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<span class="normaltextrun">We look forward to seeing you this Friday, December 9<sup>th</sup> at the <b>20</b></span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><b><sup><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;background:white">th</span></sup><span style="color:black;background:white"> Anniversary
 Celebration of CEPCEB. </span></b><span style="color:black;background:white">The Symposium will begin at 9:30. To celebrate the synergy of CEPCEB, the
<a href="https://cepceb.ucr.edu/20th-annual-cepceb-symposium-program">program</a> will include graduate students and postdocs talks, as well as two keynote lectures and the 20<sup>th</sup> Noel Keen Distinguished lecture. As is our tradition, three awards handed
 out to trainees who have distinguished themselves in research and other activities.
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</span><span class="normaltextrun"><b><i><span style="color:red;background:white">We are accepting donations of beer and wine for our evening reception.  Donations can be dropped off in Genomics Room 1206 any time before the reception</span><span style="color:black;background:white">.</span></i></b><span style="color:black;background:white"> 
 If you have any questions, please email us at IIGBadmin@<a href="http://ucr.edu">ucr.edu</a>.  Thank you and we hope to see you there!</span></span><span class="scxw12736548"><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Julia, Carolyn, Thomas G., Jaimie, Dawn Hailing, Sean and the IIGB Admin Team<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Dr. Julia Bailey-Serres | Director, Center for Plant Cell Biology (</span><a href="https://cepceb.ucr.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">CEPCEB</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt">) | Director, </span><a href="https://plants3d.ucr.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">NSF
 Plants3D NRT</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt">  | </span><a href="https://iigb.ucr.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Institute of Integrative Genome Biology</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> | UC MacArthur Foundation Chair | Distinguished Professor
 of Genetics | </span><a href="https://plantbiology.ucr.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Botany and Plant Sciences</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> | 4119 Genomics Building | University of California | Riverside, CA 92521 | office: 951-827-3738
 | </span><a href="https://www.baileyserreslab.org/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Bailey-Serres Group</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> & </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/plasticityproject/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Plasticity
 Project</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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