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<p class="MsoNormal">I am writing on behalf of the Seminar Committee to provide an update on the SPLS 2021 Spring seminar series. The online seminar series in the last semester was a quite success with an average of 40 participants attended each seminar, despite
the challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your continued support and participation will make the Seminar Series another success in this semester.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Seminars will be offered again on Zoom throughout this semester, due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation. All the seminars will meet at
<a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/j/99520327983">https://arizona.zoom.us/j/99520327983</a>. Most of the seminars will start at 4:00 pm on Tuesdays, however a few will have different starting time. Please watch for specific seminar announcements from Georgina
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<p class="MsoNormal">A 30-minute happy hour will immediately follow the regular 1-hour seminar to provide an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to continue the discussions or to mingle and social. Graduate students will still be offered a one-hour
“lunch” Zoom meeting with external seminar speakers. However other meetings with seminar speakers will be kept at a minimum and only arranged if requested by faculty members or by seminar speakers. This is to reduce online fatigues for the speakers and everyone
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are still two open seminar dates, 4/6 and 4/20. Please reach out to your colleagues, especially international colleagues, to see if they are willing to speak to SPLS over zoom. This is a great opportunity to bring high caliber international
scientists to speaker in the SPLS seminar series. Because of time zone differences, international speakers could be scheduled on a time and a date different than 4 pm on Tuesdays.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please let the committee know if you have any comments or suggestions for the 2021 Spring SPLS seminar series.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Take care and stay safe,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Xiong<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Vladimir Script"">Zhongguo Xiong</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> <br>
School of Plant Sciences BIO5 Institute<br>
Division of Plant Pathology Email: <span style="color:blue"><a href="zxiong@email.arizona.edu"><span style="color:blue">zxiong@email.arizona.edu</span></a></span>
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&Microbiology Phone: (520)-621-9869<br>
Forbes 303, P.O. box 210036 Fax: (520)-621-7186<br>
University of Arizona <br>
Tucson, AZ 85721-0036 <span style="color:blue"><a href="http://ag.arizona.edu/~zxiong"><span style="color:blue">http://ag.arizona.edu/~zxiong</span></a></span><br>
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