<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Caroline Benitez via Botanyemail</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:botanyemail@lists.ucr.edu">botanyemail@lists.ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM<br>Subject: [Botanyemail] BPSC 250 Seminar Series: Dr. Emily Farrer-Wednesday, April 30th ,2025 in the Genomics Auditorium<br>To: <br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:large"><img id="m_-552503626144533139m_-7745293252301590379m_-5199852352475026503m_-9069053595135430120m_-7597602552143658810m_-6879544676624200140m_2647964037610088305m_7212582923461324948m_-1456813121112862397m_7310864727535200464m_-5123696601756194080m_-1226773132604015129m_8437786412737771307m_-1406517087821744606m_6526054304203145660m_-7200391085919018703m_-5047707427413644582m_-8375385681880951609m_5843187627793020561m_5274188528614293082m_2741273669348786932m_3993176606945539336m_-4708298016395195342m_2288324105182093424m_8975935153603287283m_6219745822970299184m_-1908315915822800256m_6723104065387244928m_-2180645753460696509m_-4557642767137923706m_630005686540822385m_3985885937258083959x_x_x_image_0" size="24214" src="cid:ii_1951eff724dcb971f161" width="546" height="123" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;outline:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:xx-large;min-width:auto;margin:0px"></div><div><blockquote><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:17.12px;margin:0px 0px 8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font size="6"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"></span></font></b><b><font size="6">**This seminar will be an in-person seminar <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"></span>in the Genomics</font></b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:17.12px;margin:0px 0px 8pt"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="6"> Auditorium**</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:17.12px;margin:0px 0px 8pt"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="6"><br></font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">**Please note that the seminar series wil<span class="gmail_default">l start at</span> 3:30 pm**</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b><i><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">Please join us for the BPSC 250 Series <span class="gmail_default">Spring </span>2025</font></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b><i><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default"></span><br></font></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b><i><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></font></i></b></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="6"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"></span>Dr. <span class="gmail_default">Emily Farrer</span></b></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="text-align:start">Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> at </span></span></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">Tulane University</span></font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b><i><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"></span><br></font></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_m9ui2n2l0" alt="13 Tulane Faculty cropped.jpg" width="525" height="562"></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b><i><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></i></b></div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="text-align:center"><font size="6"><u><b><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">"<span class="gmail_default"></span></font></b><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:start">Plant invasions across space and time: a microbial perspective</span>  <b><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">"</font></b></u></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><font color="#0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</div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:x-small">G. Darrel Jenerette</span><br></div><div><font size="1">Director, Center for Conservation Biology</font></div><div><font size="1">Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences</font></div><div><font size="1">University of California Riverside<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>