The call for nominations to RosEXEC has been extended until August 26, 2011. If you are interested in serving on the RosEXEC you can nominate yourself. See instructions below.
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 (Angela Baldo, Nahla Bassil, Jim Hancock, Bryon Sosinski and Phil Stewart) will be rotating off the RosEXEC in January of 2012.
In 2011, five new RosEXEC members will be elected to a 3 year term to replace them in January. All members of the Rosaceae community are invited to nominate candidates for election. Nomination of candidates who have not previously served on the RosEXEC and representatives of industry are encouraged. Members rotating off RosEXEC in January 2012 are not eligible for nomination (see list above). Members who will continue to serve in 2012 include, 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 , so no need to nominate them as they will already be serving. Other former members of RosEXEC are eligible for nomination.
International liaison members, Herman Silva (South America) and David Chagné (Australia/New Zealand) will be rotating off in January after 2 years of excellent service and we are also seeking nomination of international liaisons to a 2 year term on RosEXEC. Liaison members remaining through 2013 are Thomas Debener (Europe) and Michela Troggio (Europe).
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 Jay Norelli (jay.norelli(a)ars.usda.gov <file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\jnorelli\My%20Documents\Administration\Rosaceae%20Community\RosEXEC%20officer\Election2011\jay.norelli@ars.usda.gov> ), Chair of the RosEXEC membership committee by August 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 September.
Former RosEXEC members: Herb Aldwinckle, Bert Abbott, Abhaya Dandekar, Tom Davis, Amit Dhingra, Gennaro Fazio, Chad Finn, Stan Hokanson, Schuyler Korban, Kim Lewers, Jim Luby, Cameron Peace, Vladimir Shulaev, Dariusz Swietlik, Gary van Sickle, and Gayle Volk.
Former international liaisons: Pere Arús, Sue Gardiner, Jasper Rees, Dan Sargent, and Eric van de Weg.
Jay Norelli
Chair of RosEXEC membership committee
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
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 (Angela Baldo, Nahla Bassil, Jim Hancock, Bryon Sosinski and Phil Stewart) will be rotating off the RosEXEC in January of 2012.
In 2011, five new RosEXEC members will be elected to a 3 year term to replace them in January. All members of the Rosaceae community are invited to nominate candidates for election. Nomination of candidates who have not previously served on the RosEXEC and representatives of industry are encouraged. Members rotating off RosEXEC in January 2012 are not eligible for nomination (see list above). Members who will continue to serve in 2012 include, 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, so no need to nominate them as they will already be serving. Other former members of RosEXEC are eligible for nomination.
International liaison members, Herman Silva (South America) and David Chagné (Australia/New Zealand) will be rotating off in January after 2 years of excellent service and we are also seeking nomination of international liaisons to a 2 year term on RosEXEC. Liaison members remaining through 2013 are Thomas Debener (Europe) and Michela Troggio (Europe).
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 Jay Norelli (jay.norelli(a)ars.usda.gov), Chair of the RosEXEC membership committee by August 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 September.
Former RosEXEC members: Herb Aldwinckle, Bert Abbott, Abhaya Dandekar, Tom Davis, Amit Dhingra, Gennaro Fazio, Chad Finn, Stan Hokanson, Schuyler Korban, Kim Lewers, Jim Luby, Cameron Peace, Vladimir Shulaev, Dariusz Swietlik, Gary van Sickle, and Gayle Volk.
Former international liaisons: Pere Arús, Sue Gardiner, Jasper Rees, Dan Sargent, and Eric van de Weg.
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
Hi Folks,
We are planning to generate new unigene data sets for Rosaceae genera and would like to be able to include next generation transcript data in the unigene data sets. Some of you have already provided your assembled data and we will include those in the next builds (unigene v5) with acknowledgement of who generated the data sets and what tissues/development stage etc were included.
Please let me know if you have any datasets you would like included by the end of March as we will begin the process at the beginning of April.
In terms of the annotation we will provide the following for the unigene sequences.
GO Terms, InterPro Scan domains, KEGG, Swissprot, TrEMBL annotation, relevant plant protein homologs which will be searchable, browsable and downloadable (with all summary statistics)
Mapping of the unigenes to the peach, apple and strawberry genomes (excel file linked to GBrowse and a GBrowse track)
Identification of microsatellites and COS markers (also available as downloadable file and linked to GBrowse).
