Conference: Meeting: Cnidofest: A workshop on cnidarian model organism biology, September 7-10, 2022, Davis, CA

会议：会议：Cnidofest：刺胞动物模式生物生物学研讨会，2022 年 9 月 7-10 日，加利福尼亚州戴维斯

• 批准号: 2229016
• 负责人: Celina Juliano
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-12-01 至 2023-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2229016&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Meeting; Cnidofest; workshop; cnidarian

The Cnidarian Model Systems Meeting (“Cnidofest 2022”) will take place September 7-10, 2022 at the University of California in Davis, California. This meeting will focus on cnidarians, a group of mostly marine animals that includes jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals, with a focus on cnidarians that are used as model organisms in the laboratory for molecular research to uncover the mechanisms underlying basic biological processes. Cnidarian model systems are growing in popularity due to dramatic advances in technology that now allow for sophisticated mechanistic studies; these studies are expected to have significant impact on many areas of society, including human health. Traditionally, most scientists have studied only a handful of model organisms because importing tools to new animals was a significant barrier. This has limited our understanding of biology because entire taxa remained severely understudied, including the cnidarians. However, due to significant and rapid advances in technology over the past 10-20 years, the number of laboratory model organisms has grown tremendously. This includes many emerging cnidarian models that will be featured at our meeting. A growing number of laboratories are applying these new technologies to cnidarians and making rapid progress in many fields, including developmental biology, cell biology, neurobiology, immunology, evolutionary biology, and ecology. Our meeting will highlight new tools that have already been implemented, introduce attendees to cutting edge technologies that may be applied to their future research, and facilitate the exchange of information between cnidarian scientists. This sharing of ideas will positively impact the advances we are able to make as a community. To ensure the healthy growth of our field, we will emphasize interactions between experienced scientists and trainees, with a focus on increasing diversity.Cnidarians are excellent laboratory models for making fundamental biological discoveries in many scientific fields, including neurobiology, developmental biology, immunology, and ecology. New advances in technology are now allowing scientists to apply sophisticated technological approaches to this historically understudied group of animals. The advantages of cnidarians are many: 1) They have simple, well-understood body plans and interesting life cycles with high variability. 2) They hold an informative phylogenetic position as the clade that is sister to bilaterians; discoveries made in cnidarians are often reflective of deeply conserved processes. 3) Many life stages of cnidarians are transparent, making them amenable to live imaging. 4) Some cnidarians are models for studying self/non-self recognition and others are used to study intracellular symbioses, such as those found in reef-building corals. 5) Many cnidarians are great models for studying regeneration, stem cells, and aging. Our meeting will emphasize new technological approaches that will greatly enhance cnidarian research. Three technology speakers will present seminars on emerging technologies 1) CryoEM, 2) single cell multiomics, and 3) live imaging. In addition, we will choose abstracts that emphasize the development of new technologies, including science supported by NSF Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) awards. Interactions will be fostered among participants through a schedule that includes oral presentation sessions, lightning talks, poster presentations, and free time to encourage informal discussion over breaks and meals, which are all done as one group. The goal is to exchange ideas for advancing technology in cnidarians, as well as to foster growth in the community through trainee support.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

Cnidarian模型系统会议（“ Cnidofest 2022”）将于2022年9月7日至10日在戴维斯的加利福尼亚会议上举行。专注于作为模型的ASIC生物学过程的cnidarians。 E。越来越多的实验室将新技术应用于CNIDAIRANG，并在许多领域，生物学，神经生物学，Imunology，Imunology，Evolutionary和Ecology中取得了快速的进步想法将使我们成为一个委托的能力，我们将强调经验主义者和受训者之间的互动，重点是遍布多样性。技术的新进步使科学家可以采取技术研究，这是许多人：1）他们具有简单，良好的身体计划和有趣的生活周期，是遗传位置。双向主义者； IANS是透明的，使他们可以进行现场成像。将大大增强Cnidarian研究的方法。奖项。该奖项反映了法定任务，并认为值得支持该基金会的知识分子和影响审稿人IA。