PGGRC has (co)ownership as I understand of this isolate and therefore I am wondering why we are are being notified rather requested for approval. I am aware that this is a condition of a PhD The Uniqueness of this species and its response when other major methanogens are impacted is a critical issue for our methane mitigation startegy, we will want to have time for discussion to consider this before the genome sequence is released.

Given that this request is for submission of the abstract,  after this is clarified there should not be any issue in allowing it to be submitted for consideration. 

Mark Aspin 