<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We are excited to announce a special seminar this <u>Friday, February 28th</u>, at 2:00PM in the <u>School of Business (Room 280)</u>.</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr. Cyril Zipfel from University of Zurich & The Sainsbury Laboratory will be presenting:</span></i></p><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_m7jdxayv0" alt="image.png" width="278" height="343"></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">"Roles & Recognition of Stress-Regulated Secreted Signaling Peptides"</span></i></b><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=8f5e470c8e&attid=0.2&permmsgid=msg-a:r-8784042578834324615&th=195294709908eddf&view=fimg&fur=ip&permmsgid=msg-a:r-8784042578834324615&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ-7MYim9X8NAlNqi1hfe8JJluA0Gelvvb3Fh3YOmHiB1weBHDAnYAB_q29VLQ11T_Njq7TtfTGCgrpxWcEoMd0JdMXxs_j-0_kuuhuE3Tcx1ejiMnLytsISuOQ&disp=emb&realattid=ii_m7eylxr80&zw" alt="image.png" style="outline:0px;margin-right:0px"></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">Plants must constantly adapt to changing environmental conditions. Cell-surface receptor kinases play an important role in the sensing of stimuli originating from the environment itself or that are produced endogenously often in response to such external cues. I will present our recent work on stress-regulated secreted signaling peptides, their perception mechanisms, and diverse functions in adaptive stress responses.</font></span></p></div>
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