Greetings to All ICGI members!!!
We hope everyone is doing well.
2014 ICGI Res Conference will be held on Sept 25 to 28, 2014 in Wuhan, Hubei, China. So, please arrange your time and attend this exciting conference. Full details of the meeting, registration information, and hotel information, visa and program etc will be available after ICGI Steering Committee meeting in San Diego in next January.
Prof. Dr.Tianzhen Zhang
Chair, ICGI
Natl Key Lab of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement
College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University
Nanjing 210095, Jiangsu Province, China
Tel./Fax: +86 25 84395307
E.mail: cotton(a)njau.edu.cn, tzzhangnj(a)163.com
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
________________
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
Dear Cotton Community Members,
Please accept our apology for the email you received yesterday containing unsupported statements about a fellow member of CottonGen and ICGI. To rectify this situation we include below a clarification offered to us by Dr. Paterson. In the future, any communication requests from members to the CottonGen/ICGI mailing lists will be sent to the steering committees for approval before posting.
Sincerely,
Dorrie Main
CottonGen Principal Investigator
Note from Dr. Andrew Paterson in reply to Dr. Thea Wilkins second email regarding access to genomic resources.
Having noted yesterday the merit of Dr. Wilkins libraries, ICGI members also may wish to consider that non-profit distribution centers including Texas A&M, CUGI/AGI, and PGML have BACs from the same genotypes used by Dr WIlkins. While these BACs would lack the value added by Dr Wilkins sequencing, they may be much less costly to obtain than those from a private vendor.
Dr. Wilkins unsupported comments about my BAC distribution record are incorrect. My policies were formulated under an NSF grant on which Dr. Wilkins was the PI. These policies and my record have been regularly reviewed and found satisfactory by my research sponsors. We have had an online ordering system (http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu/catalog/index.php?cPath=1) for many years, and requests are filled promptly. All who have requested BACs from me have received them. Likewise, our probe sequences were deposited in Genbank soon after their completion, and genome sequences that I have overseen were publicly released nearly a year (for cotton, and nearly 2 years for sorghum) in advance of publication.
Best wishes to all.
Andrew Paterson, Chair, ICGI and
Regents Professor, University of Georgia.
Dorrie Main, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Department of Horticulture
Washington State University
45 Johnson Hall
Pullman, WA 99164-6414
Tel: 509-335-2774
Email: dorrie(a)wsu.edu
URL: www.bioinfo.wsu.edu
Some may wish to be aware that there are other public BAC libraries available (on a cost-recovery basis) for the same genotypes, although they are not the specific libraries that were used in Thea's sequencing.
On Mar 26, 2013, at 1:05 PM, "Yu, Jing" <jing.yu(a)wsu.edu> wrote:
> Dear Cotton Researchers,
>
> Dr. Thea WIlkins would like to release all of her genome resources through Amplicon Express (for lists the type and cost of services, please visit http://ampliconexpress.com), as they maintain excellent QC and provide a range of services. However, she needs know if there is sufficient interest by the community for Amplicon to provide such services.
>
> The resources are 6 BAC libraries of excellent quality with >125 kb inserts as follows
> ~8X MboI G. Arboreum AKA8401 library anchored by Andy Paterson
> ~6X BamHI G. arboreum AKA 8401 library used to generate sequence-based physical map
> ~6X EcoRI G. arboreum AKA 8401 library used to generate sequence-based physical map
>> 5X Gossypiodes Kirkii BAC library generated for making sequence-based physical map
>> 5X G. Kirkii library generated for making a sequence-based physical map
> 5X G. hirsutum TM1 BAC library
>
> Please let us know if you are interested in using these resources via services provided by Amplicon Express within the next two weeks. If there is not enough interest, these important resources, which are not currently available to the community, will be lost to the community forever.
>
> Please reply to this email with either a “yes” or “no” (please use reply and not reply all).
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Dr. Jing Yu
> CottonGen Curator
> _______________________________________________
> Main Bioinformatics Laboratory
> ICGI-LIST mailing list
> ICGI-LIST(a)cottongen.org
>
>
>
________________
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
Dear Cotton Researchers,
Dr. Thea WIlkins would like to release all of her genome resources through Amplicon Express (for lists the type and cost of services, please visit http://ampliconexpress.com), as they maintain excellent QC and provide a range of services. However, she needs know if there is sufficient interest by the community for Amplicon to provide such services.
The resources are 6 BAC libraries of excellent quality with >125 kb inserts as follows
~8X MboI G. Arboreum AKA8401 library anchored by Andy Paterson
~6X BamHI G. arboreum AKA 8401 library used to generate sequence-based physical map
~6X EcoRI G. arboreum AKA 8401 library used to generate sequence-based physical map
>5X Gossypiodes Kirkii BAC library generated for making sequence-based physical map
>5X G. Kirkii library generated for making a sequence-based physical map
5X G. hirsutum TM1 BAC library
Please let us know if you are interested in using these resources via services provided by Amplicon Express within the next two weeks. If there is not enough interest, these important resources, which are not currently available to the community, will be lost to the community forever.
Please reply to this email with either a “yes” or “no” (please use reply and not reply all).
Thank you for your help.
Dr. Jing Yu
CottonGen Curator
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andrew Paterson <paterson(a)plantbio.uga.edu>
Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Subject: [ICGI] Election extended to 3 April
To: icgi-list(a)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
________________
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/
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
________________
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
Dear ICGI members,
[ If you have already voted, simply ignore this email. ]
The 2013 ICGI Election starts from Feb. 19, 2013 for 30 days. To view candidate statements and/or to cast your vote, please go to this page: http://www.cottongen.org/icgi/elections/2013
You will need to log in your ICGI Membership to vote. If you have any problem or questions, please refer to the ICGI FAQ (http://www.cottongen.org/icgi/faq) or send an email via http://www.cottongen.org/contact.
Thank you.
The CottonGen/ICGI Webmaster
Dear ICGI members,
The 2013 ICGI Election starts from Feb. 19, 2013 for 30 days. To view candidate statements and/or to cast your vote, please go to this page: http://www.cottongen.org/icgi/elections/2013
You will need to log in your ICGI Membership to vote. If you have any problem or questions, please refer to the ICGI FAQ (http://www.cottongen.org/icgi/faq) or send an email via http://www.cottongen.org/contact.
Thank you.
The CottonGen/ICGI Webmaster
