<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear SPNHC Members,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Beth Shapiro (Paleogenomics Lab, UC Santa Cruz), Brian Simison (Center for Comparative Genomics, Cal Academy), and I (Paleogenomics Lab, UC Santa Cruz) are organizing a workshop on genomic techniques and challenges at the Cal Academy in San Francisco from <a href="https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NDE4cXE5NjU5MnJwY2N0MmhiYzN2dTlzNmwga2ltLmJhbGxhcmVAbQ&tmsrc=kim.ballare%40gmail.com" target="_blank">12-15 March, 2020</a>.  </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">This workshop is specifically aimed at researchers and curators with little or no experience in genetic/genomic work to enable them to utilize emerging DNA sequencing technologies in natural history collections.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I am reaching out to the SPNHC community to gauge interest in such a workshop and to survey members on topics that they would find useful. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">So far, we are planning both practical (wet and dry lab) and lecture components</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, and we would love to hear from members their preferred topics to include. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">If you are interested in attending or learning more about this workshop, please fill out the following short survey!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://forms.gle/DpX1AUYvorrisu219" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/DpX1AUYvorrisu219</a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best,</span></p>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_3032182954126281972m_8367724893819759045gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Kim Ballare, PhD<br>Post-Doctoral Scholar, Shapiro Lab<br>University of California, Santa Cruz</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:kballare@ucsc.edu">kballare@ucsc.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://kimballare.wixsite.com/home" target="_blank">http://kimballare.wixsite.com/home</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>