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Sunil Kenchanmane Raju

@kenchanmane.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, Duplication, Epigenomics, Comparative Single-cell Omics. kenchanmanelab.com

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Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
2026 Harvest wrapped up 🌽 Great day in the field #Kenchanmane-Raju lab and #RasmussenLab @carolynplants.bsky.social @ucriverside.bsky.social
Rasmussen and Kenchanmane-Raju lab members in front of the maize field at Riverside CA
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plantpostdocs.bsky.social @plantpostdocs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@aribidopsis.bsky.social and @kenchanmane.bsky.social hosted an incredible workshop for the @plantpostdocs.bsky.social 2026 Awardees✨ They broke down key pieces of the US academic job market and shared application strategies Wishing all the applicants huge success as they build their application 🚀
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plantpostdocs.bsky.social @plantpostdocs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hi Fam, happy Wednesday! Meet our newest Leadership Team member Dr Rebecca Leuschen-Kohl @bleuschenkohl.bsky.social who's a postdoc at the Wagner Lab @universityofkansas.bsky.social Our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social leadership team is growing stronger time! It's the perfect to join us🌱 🔗 in bio🌸
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
For metabolic innovations, it seems local tandem duplications more important that whole genome duplication #PlantScience
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Plant Cell Atlas @plantcellatlas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We are so excited to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2027 Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology Gordon Research Conference! Learn More and Apply Now! www.grc.org/single-cell-...
Image of a Gordon Research Conference webpage for “Decoding Plant Cell Biology Through Integrated Single Cell ‘Omics,” taking place August 8–13, 2027, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine. The page lists Nicola Patron and Marc Libault as chairs and Tatsuya Nobori and Shao-Shan Carol C. Huang as vice chairs. On the left is a collage of colorful microscopic images of plant cells.
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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#JustIn on Plantae: Avenues and Strategies for Attracting Students to a New Lab. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellow Aditi Bhat explores newer avenues plant biologists are using to attract students. buff.ly/ki8H7pu #PlantScience #PlantSci
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Avenues and Strategies for Attracting Students to a New Lab | Plantae
You have gone through years of training, landed a grant to start your own lab at your dream university…
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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We are many but we are looking for 3 more PhD students! 🪲🥦🧬 The projects will explore: 🧬 Evolution of ankyrin-repeat effectors in gall-forming plasmodiophorids 🦠 Microbiome-mediated insect adaptation to extreme environments 🍃 Leafhopper effectors at the plant–insect interface Full description ⬇️
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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm curious about the reasons why some people/labs choose NOT to preprint their papers, either for specific papers or in general. Do you have a sense of this, either for yourself or for colleagues and collaborators? [I have some guesses, but curious to hear from others]
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
1/9 🧵New preprint from the lab! A midpoint in a long journey to understand specificity among bHLH transcription factors in plants. Part IV: how does an accessory domain guide specificity of heterodimerizing bHLHs? #PlantSci #TranscriptionFactors #stomata www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Lab dinner tonight! We originally planned to watch new Spider Man movie afterwards, but everyone was too tired. We ended up hanging out at the Irish Pub longer. Thanks everyone for making the lab a better home for doing science everyday.
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plantpostdocs.bsky.social @plantpostdocs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hi Fam! Re-introducing our Co-founder Dr Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social Since founding @plantpostdocs.bsky.social in 2019, Sunil spent 7 years shaping the community and is now leading his lab @ucriverside.bsky.social 🌱Our leadership team is expanding! Join us 🔗 in bio!🌸
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plantgrads @plantgrads.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
On August 14th at 10 AM CT, join us to explore plant biology graduate program types and the funding sources behind them, with Dr. BeKa Leuschen-Kohl (KU) and Dr. Taymee Brandon (Princeton)! Registration link is on our linktree. #gradschool #plantgrads
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS
In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...
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Alex Eve @amjeve.uk · 26/07/2026
Congratulations, @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social, on winning the @socdevbio.bsky.social #2026SDB Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award! Learn more about Jeff's science and career in his @dev-journal.bsky.social interview with @saanjbati.bsky.social.
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Transitions in development – an interview with Jeffrey Farrell
Jeffrey Farrell is an Earl Stadtman Investigator at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), USA, where he heads the Unit on Cell Specification and ...
