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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The first Friday of March is upon us… I can’t believe it! This Friday we will have our monthly meet up at the
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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sent by Jaimie on behalf of the FEC (Jaimie, Dawn, and Dave)</span></div>
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<i>Jaimie M. Van Norman, Ph.D. ▪ Associate Professor ▪ Center for Plant Cell Biology ▪ Department of Botany & Plant Sciences ▪ University of California, Riverside ▪ 4202A Genomics ▪ Lab: (951) 827-2133, Office: (951) 827-2134 ▪ FAX: (951) 827-5155</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aptos Display", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Caroline Benitez</b></span><span style="font-family: "Aptos Display", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(68, 84, 106); background-color: white;"><b>|</b> </span><span style="font-family: "Aptos Display", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Department
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<span style="font-family: "Aptos Display", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">UC Riverside, Botany and Plant Sciences </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Aptos Display", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">2118 Batchelor Hall
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</span><span style="font-family: "Aptos Display", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:caroline.benitez@ucr.edu" id="OWA9e22f6ff-7ccf-1992-85bd-2bb43a915a5b" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="0" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin: 0px;">caroline.benitez@ucr.edu</a></span><span style="font-family: "Aptos Display", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span></p>
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