<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align:center"><span id="m_5297200198896932079m_-2109296035645182926gmail-docs-internal-guid-b4693e53-7fff-e9fc-1722-38c085a97cb7"><span style="font-size:21pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Maggie Sogin</font></span></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span id="m_5297200198896932079m_-2109296035645182926gmail-docs-internal-guid-3d8d20b9-7fff-790c-0448-115adfcc0621"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">University of California, Merced</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="text-align:start">Candidate for </span><span style="text-align:start"> </span><span style="text-align:start">Assistant Professor in Computational and/or Analytical Metabolomics </span>  </font></p><img src="cid:ii_mljpizdk0" alt="image.png" width="190" height="287" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"></span><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-fb35ae09-7fff-cead-d89a-35d7b26b29b3"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4" color="#073763">Training the next generation of scientists to explore plant-microbiome interactions</font></span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" size="4"><b>Date:</b> Friday, February 20, 2026</font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" size="4"><b>Time: </b>10:45-11:45 am</font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" size="4"><b>Location: </b>Batchelor Hall 4141</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"></p><div><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif" size="4"><b>Summary:</b></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><span id="m_5297200198896932079gmail-docs-internal-guid-f6657af1-7fff-6c51-45a3-491268ce81f6"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f0949274-7fff-120e-f4c8-4135fbc0a983"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4">I will discuss how I leverage my research program to support my mentorship and teaching activities. As part of my talk, I will present an overview of my next grant centered on defining how the seagrass microbiome transforms dissolved organic matter and how that supports carbon sequestration. </font></span></span></p></span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div>