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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">You are invited to a series of webinars focused on
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">Envisioning a Biological Collections Action Center</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0"> as
proposed in the recent NASEM report and authorized by the U.S. Congress in 2022 in the CHIPS and Science Act. The webinars are scheduled for 7, 14, and 21 March 2023. The first installment on 7 March, will feature Pam Soltis, Barbara Thiers, and Andy Bentley,
three of the co-authors of the NASEM report.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#202122;font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">All webinars will be from 1-2 p.m. Eastern, open to all, and will be recorded and posted following the event:
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#202122;font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">Register here:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#202122;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><a href="https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YYB5rbCOR3WKHxkYMQh3Ng#/registration" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YYB5rbCOR3WKHxkYMQh3Ng#/registration</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#202122;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Discussion, questions, and comments will be encouraged via chat, Q&A, and the Discourse online discussion platform:
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which is now open for comment.<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#202122;font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0"> Brief instructions for accessing and using Discourse are here:
</span><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/images/7/78/DiscourseInstructions2023.pdf" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/images/7/78/DiscourseInstructions2023.pdf</span></a></p>
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