CGC Coordinating Committee

2020 CGC Coordinating Committee

The CGC coordinating committee is responsible for running the CGC, editing the report, keeping the gene lists, and maintaining seeds of the cucurbit gene mutants.

Chair – Website editor (CGC coordination)

  • Amnon Levi, Chair
    Charleston, SC, USA

Associate Chair – Print Edition (CGC assistant editor coordination)

  • Linda Wessel-Beaver
    Mayagüez, PR, USA

Associate Chair – Membership (CGC membership coordination)

  • Todd Wehner
    Raleigh, NC, USA

Associate Chair – Treasurer (CGC fund coordination)

  • Timothy J. Ng
    College Park, MD, USA

Assistant Editor – Cucumber (Cucumis sativus)

  • Yiqun Weng
    Madison, WI, USA

Assistant Editor – Melon (Cucumis melo)

  • Shaker Kousik
    Charleston, SC, USA
  • Cristina Saez Sanchez
    Universitat Politècnica de València
    Valencia, Spain
    [email protected]
  • Maria Belén Picó Sirvent
    Universitat Politècnica de València
    Valencia, Spain
    [email protected]

Assistant Editor – Other Genera (Cucurbitaceae)

  • Marco Bello
    Fort Myers, FL, USA

Assistant Editor – Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.)

  • Angela Davis
    Woodland, CA, USA

Assistant Editor – Watermelon (Citrullus spp.)

  • Rakesh Kumar
    Davis, CA, USA

Gene Curators

Gene List Committee

Lists of known genes for the Cucurbitaceae have been published previously in HortScience and in reports of the Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative. CGC is currently publishing complete lists of known genes for cucumber (Cucumis sativus), melon (Cucumis melo), watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), and squash and pumkin (Cucurbita spp.) on a rotating basis.

It is hoped that scientists will consult these lists as well as the rules of gene nomenclature for the Cucurbitaceae before selecting a gene name and symbol. Thus, inadvertent duplication of gene names and symbols will be prevented. The rules of gene nomenclature (published in each CGC Report) were adopted in order to provide guidelines for the naming and symbolizing of genes previously reported and those which will be reported in the future. Scientists are urged to contact members of the Gene List Committee regarding questions in interpreting the nomenclature rules and in naming and symbolizing new genes.

Gene Curator, Gene List Editor – Cucumber (Cucumis sativus)

  • Yiqun Weng
    USDA-ARS, Univ. Wisconsin
    Department of Horticulture
    Madison, WI 53706 USA
    [email protected]

Assistant Gene Curator

  • Todd C. Wehner
    Department of Horticultural Science
    North Carolina State University
    Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 USA
    [email protected]

Gene Curator, Gene List Editor – Melon (Cucumis melo)

  • Catherine Dogimont
    Centre de Recherches Agronomiques de Avignon
    Stat. d’Amerlior. des Plantes Mar. Domaine St. Maurice
    Montfavet 84140 France
    [email protected]

Assistant Gene Curator

  • Michel Pitrat
    Centre de Recherches Agronomiques de Avignon
    Stat. d’Amerlior. des Plantes Mar. Domaine St. Maurice
    Montfavet 84140 France
    [email protected]

Assistant Gene Curator

  • James D. McCreight
    USDA-ARS, Research Station
    1636 East Alisal St.
    Salinas, CA 93905-3018 USA
    [email protected]

Gene Curator, Gene List Editor – Other Genera (Cucurbitaceae)

  • Mark G. Hutton
    University of Maine
    Highmoor Farm
    P.O. 17
    Monmouth, ME 04259-0179 USA
    [email protected]

Assistant Gene Curator

  • Thomas C. Andres
    New York Botanical Garden
    200th Street at Southern Blvd.
    Bronx, NY 10458-5126
    [email protected]

Gene Curator, Gene List Editor – Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.)

  • Harry Paris
    Department of Vegetable Crops and Plant Genetics
    ARO Newe Ya’ar Research Center
    P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay 30-095, Israel
    [email protected]

Assistant Gene Curator

Gene Curator, Gene List Editor – Watermelon (Citrullus spp.)

  • Cecilia McGregor
    Department of Horticulture
    1119 Miller Plant Sciences
    Athens, GA 30602-7273 USA
    [email protected]

Assistant Gene Curator

  • Todd C. Wehner
    Department of Horticultural Science
    North Carolina State University
    Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 USA
    [email protected]

Previous CGC Committees