Shannon Lab

New paper alert with coauthors @PeterLMorrell and Laura Shannon! This short preview article gives a glimpse into how a reduction in ploidy and better genomic tools will change (hopefully improve!) potato breeding. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A friend joined us in the field

Join us tomorrow for Dr. Laura Shannon's seminar, "Boiled, Baked and Fried: Potato Diversity Served Three Ways"! 3:30 - 4:30 pm. 310 Alderman or register to join via Zoom: z.umn.edu/hortsci0412

We're #hiring! Join the Shannon potato breeding lab as a Researcher! Learn more and apply online: z.umn.edu/researcher1 @UMN_Jobs @MN_Potatoes

I did a thing

This about sums up today's planting went.

A cold and windy planting day means we bundle up in the field.

Register for our Summer Institute in Plant Breeding! Deadline June 1. Featuring: Polyploid Genomics with Dr. Laura Shannon (@MN_Potatoes), June 22-24. Lecture, discussion, problem sets, and hands on data analysis activities. Register: eventbrite.com/e/2022-summer-…

Register for our Summer Institute in Plant Breeding! Deadline June 1 Featuring: Machine Learning Applied to Plant Science w/Dr. Tolutola Oyetunde, 6/20-22. Lectures, demos, and hands-on exercises applying ML to solve practical research problems. Register:eventbrite.com/e/2022-summer-…

Register for our Summer Institute in Plant Breeding! Featuring: Data Bootcamp for Genomic Prediction w/Dr. Aaron Lorenz, 6/20-22. Common data structures, analysis techniques, & tools used for genomic selection. Lectures & hands-on activities. Register: eventbrite.com/e/2022-summer-…

Register for our Summer Institute in Plant Breeding! Featuring: Breeding 101 w/@ander319, 6/20-22. For technicians, data scientists, managers, non-plant breeding grad students, etc. Lecture/disc, demos, & problem-solving w/sample data. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/2022-summer-…

Dr. Xiaoxi Meng (over Zoom!) discusses early genotyping efforts for diploid potatoes. Lots of new diploids being genotyped and Dr. Meng is doing a great job making sure those genotypes are useful!

Our breeding specialist Dr. Thomas Stefaniak presents promising legacy lines ready for release from the previous breeder. Open source release so everyone can use them!

@AizazCau @plantascientist Just a slight correction: we have a PhD and two professional researcher positions open. While we don't have any postdoc positions open right now, if you are interested please contact Laura (this account is grad student run).

@plantascientist @MN_Potatoes interested

PhD & Postdoc opportunities (potato breeding, RNA-seq, Computational genetics) Contact Dr. Shannon @MN_Potatoes #plantsci shannonlabumn.github.io/jobs/

Announcing a PhD opportunity with Laura Shannon (@MN_Potatoes) of @UMNHorticulture and @Ashish_Ranja of @UMNPlantPath on breeding for and mapping scab resistance in diploid and tetraploid potatoes starting Fall 2022. More info at shannonlabumn.github.io/jobs/ @UMN_AgroPlant @CFANS #PhD

Michael will be adding functions to this package to score disease and pressure bruising as he finishes up his masters degree. Be sure to check for updates!

#PAA2021 Our masters student Michael Miller talks about his R package, TuBAR, to analyze photos for potato color and quality scores! Check out the package here: github.com/shannonlabumn/…

Recent publication on potato breeding by Thomas Stefaniak, Sophia Fitzcollins, Rachel Figueroa, & Laura Shannon of @MN_Potatoes in collaboration w/ Asunta Thompson of @NDSUPlantSci & Cari Schmitz Carley of Aardevo. 🥔 @UMNHorticulture @CFANS @Agronomy_Mdpi mdpi.com/2073-4395/11/2…

Katelyn's lab meeting show and tell: virus free tissue cultured potatoes, after meristeming and heat treatment!