<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>On Behalf of Dr. Rod Wing:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Plant Science faculty,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Attached is an announcement for travel award applications to the upcoming 9<sup>th</sup> International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics in Taipei, Taiwan. It is for young investigators, postdocs and graduate students who are US citizens or permanent residents. Please use or distribute as you see fit. This will be an excellent meeting for those of you interested in exploring the field of rice functional and evolutionary genomics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Rod<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Rod A. Wing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Antle Professor – School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Director – Arizona Genomics Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Tucson, AZ 85721<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Phone: 5206269595<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Internet: <a href="http://www.genome.arizona.edu"><a href="http://www.genome.arizona.edu">www.genome.arizona.edu</a></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Blake Meyers [mailto:meyers@dbi.udel.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 09, 2011 1:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> bohsing; Rod Wing; <a href="mailto:sundar@ucdavis.edu">sundar@ucdavis.edu</a>; jan leach; Scott Jackson<br><b>Subject:</b> Meeting Grant to attend the 9th ISRFG in Taipei<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Please see the attached announcement about the USDA award for travel to the rice meeting. I would appreciate it if you could circulate it to those who might be interested.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">best,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Blake<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br><br>----------------------------<br>Blake C. Meyers, Ph.D.<br>Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor<br>and Department Chair<br>Department of Plant and Soil Sciences<br>University of Delaware <br><br>E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:meyers@dbi.udel.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">meyers@dbi.udel.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br>Phone: 302-831-3418<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div></div></blockquote></body></html>