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 2026 Summer Institute will be held on June 1-5 in Saint Paul and will feature six modules (instructors in parenthesis):
- Plant Breeding 101 (James A. Anderson)
- Mixed-Model Analysis in Plant Breeding (Lucia Gutierrez)
- AlphaSimR for Plant Breeding Simulation (Chris Gaynor)
- Biotechnologies in Crop Improvement (Robert M. Stupar)
- Applied Plant Genetics and Bioinformatics (Candice N. Hirsch)
- Data Bootcamp for Genomic Prediction in Plant Breeding (Aaron J. Lorenz)
Registration opens on January 5, 2026 via the this Eventbrite webpage.
Click on this First Announcement for more details.
