Dr Brubaker was invited to present of summary of the research completed under CRDC grant CSP85Cand continuing under CSP120C in the cotton workshop during the IX Plant and Animal genome conference (Jan 17-18 2001) in San Diego California. I also was asked, as one of the two Australian representatives to the steering committee of the International Cotton Genome Initiative (ICGI), to a lead a discussion of this new initiative at the end of the Cotton Workshop at the conference. The International Cotton Genome Initiative arose from a cotton marker workshop organized by Greg Constable, funded by CRDC and CSD, and held at CSlRO Plant lndustry March 2000. Additionally I presented a poster describing the first genetic linkage map of an Australian cotton species, and I was co-author on a second poster arising from a collaboration with US cotton researchers that developed out of the ICGI.