MAY 15 DEADLINE FOR PRE-PROPOSALS
The calls for proposals for the Generation Challenge Programme competitive grants programme went out last week. You can access it here: http://www.generationcp.org/na. Please contact Jenny Nelson (j.nelson@cgiar.org) with questions.
PHENOTYPING PROTOCOLS WORKSHOP to be held 5-9 July in Montpellier, France
Subprogramme 1 and 2 Phenotpying Protocols Workshop, to develop standards for phenotyping drought tolerance and other stress tolerance across crops, will be held in Montpelier, France, at Agropolis headquarters, from 5-9 July 2004. We would like the participation of two scientists per CP member institute. Please coordinate within your institute who the two participating scientists will be and have one person send their names by April 16 to Jenny Nelson (j.nelson@cgiar.org). For general questions about the workshop, please contact Jean-Christophe Glaszmann (glaszmann@cirad.fr) or Marcel de Raissac (marcel.de_raissac@cirad.fr).
We will augment crop representation with outside experts, for whom we also request nominations. Please also send those nominations to Jenny by April 16.
NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH PLANT ONTOLOGY CONSORTIUM
The Generation Challenge Programme is now an official collaborator with the Plant Ontology Consortium (POC), which aims to develop, curate and share structured controlled vocabularies (ontologies) that describe plant structures and growth/developmental stages. For more information, see
http://www.plantontology.org/docs/otherdocs/collab.html.
CHALLENGE PROGRAMME VIRTUAL WORKSPACE TO LAUNCH 14 APRIL
The Generation Challenge Programme virtual workspace will officially launch next Wednesday, 14 April. The workspace is intended for the use of all Challenge Program member scientists to download and exchange documents, post and view news, and engage in discussions about particular topics. Emails will go out next week to CP member scientists with the site address, your username and password, and detailed user?s instructions for the site.
Email Jenny Nelson or Raj Sood (r.sood@cgiar.org) with questions about the workspace.