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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Dear colleagues,<BR>
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If you are attending the Plant and Animal Genome meetings this year in sunny San Diego, we invite you to attend our workshop on Plant Phenotypes, Sunday morning, January 10, 2010. Speakers include Yukiko Yamazaki of Oryzabase, Eva Huala of TAIR, Rex Nelson of Soybase, Rosemary Shrestha of CIMMYT/CGIAR, Joerg Vanderhirtz from Lemnatec, and Lukas Mueller of SGN. We are especially interested in interacting with you during the panel discussion. The panel will include the speakers, and a representative from the Plant Ontology, Laurel Cooper. Please see the attached flyer for more details. <BR>
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We are very interested in your thoughts and insights about plant phenotypes, especially from the view point of database and informatics issues. It will be highly appreciated if you would spend 10 minutes of your time at this site:<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/plantphenotypes</U></FONT> <BR>
All interested persons are invited to provide insights at the survey site.<BR>
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I hope to see many of you soon and wish you all a Happy New Year!<BR>
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mary schaeffer, co-organizer with Chi-Ren Shyu<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Narrow"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11.0px'><B>Mary Schaeffer (Polacco), PhD <BR>
USDA/ARS Plant Genetics Research Unit at University of Missouri<BR>
<I>Geneticist/Curator MaizeGDB<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://</U></FONT></I><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>www.maizegdb.org<BR>
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</SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11.0px'><B>Chi-Ren Shyu, PhD <BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>shyuc@missouri.edu<BR>
</U></FONT>Director, Informatics Institute<BR>
University of Missouri<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="Http://MUII.missouri.edu">Http://MUII.missouri.edu</a></U></FONT></B></SPAN></FONT>
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