12th June 2008
This issue focuses on events and opportunities for researchers, from GCP and the wider scientific community. We would also like to update you on a significant change in GCP governance.
Upcoming events
1) Meeting: Statistical methods for linkage disequilibrium analysis
Convenors: GCP and Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR)-Biometrics
Date and venue: 19 June 2008; Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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2) GCP Annual Research Meeting 2008
This year’s Annual Research Meeting (ARM) will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 16–20 September 2008, kindly hosted by BIOTEC Thailand. Please note that participation is by invitation only. More
3) Workshop on candidate gene discovery (an SP2-SP4 workshop)
ARM participants are invited to this workshop on 14–15 September 2008, preceding the ARM. The SP2-SP4 organised workshop, convened by GCP’s Subprogramme 4, will cover microarray analysis, QTL meta analysis, integration of microarray and QTL data and EST analysis. More
4) Tropical legume genomics workshop
Convenor: GCP's Subprogramme 2, as part of the IV International Conference on Legume Genomics and Genetics
Dates and venue: 7 December 2008, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. More
Opportunities
Capacity-building is a major cornerstone of GCP’s work. GCP warmly congratulates this year’s winners of GCP capacity-building awards, in three categories:
1) Awardees of 2008 Capacity-building à la carte
Now in its second year, this tailor-made and team-focused support programme is for national agricultural research programmes in the developing world. More
2) Winners of 2008 GCP Fellowships
Five fellowships have been awarded in 2008. GCP’s competitive fellowships are offered to scientists wishing to conduct research outside of their home countries/institutions for a limited period. The Programme emphasises research in GCP's four thematic Subprogrammes. More
3) Winners of 2008 GCP Travel Grants
Each year, GCP provides travel grants to developing country scientists to advance their research, and to foster and strengthen links within and across GCP projects. More
Changes in GCP governance: The Executive Board
The GCP Programme Steering Committee (PSC) has been spearheading governance reform, resulting in the formation of an Executive Board as GCP’s apex governing body effective June 2008. More, including profiles of Executive Board Members
Announcements…
…from GCP
1) Update on 3rd round competitive grants
Following GCP’s 3rd call for competitive research projects in January this year, 24 concept notes have qualified for the next stage, which is developing full proposals. More
2) Publications
With the good assistance of our Principal Investigators (PIs), we have embarked on compiling a list of GCP publications through the years. This list thus far is available online, but please note that this is still very much a work in progress, and reflects joint efforts with GCP PIs to date.
3) Recent GCP events
• Molecular breeding capacity-building workshop, 1–7 June 2008. More
• Whole-plant physiology modeling project—wrap-up meeting, 4–7 February 2008: Following the end-of-project meeting for the SP1 whole-plant physiology modeling project (see announcement), please now find material from this meeting, with our thanks to Delphine Luquet for providing this material.
• Facing the challenge of drought phenotyping: 28–30 January 2008: This workshop, convened at GCP Headquarters, brought together specialists from a range of disciplines. Participants examined several options for tackling the complexity of drought phenotyping in GCP projects. From these options, a workplan was developed, to be further refined and implemented over the months to follow. More
…and from the wider scientific community
1) Call for African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) fellowships
Coordinated by the CGIAR Gender & Diversity Programe, this fellowship offers a two-year career development programme for women agricultural scientists from qualifying countries at post-Bachelors, post-Masters and post-PhD level.
Deadline: 18 July 2008. More
2) Applied Computational Genomics Course
Convenors: Genome Canada Bionformatics Platform
The May course has been postponed and the next courses are July 24–30 and in autumn 2008. More