Dear ICGI member:
I am writing to communicate the results of the recent ICGI election. On behalf of the steering committee, I want to thank all candidates taking part in the election. We very much appreciate your willingness to serve our international cotton genetics and genomics community.
Also, I would like to thank you all for the opportunity to lead ICGI as overall chair these past few years. Despite a global pandemic, ICGI continues to foster collaboration and interaction among international colleagues and friends. Please join me in supporting Prof. Xianlong Zhang of Huazhong Agricultural University as he officially becomes Overall Chair of ICGI, and my congratulations to newly elected steering committee members!
Newly elected steering committee members are:
Overall Co-Chair David Fang, USDA-ARS, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Breeding & Applied Genomic Co-Chair Duke Pauli, University of Arizona, USA
Comparative Genomics & Bioinformatics Co-Chair Maojun Wang, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Functional Genomics Co-Chair Longfu Zhu, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Germplasm & Genetic Stocks Co-Chair Warren Conaty, CSIRO, Australia
Structural Genomics Co-Chair Lori Hinze, USDA-ARS, College Station, Texas, USA
Regards,
Todd
___________________________________ B. Todd Campbell, Ph.D. Research Geneticist USDA-ARS, Coastal Plains Soil, Water, and Plant Research Center 2611 West Lucas St. Florence, SC 29501 Phone: 1-843-496-3751 ___________________________________
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