| 19/07/2010 |
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20th International Triticeae Mapping Initiative (ITMI) workshop
The 20th International Triticeae Mapping Initiative (ITMI) workshop will be held from September 1st to the 5th in Beijing, China. Early bird registrations are due within the end of the month and additional information can be found at http://www.20th-itmi.com/. If you have not visited China before, this is a great opportunity to meet with scientist, discuss Triticeae genomics and get a feel for Chinese culture and hospitality. |
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| 24/06/2010 |
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One voice for UK Plant and Crop Science
Dear Monogram member,
Representatives of the various Crop and Plant Science communities in the UK have been meeting informally over the last few years to help promote information exchange between the various networks, including GARNet, Monogram, UK-Brassica Research Community/OREGIN, Legumes/PGIN and UK-Solanaceae.
Initially we focused on information exchange and looking for ways to share our expertises. As a result a number of meetings and workshops arose for this informal UK Plant Science forum including:
Sep 2005: Arabidopsis & Beyond – to Crops!, Norwich
Oct 2006: Making Connections - Plant Science to Crop Product (funded by SEB), Rothamsted
Feb 2009: High throughput sequencing workshop, Rothamsted
Nov 2009: QTL workshop, Warwick
Given the success of this informal forum a number of us **Ruth Bastow (GARNet co-ordinator), Tina Barsby (representing MONOGRAM), Graham King (representing OREGIN and UK BRC), Graham Seymour (representing UK-SOL) and Alex Webb (representing GARNet)** met at the end of May to explore the possibilities of forming \'one voice for UK Plant and Crop Science\' to help build a stronger UK plant research base.
After a wide-ranging discussion those present concluded that there would be mutual advantages from establishing a ‘Federation of UK Plant Science Communities’. Such an endeavour would enable each community to benefit from retaining its identity, yet would provide considerable synergy from coming together to pool our knowledge and expertise, identify new opportunities and assess where we can gain added value by acting with one voice. Increasingly, it is of particular importance to have a strong and clear voice amongst ‘opinion-formers’, and within political and funding circles.
To help kick-start the process it was proposed that a single UK Plant Science meeting could be organised, to provide a platform for showcasing the variety and impact of UK Plant Science, and enable a sharing of ideas for a cohesive way forward.
Prior to this, it was agreed it would be beneficial to follow the lead of GARNet, which has a ‘rolling committee’ of members elected from its constituent research community. This process has considerable advantages in establishing a level of authority when engaging in discussion with e.g. BBSRC, learned societies and international communities. We therefore would like to suggest that a pre-requisite of any constituent community of any future ‘Federation’ follows a similar electoral process.
In the first instance it would be useful to obtain informal feedback from the Monogram community on the ideas outlined above.
Tina Barsby - tina.barsby@niab.com
Graham King - graham.king@bbsrc.ac.uk
Ruth Bastow - ruth@arabidopsis.org.uk
Graham Seymour - graham.seymour@nottingham.ac.uk
Alex Webb - aarw2@cam.ac.uk
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| 24/06/2010 |
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Rothamsted Research - Barley Diversity Collection
At Rothamsted Research we have assembled a Barley Diversity (RBD) collection comprising 1090 landraces and non-current cultivars (i.e. those acquired or released prior to the 1940s). The accessions in this collection differ in growth habits and other morphological characteristics and originated from 83 countries spread over six continents. Large number of novel variant eIF4E gene alleles (Hofinger et al., 2009, Theor. Appl. Genet., 119: 851-865; Hofinger et al., unpublished data) have been identified in the RBD collection in the recent study supported by the grant BBE0071981 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) of the United Kingdom (“Innovation in Crop Science - Exploitation of Genetics for Sustainability” initiative). This suggests the assembled collection captures a high proportion of the genetic diversity stored in large seed banks, and therefore it represents a valuable resource for the identification of useful novel alleles of other agronomically important genes. We are willing to provide access to this population and related resources. For example, total RNA extracted from all 1090 accessions, small amount of 1st strand cDNA prepared using oligo(dT) priming for most accessions in the collection, and freeze-dried leaf material for DNA extraction, to any interested researcher in the UK or overseas on a collaborative, first come – first served basis.
Researchers interested to use the RBD collection are encouraged to contact Dr. Kostya Kanyuka (kostya.kanyuka@bbsrc.ac.uk) or Prof. Kim Hammond-Kosack (kim.hammond-kosack@bbsrc.ac.uk) at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK (http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/index.html). |
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| 21/05/2010 |
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Appointments to BBSRC Strategy Panels, Pool of Experts: Peer Review
The BBSRC are looking to appoint high calibre, committed individuals from academic and industrial sectors to fill a number of vacancies on our Strategy Panels, Pool of Experts: Peer Review and Training Awards Committee. The Panels play leading roles in the development and implementation of the Council\'s policies and priorities. The Pool of Experts: Peer Review and Training Awards Committee play key roles in delivering BBSRC\'s Mission by carrying out peer review of research grant proposals, the awarding of studentships and fellowships and assessing final reports on funded proposals. Appointments will commence in January 2011 for one year initially, with anticipated extension for a further two years.
