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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Dear Colleagues,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:21.55pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif;color:#0096DC">Last chance to secure your EARLY BIRD TICKET!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:21.55pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif;color:#0096DC">Please register
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__oegmbt-2Devents.at_ggbn2018_&d=DwMFAw&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=IUWp0Xusw9vwwqaXdIW-r32gT5_26v4NSsUaeSyUvjo&s=BVHy5yakP1pQ4AUp45dU1fX87VoSmBQD2AXgxcE5-j4&e="><b>here</b></a><b><span style="color:#0096DC"> before February 26<sup>th</sup>!</span><span style="color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">GGBN 2018</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">,
the 3<sup>rd</sup> Conference of the Global Genome Biodiversity Network </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">will take place in
<b>Vienna, Austria </b>from<b> May 22 - 25, 2018 </b></span><b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><img border="0" width="497" height="151" style="width:5.175in;height:1.575in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image002.png@01D39F35.90C72650" alt="GGBN-Banner_940x285px_v4_nochkleiner"></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Sessions are<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Biodiversity – current challenges, future chances<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Forest biological diversity – losses and gains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Why agricultural diversity matters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">The hidden biodiversity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Amazing animals ex and in situ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Genebank management: sampling & preservation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Genebank management: data & analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">ABS & Nagoya protocol<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Confirmed speakers are
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Beate Berger:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Gene bank for rare livestock breeds, HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein, AT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Andreas Börner:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Conservation Management and Evaluation of the Genebank, IPK Gatersleben, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Michael Bruford:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif"> The Frozen Ark, Cardiff University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Philippe Desmeth:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">BCCM, Belgian Coordinated Collections of Microorganisms, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Fulvio Ducci:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif"> Forest Genetic Resources Management, CREA, IT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Kathryn Garforth:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">CBD Secretariat, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Jan Habel:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Ecology and Ecosystem management, TU München, DE<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Maria Holzmann:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Foraminifera biodiversity, Université de Genève, CH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Marlys Houck:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Frozen Zoo, San Diego Zoo, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Sandy Knapp:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">NHM London, UK<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">James Macklin:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Biodiversity informatics, Ottawa Research and Development Centre, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Birgit Mitter:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Holobiont hypothesis, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Anne Willems:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Bacterial diversity, BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection, Gent University, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Breda M. Zimkus:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Biodiversity and conservation of amphibians and reptiles, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Satellite Event:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Workshop on
<b>Access and Benefit Sharing & Nagoya protocol</b> – more information to come soon!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">The first day of the conference will be held at the Natural History Museum Vienna with additional sessions open to the public. Be part of the diverse
<b>social events</b> like guided tours through Zoo Schönbrunn, the oldest zoo in the world, or through Vienna’s Museum of Natural History, or the city center and don’t miss the
<b>conference dinner at Town Hall</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">We are looking forward to welcome you in Vienna,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span lang="DE" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Eva, Gabi, Angela, Harald, Katie & Alexandra<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__meetings.ggbn.org_conference_ggbn_2018_&d=DwMFAw&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=IUWp0Xusw9vwwqaXdIW-r32gT5_26v4NSsUaeSyUvjo&s=GiELqUwmfpV_YUcU3LemjNeH0VAIN3l18H0fnASh_UQ&e="><span lang="DE">https://meetings.ggbn.org/conference/ggbn/2018/</span></a></span><span lang="DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">International Scientific Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sakkal Majalla",serif">Jonas Astrin (ZFMK, DE)
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Berthold Heinze (BFW, AT)<br>
Michal Vinkler (CUNI, CZ) <br>
Elisabeth Haring (NHM Vienna, AT)<br>
Alexandra Ribarits (AGES, AT)<br>
Annick Wilmotte (BCCM, BE)<br>
Manuela Da Silva (Fiocruz, BR)<br>
Marlys Houck (Sandiego Zoo, US)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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