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Alex Eve @amjeve.uk · 26/07/2026
Congratulations to @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social, winner of the @socdevbio.bsky.social Trainee Science Communication Award at #2026SDB. Check out Nick's not-for-profit organisation for engaging the public with developmental biology: Open Flower
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Flower Genetic Design
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Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Las Vegas: 110°F outside 🥵 #SDB2026: 100% cool science inside 😎 A great start to the meeting with the Presidential Symposium @rrbehringer.bsky.social @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social Spotting my favorite model organism 🌽 in the art show. #DevBio #PlantScience And, as always, Vegas has the best food 😋
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I am excited to be at #2026SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social with so many members of my lab! From GRNs to multiomics to imaging development- please visit 4 of their posters on Thursday night! #142 (A42) - Arwen Cudiamat #143 (A43) - Heddy Menendez #168 (A68) - William Stoehr #181 (A81) - Raneesh Ramarapu
#142 (A42) - Elucidating the stage specific role of SOX9 during neural crest development#168 (A68) - Elucidating the dynamic localization of TUBA4A during cell state transitions in the developing cornea#181 (A81) - A single-cell multiomic atlas of the developing chick anterior segment reveals a ZEB-mediated epigenetic switch driving corneal endothelial maturation#143 (A43) - Determining the Role of SOX9 in Neural Crest Development in Gallus gallus
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I'm looking forward to #SDB2026 in Las Vegas! I put together a Family-Friendly Guide to Vegas with tips on restaurants, activities, transportation, weather, and more. It’s one of my favorite cities and I hope you enjoy your trip! www.sdbonline.org/uploads/file... #DevBio @socdevbio.bsky.social
The sun rising over Planet Hollywood Resort in Las Vegas A view of Planet Hollywood resort in Las Vegas A little boy looking at the Las Vegas skyline from a balcony
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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🎉 We’re celebrating #PeerReviewWeek with a Review-a-thon! Gather your lab, classroom, department, or community to review preprints or datasets as a team, in any language or research field. You can win a prize to support your Club's activities! Learn more & register by Aug. 31: bit.ly/Review-a-thon
Review-a-thon flyer with the Peer Review Week logo on the top-right corner. Celebrate #PeerReviewWeek by reviewing together. 14-18 September, 2026. Three icons with numbers signaling the three steps to participate: 1° Register a PREreview Club or create your own. 2° Publish at least 1 collaborative review. 3° Win a prize for your Club. A QR code leads to the Review-a-thon website and reads “Register by August 31”. PREreview logo on the bottom-left corner.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Draft genAI guidance for classroom
PPT slide reads "Generative AI use guidance"

When you are learning:
- Minimize the use of generate AI
- Prioritize learning
- Invest time to figure out how to do stuff
- Read documentations
- When you get stuck, ask a peer, build community, and learn together

When you are working: 
- Use AI responsibly.
- Never give AI sensitive, confidential, or proprietary data
- Understand AI output
- Test and validate code, regardless AI or human generated.
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Rebecca (BeKa) Leuschen-Kohl @bleuschenkohl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Connect with me next week at #PlantBio2026!
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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Hey team - it’s looking very likely that I’ll be hiring not one but two four year postdocs! We’re a fun lab with tons of theoretical and applied pop gen projects - broadly in polyploid, conservation, and human evo. Competitive salary, sunny San Diego! Do share with your about to defend grads!
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Jake Harris @c-jake-harris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Excited to be able to advertise 1x postdoc and 2x technician positions to join my group in Cambridge working on an exciting ARIA funded project to help bring a plant artificial chromosome into existence! Reposts very welcome please 🙏 (1/2)
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Behind every paper in MBE, there's this - a group of excellent and dedicated scientists, serving the SMBE community on our editorial board. By committing their time, these editors make the society's mission to support and connect molecular evolutionists possible. #societyjournal #society #SMBE2026
SMBE 2026 | MBE Editorial Board
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Aman Husbands @husbandslab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Been away from BlueSky for a bit but just received tenure! Big thank you to my many many mentors and colleagues. And, of course, my family. Truly a team effort. Also, this video took like six tries to get right 🫠
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Nitika Taneja @TanejaLab @nitikataneja.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Very excited to share our new Nature study! We discovered that replication stress stabilizes CTCF-dependent chromatin loops enclosing stressed nascent DNA, where G9a-mediated heterochromatin protects it from nucleolytic degradation. rdcu.be/frzLg Huge thanks to all our collaborators and co-authors!
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Replication-stress-induced chromatin loops protect fork stability - Nature
Replication stress induces the formation of transient chromatin loops that enclose de novo heterochromatin-enriched stalled replication forks.
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Claudia Köhler @claudiakohler11.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!
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Sonali Roy @sonaliroy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My lab has received an NSF CAREER Award funding for the next 5 years! Grateful to the NSF for continuing to support my lab's research and training (Award #2544620). The project asks the question: how do legumes differentiate between and select the best symbionts? Positions coming soon!
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Foundation models are transforming plant biology across genomes, phenotypes and AI agents #TansleyInsight by Haopeng Yu @haopengyu.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MB4DAU...
The illustration of the foundation model workflow.
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Bas Bargmann @bas-bargmann.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Still an Ass, but now 'ociate! 🤓💥 This is thanks to all the wonderfull advisees, advisors, collaborators, and colleagues I have had the privilege to work with over the years! 💚💚💚 I am so lucky to know you all! news.vt.edu/articles/202...
