Participation of researchers from the Bioflora group in a workshop on the pangenome of Pooideae grasses, Munich 2025

Three researchers from the Bioflora research group participated in a workshop on the construction of the pangenome of Pooideae grasses, held on May 27-28, 2025, at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), organized by researchers from this university and the Helmholtz Institute of Munich. Pilar Catalán, professor of Botany at EPSHU-Unizar, participated as co-PI of the project, developed by an international consortium of grass evolutionary biologists, geneticists, genomics experts, and bioinformaticians, dedicated to obtaining the first pangenome of temperate grasses. She gave an introductory lecture on “A systematic and evolutionary framework for the pangenome of the grass subfamily Pooideae.” Postdoctoral researcher Chunlin Chen contributed with an oral presentation on “Comparative genomics of the grass genus Brachypodium,” and PhD candidate Wenjie Mu participated in a roundtable discussion on grass genome annotation methodologies. This workshop brought together experts in the development of genomes of temperate cereals (wheat, barley, oats), forage species (ryegrasses, fescues), and model grasses (Brachypodium) and unified procedures for the sequencing, assembly, and annotation of the genomes of representatives of the 200 genera of grasses and the construction of their pangenomes.

Group photo of the researchers participating in the workshop on the development of the Pooideae pangenome at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) campus, May 2025