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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">We’d love to have a strong showing of Xenopus research at the The Allied Genetics Conference in March 2024. The abstract submission deadline is November 9th. The
Washington D.C. venue looks great. Frog power!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"><a href="https://genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/" title="https://genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/">https://genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Rebecca Heald (Xenopus representative on organizing committee)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Marko Horb, Ph.D.<br>
Director, National Xenopus Resource (NXR)<br>
Senior Scientist, Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering<br>
Marine Biological Laboratory<br>
7 MBL Street<br>
Woods Hole, MA 02543<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Email: <a href="mailto:mhorb@mbl.edu" title="mailto:mhorb@mbl.edu"><span style="color:#0078D4">mhorb@mbl.edu</span></a><br>
Office: 508-289-7627<br>
Lab: 508-289-7370<br>
Cell: 508-564-3764<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">If the NXR contributed to your work please acknowledge us in your publications and talks.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Cite us in Materials and Methods as National Xenopus Resource RRID:SCR_013731 at the Marine Biological Laboratory and in the Acknowledgements
you can just mention the National Xenopus Resource.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Cite us in your references: Horb M. et. al. (2019). Xenopus resources: transgenic, inbred and mutant animals, training opportunities, and
web-based support. Front Physiol. 10:387. PMCID: PMC6497014</span></i></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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