<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Next Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) Webinar: Legal Issues in Collections</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please join BCoN and Dr. Linda Ford on Wednesday, June 27, 2018, at 2:00 PM Eastern Time, for our next webinar: Legal Issues in Collections. </div><div class=""><br class="">This webinar considers discussions and findings from a BCoN organized workshop held at Harvard University in March 2018 to address legal concerns associated with digitized collections and mitigating these issues using digital means. Participants with practical knowledge of how biological collections should manage legal issues in regards to changing policy, using cyberinfrastructure, and advising stakeholders used compliance with the Nagoya Protocol as a test case to investigate how U.S. institutions must respond to the need for increased transparency of their biodiversity collections and the required digital tracking.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Registration is free, but required. Please register for this important program at: </div><a href="https://aibs.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JUUEUR8MSZ6mfatjcbGO5g" class="">https://aibs.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JUUEUR8MSZ6mfatjcbGO5g</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">___________________________________________<br class="">Robert Gropp, Ph.D.<br class="">Co-Executive Director<br class="">American Institute of Biological Sciences<br class="">1201 New York Avenue, NW <br class="">Suite 420<br class="">Washington, DC 20005<br class="">Phone: 202-628-1500 x 250<br class=""><a href="http://www.aibs.org" class="">www.aibs.org</a><br class="">Twitter: @AIBS_Policy for science policy news, analysis and advocacy; @BioScienceAIBS for BioScience publications; @AIBSBIology for the latest member news; and, @AIBS_SPARS for news, research and insights about scientific peer review.<br class=""><br class="">- Become an AIBS member, join at http://www.access.aibs.org/default.asp?<br class=""><br class="">This message is confidential and should only be read by its intended recipients. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and delete all copies.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>
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