<div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px"><div><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear students and faculty, <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On behalf of UA’s NSF research traineeship in “Building Resources for InterDisciplinary training in Genomic and Ecosystem Sciences”,<a href="https://bridges.arizona.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">BRIDGES</span></a>, we would like to invite you to our second annual capstone<b><i>Ecosystem Genomics Convergence Institute.</i></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The public portion of this all-hands hybrid event takes place <b>Tuesday, May 16th and Wednesday, May 17th</b> and begins with a panel discussing <b><i>The Challenges of Ecosystem Genomics </i></b> featuring Jennifer Pett-Ridge (Laurence Livermore National Lab) and April Agee Carroll (Bayer Crop Science).  A half-day pre-session on <b>Monday, May 15th,</b><i>Microbiome Data Visualization in R, </i>is open to interested students (space limited).<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We welcome your participation, and ask that those interested in attending to please RSVP at your earliest convenience.<u></u><u></u></p><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>RSVP: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesU5xM_qGtzJ5y0KotRLZBs8BY_sY8bsNXCeWvydnHDK72kw/viewform" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(42,91,215)">bit.ly/convergence_institute_RSVP</span></a></b><u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Heather Ingram (she/her/hers)<br>Assistant Director, BRIDGES NSF Research Traineeship Program<br>Program Manager, EGI—EMERGE, GCR, & ECGN GIDP<br>Ecology and Evolutionary Biology  |  University of Arizona<br><a href="https://bridges.arizona.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://BRIDGES.arizona.edu</a>  |  <a href="https://emerge-bii.github.io/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://emerge-bii.github.io</a> |  <a href="https://egi.arizona.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://egi.arizona.edu</a> <br>(520) 626-4272<u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br>We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples. Today, Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes, with Tucson being home to the O’odham and the Yaqui. <a href="https://www.arizona.edu/about#land-acknowledgement" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://www.arizona.edu/about#land-acknowledgement</a></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>