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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mark your calendars on
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">May 15th for our annual BPSC/Corteva symposium</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, whose theme this year is
<i>Plants Without Borders: Global Perspectives on Plant Biology</i>. This Corteva-sponsored, all day event will include invited speakers on diverse topics in Plant Biology, a poster session, lunch, and graduate student/postdoc short talks. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This year’s event also includes the Yermanos lecture, which will be given by Dr. Elizabeth Ainsowrth of the USDA Agricultural Research Service.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Do you want to share your work at the Corteva Symposium?</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> There will be two opportunities to do so: a poster
session in the morning, and a round of graduate student/postdoc short talks (5-7 min) in the afternoon! Monetary prizes will be awarded to top presentations in each category.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>We ask that you apply to give a short talk by Friday, April 26th and sign up to present a poster by Wednesday, May 1st. </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://forms.gle/yNxeD8kkhruDoKHb8" id="OWA9e794699-caa3-1a64-b35a-526192eb94f9" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Sign
up to give a poster presentation here!</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://forms.gle/zrQXL8jnJp39mYpD6" id="OWA7c425079-570c-e224-8580-56bf979d59f4" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Apply
to give a short talk here!</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Thank you!</b></span></p>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Thank you so much,</div>
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<b>Tyler Inskeep (they/them)</b></div>
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PhD Candidate, Groen Lab</div>
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Department of Botany and Plant Sciences</div>
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Institute for Integrative Genome Biology</div>
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University of California, Riverside 92521</div>
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<a href="mailto:tinsk001@ucr.edu" id="OWAafde9a1a-610b-46d5-499e-ca0e87f1fbef" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly">tinsk001@ucr.edu</a> </div>
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