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Travel awards for international rice functional genomics symposium Nov.10-12 2008 Korea.
Funding is available from the USDA to provide partial support for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior PIs working in US institutions to attend the 6th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics in Korea. This support can be used for registration fees, lodging or airfare expenses. Applicants should register for the symposium at http://isrfg2008.com and submit abstracts before October 15th, and send their C.V., abstract, and cover letter with justification to V. Sundaresan, University of California, Davis (sundar@ucdavis.edu). Early application (before October 1st) is strongly encouraged as the funds are limited. Members of underrepresented groups and minorities wishing to attend this symposium are especially encouraged to apply.

"Gene Nomenclature System for Rice" by Committee on Gene Symbolization, Nomenclature and Linkage, Rice Genetics Cooperative has been electronically published as Open Access by Rice Journal

Maize full-length cDNA Project is releasing the first set of full insert sequences from >11,700 individual cDNA clones to the community.[July 21,2008]
Maize full-length cDNA Project is releasing the first set of full insert sequences from >11,700 individual cDNA clones to the community. Within two week or so, those sequences will be appeared in Genbank. Meanwhile those sequences are available from the URL http://www.maizecdna.org by clicking "Download initial 11742 FLcDNAs". This is not a unique dataset and contains some redundant sequences. The project team is still analyzing the sequences and will add some annotation information later to the genbank records.

iPlant collaborative open letter of invitation to the plant biology community

Workshop on Cereal Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor, October 14-20,2008