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<h1 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:green">Announcing the NAPPN Annual Conference February 16-19, 2021</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#202020">NAPPN is excited to announce our first ever annual conference on plant phenomics. This conference will include presentations, poster sessions, exhibits,
opportunities to meet up with colleagues, workshops and tours, and NAPPN general assembly, all virtually!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%">Here are some important dates to be aware of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%">November 2: Registration and Abstract Submission Opens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%">December 4: Abstract Submissions for Talk Consideration Due<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%">January 15: Workshop or Virtual Tour Proposal Deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%">January 15 : Abstract for Poster Award Consideration due<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%">January 15: Final Registration and Poster Abstract Submission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%">January 20: Early Career and Grad Student Award Nominations due<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%">More information is available at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><a href="http://nappn.plant-phenotyping.org/nappn-annual-conference-2021/"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%">http://nappn.plant-phenotyping.org/nappn-annual-conference-2021/</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">To submit abstracts</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">, go
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">We thank the American Society of Plant Biologists for their partnership in creating momentum, with their Phenome Conferences in past years, and look forward to building upon that momentum moving forward.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue">NAPPN Board elections coming up</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.5pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#202020">At the beginning of each year, NAPPN holds elections for its Executive Board. The Board is made up of representatives from both
public and industry organizations and represent the fields of plant biology, computational science and engineering. The 2021 board was elected last year, so the upcoming election will be for 2022 board members. Elections will be held in January of this coming
year.<br>
- The current board is made up of: Chris Topp (Chair), Jennifer Clark (Co-Chair), David Ertl, Frank Dohleman, Tabare Abadie, Amy Tabb, and Andrew Leakey.<br>
- Next year's board will be composed of: Jennifer Clark (Chair), Tabare Abadie, Amy Tabb, Christine Morgan, Malia Gehan, Kelly Gillespie and Argelia Lorence.<br>
- The 2022 board will have openings for one industry, one academic engineering and academic computational position.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;color:#202020"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#202020">If you represent one of these groups, please consider serving on the NAPPN board and help guide this discipline forward.
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Refer to our by-laws </span><a href="http://nappn.plant-phenotyping.org/bylaws/"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#007C89">http://nappn.plant-phenotyping.org/bylaws/</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#202020">
for more information on the voting process and be on the lookout for information regarding the nomination and election process in your email coming soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#1E28EA">_______________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:green">Announcing a new NAPPN Award</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:19.5pt;line-height:150%;color:green"> </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#202020">For the past two years, NAPPN has awarded the Plant Phenotyping Early Career
Award to scientists who have demonstrated excellence in the field of phenomics. In addition to this award, this year we are excited to announce a second award, the NAPPN Plant Phenotyping Graduate Student Award, to recognize a graduate student who is making
important contributions to plant phenotyping in areas of data analytics, engineering, modeling, physiology, plant breeding, plant sciences, remote sensing, or allied related disciplines.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#202020">A separate email will be forthcoming proving information on how to apply in the near future.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#5B68E7"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:19.5pt;line-height:150%;color:green">Learn about AG2P1<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h1><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">In case you missed it, last week the USDA-NIFA project named the Agricultural Genome To Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) was officially launched. A webinar laid
out the plans for this initiative and invited researchers interested in genome to phenome research to take part. You can catch the recording at
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuBpSRINWLk"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuBpSRINWLk</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue">PhenomeForce webinar series</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">On Fridays, join the
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webinar series. The schedule is on their website, or see their </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ForcePhenome"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Twitter account</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:19.5pt;line-height:150%;color:green"> NAPPN is now a 501(c)3 organization</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#202020"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">NAPPN has officially been registered as a 501(c)3 organization. The main benefit of doing so is to allow this organization to accept donations and funding.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<h1><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Please join NAPPN and invite others who may be interested.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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