Conference: 7th International Volvox Conference

会议：第七届国际Volvox会议

• 批准号: 2310202
• 负责人: Stephen Miller
• 金额: $ 1.45万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2310202&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; 7th; International; Volvox

The 7th International Volvox Conference will be held in Baltimore, MD on the campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, from June 11-14, 2023. This meeting will be attended by undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as senior researchers to discuss and advance our understanding of all aspects of the biology of the photosynthetic green alga Volvox and its close relatives, which include single-celled species and colonial forms that swim as a unit. The conference will contain sessions on development, the evolution of organisms with more than one cell, reproduction, swimming appendages and responses to light, and the DNA and RNA of these organisms. The application of novel techniques for studying these creatures will also be presented and discussed. The interactions of faculty members at all levels and from a diversity of educational institutions will increase understanding of these organisms, and their engagement with students at all levels, will increase the number of future scientists working on this organism important for understanding algal function, including its ability to increase its photosynthetic output through behavioral responses to light. This engagement will be facilitated by two poster sessions to allow interactions between senior and junior scientists. NSF support will be used to defray registration fees and/or travel costs to allow attendance of participants from early stages of their careers, especially for members of groups historically under-represented in this field.The science presented at the 7th International Volvox Conference will cover the biochemistry, genomics and transcriptomics, and cell biology of a species fundamental to understanding the evolution of multicellular organisms from single-celled green algae. The meeting will include talks and poster sessions on the development and reproduction of these creatures (which span the range from unicellular to undifferentiated multicellular to differentiated multicellular), their behavioral photoresponses, and analyses of their genomes and transcriptomes. The diversity of disciplines represented among invited speakers and graduate and post-graduate students will offer abundant opportunities for interactions among all conference participants, and is expected to inspire innovative thinking about mechanisms of evolution of multicellular organisms, ciliary function, and behavior in response to changing light levels as a means to optimize photosynthetic output. Education of a wide range of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will increase the critical mass of future independent investigators studying these organisms, which are critical to understanding algal growth function, photosynthesis, and ciliary function.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.

第七届国际沃尔沃克斯会议将于2023年6月11日至14日在巴尔的摩县马里兰州校园的马里兰州巴尔的摩举行。该会议将在本科生和研究生和研究生和博士后研究员以及高级研究人员以及高级研究人员的所有方面的了解和提高绿色alga的所有方面，并推进了我们的所有方面，这些会议将在本科生和研究生和博士后研究员参加。作为一个单位游泳的殖民形式。 会议将包含有关发育的会议，具有多个细胞的生物的演变，繁殖，游泳附件和对光的反应以及这些生物体的DNA和RNA。 新技术在研究这些生物中的应用也将被介绍和讨论。 各级教职员工的相互作用以及多样化的教育机构将增加对这些生物体的理解，以及他们与各级学生的互动，将增加对理解藻类功能重要的未来科学家的数量，包括通过行为响应来提高光合作用的能力。 两次海报会议将促进这种参与，以允许高级科学家和初级科学家之间进行互动。 NSF支持将用于支付注册费和/或旅行费用，以允许参与者从职业生涯的早期阶段出席，尤其是对于该领域历史上占代表性不足的群体的成员。在第七届国际沃尔沃克斯会议上提出的科学将涵盖生物​​化学，基因组学和基因组学和细胞生物学的生物学，以了解跨性别的跨性别物质的生物群，以跨性别的生物群体进行跨性别的杂货。 会议将包括有关这些生物开发和再现的会谈和海报会议（跨越了从单细胞到未分化的多细胞到差异化的多细胞的范围），它们的行为光反应以及对其基因组和转录组的分析。 受邀演讲者，研究生和研究生中所代表的学科的多样性将为所有会议参与者之间的互动提供丰富的机会，并有望激发有关多细胞生物体演变的机制，纤毛功能，纤毛功能的发展机制，以及响应不断变化的光水平的行为，以此作为优化光合量输出的手段。 对众多研究生和博士后研究员的教育将增加研究这些生物的未来独立研究人员的关键，这对于理解藻类的增长功能，光合作用和纤毛功能至关重要。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识优点和广泛影响来评估来评估NSF的法定任务。