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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:goergia">Greetings IIGB colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:goergia">To reflect the diversity of disciplines at the IIGB, and to enhance the scientific horizon of our students and postdoctoral fellows, I am writing to ask for your nomination of speakers
in your respective area. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:goergia">Please take a moment to provide a speaker name and help us to make the seminar series powerful. The google Doc shows the available slots in the winter and spring Q of 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PqogFT-_1d_CUnBeZTTUWdWO2amtSGmRi4IA4sWtV1o/edit#gid=0">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PqogFT-_1d_CUnBeZTTUWdWO2amtSGmRi4IA4sWtV1o/edit#gid=0</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:goergia">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:goergia">Katie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">Katayoon (Katie) Dehesh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">Director, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Distinguished Professor
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">Ernst and Helen Leibacher Endowed Chair in Botany and Plant Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">University of California, Riverside, CA 92521<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">Phone: (951) 827-6370; Fax: (951) 827-5155<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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