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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Greeting dear IIGB colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">I am writing to provide you with an update on our upcoming event and plans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">We are pleased to announce that we have finally identified an IIGB administrator who will assist with the financial and day-to-day operations at our center. We are in the final stages of the hiring
process and, if all goes smoothly, she will be able to join us in two weeks. I will provide a further update once her start date is confirmed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">In addition, this summer, we will be undertaking a significant project in collaboration with the new administrator and IIGB staff. Our goal is to record and analyze the PIs lab spaces within the genomics.
Specifically, we will examine the correlation between the assigned space, the space occupied by students and researchers, and the PIs' funding status.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">To ensure optimal use of our resources, we will implement the following measures:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">For PIs who have not applied for grants in the last few years and lack financial support, leading to unoccupied space, we will work with the space committee to reassess their needs.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">In such cases, we will request the PI to contract to a space that is sufficient for their current number of researchers and grants.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">We will also examine the postdoc room spaces and request that PIs who have cluttered these spaces with obsolete instrumentation remove and clean the area.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">We believe this initiative will help us better allocate our resources and support the ongoing success of our research efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Be powerful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Katie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none">Katayoon (Katie) Dehesh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none">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;mso-ligatures:none">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;mso-ligatures:none">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;mso-ligatures:none">Phone: (951) 827-6370; Fax: (951) 827-5155<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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