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January 5th 2005

September 20, 2016

NSF cotton fiber genomics project meeting was held in USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, LA. Members from each lab gave short presentations about the progress made and discussed about the future plans as well. This meeting was held in conjunction with the Beltwide Cotton Conference (Jan. 4th-7th) in New Orleans, LA.

December 2004

September 20, 2016

TM-1 ovule (-3 ~ +3 DPA) full-length cDNA library construction was completed. 51,072 clones were arrayed in 384-well plates (133 plates). Duplicate sets were made and one set was sent to TIGR for sequencing. 49,920 cDNAs (130 plates) are being sequenced at TIGR and ~40,000 ESTs are expected to be generated soon.

October 2004

September 20, 2016

Chen and Stelly will participate in the International Cotton Genome Initiative (ICGI) biennial meeting in Hyderabad, India. Stelly is the elected Chair of ICGI and Chen has organized a session that will examine possible elements and approaches to a sequencing effort.

October 15th-16th, 2004

September 20, 2016

Sreenath Palle, graduate research assistant, will attend Pathways to the Doctorate programmaticconference in southern Texas. The Texas A&M University System developed the program to advance higher education opportunities, and, perhaps even more important, awareness of those opportunities in all regions of the state. The conferences rotate among System institutions, and the Pathways

October 8th, 2004

September 20, 2016

Deadline for submitting FY2005 grant proposals to Plant Genome Research Program.

September 23rd-24th, 2004

September 20, 2016

J. Chen and B. Triplett attend the NSF New Awardee's Meeting in Washington, D.C.

September 22nd, 2004

September 20, 2016

Announcement of the new projects funded by the NSF Plant Genome Research Program.

September 13th, 2004

September 20, 2016

Total RNAs were purified from immature ovules collected at -3, 0, and +3 days post anthesis (DPA). A full-length cDNA library is under construction.

September 1st, 2004

September 20, 2016

Sreenath Palle (M.Sc., B.Sc.) joined as a graduate research assistant with Dr. Stelly's group as part of the Fiber Genomics project team.
Dr. Suk Hawn Yang joined the project in the Chen lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher and part-time Manager for the project. Ning (Edward) Wei, a Ph. D. student in Computer Science, is working in the Chen and Sze labs on computational analysis of sequence and microarray data being generated. Jenny Lee, a Ph. D. student in Genetics, continues to work on functional analysis of cotton orthologous genes in Arabidopsis.
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