Hi Everybody,

On Wednesday, March 4th,12 PM CT, *John McNamara* https://serc.carleton.edu/person/53858.html, Professor Emeritus of Animal Sciences at Washington State University, will present the talk titled: “*Integrating phenomics and phenotypes into agricultural databases.*”

Zoom link and abstract below. We hope you will join us.

Kind regards,

Marcela

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Speaker: *John McNamara* https://serc.carleton.edu/person/53858.html, Professor Emeritus of Animal Sciences at Washington State University

Title: Integrating phenomics and phenotypes into agricultural databases

Abstract: The United States agriculture and food systems research and education system remains the envy of the world, and the US Department of Agriculture and the Land-Grant University system lead the public and private partnerships that have improved agricultural productivity and human health phenomenally for over 160 years. The continuation of these improvements relies on equitable access to trustworthy data, particularly in genetics and phenomics, and the ability to leverage such data to address future scientific challenges. In the new article set forth by the Phenotypic Data Standardization and Management working group, we discuss the growing need in agriculture for phenomic databases that follow findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible (FAIR) data guidelines, as well as the need for public policy supporting a sustainable funding model for these databases.