Events & opportunities
Past events
Planting New Seeds: Innovations in Global Seed Systems
September 23, 2020
The average age of crop varieties used by many farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to get older, threatening productivity gains. Reversing this long-standing trend is the objective behind recent changes in seed systems, from plant breeding through to a rapid delivery of new crop varieties to farmers. This webinar will provide an overview of these changes, what they are and why they matter for smallholder farmers.
Webinar & Tool Demo: GOBii Genomics data management
August 24, 2020
GOBii has built a genomics data management system that can rapidly load, manage and extract all scales of data and many data types. Join us as we demonstrate GOBii data preparation tools, BrAPI enabled data import and Flapjack analyses, including batch analysis and decision support.
Webinar: Genomic-assisted maize breeding: Status and Opportunities
August 12, 2020
To support discussions on the topic of genomics assisted maize breeding, CIMMYT conducted an international webinar with its partners on ‘‘Genomic-assisted maize breeding: Status and Opportunities’’
November 5, 2019 to November 7, 2019
With the center improvement plans introduced in 2018 now underway, we wish to use this opportunity to develop a consensus definition of the modern breeding program including components, structures and functions.
Enterprise Breeding System DevOps hackathon
October 21, 2019 to November 1, 2019
From October 21 to November 1, the EBS Devops team based at CIMMYT is hosting a hackathon to advance the development of core functionalities.
Deadline for high quality improvement plans to be submitted
September 30, 2019
Visit to Brazil, Embrapa and Syngenta
August 12, 2019 to August 16, 2019
EiB Plaform Module 5 Roadmap meeting in Madrid
February 19, 2019 to February 20, 2019
A meeting was held to define the Module 5 subgrant management process, support the draft of supplemental grants and improve definition of module scope.
November 13, 2018 to November 15, 2018
Excellence in Breeding Contributors/EAG meeting
March 6, 2018 to March 8, 2018