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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Dear Colleagues:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">During this semester (Fall 2013), the School of Plant Sciences will again hold a Faculty Research Forum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We have a great lineup: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Chieri Kubota.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Monday, November 4: Mark Beilstein.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Monday, December 2: Dennis Ray.
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Monday, February 3: Ravi Palanivelu.
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Monday, March 3: David Galbraith.
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Monday, April 7: Barry Pryor.
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Monday, May 5: Eliot Herman.</span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The forum provides a venue for research discussions among faculty in the School of Plant Sciences. Those that presented last year found
the forum beneficial for both developing proposals and vetting research directions.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Each meeting of the SPS Faculty Research Forum lasts 1 hour. The presenting faculty member presents a research interest, goal, result,
theory and/or observation. Questions during presentations are encouraged. Open discussion throughout is also encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The Faculty Research Forum will be held on a continuing basis (we took the summer off) in the same time slot as SPS Faculty Meetings but
during a different week (this semester it is 11 AM till Noon -- see the actual dates above).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Please put these dates on your calendar and plan to attend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We will all benefit from the broadest possible participation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chieri Kubota will lead the first SPS Faculty Research Forum of the semester on October 21<sup>st</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">We look forward to seeing you all there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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