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<h3 align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Register Now:</span></em><o:p></o:p></h3>
<h2 align="center" style="text-align:center">Biological Collections:<br>
Their Past, Present, and Future Contributions & Options for Sustaining Them<o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3 align="center" style="text-align:center">Meeting and Workshop<br>
February 7-8, 2019<o:p></o:p></h3>
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<h4 align="center" style="text-align:center">Please join us for a public meeting to examine history and value of biological collections in research and education.<br>
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Thursday, February 7, 2019</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%"> (1:30-5:00pm EST) and<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Friday, February 8, 2018</span></strong> (8:30 - 9:50 EST)</span><o:p></o:p></h4>
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This meeting is an information-gathering event of the <em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Committee</span></em>
<em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">on Biological Collections: Their Past, Present, and Future Contributions and Options for Sustaining Them.</span></em> The following invited speakers will present and engage in Q&A with the committee:
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Pamela M. Henson</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">, Smithsonian Institution Archives<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Scott E. Miller</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">, Smithsonian Institution<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Sarah George</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">, Natural History Museum of Utah<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Jay Labov</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">, Education and Communication Expert (retired)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Emily Meineke</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Ignasi Bartomeus</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">, Doņana Biological Station<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Juncai Ma</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Breda M. Zimkus</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">During the workshop, the committee will also welcome members of the public to give brief public statements about evidence
of ideas for the committee’s consideration. <strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Advanced sign-up is required.
</span></strong>Input can also be submitted in writing through the study website. All written materials submitted to the committee will be included in the Public Access File created for the Committee and may be quoted in whole or in part in the Committee’s
report with attribution. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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