October 11, 2010

The annual Cotton Fiber Genomics project meeting was held in Austin. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation and focused on “Functional and Sequence Analysis of Fiber development on Tetraploid Cotton”. The attendees of the meeting include:
PI: Chen Lab (David Pang, Yuki Guan, Xiaoli Shi, UT-Austin)
Co-PI: David Stelly (Shivapriya Manchali, Texas A&M)
Co-PI: Candace Haigler (North Carolina State University).
Co-PI : Brian Scheffler (USDA ARS MSA Genomics Laboratory, Stoneville, MS).
Industry Representative: Don Jones (Cotton Incorporated)