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Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Eveland, 2021 recipient of the MGC M. Rhoades Early Career Award in recognition of her significant research contributions through elegant studies of maize and related grasses, addressing complex biology with computational approaches. #MGM2021

Congratulations Dr. Nathan Springer Nathan Springer, 2021 recipient of the MGC L. Stadler Mid-Career Award in recognition of his outstanding thought leadership and contributions to epigenetics research, maize genome structure, and gene expression regulation. #MGM2021

Today the MGC honors the memory of Dr. Don Auger with a 2021 R. Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award. #MGM2021

Congratulations to Dr. Bill Sheridan, recipient of the 2021 MGC R. Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award. #MGM2021

Haplotype Associated RNA Expression (HARE) Improves Prediction of Complex Traits in Maize biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Because the cis-component of expression is more consistent across tissues, Anju Giri is able to improve genome-wide prediction in a wide range of contexts.

AnchorWave is a really cool whole-genome alignment pipeline developed by Baoxing Song Michelle Stitzer to deal with those ubiquitous hard-to-align genomes with lots of transposons. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Practical Haplotype Graph, a platform for storing and using pangenomes for imputation biorxiv.org/content/10.110… - congrats on the team for making haplotype graphs useful for genomic AND breeding. The R and BrAPI web services will be game changers.

New preprint from Travis Wrightsman introducing an ML model to predict chromatin state across plant species just from DNA sequence! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A misleading paper in Science Magazine just came out talking about how a single gene can increase rice yield by 41-68%. As a (wanna-be) plant breeder, I’m here to tell you why this study is misleading, and we can’t “solve” yield through single genes 🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Wonderful to see @edanquah240 again! Agree so much we can do together and for the next generation to design better food systems.

Modeling chromatin state from sequence across angiosperms using recurrent convolutional neural networks acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tp… Congrats Travis Wrightsman and team on the really nice paper!

My great colleague Steve Long published a neat paper on how plants deal with light, but Dr. Merritt Khaipho-Burch is right; yield increases that don’t replicate should not be claimed in abstracts or press releases.

.#JaneSilverthorne dedicated her career to helping #scientists succeed and to raising public awareness of the importance of #plant #biology U.S. National Science Foundation ASPB ASPB Women in Plant Biology Her support and mentorship lifted me up when I needed it most during my career ❤️

Dr.MariaElena Zavala's talk at #MGM2023 was amazing. Dr. Zavala talked about research, mentors & work to increase the number of historically excluded folks in the academy. The Q&A session however had VERY disparaging comments about Indigenous peoples and I want to tell you why 🧵

Comments were made last night at #MGM2023 that were hurtful to members of our community. Discrimination and harassment, even in the absence of malicious intent, is a violation of our code of conduct, and the damage to members of our community is no less real. 1/3

New whole-genome alignment tools are needed for tapping into plant div... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations Johannes Lehmann of Cornell CALS, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS161 #soilscience