Dear ICGI Members:

This is to remind you of ongoing 2019 ICGI election for new officers. Thank those ICGI members who have voted and who cannot revote. You have exercised your right!

For those who have not voted yet, please follow the forwarded information on how to access the election page, read each candidate's statement, and cast your vote as soon as possible but no later than May 1, 2019.

A few of you might have missed my original election announcement on April 1 due to potential commercial address filtration and/or blockage. I hope that you receive this email with the election instructions.

Thanks again for exercising your right as voting members,

John Yu ICGI Chair

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Yu, John John.Yu@ars.usda.gov Date: Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 6:26 PM Subject: [ICGI] ICGI Election for New Officers To: icgi-list@cottongen.org icgi-list@cottongen.org

Dear ICGI members:

Per ICGI bylaws, elections are held biennially for the Overall Co-Chair and all Workgroup Co-Chairs.

After serving two years, the Co-Chairs will assume the respective Chair positions. Note that both the Chairs and Co-Chairs serve on ICGI's Executive Steering Committee.

We request a few minutes of your time now, please, to consider candidates and place your votes for our new Officers. Thanks for your time and input.

The 2019 election for new officers is held from April 1-May 1.

NOTE: We are fortunate in having two or more candidates for every officer position. BEFORE or DURING VOTING, you can access each candidate's statement for your choice.

TO VOTE:

[1] Go to and read the Election Home Page: https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/election/2019 https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cottongen.org_icgi_election_2019&d=DwMF-g&c=ODFT-G5SujMiGrKuoJJjVg&r=jxi6Ioh3NeOeTy-FJnRWYQ&m=S9cuBbSvXs2RO57uZK_25cpGa8fRsNAgM_uVokEmpSQ&s=5_b4FbWB88dhhakO75JH_EiEAY2TorBEhDPJPHh4-vs&e= (Or copy- paste this URL to your web browser to open);

[2] LOGIN INTO YOUR ICGI account that was created by April 1, 2019;

[3] Click the word ‘*here*’ under ‘ICGI ELECTION’ on the upper-right of your membership page;

[4] You can vote for only one candidate per office.

NOTE: Once you submit your ballot, any vote on that ballot for a given office cannot be changed.

Thank you, in advance, for your taking time to vote!

John Yu, ICGI Chair

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John Z. Yu, Ph.D.

Research Geneticist

USDA-ARS

Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center

Adjunct Professor

Interdisciplinary Faculty of Genetics

Texas A&M University

2675 F&B Road

College Station, TX 77845, USA

979-260-9237 (Office)

979-260-9522 (Lab)

979-260-9333 (Fax)

john.yu@ars.usda.gov; johnyu@tamu.edu

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Dear ICGI members:

This is to inform you that we have concluded our 2019 election for new ICGI officers, and the ICGI Executive Steering Committee has ratified the election results.

Attached are a spreadsheet and its ratification that detail the election results. Among the 378 members listed on the ICGI website, 323 were registered as voting members. Over the 2019 election period from April 1 to May 1, a total of 172 ICGI voting members cast their ballots and thus was 53.25%. There were small numbers among the 172 voting members who did not cast their votes to all offices, indicating "Abstain" from votes of the same numbers short of the 172 total.

Please join me in *thanking all running candidates, *and *congratulating the following winners* who received the greatest number of votes in each category and thus were deemed to be elected per ICGI C&BL VII.1 (g).

ICGI Overall Co-Chair: *Todd Campbell*, USDA-ARS, Florence, South Carolina, USA;

Breeding & Applied Genomics Workgroup Co-Chair: *Wuwei Ye*, CAAS-CRI, Anyang, Henan, China;

Comparative & Bioinformatics Workgroup Co-Chair: *Amanda Hulse-Kemp*, USDA-ARS, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA;

Functional Genomics Workgroup Co-Chair: *Xueying Guan*, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China;

Germplasm & Genetic Stocks Workgroup Co-Chair: *Lori Hinze*, USDA-ARS, College Station, Texas, USA;

Structural Genomics Workgroup Co-Chair: *Youlu Yuan*, CAAS-CRI, Anyang, Henan, China.

