Introductions new members

Liz

´Joyce Njuguna and Wittney Mays – work with Lindsay Clark at University of Illinois

´Dr. Bode Olukolu - based at the University of Tennessee. He is in charge of genotyping optimization for the sweetpotato project, and has been instrumental in generating most of the datasets Marcelo and Dorcus use

Oscar Riera-Lizarazu - has joined the faculty at TAMU as the eventual successor to Dave Byrne for the rose breeding program at TAMU

´Katherine Maria Mejia Guerra; Dongyan Zhao, Breeding Insight (sweet potato, alfala, blueberry)  

New organization structure EiB Module 5 – Data management adoption

Liz

´Plan was to have a new data management and a new biometry position

´Now only a new biometry position – will be a separate module (module 6?)

Liz will take over data management lead (and bioinformatics), with Kelly Robbins - activities:

´Cross project /collaboration activities EiB M5

´Data management deployment project plan

´Define and monitor adoption metrics

´Coordinate training – data management, bioinformatics, with biometry, new instrumentation

Opportunities for USAID Innovation lab funding in RTB, millets, sorghum, legumes in Africa, led by NARES - https://ilci.cornell.edu/

Liz

Calls for proposals coming out sometime in Feb for 2-3 year funding.

Looking for opportunities - email any suggestions to me. Thinking about a polyploid crop center of innovation in Uganda or Kenya. Liz follow up with Dorcus

Short talks from polyploid community

Joyce Njuguna and Wittney Mays - Bayesian genotype calling in polyploids

Dr. Bode Olukolu - Quantitative Reduced Representation Sequencing (qRRS) for Genotyping and Metagenomic Profiling in Polyploids - postponed to our next meeting

Private video link

https://youtu.be/myW9JA9O2bQ