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“We use the time for fun, team-building and independent goal-setting,” says Beth Shapiro about the annual retreat she co-organizes at a University of California reserve near campus. Shapiro is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in the University of California Santa Cruz’s Department of Ecology and Evolution. The retreat is for the UCSC Paleogenomics Lab, a year-round collaboration between her lab; Rachel Meyer’s group, also in ecology and evolution; and the lab of biomolecular engineer Ed Green from UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering.

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