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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">On Behalf of Eric Lyons:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am very pleased to have Dr. Mike Freeling from the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley as the School of Plant Science's seminar speaker on March 25th. For those not familiar with him, his work is outstanding:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of the fathers of maize genetics and development<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Recently studying the evolution of plant genomes for the past 8 years (particular attention on conserved noncoding sequences)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">200+ publications (<a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=aKnu9s0AAAAJ">http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=aKnu9s0AAAAJ</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Member of the National Academy of Sciences for 20 years<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And most importantly, always a wonderful person with whom to chat science. If you would like to meet with him on March 25th before his seminar, please indicate your available times on this doodle poll:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://doodle.com/9ezgkxvmkm86repv">http://doodle.com/9ezgkxvmkm86repv</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Georgina and I will try to accommodate everyone.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-eric<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For the curious, here is Mike:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eric Lyons, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Comparative Genomics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://genomevolution.org/">http://genomevolution.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">School of Plant Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">iPlant Collaborative Member<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bio5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Phone: 520-626-5070<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Email: <a href="mailto:elyons.uoa@gmail.com">elyons.uoa@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SkypeID: ericlyons<o:p></o:p></p>
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