Workshop Plants & Python
Date: Monday October 20th, 2025
From 9:00am – 1:00pm
Venue: Salón Santiago, Hotel Holiday Inn Mérida.
a series of lessons in coding, plant biology, computation, and bioinformatics / una serie de lecciones de programación, biología vegetal, cómputo, y bioinformática.
Instructors: Dr. Alejandara Rougon Cardoso (UNAM ENES León), Dr. Daniel Chitwood (Michigan State University) and Dr. Robert VanBuren (Michigan State University).
What will you need? A laptop computer with WiFi connectivity. We will be using a public, bilingual resource available at the following link:
Workshop summary:
In this workshop, instructors Dr. Rougon Cardoso, Dr. Chitwood and Dr. VanBuren will introduce you to Plants & Python: a series of lessons in coding, plant biology, computation, and bioinformatics. Students and researchers who have no coding experience but would like to learn Python and Bash to use for modeling, statistics, data analysis, or bioinformatics should take this course to get started. Participants in this workshop will download the necessary tools to begin using Python and an interactive coding environment called Jupyter notebooks. Students will learn basic coding strategies, including how to plot data and how to construct a loop using plant-inspired examples. In this introductory course, students will also learn how to access the command line and use UNIX (Bash) commands for data mining. We expect this workshop to be small (no more than 25 participants) with lots of interaction and individual student attention.
For registration: smbplantbiologycongress@gmail.com
Workshop on Plant-Genome Editing
Date: Monday, October 20, 2025
Time: 9:00 – 13:00 hrs
Venue: Salón Maya, Hotel Holiday Inn Mérida
Organized by: AMSAC, within the framework of the XXI Plant Biology Congress 2025
Overview
Plant Breeding Innovation (PBI) comprises a set of methods that enable the development of new plant varieties in a faster and more precise way than traditional breeding. The products obtained through these techniques are equivalent to or indistinguishable from those generated through conventional or natural processes, and therefore require a differentiated regulatory framework compared to genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
AMSAC promotes a range of strategies and activities aimed at communicating the benefits of these technologies, sharing knowledge, building capacities, and advancing towards the definition of an appropriate regulatory framework.
This workshop not only seeks to create a space for the exchange of experiences and perspectives, but also to emphasize to the scientific community the importance of adding voices to the definition of public policies. Likewise, it is conceived as a starting point to (1) highlight the need for decisions on PBI regulation to be based on science, and (2) build a bridge between research and the development of policies that will shape the future of PBI regulation in Mexico.
Workshop Objectives
- Provide an overview of genome editing in plants, with emphasis on CRISPR.
- Share real cases of varieties developed with genomic editing.
- Analyze the national and international regulatory landscape for genome edited plants.
- Foster collective reflection on the role of the scientific community in shaping public policy.
Workshop Crops of the Future
Date: Monday, October 20, 2025
Time: 9:00 – 17:00 hrs
Venue: Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán (CICY). Calle 43 No.130
Organized by: International Committee ASPB
For more Info, please visit (https://aspb.org/), upcoming events.