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<p class="MsoNormal">I am sharing the announcement below on behalf of the organizing committee for the UC LFRP Workshop on Pandemic Preparedness & Biosecurity.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As you may have already seen, UCOP’s Laboratory Fees Research Program has released this year’s Collaborative Research and Training Awards</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ucop.edu/research-initiatives/programs/lab-fees/files/labfee_crt_rfp.pdf"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#954F72"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">RFP</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.
The RFP has identified three thematic areas of interest, and UC campuses are organizing virtual workshops to discuss compelling research directions and to permit potential collaborators to make connections and build research teams. Attendance is open to participants
from all UC campuses and the three UC national laboratories.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The workshop on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Pandemic Preparedness & Biosecurity</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(PPB), organized by UC Berkeley,
UC Davis, and UCSC, will focus on research at the intersection of biological processes and biosecurity aimed at preventing or mitigating emergent threats to human health, protecting ecological systems, and addressing the societal impacts of biothreats and
biorisks, including experimental and theoretical approaches; biological applications of advanced computing (simulations, big data analyses, sensor and measurement technologies); biological processes underlying pandemic emergence and other biorisks; research
and analyses addressing social equity and/or health disparities; and other multidisciplinary approaches.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The workshop will be conducted virtually on Zoom on the following dates:</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Session I - April 28 1-5 pm</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you would like to start conversations ahead of the event, and for follow-up after the workshop, please join us in this Slack Workspace:</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are looking forward to a very productive discussion.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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