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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I sent this out two weeks ago but it seems that many of you never got it due to a defective email list-serve. My sincerest apologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Chris Amemiya <camemiya@ucmerced.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 8:17 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>qsb-grads <qsb-grads@ucmerced.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Miriam Barlow <mbarlow@ucmerced.edu>, Paul Roberts <proberts@ucmerced.edu>, Jan Zarate <jzarate2@ucmerced.edu>, Marjorie Zatz <mzatz@ucmerced.edu>, Betsy Dumont <edumont@ucmerced.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Greetings from your new Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello QSB Grad Students,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">My name is Chris Amemiya and I have been appointed Chair of the QSB Grad Program for the next year. I am honored to be able to take over this position from Dr. Miriam Barlow, who has been a strong advocate
for all of you and a very effective leader.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I have been a faculty member at UCM for two years. For the previous 16 years I was in a private research institute in Seattle, WA (and adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington where I participated
in three graduate programs: Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Genome Sciences). Prior to that I was on the faculty of Boston University School of Medicine where I was a member of two graduate programs: Biology and Immunology.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">You can learn a bit about me and my research at my lab’s website:
<a href="http://amemiyalab.com/">Amemiyalab.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please come and chat with me. It is always nice to put a face to a name. I have met a few of you already and look forward to meeting more of you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I wish you a great year.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sincerely,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Chris Amemiya</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-- </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Chris T. Amemiya, Ph.D.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Chair, Quantitative Systems Biology Graduate Program</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Faculty Equity Advisor, SNS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">University of California, Merced</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">5200 N. Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343, SE1 262</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Phone: 209 228-3377 (office) -3376 (lab)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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