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MaizeGDB is a community-oriented informatics service to researchers focused on the crop plant and model organism Zea mays.

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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
MaizeGDB is recruiting an ORISE postdoctoral fellow to apply AI & bioinformatics to maize interactions with Fusarium and Aspergillus. 1-2 years | $100–110K/year | U.S. citizens | Apply by Dec. 4, 2026: www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...
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Zintellect - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - USDA-ARS SCINet/AI-COE Postdoctoral Fellowship in AI-Driven Maize-Fungal Pathogen Genomics - USDA-ARS-SCINet-2026-0372
ARS Office/Lab and Location: A postdoctoral research opportunity is available with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
USDA postdoc opportunity in Ames to study maize genetic resources! We’re excited about the proposed work, including genotypic and phenotypic characterization of the USDA Maize Germplasm Collection and better connecting it with MaizeGDB. Apply by Oct. 23: www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...
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Zintellect - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - USDA-ARS Postdoctoral Fellowship to Study Maize Genetic Resources - USDA-ARS-MWA-2026-0352
*Applications are reviewed on a rolling-basis. ARS Office/Lab and Location: A research opportunity is currently available with the U.S. Department of Agric
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We are deeply saddened to share that Michael Freeling passed away on 7/20/2026 after a year-long battle with cancer. Our deepest condolences go to his family, friends, colleagues, and the many students he inspired. We will share additional memorial information soon.
We are very sorry to share the sad news that Michael Freeling passed away on 7/20/2026 after a year long battle with esophageal cancer.  Mike was a long-time faculty member in the Plant and Microbiology Department at University of California-Berkeley, a groundbreaking plant geneticist, and an inspiring teacher and mentor to over two dozen Ph.D. students, four dozen postdocs, and countless undergraduates. He was best known for pioneering work on maize anaerobic metabolism and gene regulation, transposon biology, developmental genetics of the maize ligule, and the discovery of biased gene retention following whole-genome duplications in plants. Mike was hired by UC-Berkeley as an assistant professor straight out of graduate school in 1973, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1979 and to full professor in 1984. He was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1980, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, and won the McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies in 2017. Mike taught genetics, comparative genomics and scientific reasoning to our graduate students, and he also taught a popular genetics course for non-majors that had various titles over the years but was affectionately known as “Genetics for Poets.”  Our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends and many colleagues.
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🌽 USDA-ARS in Ames, Iowa is seeking a Research Geneticist (Plants) to advance crop improvement through genetics/genomics research focused on yield, quality, resilience, and protection against pests, pathogens, and abiotic stress. Closes July 15, 2026 www.usajobs.gov/job/872588000
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Research Geneticist (Plants)
The incumbent is a Research Geneticist (Plants) for the Corn Insect & Plant Genetics Research Unit located in Ames, Iowa. Research projects focus on plant improvements, which may include agronomic qua...
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
USDA-ARS is hiring Research Geneticists (Plants) across multiple locations, including those focusing on maize research. Help advance crop genetics, genomics, breeding, and food security. Apply by June 25: www.usajobs.gov/job/868877900
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Research Geneticist (Plants)
Many Research Geneticist (Plants) positions will be filled at different locations within the Agricultural Research Service. Research projects focus on plant improvements, which may include agronomic q...
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Tired of translating everything to B73 IDs just to run GO enrichment? Introducing FETA: a one-stop functional enrichment tool for all 26 maize NAM genomes. Includes multiple ontology types, RNA-seq integration, and paper-ready figures. Led by Olivia Haley. feta.maizegdb.org
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We are saddened to share that Dr. Major Goodman passed away on March 29, 2026. Major was a pioneering maize geneticist whose work advanced the understanding of global maize diversity, genetic markers, breeding, and germplasm conservation. cals.ncsu.edu/news/remembe...
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Remembering a Major Force in Maize Genetics and Corn Breeding
Colleagues are sharing their memories of NC State's Major Goodman, whose work on maize genetics and corn breeding improved scientific understanding of the species and food security worldwide. Goodman ...
