<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Colleagues:<br><br>Please see the announcement below regarding the upcoming 16th Annual Early Career Scientists Symposium hosted by the University of Michigan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (<a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/" target="_blank">https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/</a>)! The symposium will be held virtually, and will occur Fridays (March 5th to April 2nd) from 1 to 3 pm EST. Details are provided below.<div><br></div><div>Take care,<br><div>Cody</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Cody W. Thompson, PhD<br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Mammal Collections Manager</div><div>& Assistant Research Scientist<br><div>University of M<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">ichigan</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Museum of Zoology</font></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">3600 Varsity Drive</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108</font></div></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Office: (734) 615-2810</font></div><div>Fa<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">x: (734) 763-4080</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Email: <a href="mailto:cwthomp@umich.edu" target="_blank">cwthomp@umich.edu</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Website: <a href="http://codythompson.org" target="_blank">codythompson.org</a></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></span><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><b>In response to the ongoing events associated with COVID-19, the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology has suspended non-essential operations. This includes access to the collections via scientific visits or outgoing loans. Please do not ship collections (gifts, exchange, loan returns, etc.) to the museum at this time.</b></span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Gail Kuhnlein</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:kuhnlein@umich.edu" target="_blank">kuhnlein@umich.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 2:04 PM<br>Subject: Early Career Scientists Symposium | Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation<br>To: 2012 ECSS Regional Scientists Emails <<a href="mailto:2012ecssregsci@umich.edu" target="_blank">2012ecssregsci@umich.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#666666"><img src="cid:ii_kkfs91vk0" alt="ECSSpostertopcroptwitter.jpg" width="452" height="226"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:24.4pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#38761d"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Dear all,</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:7.5pt 0in;line-height:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#38761d"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The</span> 16th
annual Early Career Scientists Symposium<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> will be held</span> this year in a
virtual format over five consecutive Fridays, beginning March 5<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> and concluding April 2</span>, 2021. Our
theme is <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">"</span><b>Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation</b>.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">"</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">T</span>he <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">2020 </span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">symposium <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">was canceled due to</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> COVID-19 but our full<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> original</span> lineup of speakers will present <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">at the </span>2021<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> symposium</span>.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:7.5pt 0in;line-height:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">
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Host department</b>: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)<br>
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Dates<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></b>: Fridays, March 5 – April 2, 2021<br>
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Time</b>: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. </font><br>
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<a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/" style="color:rgb(98,134,34)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,124,137)"><b>Further information</b></span></a><font color="#628622"> </font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">i</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font color="#38761d">s on the ECSS website including</font></span><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></span><b style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/schedule/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(61,133,198)">SCHEDULE</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/home/speakers-2020/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(61,133,198)">talk titles</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)">, </span></b><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/home/abstracts-2020/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><b>abstracts</b> </span></a></span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">and more.</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#666666"> </font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font color="#38761d">Symposium poster is attached. <i>You do not have to be in your early career to attend. </i></font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:7.5pt 0in;line-height:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(98,134,34);font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/register/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,124,137)"><b>REGISTRATION</b></span></a> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#38761d">(<i>Free but required for Zoom
admission. Zoom link and password will be sent to registrants via email</i>).</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);margin:7.5pt 0in;line-height:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(98,134,34)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><b>SCHEDULE</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);margin:7.5pt 0in;line-height:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">March 5 | Keynote: </span><b style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Rob
Guralnick</b><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> | Sizing up new uses of natural history collections for
ecogeography and global change biology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">March 12 | <b>Jocelyn
Colella</b> | Connecting next-generation museum collections to public
health; <b>Kelly Speer</b> | Determining drivers of symbiont evolution
in a multi-tier hierarchical system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">March 19 | <b>Alexis
Mychajliw</b> | Conflicts in context: natural history collections as
archives of human-carnivore interactions through time; <b>Daniel
Park </b>| Herbarium collections reveal wide variation in plant phenological
responses to climate; <b>Alex White</b> | Biogeography of fern shapes
as revealed by deep learning</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">March 26 |<b> Eric
LoPresti</b> | Plants and the materials that stick to them: an ecological
and evolutionary investigation; <b>Laurel Yohe</b> | Morphological
and developmental basis of olfactory evolution: evidence from museum-collected
iodine-stained bat specimens and embryos</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:7.5pt 0in;line-height:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">April 2 | Keynote: </span><b style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Pamela
Soltis</b><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> | Integrative research using natural history collections:
examples from herbaria</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"></span><br>
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We hope to see you soon!<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Dan Rabosky</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:7.5pt 0in;line-height:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#38761d"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">(</span>on behalf of the ECSS Committee<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">: </span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Benjamin Nicholas, Teresa Pegan, Daniel Rabosky, Brad
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