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My name is Hiromu Nakao, and I am a PhD student at the Gregor Mendel Institute in Austria.We are currently building a collection of natural accessions of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha for genomic and evolutionary studies, and I am particularly interested in obtaining accessions from Canada. For this reason, I am reaching out to you.
If you would be willing to help, or if you know colleagues or collaborators who might be interested in contributing, I would be very grateful if you could share this request with them as well.
To facilitate the collection of additional Canadian samples, I will be visiting Vancouver in June. If it would be possible to collect samples and send them there by June 5, that would be greatly appreciated. For this project, we are only collecting living material, so dried samples will not be needed.
If this is not feasible, sending samples to Vienna would also work perfectly well.
All contributors will, of course, be acknowledged in future publications.
Thank you very much for your time and consideration. I would greatly appreciate any assistance you may be able to provide.
If helpful, samples may be sent to the following address in Vancouver:
Liam Irwin
Forest Sciences Centre
2424 Main Mall, Room 2051
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