Further details, including role of the Panels, Pool of Experts: Peer
Review and the Training Awards Committee, Person Specification and Expression of Interest Form can be found at: |
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| 20/04/2010 |
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Wheat community DArT data
As part of the wheat BBR project, Mark Winfield and Gary Barker at Bristol have now uploaded the available DArT data from both Bristol and Peter Shewry’s group at Rothamsted. Currently the data and search options are limited (http://www.cerealsdb.uk.net/cgi-bin/dart_form.pl ) due to the limited amount of data available. Hence the purpose of this communication is to ask you to send Gary (Gary.Barker@Bristol.ac.uk) your DArT data for inclusion in the database. We hope that over the coming months this database grows in size and therefore usefulness, in addition we also hope to tie the DArt data in with the wheat SNP data currently being generated by the community, but this can only happen if you contribute your own data. If you have any views on the database, good or bad, please let Gary know.
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| 19/04/2010 |
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1st announcement of 10th Gatersleben Research Conference \
Following a tradition initiated in 1996, we are in the process of organizing the 10th Gatersleben Research Conference, to be held November 22nd - 24th, 2010. In light of the ongoing progress in the field of genomics, the focus of the 10th GRC is \ |
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| 09/03/2010 |
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2nd Workshop of the StatSeq COST Action
The 2nd Workshop of the StatSeq COST Action on the analysis of Next Generation Sequence Data in Plants (www.statseq.eu) will take place on 20 & 21 May 2010 at Het Pand, Ghent Belgium |
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| 05/03/2010 |
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Crop Improvement Club information now online on the BBSRC website
The Crop Improvement Club information is finally on the BBSRC website:
It\'s hard to find through the menus as it\'s under \'working with business\' .. so here is a direct link.
We also have added the link to our list of links. |
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Further information
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| 24/02/2010 |
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IB2010 - Integrative Bioinformatics Symposium - WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
This sixth meeting on Integrative Bioinformatics has an exciting programme
of supporting workshops and tutorials along with demonstrations of new software
that will be of interest to Bioinformaticians, Computer Scientists and other
working in, or interested in finding out more about, the developing area of integrative
bioinformatics.
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| 06/02/2010 |
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Shared UK DArT data starting to appear on Monogram
DArT data from the UK wheat community are now starting to appear on Monogram; see http://www.cerealsdb.uk.net/dart/index.htm
Currently the DArT data is restricted to ideograms showing the distribution of DArT markers in the Kansas deletion lines. In the next few weeks this will be extended to include the underlying spreadsheet and at this time we will include the first data set from a non-Bristol group; many thanks to Peter Shewry and the folks at Rothamsted for this. After this and when we have ironed out any issues, we will be making an open call for your wheat DArT data.
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| 31/03/2010 |
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New Link: Plant Expression database
PLEXdb (Plant Expression Database) is a unified public resource for gene expression for plants and plant pathogens. PLEXdb serves as a bridge to integrate new and rapidly expanding gene expression profile data sets with traditional structural genomics and phenotypic data. The integrated tools of PLEXdb allow investigators to use commonalities in plant biology for a comparative approach to functional genomics through use of large-scale expression profiling data sets. |
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http://www.plexdb.org/index.php
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| 31/03/2010 |
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New Link : wDBTF: wheat transcription factor families
Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by interacting with promoters of their target genes and are classified into families based on their DNA-binding domains. Genes coding for TFs have been identified in the sequences of model plant genomes... |
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http://wwwappli.nantes.inra.fr:8180/wDBFT/
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| 18/03/2010 |
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New Parallel Search now online
We are pleased to announce that a new version of our parallel search is now available on the Monogram web site. The Parallel search explores multiple resources at once and brings back all the results on a single page. This feature is available from the home menu in Monogram. |
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Try it now!
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| 09/03/2010 |
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Featured Feature... Who is going?
To facilitate networking, monogram offers a way you can share your decision to attend a conference... this is available to registered users..
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Visit the help page...
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| 03/12/2009 |
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New Menu for the Monogram Web Site
Dear all,
The new menu gives more space to research and tools. Have a browse and let us know what you think!
Nathalie Castells-Brooke |
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| 14/08/2009 |
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New Search Feature on Monogram
There is now a new search feature on the Monogram web site. It enables the search of the actual pages on the site and its affiliates hosted on the Monogram server. A quick way to find what you want.
You can find one search box on the home page and one on the search page.
There is also a search engine specific to publications and a parallel search that search in resources outside of monogram.
Still to come, a search engine to find resources held in our database.
Hope this serves you well.
Nathalie Castells-Brooke, Monogram Web Dev. |
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Try it!
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| 08/07/2009 |
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A new RSS feed
Dear all, we now have a new feed dedicated to vacancies posted to Monogram. To receive vacancy news, please subscribe to the vacany feed. All feeds are displayed on every page of the Monogram web site. |
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| 10/12/2008 |
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New Feature - Edit your publications
Logging into Monogram is a great way to help keeping Monogram up to date. It has been possible to add publications to Monogram for quite a while. It is now possible to edit the references. So when your article is finally published, you can submit its final reference. To try that, go to the Publications Page. |
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Publication Page
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| 24/10/2008 |
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Call for Web-Links
We are looking for links to Equipment Resources - within the Monogram network. If you know of such resources, either add them to the relevant page, or email nathalie.castells@bbsrc.ac.uk and I will do it.. If you think you have a link/resource/material.. that needs to be listed, please do not hesitate to either do so, or email us.
Many thanks |
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Equipment page...
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| 03/09/2008 |
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Monogram news feeds
RSS feeds are now provided for both the Monogram News and the Monogram web update information. To activate a news feed, click on the orange news feed icons at the top of relevant section of the news panel to the right of most Monogram web pages. You can then subscribe to this feed and the link will be placed in your browser newsfeed location. For Internet Explorer, all your subscribed newsfeeds are available under the orange star icon in the toolbar, unless you deliberately palced them elsewhere. |
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