Daniela Miller was awarded the IWGSC and Catherine Feuillet Early Career Award and received her award at the Plant & Animal Genome Conference (PAG) in San Diego, California (USA) in January 2023. Daniela also received a travel stipend to travel to the PAG conference to present a talk during the IWGSC main workshop on Saturday 14 January 2023.

Submissions are now CLOSED - Nominations are now being accepted for the prestigious IWGSC and Catherine Feuillet Early Career Award for the Main IWGSC workshop that will be held at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference 30 in January 2023

Abstract submission is now CLOSED - Abstracts for proposed talks are now being accepted by the IWGSC for individuals who would like to present their work at one of the IWGSC workshops that will be held at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference 30 (13-18 January 2023, San Diego, CA, USA).

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Data from the reference sequence of the Turkish elite cultivar Sonmez generated by Hikmet Budak, Ani Akpinar, Sezgi Bıyıklıoğlu, and Valérie Barbe (Montana BioAg.Inc, USA and Genoscope, France) are now available to download at URGI in open access.

The IWGSC has led the effort to develop a high quality, reference sequence of the large, complex (hexaploid), bread wheat genome: IWGSC RefSeq v1.0 and most recently IWGSC RefSeq v2.1 and annotation v2.1. This year's workshop will include presentations highlighting advances that have been made possible by the completion of the reference sequence and other genomic resources for wheat.

2021 was another year impacted by disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, limiting our ability to travel and connect at meetings. Nevertheless, we were able to make progress in some of our activities and projects, providing more genomic tools and resources for the community.

IWGSC founding member Rudi Appels has been awarded the 2021 Farrer Memorial Medal for his extensive work in wheat genome research.

IWGSC newsletter No2/2021

IWGSC sponsors Curio Genomics and Daicel Arbor Biosciences announced the launch of the cloud-based bioinformatics platform myCurio™, resulting from their multi-year product development and marketing partnership.