Dear ICGI members, Nominations are invited for the third ICGI Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cotton Genomics. The winner will be invited to give a plenary talk at the upcoming ICGI meeting in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, September 25-28, 2014, with all costs (travel, lodging, etc) paid by ICGI. Nominations should be limited to 1 page, using 12-point font and 1" margins. Recommended contents include a brief description of the nominee's contributions to cotton genomics, and whatever additional relevant information the nominator wishes to include in a single page. Nominations will be evaluated by a small committee selected for knowledge of the cotton community and with a minimum of conflicts of interest. Please send nominations in either .doc or .pdf format to Tianzhen Zhang, cotton(a)njau.edu.cn, by 28 February 2014. If you do not get a response acknowledging reception of your nominations, please inquire! Prof. Dr.Tianzhen Zhang ICGI Chair cotton 2014-01-31