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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Dear IIGB Core Users,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The new Genomics Core rates have been approved and will go into effect on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Please be advised that several services have a price increase of 5% due to the cost of supplies
going up. The new rates will be posted on the website and the reservation system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">We appreciate your business and thank you for your understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Xuemei Chen <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Professor; Interim IIGB director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Department of Botany and Plant Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">University of California<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Riverside, CA 92521<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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