[Gmod-tripal] New Tripal Steering Committee Members

[Meg S. <me...@gm...>]

Congrats to our new Tripal Steering Committee! In no particular order:

   - *Ethy Cannon* - Bioinformatic engineer at Iowa State University, leads
   PeanutBase (Tripal), member of the MaizeGDB team (not Tripal).
   - *Stephen Ficklin* - Assistant professor at Washington State
   University, a Tripal founder and core developer.
   - *Valentin Guignon -* Bioinformatics Specialist at Biodiversity, banana
   and cacoa resources using Tripal and Chado, including the Musa Germplasm
   Information System. He has contributed Tripal extension modules.
   - *Dorrie Main -* Associate professor at Washington State University, a
   Tripal founder, CoolSeasonFoodLegume.org, CottonGen.org, and others.
   - *Monica Polechau -* Technical Information Specialist for USDA-ARS, i5k
   (an arthropod genome database).
   - *Meg Staton* - Assistant professor at University of Tennessee
   Institute of Agriculture, leads HardwardGenomics, Tripal founder. Her team
   has contributed Tripal extension modules.
   - *Manuel Ruiz* - team leader at CIRAD in Montpellier, France. His team
   has developed Tripal genome hubs for several crop, including banana, coffe,
   cassava, and others.
   - *Jill Wegrzyn* - Professor at University of Conneticut, leads the
   TreeGenes project, which has been converted to Tripal.
   - *Lacey Sanderson* - University of Saskatchewan, lead developer for
   KnowPulse, core Tripal developer.

These folks will be serving from 2019-2020. Thanks to everyone who voted!

The interim committee,
Meg, Ethy, Lacey

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Margaret Staton
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