewed journals. They should have experience with
bioinformatics, molecular genetics, and plant cell imaging
(microscopy), and should be willing to collaborate with 3 other
postdoctoral fellows working on distinct aspects of the same initiative.

Postdoctoral Position
Auxin transport in arabidopsis roots

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Bard College at Simon's Rock, Great Barrington, MA

The labs of Eric Kramer (Bard College at Simon's Rock) and Tobias
Baskin (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) have a position for a
postdoctoral fellow. Kramer and Baskin have a joint, NSF-sponsored...