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<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Dear CEPCEB Members and Friends,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">This year marks <b>CEPCEB’s 20<sup>th</sup>Anniversary</b>. We are preparing a celebration<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on <b>December 9<sup>th</sup></b>,
the Friday of finals week. The committee organizing the celebration would like to request names for the <b>20<sup>th</sup>Noel Keen Distinguished Lecturer</b>. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">All nominations will be accepted and reviewed by the committee. The selection of the speaker will be by vote handled by a member of the IIGB staff. Please
submit your nominations no<b> later than Friday, 5/13/2022<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="https://qfreeaccountssjc1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6yRX7qW0YMMR3rU" target="_blank" title="https://qfreeaccountssjc1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6yRX7qW0YMMR3rU">here.</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Thank you, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Julia Bailey-Serres</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Past Noel Keen Distinguished Lecturers: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Fred Ausubel (Harvard), Jeffrey
Dangl (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Chris Somerville (Stanford), Joanne Chory (Salk Institute), Bernhard Palsson (University of California, San Diego), Gloria Coruzzi (New York University), Joseph Ecker (Salk Institute), Philip Benfey (Duke
University), Rob Martienssen (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), James Carrington (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center), Elliot Meyerowitz (California Institute of Technology), Eva Benkova (Institute of Science and Technology in Austria), Pamela Green (University
of Delaware), Ottoline Leyser (Cambridge), Caroline Dean (John Innes), and Christina Smolke (Stanford), Zachary Lippman (CSHL), and most recently Jan Leach (Colorado State University). Krishna Niyogi (UC Berkeley).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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