Call for nominations of new members to US Rosaceae Genomics, Genetics and Breeding Executive Committee (RosEXEC)
The mission of the RosEXEC is to:
· Serve as a communication and coordination focal point for the US Rosaceae genomics, genetics and breeding community.
· Define and promote research priorities based on input from the industry and research community.
· Coordinate educational efforts from the research community to the industry and the public.
After 3 years of excellent service the following US members (John Clark, Kevin Folta, Ksenija Gasic, Amy Iezzoni, and Jim McFerson) will be rotating off the RosEXEC in January of 2013.
In Fall, 2012 five new RosEXEC members will be elected to a 3 year term starting January, 2013. All members of the Rosaceae community are invited to nominate candidates for election. Nomination of candidates who have not previously served on the RosEXEC including younger scientists and new faculty are encouraged. Industry representation is currently lacking and candidates from industry are also strongly encouraged. Members rotating off RosEXEC in January 2012 are not eligible for nomination (see list above). Members who will continue to serve in 2013 include, David Byrne, Thomas Chao, Bob Curtis, Sook Jung, Cameron Peace, Kate Evans, Mercy Olmstead, Janet Slovin, JD Swanson, Vance Whitaker, Jay Norelli, and Chris Dardick- so no need to nominate them as they will already be serving. Other former members of RosEXEC are eligible for nomination (see list below).
We are also seeking nomination of 2 new international liaisons to a 2 year term on RosEXEC. International liaison members, Michela Troggio (EU) and Thomas Debener (EU) will be rotating off in January after 2 years of excellent service. Emily Buck (Australia/New Zealand) and Lee Meisel (S. America) will continue to serve in 2013.
Prior to nomination, the nominator is required to contact the nominee and confirm their willingness to serve on RosEXEC. Committee members are expected to participate in quarterly telephone conference meetings and provide several hours of work in support of the RosEXEC mission. Nominations should be sent to Chris Dardick (chris.dardick(a)ars.usda.gov<mailto:chris.dardick@ars.usda.gov>), Chair of the RosEXEC membership committee by September 15, 2011. Nominees will then be contacted by the membership committee and asked to provide a CV or bio, and a brief vision statement. The community wide election will be held in October.
Former RosEXEC members: Bert Abbott, Abhaya Dandekar, Tom Davis, Amit Dhingra, Gennaro Fazio, Chad Finn, Stan Hokanson, Schuyler Korban, Kim Lewers, Jim Luby, Vladimir Shulaev, Dariusz Swietlik, Gary van Sickle, Angela Baldo, Nahla Bassil, Jim Hancock, Bryon Sosinski, Phil Stewart and Gayle Volk.
Former international liaisons: Pere Arús, Sue Gardiner, Jasper Rees, Dan Sargent, Herman Silva, David Chagné and Eric van de Weg.
Chris Dardick
USDA, ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station
2217 Wiltshire Road
Kearneysville, WV 25430
phone: 304-725-3451 ext. 387
fax: 304-728-2340
chris.dardick(a)ars.usda.gov<mailto:chris.dardick@ars.usda.gov>
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Dear members of Rosaceae community,
USRosEXEC will be meeting next week at the ASHS Annual Conference on Tuesday July 31, 2012 from 8:00-10:00 am in the Windsor Room of the InterContinental Hotel, Miami, Florida. If you will be attending ASHS, we hope to see you there. The meeting agenda is attached.
During the meeting, Amy Iezzoni and Cameron Peace will discuss plans for the renewal of the USDA-NIFA-SCRI RosBREED project. You will also find attached a questionnaire they developed to solicit information from those in the Rosaceae community interested in participating in a 2nd RosBREED project.
If you will not be attending the ASHS Annual Conference and would like to participate in the meeting via Skype, please contact JD Swanson (mailto:jd.swanson@salve.edu).
Hope to see you next Tuesday,
Jay Norelli
2012 Chair RosEXEC
John (Jay) Norelli, Ph.D.
Research Plant Pathologist
USDA-ARS
Appalachian Fruit Research Station
2217 Wiltshire Road
Kearneysville, WV 25430
mailto:jay.norelli@ars.usda.gov
(304) 725-3451 x264
FAX: (304) 728-2340
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REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL ROSACEOUS GENOMICS CONFERENCE
Registration for RGC6, the biennial focal point for the Rosaceae community, to be held in San Michele all’Adige, Italy between 30th September and 4th October 2012 is now open along with the submission of abstracts portal for both oral and poster presentations.
Please see the conference website www.rgc6.org<http://www.rgc6.org> for information relating to the conference, accommodation, travel and social activities.
If you require any additional information, please email info(a)rgc6.org<mailto:info@rgc6.org>
We look forward to seeing you in Italy in the Fall!