Thanks
Dorrie
Dorrie Main, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Dept of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Washington State University
45 Johnson Hall, Pullman, WA 99164-6414
Email: dorrie(a)wsu.edu
Tel: (509) 335 2774
Fax: (509) 335 8690
URL: www.bioinfo.wsu.edu <http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/>
Our annual meeting is set for the same time and place as customary, in conjunction with the PAG Conference, San Diego:
Sun 8-10am
Towne Room, Town & Country Center
I will be sending out an agenda shortly.
All Community members are welcome. Jim
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James R. McFerson, PhD
WA Tree Fruit Research Commission
1719 Springwater Ave
Wenatchee, WA 98801
off: 509-665-8271
mob: 509-669-3900
Dear Colleague,
If you are attending PAG XIX, San Diego this year, I invite you to attend
the PAG Plant Phenotypes Workshop Sunday Jan 16 8-10:10 am Pacific Salon 1,
and also to visit Exhibit Booth #427 PAG XIX Outreach Consortium for Plant
Genome Data Resources.
At the WORKSHOP, there will be a panel discussion about phenotype data
resources. Towards that end, we would greatly appreciate if you would spend
10-15 minutes to take a survey of your data needs.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PlantPhenotypeWorkshop2011
Workshop program:
8:00 Welcome
>>>
>>> Featured talks (in order)
>>>
>>> 8:10 Sean May "If you build it.....(NASC phenomics)"
>>>
>>> 8:30 Matt Vaughn "iPlant's cyberinfrastructure for high-throughput image
>>> analysis"
>>>
>>> 8:50 Richard Poire "Next generation plant biofuel research and the High
>>> Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre"
>>>
>>> 9:10 Geoff Fincher "Evaluation of next generation phenotyping: the
>>> Australian Plant Phenomics Facility"
>>>
>>> UPDATES, Wrap-up and discussion
>>>
>>> 9:30 Laurel Cooper "Plant Ontology"
>>>
>>> 9:35 Elizabeth Arnoud "Crop Ontology update"
>>>
>>> 9:40 Eva Huala "RCN Phenotype Ontology Plants, animals, etc."
>>>
>>> 9:45 Chi-Ren Shyu "Next generation phenotype data mining update" and
>>> wrap-up/survey discussion.
>>>
9:50-10:10 Panel Discussion and community input
We are looking forward to meeting you.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Mary Schaeffer and Chi-Ren Shyu, Co-Organizers of Plant Phenotype
>>> Workshop at PAG 2011
>>>
Go to the GDR and follow the link to elect your U.S. RosEXEC!!!
http://www.rosaceae.org
Voting ends TODAY 19 Nov 2010
You are voting for individuals to serve for a three-year term on the U.S. Genomics, Genetics, and Breeding Executive Committee (RosEXEC). There are five open seats on the 15 member Committee and 2 open seats for international liaisons.
Check out the candidate bios and RosEXEC vision statements. Vote for candidates to represent the diversity of our fabulous family. Any individual working in Rosaceae is eligible to vote, including students. Non-U.S. community members are urged to vote for their international liaisons.
Questions? Contact Jim McFerson (mcferson(a)treefruitresearch.com), Chair of the RosEXEC membership committee.
My email address is - sujeet.verma(a)email.wsu.edu
Sujeet Verma
Ph.D Candidate
Tree Fruit Genetics and Genomics
Department of Horticulture and LA
Lab: 509-335-5298,
Office: FSHN 322 (509-335-0543)
Washington State University,
Pullman, USA
My email:
Oron.gar(a)mail.huji.ac.il
Oron Gar PhD. student
The Hebrew university of Jerusalem
The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture
Professor Dani Zamir Laboratory
P.O Box 12, Rehovot 76100
Israel
Tel: 972-52-5676460, 972-8-9489250
Fax: 972-8-948-9943
E-MAIL: ORON.GAR(a)MAIL.HUJI.AC.IL
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Community Members:
Many of you have already voted for new members to RosEXEC. Be aware that
voting will terminate on 19 Nov, two weeks from now.
Please visit the GDR web site to cast your ballot electronically.
http://www.rosaceae.org/bio/content?title=&url=/cgi-bin/gdr/gdr_rosexec_memb
ership_2011_vote_form.cgi&style=height:1600px;width:950px
All community members are eligible to vote. Thanks! Jim
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James R. McFerson, PhD
WA Tree Fruit Research Commission & Vice-Chair, RosEXEC
1719 Springwater St
Wenatchee, WA 98801
work: 509.665.8271 x1
mob: 509.669.3900
