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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">The deadline for submitting abstracts for full talks to the 2012 conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio) has been extended to Monday, April 9, 2012. We hope that
this will give those interested in contributing sufficient time to do so.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Please see <a href="http://bit.ly/iEvoBio2012_CfA">http://bit.ly/iEvoBio2012_CfA</a> for the full Call for Abstracts and author instructions. We still expect to be able to notify accepted talks in time
for the early registration deadline of iEvoBio (and Evolution).</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">More details about the program and guidelines for contributing content are available at<a href="http://ievobio.org/">http://ievobio.org</a>. You can also find continuous updates on the conference's Twitter
feed (<a href="http://twitter.com/iEvoBio">http://twitter.com/iEvoBio</a>) or Google Plus page (<a href="http://bit.ly/iEvoBio-on-Gplus">http://bit.ly/iEvoBio-on-Gplus</a>), and there is a Google group you can join at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/ievobio-announce">http://groups.google.com/group/ievobio-announce</a> to
receive announcements.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; 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 Society of Systematic
Biologists (SSB).</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">The iEvoBio 2012 Organizing Committee:</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Hilmar Lapp, US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (chair)</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Robert Beiko, Dalhousie University</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Nico Cellinese, University of Florida and Florida Museum of Natural History</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Robert Guralnick, University of Colorado at Boulder</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Rebecca Kao, Denver Botanic Gardens</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Ellinor Michel, Natural History Museum, London</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Nadia Talent, Royal Ontario Museum</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Andrea Thomer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</div>
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