Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Minutes and actions from North Central Regional Project Reviews (NCAC6) Meeting was held in the Marriott River Center, San Antonio, TX on January 27, 2010 Attendance: Larry Berger  University of Nebraska Maynard Hogberg  Iowa State University Rod Geisert  University of Missouri Jim Kinder  The Ohio State University Greg Lardy  North Dakota State University Jim Linn  University of Minnesota Don Marshall  South Dakota State University, Administrative Advisor Neal Merchen  University of Illinois Vikram Mystry  South Dakota State University Ken Odde  Kansas State University Karen Plaut  Michigan State University Clint Rusk  South Dakota State University Alan Sutton  Purdue University Adelle Turzillo  NIFA  National Program Leader: Plant and Animal Systems Karen Plaut  Chair Jim Linn  Secretary Jim Linn moved up to chair of NCA6 for 2011-13. Vikram Mistry was elected secretary for 2011-13.. The North Central Region will host the Animal Science Department Head meeting in 2011. The meeting will be held in Denver, CO in conjunction with NCBA. Dates for the meeting are Feb 1 and 2. Regional Project Reviews NC Temp 184  Greg Lardy and Dan Schaefer reviewed. Status - New This is a renewed project. Determined to be a good project previously and project future has good potential. However, project renewal proposal appears to be repetitious of past project with limited new writing in proposal. Project scientists should update this proposal to reflect current research questions building on results and finding s from previous project proposal (1131). Motion to accept and approve report with standard revisions, seconded and PASSED NC 1037  Maynard Hogberg and Larry Berger Status  Midterm review This is a continued project. Only 1 meeting has been held since project started in 2007. Second meeting is planned for 2010. There really wasnt a good reason offered for not meeting except all participants meet at the PAG meetings each January. The committee is questioning whether they should continue to exist as a multi-state committee. Could not find meeting report in NIMSS, but is located on another website. Need to get report in NIMSS. Overall, project has been productive holding a symposium every other year at which time project participants met. Difficult to determine if they are meeting their objectives since they have not met. No publications were listed in the annual meeting report of 2008. Motion to continue project, but recommend they meet more regularly (yearly). Seconded and PASSED. NC 1040 - Karen Plaut and Ric Grummer Status  Midterm review Based on history and knowledge of personnel this is a very active and productive group using both old and new technologies (genomics and proteonomics). Good outreach. Individuals from across the country speak at most of the nutrition conferences. In addition, a joint symposium was held previously. External funding is very good. This project is truly multi-institutional with participants from across the country participating regularly. Motion to approve with standard revisions, seconded and PASSED NC 1041  Neal Merchen and Rod Geisert Status  Midterm review Meeting was held this past December (09), but report had not been submitted. There are 20 participants and 10 stations in project with most participants in Veterinary Medicine or Food Science. Project is microbiology based. Group has been very productive with 2 to 3 significant collaborations and holding a biennial conference in Rapid City, SD. Committee is very good at scholarly publications and dispensing of information to academics. Research from this committee has a high potential for application in the area of food safety, but dispensing of the research to end users appears to be minimal. Extramural funding was suggested as being very good based on knowledge of personnel in project, but no report was available to confirm. Motion was made to accept report with standard revisions, seconded and PASSED NC 1042  Jim Linn and Alan Sutton Status  Midterm review Very active and diverse project contributing to both scholarly and outreach information. Research is aligned well with project objectives. Good extramural funding. Interaction and discussions amongst project participants is very good, but no demonstration of collaborative research efforts. Need to develop computer models or other tools to integrate research findings, especially in the calf and business management areas. An economist would be a very good addition to this committee. Motion was made to accept report with standard revisions, seconded and PASSED NCCC 204  Ken Odde, Vikram Mistry and Jim Linder. Status  Midterm review Committee met last in February, 2009. Nine stations were in attendance, but minutes of annual meeting are essentially a compilation of station reports. Project appears to have a good integration of molecular and quantitative techniques and research; however, there is no indication of collaboration across stations other than sharing of reports. Publications reported for year was 52. Motion was made to accept report with standard revisions, seconded and PASSED Submitted by Jim Linn, January 30, 2010