Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

NCCC167 Business Meeting Minutes April 6, 2010, Four Points Sheraton at O'Hare Attendees: Public: Sherry Flint-Garcia, Rich Pratt, Wenwei Xu, Paul Scott, Martin Bohn, Jim Uphaus, Marcelo Carena, Pat Schnable, Jode Edwards, Liz Lee, Torbert Rocheford, Mitch Tuinstra, Shawn Kaeppler, Rex Bernardo, Candy Gardner, Natalia deLeon, Aaron Lorenz, Brooks Blanche Private: Walter Goldstein Administrators: Ann Marie Thro, Bill Tracy Meeting was called to order by the chair, Liz Lee, at 5:10 pm The 2010 business meeting agenda was approved. Treasurer's Report: Meeting began with a balance of $0. Cost of the 2010 meeting is estimated to be $2829. Incoming registration fees are estimated to be $3740. Balance after 2010 meeting should be approximately $911. Secretary's Report: The 2009 minutes were sent to committee members for comments. No comments were received. Minutes were submitted as part of the annual report. A motion was made to approve the minutes from the 2009. Approved unanimously. Old Business: Corn Breeding Executive Committee At the 2009 meeting, we formed the CBEC (Sherry Flint-Garcia, Martin Bohn, Paul Scott, Travis Frey, and Tom Brutnell). What is the status of the CBEC? What has been accomplished? Sherry prepared and sent out rough drafts of the Corn Breeding Mission Statement and CBC Bylaws to the CBEC members in January 2010. No comments were received from the rest of the committee prior to the meeting. Sherry will print proposed bylaws and mission statement for the entire group, and a vote will be held on Wednesday before the meeting is adjourned. New Business: 1. Station Reports: Bill Tracy to send Station Report Template to committee members. Ann Marie "Overall impact statement for the whole group is critical." Add a bragging statement to the annual report. 2. Committee Reports: 700-800 Relative Maturity Trial report. Rich to send the 2008 regional testing report for the 700-800 relative maturity yield trial. 3. Benefits of keeping the NCCC-167 designation (Anne Marie Thro): Anne Marie reported on the purpose and rationale for regional projects such as NCCC167. Hatch funds define the State Agricultural Experiment Stations (SAES). Multi-state research projects are the best way to justify Hatch funds to universities and SAES. The state is required to provide a 100% match for Hatch funds. 25% of the Hatch money must go to multi-state research projects. The structure of the NCCC-167 project allows NIFA to contact researchers directly regarding NIFA -- this is a communication tool for NIFA. Discussion of which committee members obtain funds from their institution to travel to meeting. Rich (OSU), Martin (UICU), and Natalia (UW) do receive travel funds. How are we to report our activities? If any salary (PI, technician, or grad student) or field plots funded by Hatch money supports your research, you should cite this support as "Hatch Funds" in publications and presentations. Anne Marie suggested we include our concerns of the structure of the NCCC-167 project in the Project Renewal draft. 4. Fate of NCCC-167 Status: Shawn is willing to write the renewal of the project. Benefits of keeping the NCCC-167 designation and structure include 1) keep our annual meetings going, 2) support other systems such as NCRPIS, and 3) maintain Hatch projects instead of making all NIFA money competitive. Disadvantages include 1) extra paperwork that no one wants to do and 2) the restrictive timeframe for meeting dates and report dates. Walter (Michael Fields Institute) says NGOs support Hatch projects like NCCC167 Jode says that SAES-affiliated members should drive the program (host and run the meetings, submit project plans, submit annual reports). After much discussion, there was a consensus to maintain the NCCC-167 project. Shawn will write the project renewal. 5. Fate of germplasm at "closed" programs There has been a loss of germplasm recently at NE, SD, MO, LA, and Penn State due to faculty retirements and departures. What should be done with their germplasm, especially if they have not prepared it prior to their departure? Often there is a lack of institutional commitment to sorting out cold storage, rather than just dumping the seed. A motion was made to for a subcommittee to draft guidelines for closing out programs. 