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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Registration is OPEN for the 2024 Crop Wild Relative Symposium!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please find symposium registration, call for lightning presentation abstracts, Symposium Travel Awards for Indigenous People, and other meeting information
<a href="http://www.usbg.gov/2024cwrsymposium">here</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">See you in September! <a href="http://www.usbg.gov/2024cwrsymposium">www.usbg.gov/2024cwrsymposium</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Key dates:</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">July 15, 2024 Abstract deadline for lightning presentations</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">July 31, 2024 Application deadline for Symposium Travel Awards for Indigenous People</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">August 31, 2024 Registration deadline</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This meeting is made possible through a partnership between Botanic Gardens Conservation International-US and the United States Botanic Garden, in collaboration
with an advisory committee from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Denver Botanic Gardens, Missouri Botanical Garden, NatureServe, San Diego Botanic Garden, United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, and University of British Columbia
Botanical Garden.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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