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Board of Visitors approves 2026 promotions, tenure, and continued appointments
The board approved the following promotions, tenure, and continued appointments.
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Gearing up for Single Cell data. Ken Birnbaum is getting us oriented to the space. #icar2026
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speaking at ICAR
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Kin Pan Chung @kinpanchung.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We're hiring a PhD candidate! 🔬 Are you fascinated by cytoplasmic genetics and eager to uncover the mechanisms underlying maternal inheritance of plastids and mitochondria? If so, join our group and contribute to our ERC-funded research "CytoInP"!🌟 Application link: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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PhD position: Manipulating plastid and mitochondrial inheritance in plants
Our group investigates the maternal inheritance of plastid and mitochondrial genomes in plants, with the goal of uncovering the mechanisms that govern this process.
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Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Congrats on the beautiful study @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and team! Really exciting to see this important question being explored in non-plant systems! #GeneBodyMethylation #Transcription
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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This spring I took over and redesigned the only Gen Ed on plants here #IB103. We walked through every core aspect of plant bio in lectures & labs, but also through art & design. I had a blast, the evaluations are rewarding (4.9/5), the redesign got an award from the college, and a little press too!
screenshots of the press coverage from the siebel center for design. The link to the article will be in the commenta pic of me yapping at the design center
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ritu2806.bsky.social @ritu2806.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Excited to share two new PNAS papers on Botrytis cinerea—the fungus that spoils nearly everything. Together, these studies explore how the pathogen infects diverse hosts and how plants respond across evolutionary diversity.
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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Updated GRC Developmental Biology 2027 flyer/poster with the latest roster of invited speakers. 🌱🐟🧬🐭🪰🧪🧫 Come join us to discuss the latest in #devbio at the Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort, Jan 17-22 ! #GRCDevBio2027
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Bas Bargmann @bas-bargmann.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Great first day of our NSF PGRP sponsored maize transformation workshop at Rutgers with Andrea Gallavotti, Margaret Young @revealplant.bsky.social, Dave Jackson, and special guest Kan Wang! Wonderful group of participants getting their hands dirty in the lab 🤓
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Makayla Drew @makaylathebotanist.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I’m excited to share that the article I wrote with Dr. Dawn Nagel for The Plant Cell journal is finally available! In this letter, I explored how scientific identity development in academia can explain differences in experiences for marginalized scientists. academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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Cultivating “scientific identity”: insights from plant cell and developmental biology
Abstract. Identity plays a major role in academia, with an important interplay between personal identities and the development of a “scientific identity.”
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Excited to have started my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social through the @dfg.de Emmy Noether program. In this project we will be looking at the mechanisms of host invasion by fungal pathogens 🍄🌱 Check it out and drop me a line if you are interested! uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...
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New Emmy Noether research group on fungal infections in plants
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plantpostdocs.bsky.social @plantpostdocs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Hello Fam! 🌱 Hope you’re having a fabulous day! A mid-week reminder to join our vastly expanded global community of researchers🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻 To know more look us up on our socials linktr.ee/plantpostdocs If you’re already a part of our vibrant community refer us to your network 🛜
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Jae Young Choi @jychoi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can!
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J. Craig Venter Institute @jcvi.org · 30/04/2026
It is with great sadness that we announce J. Craig Venter has died. 🧪🧬 www.jcvi.org/media-center...
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J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of JCVI and Diploid Genomics, Inc., dies at 79
La Jolla, California—April 29, 2026—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Institute’s founder, board...
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James Lloyd 🧬 @jamespblloyd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I am super excited to announce that I am recruiting a new post-doc to join my team at UWA & @plants4space.bsky.social to work on plant synthetic biology, with a focus on genome engineering. If you are interested, please apply or reach out to me. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
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Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia
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plantpostdocs.bsky.social @plantpostdocs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If you missed meeting our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social Leadership rep at the Bay Area meeting, you still have a chance to meet our rep Dr Sonal Sachdev @sci3ntyst.bsky.social at the @aspbofficial.bsky.social Northeast Section meeting this weekend! 🌱
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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I always had a great time hanging out with Aimee and @hhtormar.bsky.social in the conference. I am so happy to see that Julia & Kamryn had the opportunity to connect with Aimee and Hector. 🍀🌽🔬 Aimee was also the representative from the @plantpostdocs.bsky.social Leadership team in the conference.
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plantpostdocs.bsky.social @plantpostdocs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happening today! Get to know more about @plantpostdocs.bsky.social through our Leadership Team Rep Dr. Aimee Uyehara at @aspbofficial.bsky.social Bay Area Plant Hub!
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Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
So much to celebrate in the lab lately! 🎉 Welcoming our new postdoc, Nandhakumar, and celebrating the poster award to Yuvraj! and multiple April birthdays!! #IndianChaats #Bhelpuri #Golgappe Nothing better than polaroid moments with the lab 📸 lots of memories in the making!
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