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<P class=defaulttext><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG><FONT size=5>7<SUP>th</SUP> International
Chrysophyte Symposium – Keynote
Speakers<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p><STRONG> </STRONG></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=defaulttext><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#808000><FONT size=4>Dear
Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=defaulttext><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#808000 size=4>We are excited to announce
three prominent keynote speakers: <B><U><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Andy
Knoll</SPAN></U></B> (Harvard University) - considered one of America’s top
paleontologists (</FONT><A
title=blocked::http://www.eps.harvard.edu/people/faculty/knoll/
href="http://www.eps.harvard.edu/people/faculty/knoll/"><FONT
size=4>http://www.eps.harvard.edu/people/faculty/knoll/</FONT></A><FONT
color=#808000 size=4>) ; <B><U><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Mitch
Sogin</SPAN></U></B> (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole) - a top
molecular biologist involved in emerging technologies and in the International
Census of Marine Microbes (</FONT><A
title=blocked::http://jbpc.mbl.edu/labs-sogin.html
href="http://jbpc.mbl.edu/labs-sogin.html"><FONT
size=4>http://jbpc.mbl.edu/labs-sogin.html</FONT></A><FONT color=#808000
size=4>) and; <B><U><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">James Rohlf</SPAN></U></B>
(SUNY-Stony Brook) - a biometrician and morphometrician (</FONT><A
title=blocked::http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/rohlf/
href="http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/rohlf/"><FONT
size=4>http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/rohlf/</FONT></A><FONT color=#808000><FONT
size=4>)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=defaulttext><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#808000><FONT size=4>We have also arranged
three mini-symposia on "Paleolimnology", "Heterokont Phylogeny" and "Signals
& Smells: Chemical Ecology and Taste & Odor". Details will
follow.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=defaulttext><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#808000 size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=defaulttext><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#808000><FONT size=4>The meeting will be
held June 23-26, 2008, at <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Connecticut</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">New London</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">CT</st1:State>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#808000 size=4>Please check our ICS 2008
website (</FONT><A
title=blocked::http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/botany/ICS.html
href="http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/botany/ICS.html"><FONT
size=4>http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/botany/ICS.html</FONT></A><FONT
color=#808000><FONT size=4>) for regular updates.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#808000 size=4>Peter Siver</FONT><FONT
color=#808000 size=4> (<A title=blocked::mailto:pasiv@conncoll.edu
href="mailto:pasiv@conncoll.edu"><FONT size=4>pasiv@conncoll.edu</FONT></A><FONT
color=#808000 size=4>) </FONT>and Anne Lizarralde (</FONT><A
title=blocked::mailto:aliz@conncoll.edu href="mailto:aliz@conncoll.edu"><FONT
size=4>aliz@conncoll.edu</FONT></A></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT><FONT size=4><FONT
color=#808000>)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#808000><FONT size=4>Hosts of the
7<SUP>th</SUP> International Chrysophyte Symposium at <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Connecticut</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">New
London</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">CT</st1:State>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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