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<b>Deadline Extended to 26 January for MCLS 2025 Hong Kong!</b></div>
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Dear colleagues, </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are extending the MCLS 2025 abstract submission deadline to
<b>26 January 2025</b>! Please refer to our website for information about submission:
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><a href="https://www.the-mcls.org/mcls-2025-hong-kong" target="_blank" id="OWAe2f3184f-c0b5-892e-ede1-9cd3e9173d3e" class="x_x_Hyperlink x_x_SCXW186963607 x_x_BCX0 x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.the-mcls.org/mcls-2025-hong-kong" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="1" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); margin: 0px;">MCLS
2025</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and submit your abstracts here:
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><a href="http://www.conftool.org/mcls-2025" target="_blank" id="OWAfea66245-4da7-2e68-be4f-168137388f9d" class="x_x_Hyperlink x_x_SCXW186963607 x_x_BCX0 x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="http://www.conftool.org/mcls-2025" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="2" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); margin: 0px;">http://www.conftool.org/mcls-2025</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.
The updated timeline for the 2025 conference can be seen below: </span></div>
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<b>January 1, 2025</b>: Early Bird Registration Opens/New Membership Year Begins </div>
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<b><s>January 17, 2025</s></b><s>: Deadline for Abstract Submissions (Jan 17th 11:59pm American Samoa Time / Jan 18th 2:59am Los Angeles / Jan 18th 5:59am New York / Jan 18th 10:59am London / Jan 18th 6:59pm Hong Kong </s></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>January 26, 2025</b>: Deadline for Abstract Submissions (Jan 26 11:59pm American Samoa Time / Jan 27 2:59am Los Angeles / Jan 27 5:59am New York / Jan 27 10:59am London / Jan 27 6:59pm Hong Kong) </span></div>
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<b>February 17, 2025</b>: Notification of Presentation Acceptance </div>
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<b>March 31, 2025</b>: Early Bird Registration Closes </div>
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<b>April 14, 2025</b>: Registration Closes </div>
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<b>June 9-11, 2025</b>: MCLS Conference at EdUHK </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Symposium Finder</b>: To facilitate forming of symposia, we created a Google sheet for individuals to find presenters/organizers:
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><span class="_Entity _EType_OWALink _EId_OWALink _EReadonly_1" style="display: inline-block;"><span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19xEuOZSg48_mV8zY4hqNi6bXb5ued__duXK6xJzlEJY/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="OLK_Beautified_OWAccdd0b82-6d39-bbea-268b-85f5903a2e54" class="OWAAutoLink eScj0 none" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1px; border-radius: 2px; user-select: all; background-color: rgb(243, 242, 241);" data-ogsc="" data-loopstyle="linkonly"><img class="suRDx" alt="" role="presentation" style="width: 16px; height: 16px; vertical-align: middle; padding: 1px 2px 2px 0px;" src="https://res.cdn.office.net/assets/mail/file-icon/png/gsheet_16x16.png">MCLS
2025 Symposium Formation</a></span></span></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Travel Awards</b>: For MCLS trainees (graduate students and post-doctoral researchers), please consider applying for our Travel Awards at
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><a href="https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bwNoAGX0yUpT08K" target="_blank" id="OWA4d11dfc8-d868-2551-d0c7-ce032d4443c5" class="x_x_Hyperlink x_x_SCXW186963607 x_x_BCX0 x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bwNoAGX0yUpT08K" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="4" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); margin: 0px;">https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bwNoAGX0yUpT08K</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. </span></div>
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Dr. Jenny Yun-Chen Chan, Dr. Alfredo Bautista, Dr. Sum Kwing Cheung, and Prof. Kerry Lee </div>
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<span style="color: black;">Jenny Yun-Chen Chan, Ph.D.</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Education University of Hong Kong </span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Email: chanjyc@eduhk.hk </span></p>
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