Your daughter/son participated in a research project that is part of the Waksman Student Scholars Program – 2022-2023 WSSP or the 2022 LLNL Biotech Summer Experience Program or the Waksman Summer Institute Experience – 2022 WISE or 2022 vWISE. Students in these programs have worked on a genomic sequencing project that is similar to projects that are determining the sequence of organisms such as plants and animals, including the human genome. Under the guidance of the Rutgers WSSP/WISE Directors or LLNL faculty, students analyzed the structure and possible function of one or more DNA sequences using bioinformatic searches of the DNA databases and protein databases. The complete genome sequence of the organism studied - Landoltia punctata (duckweed) - has not yet been assembled. The information generated by your daughter or son is therefore novel and may be of interest to researchers working on related genes in other organisms. We would therefore like to publish the DNA sequence information generated by your daughter/son in the international DNA sequence databases and acknowledge their contribution by including them as authors on the publication that will be deposited in the database.
On the next page is an example of a previously submitted WSSP sequence publication in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database. With your permission we will list your daughter’s/son’s name along with the WSSP/WISE Director’s name in the “Authors” section on the form. The name of the WSSP/WISE Laboratory Director, Dr. Janet Mead, will also be listed. This information will be accessible to everyone on the internet. However, the only contact information will be to the Directors of the WSSP/WISE/LLNL Programs and no personal or contact information will be listed for your daughter or son.
Below is a release form allowing us to include your daughter’s or son’s name on the publication of the sequence. They have worked very hard on this project and we hope we can acknowledge their contribution in this publication. We will not be able to post their work if we do not have a signed (electronic) release form.
Please contact Dr. Andrew Vershon (848 445-2905) or vershon@waksman.rutgers.edu)
or
Ms. Sue Coletta (848 445-2038) or coletta@waksman.rutgers.edu)
if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you.
Sincerely,
WSSP/WISE Faculty Directors, Rutgers University