Dear ICGI members,
Please find attached a spreadsheet detailing the election results. For the Germplasm and Genetic Stocks workgroup, there was a tie. Since our bylaws do not address this, the steering committee has voted unanimously … and the two candidates who are tied have agreed … that we will have two co-chairs (along with the chair) of this workgroup for the next two years, who will then serve for another two years as joint chairs.
At risk of sounding like the Academy Awards …
To all who voted, thank you for exercising this important right and responsibility.
To all who ran for office, thank you for offering to serve ICGI.
To newly elected co-chairs David Stelly, David Fang, Daniel Peterson, Sukumar Saha, Xianlong Zhang, Dorrie Main, and me, congratulations, and keep up the good work.
To the outgoing chairs, thank you for your 4 years (or more) of service.
To all members, thank you for the privilege of allowing me to serve as Chair for the past two years, a time that was of singular importance in my own cotton research. As the new co-chair of Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics, I look forward to joining Richard Percy as another former chair who continues to serve via workgroups, in support of Tianzhen Zhang who succeeds me as Chair, and yet another former chair David Stelly who will re-assume the Chair in 2015.
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Andrew Paterson
Regents Professor and Head,
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory (Dept #398)
University of Georgia
111 Riverbend Road, Rm 228
Athens GA 30605
(for UPS deliveries the zip code is 30605)
Phone 1-706-583-0162; Fax 1-706-583-0160; Email paterson(a)plantbio.uga.edu
Web site: http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu/
Program Coordinators:
Anne A. Ogden, 706-583-0166, ogden(a)uga.edu
Melissa D. Brock, 706-583-0161, mbrock(a)uga.edu
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andrew Paterson <paterson at plantbio.uga.edu>
Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Subject: [ICGI] Election extended to 3 April
To: icgi-list at cottongen.org
Dear ICGI members,
Tomorrow (March 20) will be the end of the 30 day period for the ICGI 2013 election. At present, only about 30% (108 of 349) of members have voted, so that it is very unlikely that we will reach 50% by the end of tomorrow.
Per our bylaws, we will therefore extend the election for two weeks, to the end of the day on April 3. Also per our bylaws, balloting will close after April 3, regardless of the % of the membership that has voted.
Please exercise your most important right and responsibility -- vote!
Thanks,
Andrew Paterson, Chair
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Andrew Paterson
Regents Professor and Head,
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory (Dept #398)
University of Georgia
111 Riverbend Road, Rm 228
Athens GA 30605
(for UPS deliveries the zip code is 30605)
Phone 1-706-583-0162; Fax 1-706-583-0160; Email paterson at plantbio.uga.edu
Web site: http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu/
Program Coordinators:
Anne A. Ogden, 706-583-0166, ogden at uga.edu
Melissa D. Brock, 706-583-0161, mbrock at uga.edu
