Meet our students
As in the previous collaborative projects, one of our main goals is to contribute to the formation of the next generation of breeders. Here you can meet the WheatCAP graduate students and postdocs and learn about their lines of research.
Annual Graduate Student Survey
See the results of the 2021 Annual Graduate Student Survey here.
You can also see the summaries of the 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 surveys.
The Plant Breeding Training Network
The Plant Breeding Training Network (PBTN) is a platform for sharing breeding related educational materials (videos, webinars, on-line courses). PBTN was built on infrastructure funded by NSF and it was created as part of our previous collaborative project, TriticeaeCAP. Now we continue supporting it through WheatCAP.
Introduction to the Practical Haplotype Graph (PHG) Workshop (2019)
On July 9 we had a workshop at Cornell University on building and using Practical Haplotype Graphs (PHG). This is a computational technique to infer the haplotype of progeny lines sequenced at low coverage from the haplotype of a few parents sequenced at high coverage. Below you can download two of the workshop presentations
2018 RNA-Seq Workshop Lectures
We organized a workshop about wheat transcriptomics that covered different subjects such as RNA-Seq library construction protocols, using bioinformatics pipelines and network analysis of RNA-Seq data. We are making publicly available the recordings of the lectures, slides and protocols here.
2018 WheatCAP Positional Cloning Workshop Lectures
During our 2018 annual meeting we organized a workshop on positional cloning. We recorded the lectures and made them available on Vimeo. Here are the links:
- Introduction to Positional Cloning – Jorge Dubcovsky (1:24:00)
- Candidate Gene Validation – Jorge Dubcovsky (51:22)
- Sequence Annotation – Jorge Dubcovsky (15:20)
- Transposable Elements – Jorge Dubcovsky (40:44)
- T3 Toolbox – Jean-Luc Jannik (39:29)
- Primer Design in Wheat – Junli Zhang (22:38)
- KASP Design/Troubleshooting – Nicolas Cabo (25:23)
- Genome Editing with CRISPR/Cas9 – Eduard Akhunov (45:27)
