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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; color: black;">30 November 2023 </span></div>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Dear IIGB members, </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 14pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><i>Please note we have extended the deadline for the nominations to
</i></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><b><i>December 4, 2023, 5 pm.
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 14pt 0in;" class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">In preparation for the 21</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> Annual Center
for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB) Distinguished Noel T. Keen Lecture and Awards Ceremony on Friday, December 8, 2023, we are soliciting nominations
<b>by December 4, 2023, 5 pm. </b></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">The IIGB
<b>Natasha V. Raikhel Award in Research Innovation and Science Leadership Award</b> is a biennial monetary award that recognizes an
<b><i>outstanding faculty or non-senate academic researcher</i></b> for innovation and/or leadership. Awardees and nominees are to be members of the IIGB. The awardee shall be selected from a committee of IIGB members. </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">The
<b>Natasha V. Raikhel Award</b> (awarded to Thomas Girke (‘17), Carolyn Rasmussen and David Nelson (’19), Karine LeRoch (’21) is open to all members of IIGB (<u>faculty and non-tenure track researchers</u>). Any IIGB member may serve as a nominator. The nomination
package requires a 1-to-2-page letter of nomination, in which the nominee’s qualifications for the award are stated. Excellence may be recognized in research, leadership, or both. Additional letters of support will be accepted but are not required. Nominations
should include a current curriculum vitae for the nominee that provides information such as education, positions held, accomplishments, previous honors or awards, publications, leadership at IIGB/CEPCEB/CIDVR/UCR or to the profession at large, etc. </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Please send nominations by
<b>December 4, 2023 </b>to <b>Bernadette Gilbert</b> (</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="mailto:bernadette.gilbert@ucr.edu" id="OWA1fd1bbfb-ff5d-e0dc-d834-e7289f0140bc" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">bernadette.gilbert@ucr.edu</a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">).
Please direct general questions to either me (Julia Bailey-Serres) or Katie Dehesh. </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Awardees will be recognized on Friday, December 8th at 3:30 in the Genomics Auditorium. There will be additional talks and recognitions
prior to the awards ceremony, including a lecture by Michael Purugganan from New York University. More details will be shared soon. </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 14pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Best wishes, </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Dr. Julia Bailey-Serres </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Director, Center for Plant Cell Biology (</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="https://cepceb.ucr.edu/" id="OWAa1e02332-8717-55ce-9ac0-2d1d817555f5" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: blue;">CEPCEB</a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">)
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Director,
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="https://plants3d.ucr.edu/" id="OWA6939ca66-c65a-908a-a85d-644e21e4cf16" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: blue;">NSF
Plants3D NRT</a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"> |
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="https://iigb.ucr.edu/" id="OWA2f3bd106-aca2-6c6b-e017-8df221b4d8db" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: blue;">Institute
of Integrative Genome Biology</a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">UC MacArthur Foundation Chair </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Distinguished Professor of Genetics </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: blue;"><a href="https://plantbiology.ucr.edu/" id="OWA4a815a0d-eb0f-59ec-ac2c-1f9f37526826" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: blue;">Botany
and Plant Sciences</a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"> </span></p>
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