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Glial-Neuronal Interactions will host the <b>18th Annual SoCal Symposium
on Glial-Neuronal Interactions in Health and Disease </b>on </span><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><font color="#000000">Friday February 7, 2025,</font></span></b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><font color="#000000"> at th</font>e Highlander Union Building, room
302, UC Riverside.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p>

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<a href="https://ucriverside.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0vxG9XU6gcACUgC">registration/poster submission link</a>. Since CGNI lands on a Friday (February 7^th), at
least partial attendance of this event will be required. However, the symposium
is open to anyone interested in neuroscience, glia, immunology, and/or health
and disease, so feel free to invite your friends and lab mates as well!</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><u style=""><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><b>Poster Presentation </b>(deadline Thursday, January 30<sup style="">th</sup>):</span></u><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""> CGNI is also a wonderful chance to practice your
public-speaking skills right at home (UCR) and enhance your resume. If you would like to showcase your
work or are simply looking for feedback from the wider CGNI community, this is
also the opportunity for you! <a href="https://ucriverside.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0vxG9XU6gcACUgC">registration/poster submission link</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><u style=""><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><b>Student Host </b>(deadline Monday, February 3<sup style="">rd</sup>):</span></u><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""> If you would like to partake in CGNI as a
student host please use this <a href="https://ucriverside.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cXTvm0PwuE5GS4C">speaker engagement link</a></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif"">. As a student host, you will be paired with
one guest from the CGNI speaker lineup to welcome to our UCR campus. This is a
special opportunity to network and engage with prominent speakers who you’re
interested in, learn about their backgrounds, and find potential future
opportunities. A meeting will be
scheduled for February 5^rdat 12:30pm to further discuss all
details. (Zoom). Speaker-host pairings are first come first serve, so be
sure to sign up soon!</span></p>

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to reach out should you have any questions.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif"">Sincerely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif"">Yi-Li Lam</span></p>

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