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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:12.75pt'><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>On Behalf of Dr. Rod Wing:</span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dear Plant Science and EEB Faculty, Staff, Students and Postdocs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The Arizona Genomics Institute would like to host an iPlant (<a href="http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/">http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/</a>) seminar on Friday October 28<sup>th</sup></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>from 4-5 immediately after our Plant Science internal seminar series in 230 Marley. The purpose of the seminar is to get all interested UA faculty, staff, postdocs and students familiar with what iPlant has to offer our research and teaching community. As a follow up to the seminar, iPlant will offer a half day workshop based on level of interest and availability so we can begin to become actively engaged with iPlant to efficiently use their resources and expertise to further our research and teaching agendas. We basically have an informatics candy store in BIO5/Texas and if we don’t use it we may lose it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Rod A. Wing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Antle Professor, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Director, Arizona Genomics Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Tucson, AZ 85721<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>