Dear ICGI members, This letter primarily calls for nominations of ICGI Officers, but also mentions dates for our 2018 biennial meeting. Please help ICGI distribute the information: If you know ICGI members whose email addresses have recently changed, please share this email with them – they should update their record at ICGI. Membership involves no cost. If you know of individuals interested in cotton genomics and/or its applications and who are not members but should be or might be interested, please refer them to our web site https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/home <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/home>;. 2017 ELECTION: ICGI requests your help at this time in nominating individuals for our ICGI leadership positions. I was supposed to commence this process in January –- please accept my apologies for the delay. 2018 BIENNIAL MEETING: In the very near future, members should receive one or more emails with information regarding our 2018 biennial meeting. Details are being solidified at this time, but our 2018 meeting will be in Edinburgh, Scotland May 28 – June 1. Please mark your calendars and start planning accordingly! NOMINATIONS: At this time (May 2-16), ICGI solicits your nomination of individuals who would like to serve as ICGI officers. Each of the 6 officer positions involves a 4-year commitment: two years as Co-Chair and then two years as Chair. These positions are a great way to serve cotton, science, and the international community! Note that you can nominate yourself, and/or someone else, but IF someone else, PLEASE ask them before submitting their name. Some RULES -- According to the ICGI By-Laws (https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/constitution_bylaws#a7 <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/constitution_bylaws#a7> see Article VII: Election and Appointment of Officers): · An individual may accept a nomination for only one position per election. · Also, an officer cannot hold two positions at once, so current Co-chairs (soon to be Chairs) cannot be nominated for additional positions this election. · Current Chairs will be vacating their current positions, and can vie for positions other than the one they currently hold. Below – note that all current Chairs will retire and all Co-chairs will advance to the respective Chair positions: Current ICGI Officers (2015-2017) Workgroup Chair Co-Chair ICGI Overall David Stelly <http://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/77/profile> John Yu <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/174/profile> Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics Dorrie Main <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/4/profile> Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/165/profile> Breeding and Applied Genomics Andrew Paterson <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/131/profile> Jodi Scheffler <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/175/profile> Functional Genomics Daniel Peterson <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/614/profile> Guoli Song <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/4079/profile> Germplasm & Genetic Stocks Sukumar Saha <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/184/profile>;, Xianlong Zhang <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/67/profile> Xiongming Du <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/101/profile> Structural Genomics David Fang <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/121/profile> Wangzhen Guo <https://www.cottongen.org/icgi/member/206/profile> Please submit nominations by May 16, 2017 for any or all of the following positions: · Co-chair / Structural Genomics workgroup: ____________________________________ · Co-chair / Functional Genomics: ____________________________________ · Co-chair / Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics: __________________________________ · Co-chair / Germplasm and Genetic Stocks: ____________________________________ · Co-chair / Breeding and Applied Genomics) : ____________________________________ · Co-chair / ICGI overall: ____________________________________ Please email your nominations to me (stelly(a)tamu.edu <mailto:stelly@tamu.edu> SUBJECT LINE: ICGI NOMINATION), including the email address of the person(s) you wish to nominate and the office(s) for which that you wish to nominate them. I will REPLY to acknowledge reception of each nomination; lack of a reply may indicate that I did not receive your message. Nominees should prepare a 300-word statement or biosketch that can be shared with voters when the elections are opened. Thank you in advance! David Stelly ____________________________________ David M. Stelly Chair, ICGI - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - stelly(a)tamu.edu <mailto:stelly@tamu.edu> 9796762087(a)txt.att.net <mailto:9796762087@txt.att.net> (for urgent messages (TEXT ONLY) * * Office: (979) 845-2745 Mobile: (979) 676-2087 (iPhone) http://soilcrop.tamu.edu/staff/stelly-david-m/ <http://soilcrop.tamu.edu/staff/stelly-david-m/> http://genetics.tamu.edu/faculty/stelly_david1 <http://genetics.tamu.edu/faculty/stelly_david1> ______________________________________