<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_2169449006463990573gmail-m_-4079373222545789384gmail-docs-internal-guid-934478bd-7fff-9936-87f6-f096c3e83e78"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear SPNHC Members,</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Beth Shapiro (Paleogenomics Lab, UC Santa Cruz), Brian Simison (Center for Comparative Genomics, California Academy of Sciences), and I (Paleogenomics Lab, UC Santa Cruz) are organizing a workshop on genomic techniques and challenges, sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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 and facilitate genomic research in natural history collections.  We will hold the workshop </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">at the <b>California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco from 12-14 March, 2020.</b></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap">We have a fantastic line-up of speakers, hands-on demonstrations, and panel discussions, including a keynote talk by genomicist Dr. Ed Green, who was the first to sequence the complete Neanderthal genome.  Admission to the Cal Academy public </span>exhibits<span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"> and <a href="https://www.calacademy.org/nightlife" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">NightLife</font> </a>event (21+) on Thursday 12th is included in the workshop registration.  </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap">Please follow the link below to see the full schedule and to register.  Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. </span><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.calacademy.org/imls-museum-genomics-workshop-2020" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">https://www.calacademy.org/imls-museum-genomics-workshop-2020</font></a><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We hope to see you there!</font></span></p></span><font color="#888888"><div>-- <br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000">Kim Ballare, PhD<br>Post-Doctoral Scholar, Paleogenomics Lab<br>University of California, Santa Cruz</font></div><div><font color="#000000">lab website:</font><font color="#888888"> </font><a href="https://pgl.soe.ucsc.edu/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">https://pgl.soe.ucsc.edu/</font></a></div><div><font color="#000000">e-mail:</font><font color="#0000ff"> <a href="mailto:kballare@ucsc.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">kballare@ucsc.edu</font></a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font><div><br></div></div>