Buckler Lab Collaboration Receives “2021 Outstanding Paper” Award
The paper “A sorghum practical haplotype graph facilitates genome-wide imputation and cost-effective genome prediction” received the...
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- May 17, 2021
- 2 min
Buckler Lab team develops the HARE method to improve genomic prediction accuracy in maize
Genomic prediction uses DNA information to predict differences in important maize traits, like grain yield or flowering time. Typically,...
- Jan 4, 2021
- 1 min
PanAnd project featured in "SeedWorld"
Recently highlighted in the "SeedWorld" publication, PanAnd is a project funded by the National Science Foundation and it comprises a...
- Dec 21, 2020
- 1 min
Sarah Jensen receives the McClintock Award
Congratulations to Sarah Jensen, a graduate student in the Buckler Lab, who is one of six recipients of the The Barbara McClintock...
- Nov 18, 2020
- 2 min
Buckler Lab Members Build a tRNA Thermometer
Identifying an organism’s optimal growth temperature (OGT) is an important step in understanding how organisms evolve and adapt to their...
- Oct 16, 2020
- 1 min
September Virtual Hackathon
On September 14 - 18, 2020, the Buckler Lab hosted its second virtual Hackathon due to the on-going social distancing requirements of the...
- Jun 16, 2020
- 1 min
The First Maize PHG Database Now Available
The first maize PHG database is composed of haplotypes derived from the assemblies of the NAM founders. For broader compatibility with...
- May 29, 2020
- 1 min
View the Virtual PHG Workshop
On Monday, June 8, 2020, the Buckler Lab hosted a virtual Practical Haplotype Graph (PHG) introductory workshop. The workshop provided a...
- May 9, 2020
- 1 min
Buckler Lab Hosts Virtual Hackathon
On May 11 - 15, 2020, the Buckler Lab hosted its first-ever virtual Hackathon due to the social distancing requirements of the ongoing...
- May 7, 2020
- 1 min
Wheat PHG Hackathon
The Buckler Lab hosted a hackathon in February 2020 to develop a Practical Haplotype Graph (PHG) for wheat to be used by wheat breeding...
- May 5, 2020
- 1 min
Improving Prediction of Agronomic Traits in Hybrid Maize
In a paper published in the May 2020 issue of Genetics, Buckler Lab members Guillaume Ramstein and Cinta Romay investigate the relevance...
- Apr 8, 2020
- 2 min
Buckler Lab Members Develop a Sorghum PHG
Managing and utilizing genomic datasets is an essential part of plant breeding programs. As these datasets become increasingly large,...
- Dec 16, 2019
- 1 min
Ed Buckler member of the Expert Panel for Cornell-Nature Sustainability
Ed Buckler was invited to serve as a member of the expert panel on "Innovations to build sustainable, equitable, inclusive food value...
- Dec 16, 2019
- 1 min
Buckler Lab October 2019 Hackathon
The Buckler Lab held its most recent Hackathon in October 2019 and the focus was connecting three databases: ASKDB, PHG, and Breedbase....
- Sep 30, 2019
- 1 min
Buckler Group members teach rTASSEL at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
On October 19, Ed Buckler and postdocs Brandon Monier and Guillaume Ramstein, presented a class at the Cereal Genomics Workshop at Cold...
- Aug 26, 2019
- 1 min
Buckler Lab rover featured in local news!
Newschannel WSYR's Lindsay Rachael recently featured the Buckler Lab rover and Gore Lab drone in a news story about digital agriculture...
- Jun 28, 2019
- 1 min
Buckler Lab June 2019 Hackathon
The Buckler Lab held its biannual Hackathon on June 17 - 21 and the focus was curating, aligning, and annotating the Andropogoneae...
- Jun 10, 2019
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Buckler Lab 2019 Spring (almost summer?!) Planting
The Buckler Lab just completed our latest spring planting ever as an abundance of rain made earlier planting impossible. Under the...
- Jun 10, 2019
- 1 min
Meet the Buckler Lab Summer Crew
The Buckler Lab is happy to have a crew of undergraduates (and one soon to be graduate student!) to help with the maize field research...
- May 10, 2019
- 1 min
Buckler Lab and CHIBAS Complete Third Cycle of Genomic Selection in Sorghum Breeding Program
Buckler Lab members Sarah Jensen and Guillaume Ramstein recently helped Dr. Gael Pressior, Executive Director of CHIBAS Bioenergy and...
- Apr 12, 2019
- 1 min
Sorting seeds for Tripsacum research
The Buckler Lab grows Tripsacum to study the genes responsible for its freezing tolerance. Tripsacum and maize belong to the same tribe...
- Mar 21, 2019
- 1 min
Jacob Washburn and Hai Wang test machine learning methods to predict mRNA expression levels
Machine learning methodologies can be applied readily to biological problems, but standard training and testing methods are not designed...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 1 min
Katherine Mejia-Guerra Presents at the 2019 Maize Genetics Conference
In her 2019 Maize Genetics Conference presentation, Dr. Mejia-Guerra reviewed her research on decoding the transcriptional regulatory...
- Nov 17, 2018
- 1 min
Meet Rovers 1, 2 and 3
Over the summer of 2018, the Buckler Lab began exploring scalable, affordable high-throughput phenotyping with a fleet of three prototype...
- Nov 16, 2018
- 2 min
Dr. Hai Wang Presents at PAG 2019
Dr. Hai Wang presents Buckler Lab research on Deep Learning of Genomic Variation and Regulatory Network at the upcoming 2019 PAG...
- Nov 15, 2018
- 1 min
Sarah Jensen Studies at ICRISAT
Sarah Jensen, PhD candidate at the Buckler Lab, was recently awarded a Frosty Hill Travel Grant from Cornell IP-CALS, which allowed her...