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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear Graduate Students and Postdocs,
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We invite you to join us for a lunch with Dr. Karen Sears, final candidate for the position in Adaptation Genomics (part of the Ecosystem Genomics Cluster Hire):
<b>Thursday, April 21 at 11:00-12:00pm in Biological Sciences West 302 (Catered by Paradise Bakery).
</b><span style="color:black">Dr. Sears received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2003 and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She studies gene networks to determine how developmental variation
interacts with environmental factors to produce congenital malformations in humans and new evolutionary adaptations in mammals. Her seminar
</span>“From genome to phenome: Insights into adaptation from mammalian development” is on April 21 @ 12:30-1:30pm in Koffler 216 (</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt">Abstract<b>:</b></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1myel-FgSR3fLG7cm7kTfIL2Eonroa8o7tUs8TJ90MNw/edit?usp=sharing"><b><span style="font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1myel-FgSR3fLG7cm7kTfIL2Eonroa8o7tUs8TJ90MNw/edit?usp=sharing</span></b></a><b><u><span style="font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#370FFF">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If you’re planning attend lunch with Dr. Sears,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<b>please RSVP using this link: </b></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Lej61MCDaREjS8Xa30HgFMTCOx7KgjNyA3fHjq0TWpA/edit?usp=sharing"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Lej61MCDaREjS8Xa30HgFMTCOx7KgjNyA3fHjq0TWpA/edit?usp=sharing</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">. The committee values your feedback, and thanks you in advance for any input you can provide after meeting with this candidate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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