Events & opportunities
Past events
Webinar: Costing for breeding programs
May 12, 2021
How can breeding programs estimate the costs of breeding and its associated research activities? How can breeders make better decisions about resource allocation? Join us as we unpack and explore the UQ Breeding Costing Tool, a powerful solution for breeders and breeding managers.
Decision making in a commercial breeding program - BrIN Learning Series
May 6, 2021
An expert presentation and discussion on how Bayer increased data fluency and analytics to make better decisions. What did they learn and what changes were adopted over the last 10 years? Join Bayer, Cornell, EiB and partners for an examination of how over the years of testing, Bayer has aimed to get increasing confidence for performance in farmers’ fields and conditions.
Low Density SNP Genotyping Services: An EiB Launch Event
March 16, 2021
Join CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) for the official launch of the EiB LDSG shared service. At this important milestone, we take a moment to recap, share improvement ideas, and hear perspectives from donors, vendors and other partners.
Transforming Wheat Breeding Through Integrated Data Management with GOBii and Analysis in Flapjack
February 16, 2021 to February 18, 2021
GOBii has developed open-source genotype data management and marker- and genomic-assisted breeding tools and are working on integrating these with adjacent data management systems and tools. Through this collaboration, two workshops will be hosted in February 2021. Both workshops will focus on GOBii data management and data analysis in Flapjack (marker-assisted backcrossing, pedigree verification and forward breeding) developed in collaboration with the James Hutton Institute), and Galaxy (Genomic Selection).
EiB Webinar: ViTSel, the Visualization Tool for Selection
November 23, 2020
ViTSel supports selection in breeding by visualizing results of multi-environmental, multi-trait analysis. Join us for a demo of the tool's features and discussion of its use.
Webinar: Enhancing and measuring Genetic Gain in crop breeding
November 19, 2020
Driving Genetic Gain through selection is at the core of every successful plant breeding program. In this webinar targeting national breeding programs in Africa, EiB will explain the concepts behind genetic gain; introduce tools and approaches to measure genetic gain; provide real examples from a national program in East Africa.
EiB Virtual Meeting 2020: Sharing Excellence
November 10, 2020 to November 12, 2020
Webinar: Continuous Improvement for breeding processes, programs & products
October 6, 2020
Join Accelerating Genetic Gains (AGG), CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) and a leading international CI expert to explore tools, techniques and transitions toward a continuous improvement culture in breeding.
Webinar: Applications of Genome Editing in Agriculture: CGIAR Focus on Crop Improvement
September 29, 2020
Gene editing itself is out of scope for EiB but as a community we must think carefully about how to best integrate outputs from gene editing laboratories with breeding pipelines to best increase rates of genetic gain and reduce the age of varieties in farmers’ fields.
September 28, 2020
Specialty crop and animal breeding have lagged behind major crops and animal breeding (e.g, maize, cattle) in genomics and phenomics tool use. Sometimes this is due to crop biology, but more often to size and availability of or access to resources. Breeding Insight (BI) acts as a conduit of information, support, and resources to enable genomic insight and selection across all of the USDA-ARS public breeding efforts.