Dear ICGI members,

Below is the list of candidates who have accepted nominations for the various ICGI offices. Candidates, if you wish to post a brief (1 paragraph) statement about your credentials and/or intentions as an officeholder, please email it to Jing Yu by no later than 8 February (jing.yu@wsu.edu), to be posted at the election site.

Jing, please open the site for votes at your earliest convenience after 8 February, and advise the membership by email of the url.

Thanks AP

PS: As I was writing this, I realized that one candidate has been nominated for two offices. Since this is contrary to our bylaws, I will contact the candidate to determine which office he prefers to run for. _________________

Co-chair Xiaoya Chen Co-chair David Stelly Structural David Fang Structural Yehoshua Saranga Structural Mauricio Ulloa Structural Xian-Long Zhang Functional Z. Jeffrey Chen Functional Daniel Peterson Germplasm Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov Germplasm Lori Hinze Germplasm Sukumar Saha Germplasm Xianlong Zhang Evol/Comp Wangzhen Guo Evol/Comp Andrew Paterson Evol/Comp Junkang Rong Bioinfo Dorrie Main Bioinfo Jun Zhu

_______________ 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@plantbio.uga.edu Web site: http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu/

Program Coordinators: Anne A. Ogden, 706-583-0166, ogden@uga.edu Melissa D. Brock, 706-583-0161, mbrock@uga.edu