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*First Announcement - Sixth Rosaceous Genomics Conference*
The Sixth Rosaceous Genomics Conference will be hosted by the Edmund Mach
Foundation and will be held in San Michele all’Adige in the province of
Trento, Italy between the 30th September 2012 and the 4th October 2012. The
conference will be held at the PalaRotary wine cantina and conference
centre and will bring together the entire Rosaceous Genomics community, as
well as incorporating the Fall meetings of the RosExec and RosIGI.
The first announcement has been posted on the official website for the
conference: www.rgc6.org and information will be available soon regarding
the the programme, registration, accommodation and travelling to/from the
conference, as well as details about the social programme and planned
events.
If you require an invitation letter for your visa application for the
conference, please visit the official website and use one of the methods of
contacting us, so that we can assist in your application as soon as
possible.
Looking forward to seeing you in San Michele all'Adige!
The RGC6 organising committee
Approximately 6,000 peach SNPs were selected at UC Davis for two breeding populations: Pop DF ('Dr. Davis' × 'F8, 1-42') and Pop DG ('Dr. Davis' × 'Georgia Belle'). These SNPs are now available for viewing in GBrowse as well as an Excel spreadsheet available on the peach genome project page<http://www.rosaceae.org/node/355>.
Dorrie Main, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Dept. of Horticulture and landscape Architecture
Washington State University
45 Johnson Hall
Pullman, WA 99164-6414
Tel: 509-335-2774 (office)
Email: dorrie(a)wsu.edu<mailto:dorrie@wsu.edu><mailto:dorrie@wsu.edu>
URL: www.bioinfo.wsu.edu<http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/>
The Malus x domestica genome v1.0 pseudo haplotype assemblies are a set of four different assemblies (primary and alternates 1, 2 and 3) derived from the contigs of the original v1.0 assembly. These pseudo haplotypes are intended to divde overlapping contigs in the original assembly into four different consensus sequences representing the four different haplotypes present in the apple genome. However, these assemblies are not true haplotypes, hence the name "pseudo haplotypes". Currently, only the primary pseudo haplotype assembly is available on GDR. Gaps of 200,000 N's were used to space scaffolds in the assembly. These pseudo haplotype assembles were constructed at the Instituo<http://www.iasma.it/> <http://www.iasma.it/> Agrario Di San Michelle <http://www.iasma.it/> All'Adige in collaboration with the NCBI<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go/>.
For more information, downloads and GBrowse visualization see the apple genome project page<http://www.rosaceae.org/projects/apple_genome>.
Dorrie Main, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Dept. of Horticulture and landscape Architecture
Washington State University
45 Johnson Hall
Pullman, WA 99164-6414
Tel: 509-335-2774 (office)
Email: dorrie(a)wsu.edu<mailto:dorrie@wsu.edu><mailto:dorrie@wsu.edu>
URL: www.bioinfo.wsu.edu<http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/>
The U.S. Rosaceae Genomics, Genetics and Breeding Executive Committee (RosEXEC) will be meeting at the PAG XX conference on Sunday, 15Jan in the Dover Meeting Room (not our usual location) from 8:00-10:00 am PST. It will be followed by a meeting of the Rosaceae International Genomics Initiative (RosIGI) from 10-noon. Both meetings are open to all who are interested in attending.
An agenda for the RosEXEC meeting is attached.
If you are interested in participating via skype, please email Chris Dardick (mailto:chris.dardick@ars.usda.gov) in case contact information changes.
Hope to see you at PAG,
Jay Norelli
2012 RosEXEC Chair
John (Jay) Norelli
Research Plant Pathologist
USDA-ARS, Appalachian Fruit Research Station
telephone: (304) 725-3451 x264
email: jay.norelli(a)ars.usda.gov<mailto:jay.norelli@ars.usda.gov>
fax: (304) 728-2340
address: 2217 Wiltshire Road
Kearneysville, WV 25430
Dear Rosaceae Community,
I would like to invite you to a community discussion in San Diego sponsored
by RosBREED. The goal of this discussion is to present an update on the
informativeness of the 8K apple, 9K peach, and 6K cherry Illumina Infiinium
SNP arrays and progress toward the development of a strawberry SNP array.
The meeting is at 3:30 PST, Friday, January 13th, 2012 in the Courtyard
Marriott San Diego Mission Valley (595 Hotel Circle South, San Diego)
Inspire Ballroom. (Also see attached announcement.)
We look forward to your joining us. Best wishes for a wonderful holiday
season.
Sincerely, Amy
--
Amy Iezzoni
Professor
Michigan State University
Department of Horticulture
A342-B PSSB
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517) 355 -5191 x 1391
LAST chance to VOTE in RosEXEC 2012 Membership Election
To cast your ballot go to: http://www.rosaceae.org/bio/content/?title=&url=/cgi-bin/gdr/gdr_rosexec_me…
ALL US Rosaceae community members are eligible to vote.