6. Chair, location, date and format for 2011 meeting Natalia de Leon will chair the next meeting. The meeting will be held just prior to the Maize Genetics Conference in St. Charles, IL on March 16-17. Attendees liked the chalk-talk format of the current (2010) meeting, so the 2011 meeting will likely incorporate this format. Also, a priority should be given to graduate student talks. A motion was made to suspend the meeting until Wednesday morning to allow the group to view and modify the CBEC Bylaws. Meeting suspended at 6:20. Meeting resumed on Wednesday morning at 10:30 am. Bylaws were presented and discussed. Modifications were made and accepted by the group. See attachment. Meeting was adjourned at 10:40 am. Minutes prepared by Sherry Flint-Garcia -------------------------- NCCC-167 Annual Meeting Agenda Sheraton Four-Points Hotel at the Chicago O'Hare Airport Chicago, IL April 6-7, 2010 Tuesday Morning 8:00-9:00 Continental breakfast & registration 9:00-9:30 Unprecedented levels of copy number variation (CNV) and presence/absence variation (PAV) for maize genes among inbreds Pat Schnable Iowa State University 9:30-10:00 Genetic architecture of (kernel quality in the nested association mapping (NAM) population Sherry Flint-Garcia USDA-ARS Columbia, MO 10:00-10:30 Resources for maize association analysis. Shawn Kaeppler, Candy Hansey, James Johnson, Rajan Sekhon, & Natalia de Leon University of Wisconsin-Madison 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break 10:45-11:15 Genetic background effects on phenotypic and genotypic expression of Cg1 in maize. Eric S Riedeman University of Wisconsin-Madison 11:15-11:45 Allele mining in exotic maize germplasm to enhance macular carotenoids. Andrew Burt & Elizabeth Lee University of Guelph 11:45-12:15 Translation of genomic information into products via maize breeding and genetics. Martin Bohn University of Illinois 12:15-1:30 Buffet Lunch Tuesday Afternoon 1:30-4:00 Round Table Scientific Discussion A few years ago we decided that it would be a useful exercise to talk about some of the research that is preliminary in our programs and whatever else is on your mind. The intent is to bounce ideas off of people, but it is also an opportunity to explore areas where we might collaborate, interact with the genetics community and with industry. So each representative will be given roughly 20 mins. to talk about some of their early-stage research projects or whatever else is on their minds. I will allow slides, but this is an informal discussion, so NO FORMAL PRESENTATIONS. We will probably break for coffee around 2:45 pm. 4:30-5:30 Business Meeting Agenda Approval of agenda Treasurer's report Secretary's report The advisor's report - Bill Tracy Old Business New Business Station Reports Committee reports Benefits of keeping the NCCC167 designation - Ann Marie Thro Fate of NCCC-167 status Chair for next year's meeting Location of next year's meeting Date for next year's meeting Format for next year's meeting Wednesday Morning 8:00-8:30 Continental breakfast & registration 8:30-9:00 Improvement in adaptation to high plant density in the Iowa Stiff Stalk Synthetic maize population. Jode Edwards Iowa State University 9:00-9:30 NDSU early GEM program: moving GEM germplasm northward and westward. Sharma, S. & M.J. Carena. NDSU 9:30-10:00 Working toward an easier way to measure rate of dry down in corn inbreds and hybrids. Yang, J, J. Uphaus, & M.J. Carena. NDSU 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-11:00 Use of tropical germplasm to improve stress tolerance and aflatoxin accumulation in corn. Wenwei Xu, Gary Odvody, Paul Williams, & Mike Blanco. Texas A&M et al. 11:00-11:30 Differential zein protein levels in a su1 population divergently selected for visual endosperm starchiness Leah Viesselmann University of Wisconsin-Madison 11:30-12:00 Diversity of Arido-American Maize Germplasm Rich Pratt The Ohio State University Adjourned