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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning SPLS Community,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please join us for the next <b>School of Plant Science seminar</b>, to be held this
<b>Friday, February 13<sup>th</sup> at 1:00pm</b> via Zoom <a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/j/6324567391">
https://arizona.zoom.us/j/6324567391</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dr. Steven de Belle </b>will present a talk titled “<b>Resilience in Biological Systems, Navigating Change in Federal Funding.</b>”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bio:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Steven de Belle is a Research Scientist at the School of Life Sciences at<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Arizona State University (ASU). His group examines the biology that supports<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">rules of learning established in the cognitive sciences. They use genetic,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">molecular, pharmacological and imaging tools to disambiguate biochemical<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and neural circuit processes that enable learning, consolidation and recall of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">memories in Drosophila and humans.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">de Belle was a BIO Program Director in the Division of Biological Infrastructure<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">at <b>NSF </b>(2023-2025), where he managed the following program:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Previously (2007-2010) he was a Program Director managing Neural and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Animal Behavior Programs in the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
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