The Summer Institute in Plant Breeding comprises continuing-education short courses for industry breeders, graduate students, and postdocs within and outside the University of Minnesota.
The most recent Summer Institute was held on June 10-14, 2024 in Saint Paul and it featured the following five modules (instructors in parenthesis):
- Plant Breeding 101 (James A. Anderson)
- Mixed-Model Analysis in Plant Breeding (Lucia Gutierrez)
- Polyploid Genomics (Laura M. Shannon)
- Participatory Plant Breeding (Julie Dawson)
- Data Bootcamp for Genomic Prediction in Plant Breeding (Aaron J. Lorenz)
The next Summer Institute will be held in June 2026.
