Events

Date(s): To be determined
Online, hosted by INRAE
Related WP: WP-6
Content: released AGENT portal: demonstration and exercises; Introduction to use of AGENT analysis container: demonstration and exercises; Discussion of community needs.
Target audience: anyone with an interest in genomic approa...

Related WP: ALL Annual General Assembly of the project to report on the project's progress and present interim outcomes
Target audience: AGENT scientists, partnering projects

Two weeks before the datathon a virtual “get ready event” is planned to ensure that all datasets are ready.
Venue of annual progress project meeting, hosted by IHAR-PIB
Related WP: WP-4
Training of all partners how to run GWAS and GS using their own historical datasets. This training relates to...

BreedingValue Workshop on Genetic Resources: Pre-breeding materials: a grey zone between Genetic Resources and Cultivars - Introduction on regulatory aspects and protection of Intellectual Property.

Related WP: WP-6
Training of trainers workshop, including training (databases, tools, webservices) for persons that are responsible for, or are involved in, PGR data life cycle and tool support on-site.
Target audience: AGENT partner on-site multipliers

Related WP: WP-6
Introduction to genetics of genebanks landscape and to AGENT project; demonstration of beta version of AGENT data portal; discussion of community needs.
Target audience: anyone with an interest in genomic approaches to the management and use of genebanks through the use of genomic...

Flash talks will be given by the AGENT coordinator, Prof. Dr. Nils Stein, and by project leads of other Horizon 2020 GENRES projects in the same funding call.

Maja Boczkowska (IHAR-PIB) will give a lecture at the 50th Congress of Botanical Gardens in the session "Crop genetic resources in botanic garden collections and gene banks" entitled "Molecular characterization of cereal collections".

AGENT partners will be participating in the FONDUE Datathon, which teaches how to submit data to the three ELIXIR Deposition Databases BioSamples, ENA, and EVA. The goal is to overcome common mistakes and provide help on how to make data more FAIR. This event will take place over three half days.

Cristina Marinciu (NARDI Fundulea) will present a poster in the section 1 "Crop science" at the 10th edition of the International Conference "Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture".

Matthias Lange (IPK) is giving a 5-minute flash talk on AGENT Plant GenRes Data Infrastructure as part of the Data and Interoperability for Plant Sciences workshop at the ELIXIR All Hands meeting.

The annual conference of NARDI Fundulea will take place on 27th May. Liliana Vasilescu will present a poster with the objectives of European project AGENT - Activated GEnebank NETwork, the role of NARDI Fundulea as a project partner and the new approach regarding the wheat and barley collections.

The AGENT project is organising a webinar on Plant Data Management for Phenotyping data from 10.30am-12pm (CET) on 2nd April 2021. Registration is mandatory via this link.