<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_6202267218641720524m_-8844133585717311608m_-4694519519252494164WordSection1 gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;">Please note, special seminar at LSI tomorrow!<span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;"><span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>&nbsp;<span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;"><span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>&nbsp;<span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black; background: yellow;" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black; background: yellow;">Tuesday, March 28<sup class="gmail_msg">th</sup> </span></b><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; background: yellow;" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; background: yellow;">at <span style="color: black;" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="color: black;">10:00 a.m. in Icahn 280<span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"><span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>&nbsp;<span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"><a href="http://lsi.princeton.edu/news-seminars/seminars/bogdan-pasaniuc-ph-d-university-california-los-angeles" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://lsi.princeton.edu/news-seminars/seminars/bogdan-pasaniuc-ph-d-university-california-los-angeles"><b class="gmail_msg">Special Seminar with Bogdan Pasaniuc, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles</b></a><span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"><span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>&nbsp;<span class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;">“</span><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Integrating eQTL and GWAS to identify g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