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
New at MaizeGDB: The "Site Map" is a detailed launchpad to our tools, datasets, and resources. From the "Explore MaizeGDB" link in our menu, jump to Data Centers, JBrowse, BLAST, SNPversity, PanEffect, Phylostrata, Fusarium Protein Toolkit, and more. maizegdb.org/sitemap
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🌽New tool at MaizeGDB: Explore evolutionary origins of maize proteins! Search up to 100 genes to visualize conservation or to download homologs’ subcellular localization & GO terms! Whole-genome results available for download for B73 and the NAM founders. phylostrata.maizegdb.org
Screenshot of the Phylostrata tool with a set of example B73 gene models.
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New data from the Bob Schmitz lab (Marand 2025) on cell type-specific cis-regulation in maize! This study, in @science.org, reveals how DNA changes impact expression and maize traits. Explore the 176 new tracks on the browser under Epigenetics and DNA binding. ➡️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The genetic architecture of cell type–specific cis regulation in maize
Gene expression and complex phenotypes are determined by the activity of cis-regulatory elements. However, an understanding of how extant genetic variants affect cis regulation remains limited. Here, ...
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We're excited to share PlantCAD browser tracks: a new, unpublished dataset integrating AI techniques for plant genome analysis. Explore it here: github.com/andorfc/Plan... We welcome the community's feedback and innovative use cases for this data!
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🌽 New browser tracks: Dr. Laura Tibbs-Cortes aligned proteomes spanning 11 evolutionary levels (from E. coli to sorghum) aligned to B73, NAM & PanAnd maize genomes! Additional tools coming soon! jbrowse.maizegdb.org?loc=chr2%3A2...
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Join us Thursday, Mar 6th (2–5 pm) before the Maize Meeting for the Maize Genetics & Genomics Resources Workshop, "Shaping the Future of Maize Pan-Genomes." We'll have 8 talks on building & visualizing pan-genomes plus a discussion led by Matthew Hufford & Candy Hirsch. maizegdb.org/mgc/maizemee...
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Need a flyer to share or print for #MGM2025? Download it here: documents.maizegdb.org/maizemeeting...
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The announcement for the 67th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting (#MGM2025) is here! 📅 Join us March 6-9, 2025, at Union Station, St. Louis, MO, USA. 🌽 View the PDF announcement: documents.maizegdb.org/maizemeeting...
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Congrats to Rita Hayford on the publication of her work mapping RNA-Seq reads from 24 publicly available datasets (17 abiotic & 7 biotic studies) to B73v5 and annotating over 3k stress-related functional annotation of maize gene models. doi.org/10.1186/s128...
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Functional annotation and meta-analysis of maize transcriptomes reveal genes involved in biotic and abiotic stress - BMC Genomics
Background Environmental stress factors, such as biotic and abiotic stress, are becoming more common due to climate variability, significantly affecting global maize yield. Transcriptome profiling stu...
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Alliance of Genome Resources @alliancegenome.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
A new issue of #GENETICS is out today! It features updates from @alliancegenome.bsky.social, @flybase.bsky.social, @pombase.bsky.social, @tairnews.bsky.social, @maizegdb.bsky.social, www.informatics.jax.org, fungidb.org, www.echinobase.org & thecellvision.org. Read the full issue: bit.ly/44E2xpG
Cover of the GENETICS Model Organism Updates issue.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
Here we hope to solve this by providing 1) a regularly updated VCF of public sequence data 2) user-friendly online tools to search and analyze the data Absolutely fantastic work from Carson and Maggie at @maizegdb.bsky.social. Check out our preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A unified VCF data set from nearly 1,500 diverse maize accessions and resources to explore the genomic landscape of maize
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
The schedule for the 2024 Maize Genetics Meeting (#MGM2024) is now available on the MGM homepage or directly at this link. documents.maizegdb.org/maizemeeting...
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
An improved pan-gene dataset is included in the January update. Bulk downloads of the pan-gene CDS and protein sequences, alignments, and various table views of the data are available in the pan-gene download directory. download.maizegdb.org/Pan-genes/Pa...
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Index of /Pan-genes/Pan-Zea
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
There will be several pre-Maize Meeting workshops this year. MaizeGDB will be hosting a 2-part workshop on the new pan-genome, pan-gene, and AI tools at MaizeGDB. Some of the workshops have limited space and require registration. www.maizegdb.org/mgc/maizemee...
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Reminder: The deadline for early registration and to submit a talk abstract for the Maize Genetics Meeting is Friday! www.maizegdb.org/mgc/maizemee...
Photo of the Maize Genetics Meeting homepage.
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