Thus, our *new (2019-2021) workgroup leadership *looks like this:

*Workgroup* *Chair Co-Chair**

ICGI Overall Tianzhen Zhang Todd Campbell

Breeding and Applied Genomics Shuijin Zhu Wuwei Ye

Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics Joshua Udall Amanda Hulse-Kemp

Functional Genomics Shuangxia Jin Xueying Guan

Germplasm & Genetic Stocks Md Tehseen Azhar Lori Hinze

Structural Genomics Peng Chee Youlu Yuan

**Upon the 2021 election, the Co‐Chairs will assume the respective Chair positions.*

Please also join me in *thanking our past executive steering committee members *for their many contributions to our dialogue and decision-making over the past two years:

Tianzhen Zhang (Overall Co-Chair)

Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov (Workgroup Chair)

Md Tehseen Azhar (Workgroup Co-chair)

Peng Chee (Workgroup Co-chair)

Xiongming Du (Workgroup Chair)

Wangzhen Guo (Workgroup Chair)

Shuangxia Jin (Workgroup Co-chair)

Jodi Scheffler (Workgroup Chair)

Guoli Song (Workgroup Chair)

Joshua Udall (Workgroup Co-chair)

Shuijin Zhu (Workgroup Co-chair)

Don Jones (Chair of the Advisory Committee)

Steve Hague (Secretary/Treasurer)

Jing Yu (Website/Membership Coordinator)

In parting, I wish to *thank you all and the rest of the cotton industry and research community *for the trust and support in many ways for me to serve another term. I am confident that cotton genomics is entering a new era that will help translate past accomplishments of knowledge and resources into real applications of cotton improvement. At present, ICGI is working on a white paper of strategic plans to explore and capture such expanded possibilities. You are encouraged to provide input to the writing committee through new chair Tianzhen Zhang and new co-chair Todd Campbell. As announced early this year, our next biennial research conference will be held in Rehovot, Israel on August 3-6, 2020. Yehoshua Saranga and Deborah Art-Weisman of the local organizing committee are currently working with Dorrie Main and Jing Yu of the CottonGen team to develop an ICGI conference webpage that will have all necessary information. Please stay involved in ICGI with the new leadership!

John Z. Yu

Past Chair, ICGI [image: image.png] On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 6:26 PM Yu, John John.Yu@ars.usda.gov wrote:

Dear ICGI members:

Per ICGI bylaws, elections are held biennially for the Overall Co-Chair and all Workgroup Co-Chairs.

After serving two years, the Co-Chairs will assume the respective Chair positions. Note that both the Chairs and Co-Chairs serve on ICGI's Executive Steering Committee.

We request a few minutes of your time now, please, to consider candidates and place your votes for our new Officers. Thanks for your time and input.

The 2019 election for new officers is held from April 1-May 1.

NOTE: We are fortunate in having two or more candidates for every officer position. BEFORE or DURING VOTING, you can access each candidate's statement for your choice.

TO VOTE:

[1] Go to and read the Election Home Page: https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/election/2019 https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cottongen.org_icgi_election_2019&d=DwMF-g&c=ODFT-G5SujMiGrKuoJJjVg&r=jxi6Ioh3NeOeTy-FJnRWYQ&m=S9cuBbSvXs2RO57uZK_25cpGa8fRsNAgM_uVokEmpSQ&s=5_b4FbWB88dhhakO75JH_EiEAY2TorBEhDPJPHh4-vs&e= (Or copy- paste this URL to your web browser to open;

[2] LOGIN INTO YOUR ICGI account that was created by April 1, 2019;

[3] Click the word ‘*here*’ under ‘ICGI ELECTION’ on the upper-right of your membership page;

[4] You can vote for only one candidate per office.

NOTE: Once you submit your ballot, any vote on that ballot for a given office cannot be changed.

Thank you, in advance, for your taking time to vote!

John Yu, ICGI Chair

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John Z. Yu, Ph.D.

Research Geneticist

USDA-ARS

Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center

Adjunct Professor

Interdisciplinary Faculty of Genetics

Texas A&M University

2675 F&B Road

College Station, TX 77845, USA

979-260-9237 (Office)

979-260-9522 (Lab)

979-260-9333 (Fax)

john.yu@ars.usda.gov; johnyu@tamu.edu

This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. _______________________________________________ Main Bioinformatics Laboratory ICGI-LIST mailing list ICGI-LIST@bioinfo.wsu.edu