Hi Folks,
NSF are unable to support a renewal for GDR this year although a small supplementary award to the original grant may be possible. While it is very dissapointing, we will continue to do what we can while we pursue other sources of funding but please be aware we don't have any resources available to us at the current time.
You have been a really great community to work with and we appreciate all your support as we have built the database.
Cheers
Dorrie, Sook and Bert
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Dorrie Main, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Center for Integrated Biotechnology
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
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Dear Dorrie, Sook, Bert,
This is really bad news. I think that we cannot afford to loose such a useful resource, that would be a clear step back in the progress of Rosaceae genomics. We have to start thinking of ways to keep the GDR going.
Thanks for all your efforts and for having made available to us this useful tool.
Best regards,
Pere
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Tema: [GDR] GDR Renewal
Hi Folks,
NSF are unable to support a renewal for GDR this year although a small supplementary award to the original grant may be possible. While it is very dissapointing, we will continue to do what we can while we pursue other sources of funding but please be aware we don't have any resources available to us at the current time.
You have been a really great community to work with and we appreciate all your support as we have built the database.
Cheers
Dorrie, Sook and Bert
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Dorrie Main, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Center for Integrated Biotechnology
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
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Dear colleagues,
I am forwarding the advertisement for two postdoctoral opportunities: one
in apple functional genomics at USDA/Washington State University and the
other in garden rose architecture at INRA, France.
Please check GDR site for details.
http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/gdr/community/employment/
Best,
Sook
4th Rosaceae Genomics Conference
First Announcement:
With the recent news regarding the genome sequencing of members of the
Rosaceae family, the next few years promise to be very fruitful and
exciting times. With the hope of sharing information associated these
and other exciting advances, we invite you to join us at the 4th
International Rosaceae Genomics Conference to be held in CHILE. The
4th RGC should be a turning point in Rosaceae Genomics research and
will help us to organize our …
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We look forward to seeing all of you at this meeting so that we can
discuss the scientific advances as well as enjoy what Chile has to
offer.
Please join us at the 4th International Rosaceae Genomics Conference
in Pucon, Chile.
Date of Conference 16-19 March, 2008
Venue: Gran Hotel Pucon, Pucon, Chile
Abstract Title Due: October 31, 2007
Abstract Due: December 31, 2007
Acceptance of presentation as oral or poster: February 1, 2008
Early bird registration close February 15, 2008
We look forward to see you in Chile!!!
Saludos,
Organizing Committee
Lee Meisel
Eliseo Campos
Ariel Orellana
Chair of the Scientific Committee
Herman Silva
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Dear colleagues,
GDR will be trying to more actively incorporate ontology terms to describe
traits/QTLs and also to further develop the terms required for Rosaceae, in
collaboration with Plant Ontology Consortium (www.plantontology.org) and
gramene.
Inputs from researchers like you will be of great help for this effort, so
we'd appreciate if you can share your expertise in this effort.
Below is the excerpt from an email sent by Dr. Chih-Wei Tung, a POC curator.
"To start this collaboration, …
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researchers to browse and search current plant ontology (
www.plantontology.org/amigo/go.cgi), as well as trait ontology (
www.gramene.org/db/ontology/search_term?id=TO:0000387), your feedback is
very important for us to know what type of terms are missing or what types
of terms can be modified or add as synonyms to existing ontologies, these
are the information we'd really like to know from experts in Roseaceae
community. If you know of any references (books, websites, etc.) which can
helps us to understand the morphology, developmental stage, as well as
phenotypes of Rosaceae, please share with us, this will serve as a starting
point for POC curators to be familiar with these two families and facilitate
us to curate new terms when needed. Thank you so much! "
You can post your opinions in GDR mailing list (gdr-list(a)bioinfo.wsu.edu) so
that we can share and discuss the suggestion. If needed, we can make a
separate mailing list for this purpose.
Thank you,
Sook Jung
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Dear GDR Users;
Please find attached the latest GDR newsletter. Updates and future plans for GDR will be presented at the Fruit and Nut Workshop at PAG and Dorrie and Sook will be at PAG to answer any questions you may have. As always your support of GDR and your feedback is much appreciated.
Cheers
Dorrie
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Dr Dorrie Main
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Center for Integrated Biotechnology
Dept of Horticulture …
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Washington State University
45 Johnson Hall, Pullman, WA 99164-6414
Email: dorrie(a)wsu.edu
Tel: (509) 335 2774
Fax: (509) 335 8690
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The CSREES-NRI Rosaceae awards updates and strategic planning session will be held on Friday January 12, from 6 to 10 pm in the Windsor Rose Room (Located on the 9th floor of the Regency Tower). It is an open meeting.
