<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_k6i3l8u60" alt="Marten_MammalImagesLibrarybyLLMasterweb2.jpg" width="300" height="200" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="color:rgb(9,32,64);text-transform:uppercase"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="color:rgb(9,32,64);text-transform:uppercase"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">16th
Annual Early Career Scientists Symposium</font></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the
University of Michigan is pleased to announce the program for this year's <a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Early Career Scientist Symposium</a>.<b> </b>This year’s theme is <b><i>Natural
History Collections: Drivers of Innovation</i></b>—an exciting symposium about innovative
and unconventional uses of biological collections across scientific disciplines.
The symposium will take place<b> Saturday,
March 14, 2020, </b>at the Biological Sciences Building on the campus of
the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.</font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">When
biologists think of natural history collections, most tend to think of taxonomy
and systematics, yet many are unaware of the uses of biological collections beyond
those traditional fields. These studies span the breadth of the tree of life and
address broad subjects from comparative genomics to bioengineering and climate change
to historical pathogen dynamics, among many, many more. We envision this symposium
as a way to showcase the often-unrealized opportunities and non-traditional avenues
of research that our collections make possible to the entire scientific community,
and emphasize some of the interdisciplinary ways our collections are being or could
be used.</font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">The
program includes two keynote talks by senior speakers and seven additional
talks by early-career speakers. Our keynote speakers are <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/robgur/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Rob
Guralnick</a> and <a href="https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/museum-voices/soltis-lab" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Pamela Soltis</a>
from the Florida Museum of Natural History. Additional details on our speakers
and their topics is <a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/home/speakers-2020/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">found here</a>.</font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Following
the symposium, a reception and collection tours will be held at the <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/rmc" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Research Museums
Center</a> (just five miles south of the UofM
Central Campus). Free parking is available, but transportation will be provided
to and from the Research Museums Center. Please indicate if you will need transportation
during the registration process. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="4"><b style="color:blue"><a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/home/register/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Register now for ECSS 2020!</a></b></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b>NOTE </b>– <a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/species/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">A related workshop on speciation-based delimitation</a> is scheduled for Friday, March
13, 2020. Please contact <a href="mailto:knowlesl@umich.edu" target="_blank">Lacey Knowles</a> for more information.</font></p>

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you!</font></p>

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2020 Committee</font></u></b></p>

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Crowe-Riddell</font></p>

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Gupta</font></p>

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<span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"></span>López-Fernández, chair</font></p>

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Nicholas</font></p>

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Pegan</font></p>

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Ruhfel</font></p>

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Thompson</font></p>

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West </font></p>

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credit: <a href="https://www.mammalsociety.org/image-library" target="_blank">Mammal Images Library</a> by L.L. Master</font></p></div></div>
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