Summer Institute in Plant Breeding

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.

 

 

Summer Institute