EARLIER EMAIL INFORMATION
To Rosaceae Community Members,
At PAG on the evening of 12 January 2007 the recipents of the CSREES-NRI
Rosaceae Awards will give short updates of their projects. Following these
presentations, we have been asked to engage in a Strategic Planning …
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This session will be guided by three questions provided to us by Ed
Kaliekau. In preparation for this session, Kevin Folta and I (on behalf of
RosEXEC) and three volunteers (Carole Bassett, Cameron Peace and Schuylar
Korban) have developed the attached outline which we hope will help
facilitate this discussion. For you review, we have provided the outline in
two forms, one short 2 page version and one longer version that matches the
short version but is more developed.
We would appreciate your reading over the outline(s) we have prepared and
getting back to us with your comments, alterations, etc, prior to the 12th.
Thank you so much for your time. We look forward to hearing from you and
meeting with you later this week.
Best regards, Amy
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Dear Rosaceae Community,
The next meeting of the RosEXEC will be held on Sunday, January 14, 2006, 8-10 AM in the Town and Country Room of at the Town and Country Resort during the Plant Animal Genome XV Conference. This is an open meeting and your attendance and input are encouraged.
We are in the process of generating an agenda for the meeting. Please forward any business items as soon as possible to me at kfolta(a)ifas.ufl.edu .
Thank you, see you there.
Kevin Folta
RosEXEC ELECTIONS
The US Rosaceae Genomics, Genetics, & Breeding Executive Committee (RosEXEC) will be electing five new members to replace its five outgoing members prior to PAG15. RosEXEC was organized in 2006 to serve as a communication and coordination focal point for the U.S. Rosaceae genomics, genetics, and breeding community. We have four objectives:
1. Define research priorities based on input from the industry and the research community
2. Foster scientific interaction and …
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3. Promote research priorities
4. Coordinate educational efforts from the research community to the industry and the public
A list of the existing USRosEXEC members can be found on GDR at http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/gdr/community/rosexec/membership/index.shtml
Elections will be held electronically via the GDR at
http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/gdr/gdr_rosexec_membership_2006_vote_for…
The process is open to Rosaceae researchers currently based in the U.S., regardless of citizenship. Only one vote can be cast per candidate. Please strive to represent the diversity of our community by electing candidates from various crop interests, institutional affiliation, and geographic location.
The US RosEXEC Membership Committee has suggested some candidates on the voting form posted on the GDR at
http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/gdr/gdr_rosexec_membership_2006_vote_for…
but we urge interested community members to nominate other qualified candidates (also can be done via the voting page) or direct questions to Jim McFerson (mcferson(a)treefruitresearch.com <mailto:mcferson@treefruitresearch.com> ). Outgoing RosEXEC members are eligible for re-election to a new three year term.
Please note that you can also nominate and vote on up to 4 members as international liasons for the US RosEXEC. If you have any problems using the voting page, please email Dorrie Main (dorrie(a)wsu.edu). The deadline for voting is 13 Jan 2007, 5pm PST.
New members will be selected by vote totals and will serve three year terms. RosEXEC meets in person at the PAG and holds quarterly teleconferences. Amy Iezzoni is the outgoing and Kevin Folta is the incoming Chair.
We will be meeting on 14 Jan, 2007, 8.00 am to 10.00 am at the XV PAG Conference, San Diego, USA.
For more information see http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/gdr/community/rosexec/
Jim McFerson
RosEXEC Membership Committee
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To Rosaceae Community Members,
At PAG on the evening of 12 January 2007 the recipents of the CSREES-NRI
Rosaceae Awards will give short updates of their projects. Following these
presentations, we have been asked to engage in a Strategic Planning session.
This session will be guided by three questions provided to us by Ed
Kaliekau. In preparation for this session, Kevin Folta and I (on behalf of
RosEXEC) and three volunteers (Carole Bassett, Cameron Peace and Schuylar
Korban) have developed …
[View More]the attached outline which we hope will help
facilitate this discussion. For you review, we have provided links via GDR to the outline in
two forms, one short 2 page version <http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/gdr/community/rosexec/documents/GENERAL_DISCUSSI…> and one longer version <http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/gdr/community/rosexec/documents/GENERAL_DISCUSSI…> that matches the
short version but is more developed. These links are also available via the GDR home page. (http://www.rosaceae.org).
We would appreciate your reading over the outline(s) we have prepared and
getting back to us with your comments, alterations, etc, prior to the 12th.
Thank you so much for your time. We look forward to hearing from you and
meeting with you later this week.
Best regards,
Amy
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