November 21, 2008

The annual Cotton Fiber Genomics project meeting was held in Austin. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation and focused on “Genetic and Functional Genomic Analysis of Early Events in Cotton Fiber Development”. The attendees of the meeting include:
PI: Chen Lab (David Pang, Yuki Guan, Misook Ha, Vikram Agarwal, UT-Austin)
Co-PI: Triplett Lab (He Jim Kim, Doug Hinchliffe, USDA-ARS/UNO)
Co-PI: David Stelly (Shivapriya Manchali, Texas A&M)
Co-PI: Peggy Thaxton (Mississippi State University)
Co-PI: Sing-Hoi Sze (Texas A&M)
Collaborator: Candace Haigler (North Carolina State University)
Collaborator: Brian Scheffler (USDA ARS MSA Genomics Laboratory, Stoneville, MS)
Collaborator: Pablo Rabinowicz (Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland)
Industry Representative: Don Jones (Cotton Incorporated)