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NAPB Webinar Series Presents: Analytical Breeding Tools: FieldHub & MrBean Part I
For complete event details, including how to attend remotely visit:
Join us for a message on leadership and innovation from North Dakota native and NDSU grad Megan Lewis.
When: Friday, October 14
Time: 10-11 a.m.
Where: Memorial Union, Ballroom A
If you are unable to attend in person, join online at: https://ndsu.zoom.us/j/95514230142
Dr. Magan Lewis, equipment and automated field sensing lead from Bayer Crop Science, will be at NDSU on Friday, October 14 to present a session open to all students, faculty and staff titled: Ignite your spark: Uplifting the Next Generation of Leaders in Agriculture. Dr. Lewis will be sharing her experiences and inspiring students, faculty and staff with her unique leadership approach.
Dr. Lewis is a North Dakota native and graduated from NDSU with a Ph.D. in Plant Sciences in 2012. Since then she has become a highly recognized female scientific leader and STEM advocate. Dr. Lewis has been named Des Moines Business Record's Forty under 40, and most recently recognized as one of the 10 next generation leaders in the 2022 Seed World magazine.
New version 1.2.0 for FielDHub is now available in GitHub
We are happy to announce the newest version for FielDHub is now HERE (v 1.2.0). This new version is the result of a tremendous effort done by our main developers, international collaborators, and users. The first version had a total of 5,079 downloads directly from CRAN, and we hope our users start testing this new version available for the moment in GitHub. The CRAN version will be submitted on August 6, 2022. To get acquainted with all the changes the new version entails, please visit:
#FielDHub #DOE #DOEinLifeSciences #FieldMaps #MultipleLocations
Field Design Applied to Agriculture Short Course offered by Didier Murillo, Salvador Gezan et al.
Please join us to learn about FielD·Hub, the shiny design of experiments app that aids in the creation of traditional, un-replicated, augmented and partially-replicated designs. Our workshop Field Design Applied to Agriculture will be held on August 9th, 2021 from 8:30am to 10:00 am US CT.
This event is organized by the North Dakota State University Breeding Pipeline Database Management Team.
Variety Release Tables in Five Min or Less
Come and learn with us about how to use the power of your databases and to create your variety release tables in five minutes or less.
You will need a JMP 15 Pro License & Ag.Q.Hub installed in your computer prior to this training. Please contact us if you need help with this.
Meeting Time: Jul 27, 2021 08:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
Room: Loftsgard 262 & 260 | Zoom link is available only for NDSU users.
Phenomics Applied to Agriculture Short Course offered by Dr. Filipe Matias
If you want to learn more about high throughput phenotyping applied to plants and animals, this short course is for you!
For more information visit: https://forms.gle/T5dm8mPZBgqNf6XQ9
Automation takes data query directly to the field
An innovative JMP® add-in helps North Dakota State University’s Breeding Pipeline accelerate development through rapid data query and statistical analysis.
For more information visit: https://www.jmp.com/en_us/customer-stories/north-dakota-state-university.html
Phenome Force Fridays Hands-On Worshop Series introduces Mr. Bean to a wider audience
Phenome Force workshops are making phenomics easy and available for everybody
Dr. Filipe Matias and Dr. Annarita Marrano invited us to participate of the Phenome workshop series to introduce Mr.Bean. The objective of these workshops is to foster an environment for the communication and to establish cooperation among different stakeholders. This time we had the opportunity to reach a wider audience using the Phenome Force YouTube Channel. If you missed it, no worries, here is the link: https://youtu.be/rAEjoyZEUnU
Mr. Bean Workshop Series at NDSU
The Breeding Pipeline DB Managers is hosting a series of workshops for their NDSU users and opened to the general public to introduce Mr.Bean.
Our Breeding Pipeline Database Managers team has been working in the past few months in a collaboration with Statisticians Johan Steven Aparicio from CIAT (Cali, Colombia) and Plant Breeder/Quantitative Geneticist Dr. Salvador Gezan VSN International (Hemel Hempstead, UK) that has yielded the creation of a Web App called Mr.Bean. This is an easy to use R-Shiny web-app that simplifies the analysis of large-scale plant breeding experimental analysis by using the power and versatility of Linear Mixed Models (LMM). This app combines the analytical robustness and speed of ASReml and SpATS with the visual power offered by R. Mr. Bean provides a graphical workflow for importing data, identifying outliers, and fitting field data using LMM with or without spatial correction. The results are BLUPs/BLUEs predictions and heritabilities for single-environment experiments or multiple-environment trial (MET) analysis. In addition, Mr. Bean also provides a module for exploring results from METs using several graphical and multivariate techniques.
This app is a convenient and accurate way to analyze your agronomic data, visualize field patterns and select genotypes all in one place using the latest statistical and computational tools. Features are built-in separate modules and you can start to discover the advantages of our tool as soon as you download the app!
2019 Extension/REC Fall Conference:
We were invited this year to showcase "What We Do" at the 2019 Extension/REC Fall Conference. Here we met lot of people that asked some great questions! This was a wonderful opportunity to share information about the advancements were making in database management and analysis automation.
2019 JMP Discovery Summit:
We attended the JMP Discovery Summit for the third time and we learned tons of new tricks that have helped us on our daily analytic routines. We also presented an e-poster https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discovery-Summit-2019/Incorporating-JMP-R-as-the-Central-Component-of-a-Data/ta-p/223380 that showed how we have integrated different platforms using JMP.
BioSci Thailand Big Data Analysis:
We attended a three day school entailing how to use ASReml-R to better handle large data sets. These sessions were focused the theory and practical aspects of mixed model analysis with emphasis on plant breeding data sets. We got to meet amazing people in Pathun Thani, Thailand and learned ASReml coding that is currently being used in many of our scripts and tools.
http://www.biosci.global/event-en/asreml-summer-school-2019/
Microsoft Digigirlz High Tech Camp Career Fair:
Dr. Ana Heilman and Haley Visto were privileged to go to the 2019 Digigirlz High Tech Camp Career Fair hosted by Microsoft this summer. Their booth represented both the data management part of their jobs and plant breeding as a whole. They explained just how much data can come through our office in a season and how we go about sorting it and analyzing it. Ana and Haley also described what crops looked like before selection came into play. That came as a big surprise to many participants. Though not all of the girls were agriculture centered they all came to the table with good questions and great attitudes!
NDSU Department of Plant Sciences
Please visit the Department website at: www.ag.ndsu.edu/plantsciences/