(40) BRIDGEcereal streamlines unsupervised learning to graph indel-based haplotype from pan-genome. May 9, 2024. Translational Omics Working Group (Virtual) (https://scinet.usda.gov/research/working-groups/omics)

(39) Integration of Enviromics into genetics and breeding. April 25, 2024. The Wheat Breeding Methods and Strategies Expert Working Group (Virtual) (https://www.wheatinitiative.org/new-events/dr-xianran-li-at-the-ewg-breeding-webinar)

(38) Enviromic prediction for high-profile wheat traits through machine learning and deep learning. March 25 - 25, 2024. Soft Wheat Quality Council Meeting & Cereals & Grains Association Cincinnati Section. Wooster, OH

(37) Enviromics integration: bridging the past to future for high-profile wheat traits. January 31 - February 2, 2024. Pacific Northwest Wheat Quality Counci & Cereals & Grains Association PNW Section. Boise, ID

(36) Exploit phenotypic plasticity in crops. January 12 - 17, 2024. Plant and Animal Genome 31 Conference. San Diego, CA

(35) BRIDGEcereal streamlines unsupervised learning to graph indel-based haplotype from pan-genome. January 12 - 17, 2024. Plant and Animal Genome 31 Conference. San Diego, CA

(34) Repurpose and revitalize long-term variety testing trials to decode ingrained climate change. November 27, 2023. Washingtion State University. Pullman, WA

(33) BRIDGEcereal streamlines unsupervised learning to graph indel-based haplotype from pan-genome. November 7 - 9, 2023. 7th Conference on Cereal Biotechnology and Breeding. Wernigerode, Germany

(32) BRIDGEcereal: a machine learning boosted webapp to survey and graph indels for candidate genes from pangenomes. October 29 - November 1, 2023. 2023 ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO

(31) BRIDGEcereal streamlines unsupervised learning to graph indel-based haplotype from pan-genome. October 11, 2023. Iowa State University. Ames, IA

(30) Integration of sorghum genetics, human genetics, and environmental condition demystified tannin domestication. Global Sorghum Conference. June 5 - 9, 2023. Montpellier, France

(29) Streamline unsupervised learning to survey and graph indel-based haplotype from pan-genome. 65th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting. 2023. St. Louis, MO

(28) BRIDGEcereal for surveying and graphing haplotypes from pan-genome. 3rd USDA Data Innovations Showcase. January 27, 2023. USDA-ARS PDI (Virtual)

(27) Reinstate and reframe environment in exploring phenotype landscape. Plant and Animal Genome 30 Conference. January 13 - 19, 2023. San Diego, CA

(26) Deciphering the mystery of sorghum tannin domestication in Africa: coevolution of the domestication triangle. The 2022 ASA, CSSA, and SSSA International Meeting. November 6 - 9, 2022. Baltimore, MD

(25) Repurposing variety testing trials to explain and predict climatic impacts to crop performance via genetics-inspired approaches. The 2022 ASA, CSSA, and SSSA International Meeting. November 6 - 9, 2022. Baltimore, MD

(24) Deciphering the mystery of sorghum tannin domestication in Africa: coevolution among sorghum, human, and bird. The 2022 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference. June 7 - 11, 2022. Pacific Grove, CA

(23) Connecting human genetics, crop genetics, and environmental conditions toward sustainable and healthy diet. February 11, 2022. the Nebraska Food for Health Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Virtual)

(22) Towards better utilization of biodiversity through harmonic relationships between genetics and environments. December 1, 2021. 2021 International Cooperation Seminar on the Conservation and Utilization of Biological Resources. Nanni, Guangxi (Virtual)

(21) Sensing plants sense: explore crop performance dynamics in changing climate. November 11 - 15, 2021. The 2nd International Forum on Crop Science Geen Crops for Sustainable Agricultrue. Wuhan, China (Virtual)

(20) Explain and predict spring wheat performance trends spanning decades with whole-season climate conditions. November 7 - 10, 2021. 2021 ASA, CSSA and SSSA Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT (Virtual)

(19) Sensing plants sense: exploring crop genetics in environmental dimensions. September 26th, 2021. Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University. Pullman, WA

(18) When bitter is better: demystify sorghum tannin domestication through birds-eye view of agroecosystem. July 19 - 23, 2021. Plant Biology 2021 Worldwide Summit (Virtual)

(17) Exploring crop genetics in environmental dimensions. December 10, 2020. USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA (Virtual)

(16) Chart plant genetics in micro- and marco-environmental dimension. September 8, 2020. USDA-ARS, Columbia, MO (Virtual)

(15) Solving a puzzle game: co-evolution of crops, birds, and farmers in African agroecosystem. Iowa State Universtiy. February 5, 2020. Ames, IA

(14) Co-evolution of crops, birds, and farmers in African agroecosystem pivoted by secondary metabolites. Plant and Animal Genome XXVIII Conference. January 11 - 15, 2020. San Diego, CA

(13) Crop genome divergence along domestication captured by base composition from genome-wide SNPs. The 5th Conference on Plant Genome Evolution. September 29 - October 1, 2019. Sitges, Spain

(12) Evolution of African agroecosystem: condensed tannins. Shandong Agricultural University. July 9, 2019. Tai’an, China

(11) Allelochemicals targeted to balance competing selection forces in African agroecosystem. China Agricultural University. July 7, 2019. Beijing, China

(10) In-season and on-target prediction for traits of complex plasticity in diverse environments. Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference. January 12 - 16, 2019. San Diego, CA

(9 Chromosomal deletions within the RPAD locus drove parallel domestication of plant architecture in Asian and African rice. Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference. January 12 - 16, 2019. San Diego, CA

(8) Turbocharging gene banks from genetic and environmental perspectives. The 2018 ASA, CSSA, and SSSA International Meeting. November 4 - 7, 2018. Baltimore, MD

(7) Dissection of genetic and environmental determinants advances phenotype prediction. September 11, 2018. USDA-ARS, Lubbock, TX

(6) From complex to simple: dissecting genetic and environmental determinants advances phenotype prediction. The 12th Congress of the International Plant Molecular Biology. August 5 - 10, 2018. Montpellier, France

(5) Knowledge discovery and data mining: dynamics of genome size and composition. Plant and Animal Genome XXV Conference. January 14 - 18, 2017. San Diego, CA

(4) Gene v.s. non-gene: contribution to maize agricultural traits. July 17, 2013. China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

(3) Connecting DNA repair genes with genome divergence through base composition at polymorphic site. Plant and Animal Genome XXIV Conference. January 9 - 13, 2016. San Diego, CA

(2) Genome-wide association studies identify genic and non-genic contributions to quantitative trait variation in maize. The 8th International Purdue Symposium on Statistics. June 22 - 24, 2012. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

(1) A conserved bound on variation of chromosome size among eukaryotes. September 26, 2011. USDA-ARS, Manhattan, KS