<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_mb9ktr110" alt="image.png" width="240" height="100"></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:20pt;font-weight:700">You are cordially </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:20pt;font-weight:700">invited</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:20pt;font-weight:700"> to attend</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black;font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:xx-large;text-align:left">Bob VanBuren</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-dc40ac61-7fff-cccc-0f1b-d737b6aa61d3"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Associate Professor</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Department of Plant Biology</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Plant Resilience Institute</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Michigan State University</span></p></b></font></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><span id="m_-3411614079265450765m_-6744352872345766243gmail-docs-internal-guid-6afb5ad5-7fff-3ca2-6468-fc325ae51ae9"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:200px;height:200px"><img alt="Robert VanBuren - Faculty Member ..." src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXczBGSIBRtmzTi2uPcjo9zQuhHcGY-3EDc-Z_W0S7I4FD5_Ialf7tW4hSOFxxBk0RSHKuhyVELXNXzkagFEQJVKjGKDDdmvN1Pixi9iN7nTTE6adQlrEaI1cB8gtxXB8O_E95KlVLn-MGJHqO6lGeA?key=4LPx6ap5_rMymEHwXaKHKQ" width="200" height="200" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px"></span></span></span><b><font face="georgia, serif"></font></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:center"><b style="color:black;font-size:large;font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:left">Date:</b><span style="color:black;font-size:large;font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:left"> Friday, June 6</span></div><div style="text-align:start"><font color="#073763"><p style="text-align:center;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0.5pt;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:black"><font size="4"><b>                 Time:</b> 12pm - 1:00 pm</font></span></p><p style="text-align:center;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0.5pt;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="text-align:left;font-size:large;color:black">                 </span><b style="text-align:left;font-size:large;color:black">Location: </b><span style="text-align:left;font-size:large;color:black">Genomics Auditorium 1102</span></p></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><b style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">       Leveraging Evolutionary Innovations in Grasses to Develop Climate Resilient Agriculture</span></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#073763" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><b style="text-align:start">Abstract: </b></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><span id="m_-3411614079265450765m_-6744352872345766243gmail-docs-internal-guid-e8cd8609-7fff-bf76-d9b4-fe0ea48c2435"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Drought is the most pervasive issue we face in agriculture today, and water deficit is responsible for most of the global loss in yield and quality. Work in the VanBuren lab focuses on exploring the mechanisms that plants use to combat drought stress in natural and agricultural settings. We leverage large-scale, high-resolution datasets across space and time to model and predict the genetic elements, physiological signatures, and alleles controlling drought tolerance phenotypes. Our work centers on the C4 cereals maize, sorghum, teff, and various millets as well as numerous wild and model species with unique evolutionary innovations.</font></span></p></span></div></div></div></div>
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