International members are eligible to vote for international liaisons.
Polls will close Sunday, October 16, 2011 at midnight, Pacific ST. Detailed information below.
VOTE Now<http://www.rosaceae.org/bio/content/?title=&url=/cgi-bin/gdr/gdr_rosexec_me…>
RosEXEC Membership 2012 Ballot Announcement
Five US RosEXEC committee members are rotating off the Committee this year:
Angela Baldo, Nahla Bassil, Jim Hancock, Bryon Sosinski and Phil Stewart
Two international liaisons are rotating off: David Chagne and Herman Silva
To replace these members, you are voting to elect five new U.S.-based members to serve 3 year terms and two international liaisons to serve 2 year terms on the RosEXEC committee. All US community members are eligible to vote. International members are eligible to vote for international liaisons.
A brief bio and vision statement has been prepared by all candidates and is available at Candidate Bios<http://www.rosaceae.org/node/472>.
Because the 2 continuing international liaisons are from Europe, to preserve a balance between European and non-European representation, the non-European candidate receiving the most votes and the remaining candidate with the most votes will be elected as international liaisons.
There are a total of 16 elected U.S. members on RosEXEC, and we try to represent the diverse interests of the Rosaceae genomics, genetics, and breeding community. To preserve a balance between US members representing industry, academia and government representation, the industry candidate receiving the most votes and the four remaining candidates with the most votes will be elected as US members. The 11 continuing U.S. RosEXEC committee members are working in the following areas (under represented areas [<20%] are asterisked):
Affiliation
No. of members
Supertribe
Kerriodae (Prunus)
3.60
Pyrodae (Malus, Pyrus)
2.75
Rosodae
4.65
Institution
Academia
8
Government
2*
Industry
1***
U.S. Geographic Region
East
3
South
6
West
2*
Members who will continue to serve in 2012 :John Clark, Chris Dardick, Kate Evans, Kevin Folta, Ksenija Gasic, Amy Iezzoni, Jim McFerson, Jay Norelli, Mercy Olmstead, Janet Slovin, J.D. Swanson and Vance Whitaker
John (Jay) Norelli
Research Plant Pathologist
USDA-ARS, Appalachian Fruit Research Station
telephone: (304) 725-3451 x264
email: jay.norelli(a)ars.usda.gov<mailto:jay.norelli@ars.usda.gov>
fax: (304) 728-2340
address: 2217 Wiltshire Road
Kearneysville, WV 25430
VOTE NOW in RosEXEC 2012 Membership Election
To cast your ballot go to: http://www.rosaceae.org/bio/content/?title=&url=/cgi-bin/gdr/gdr_rosexec_me…
ALL US Rosaceae community members are eligible to vote.
International members are eligible to vote for international liaisons.
Polls will be open until October 7, 2011, detailed information below.
VOTE Now<http://www.rosaceae.org/bio/content/?title=&url=/cgi-bin/gdr/gdr_rosexec_me…>
RosEXEC Membership 2012 Ballot Announcement
Five US RosEXEC committee members are rotating off the Committee this year:
Angela Baldo, Nahla Bassil, Jim Hancock, Bryon Sosinski and Phil Stewart
Two international liaisons are rotating off: David Chagne and Herman Silva
To replace these members, you are voting to elect five new U.S.-based members to serve 3 year terms and two international liaisons to serve 2 year terms on the RosEXEC committee. All US community members are eligible to vote. International members are eligible to vote for international liaisons.
A brief bio and vision statement has been prepared by all candidates and is available at Candidate Bios<http://www.rosaceae.org/node/472>.
Because the 2 continuing international liaisons are from Europe, to preserve a balance between European and non-European representation, the non-European candidate receiving the most votes and the remaining candidate with the most votes will be elected as international liaisons.
There are a total of 16 elected U.S. members on RosEXEC, and we try to represent the diverse interests of the Rosaceae genomics, genetics, and breeding community. To preserve a balance between US members representing industry, academia and government representation, the industry candidate receiving the most votes and the four remaining candidates with the most votes will be elected as US members. The 11 continuing U.S. RosEXEC committee members are working in the following areas (under represented areas [<20%] are asterisked):
Affiliation
No. of members
Supertribe
Kerriodae (Prunus)
3.60
Pyrodae (Malus, Pyrus)
2.75
Rosodae
4.65
Institution
Academia
8
Government
2*
Industry
1***
U.S. Geographic Region
East
3
South
6
West
2*
Members who will continue to serve in 2012 :John Clark, Chris Dardick, Kate Evans, Kevin Folta, Ksenija Gasic, Amy Iezzoni, Jim McFerson, Jay Norelli, Mercy Olmstead, Janet Slovin, J.D. Swanson and Vance Whitaker
