i5K Coordinating Group

Conference Call Agenda

Mar 18, 2020

11:00-12:00 (EDT) NOTE: USA MOVED ITS CLOCK FORWARD ONE HOUR

_ The focus was on Coronavirus! _

Attendees: Kevin Hackett, Glenn Hanes, Meg Allen, Brian Scheffler, Brad Coates, Surya Saha, Mike Pfrender, Rob Waterhouse, Marian Goldsmith, Sue Brown, Anna Childers, Duane McKenna, Chris Childers, Joe Lopez

• Meetings
  • Helsinki – Coronavirus!: Meeting still on
  • ESA-Orlando (Monica, Brad): submitted proposal
  • EBP Meeting in Hinxton (Oct 5-6, 2020): Still on, but looking into virtual possibilities (Mark)
  • PAG Ag100Pests Talks (Anna; Surya)
  • GIGA-Asia (March 2021): what to do? (Joe)
• Project Updates
  • DToL (Mark, Mara)
  • Ag100Pests, include Desert Locust (Anna, Brian)
    • Desert locust, cyclones amp them up, Green Muscle; USAID proposal; trying for ref quality 8.55 gbp
    • Over 100 genomes on the list and others committed; sequenced over 50 genomes; will start releasing some to NCBI by June
    • Reagents: Not shipping from PacBio San Fran, trying to resolve; we only have supplies for a week; Illumina trying to keep machines going; maybe a few that can't scaffold
    • Geib does extractions and library preps, so do before shipping and perhaps less shearing of DNA
  • Beetles (Duane): nothing new
  • Cornome (Brad, Jay, Dave): nothing new; lots of PB data, spined soldier bug; virtual support; Hi-Canu hi-fi reads (Adam Phillipy on Arxhix website now: Rob), 6 h to assembly, Hudson-Alpha still correcting reads; AC will try to clean these genomes up with new person looking at best assembly method
  • Bees (Brian): nothing new; Scott helping advise; no good method
  • BMSB: Sequence now out (Rob)
• I5K Webinar Update (Anna): no update
• New Funding: New Ideas?
  • NSF Cliff Weil questions about Desert Locust; maybe we need to go back to him more generally; ARS can't be PI, but others can (Brian, Anna)