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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Fresh analysis ensues.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">As a reminder, the iEvoBio conference is again holding a Challenge competition in 2012, this time on the theme, "Synthesizing Phylogenies." Further information on the nature of challenge entries and how
to submit them can be found on the iEvoBio website at <a href="http://ievobio.org/challenge.html">http://ievobio.org/challenge.html</a>. Submissions are due by June 25, 2012. Cash prizes will be awarded for first place (USD 1,500) and runner-up entries. The
winning entries will be selected by a vote of the iEvoBio meeting participants.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Also, alongside the iEvoBio Challenge, 2012 iEvoBio sponsor Biomatters Ltd is running the Geneious Challenge. The goal of this challenge is to develop a new plugin to Geneious Pro, using the public API,
that enables a new and exciting visualization or analysis. The winning entry will receive a $1000 cash prize, and all entrants who submit by the deadline will receive a 12-month subscription license. The deadline for the Geneious Challenge is the same as for
the iEvoBio Challenge. See<a href="http://ievobio.org/geneious_challenge.html">http://ievobio.org/geneious_challenge.html</a> for more information.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">More details about the iEvoBio conference and program are available at <a href="http://ievobio.org/">http://ievobio.org</a>. You can also find continuous updates on the conference's Twitter feed at <a href="http://twitter.com/iEvoBio">http://twitter.com/iEvoBio</a> and
Google+ page, or subscribe to the low-traffic iEvoBio announcements mailing list at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/ievobio-announce">http://groups.google.com/group/ievobio-announce</a>.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">iEvoBio 2012 is sponsored by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and by Biomatters Ltd., in partnership with the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) and the Systematic Biologists
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">The iEvoBio 2012 Organizing Committee:</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Hilmar Lapp, US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (chair)</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Robert Beiko, Dalhousie University</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Nico Cellinese, University of Florida</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Robert Guralnick, University of Colorado at Boulder</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Rebecca Kao, Denver Botanic Gardens</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Ellinor Michel, Natural History Museum, London</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Nadia Talent, Royal Ontario Museum</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Andrea Thomer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</div>
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