Ninth International Tunicate Meeting

第九届国际被囊动物会议

基本信息

批准号：
9398756
负责人：
Lionel Christiaen
金额：
$ 0.75万
依托单位：
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-07-14 至 2018-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9398756
关键词：
Academia Academic achievement Address Aging Air Animal Model Asexual Reproduction Attention Award Beds Behavior Biological Metamorphosis Biological Models Biology CRISPR/Cas technology Caenorhabditis elegans Cells Chordata Chronic Communities Congresses Databases Development Developmental Biology Ecology Educational workshop Embryo Embryonic Development Ensure Ethnic Origin Evolution Fertilization Fostering Funding Gametogenesis Gender Gene Expression Regulation Genetic Genome Genomics Guidelines Immunity International Island Journals Marines Morphogenesis Natural regeneration Neuraxis Neuroanatomy Neurobiology Neurons New York New York City Oceans Oral Organism Organogenesis Paper Participant Patient Self-Report Physiology Platyhelminths Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator Publishing RNA Interference Reagent Research Research Personnel Resources Rewards Scientist Sea Urchins Social Functioning Stereotyping Swimming System Testing Time Underrepresented Minority Universities Urochordata Vertebrates Work Zebrafish ascidian base career cell behavior cell fate specification college connectome doctoral student environmental change fly global environment indium arsenide insight lectures meetings multidisciplinary nervous system development neurophysiology posters programs regenerative symposium temporal measurement undergraduate research virtual

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY This proposal is to fund the Ninth International Tunicate Meeting to be held at New York University, from July 16th to July 21st, 2017. This meeting attracts the international community of researchers using tunicates as model organisms for a broad range of studies, including cell and developmental biology, neurobiology and immunity, post-embryonic development and regeneration, genetics and genomics, ecology and evolution. Tunicates are the closest living relatives and comprise thousands of species that roam the oceans worldwide. For each one of the above topics, tunicates provide unique advantages as model organisms: for cell and developmental biology, they display simple embryos with fixed lineages that allows chordate development to be studied with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution; for neurobiology, they possess an extremely simplified central nervous system containing only ~150 neurons. A fully characterized synaptome and simple swimming behavior; for immunity, colonial ascidians possess the only established allorecognition system outside of vertebrates; for evolution, the stereotyped early development of ascidians remained virtually unchanged in the face of over 450 million years of profound genome divergence, making them the best test-bed to study developmental systems drift; finally, tunicates are poised to provide important multidisciplinary insights into the impact of global environmental changes on marine communities. The above topics will be covered through approximately eight plenary sessions, two formal poster sessions and two keynote lectures. A scientific committee representative of the diversity of the field has been defined and will be tasked with selecting abstracts for oral presentations, paying particular attention to appropriate representation of diverse groups, especially trainees. A career panel workshop will address the particularities and opportunities using tunicates as model systems in academia. A round table discussion will be held in a town hall meeting format to discuss community-wide issue such as developing genomic resources (e.g. reagents for CRISPR/Cas9 or RNAi), defining guidelines and best practices, developing, distributing and maintaining experimental and database resources). Social functions will further encourage informal interactions and foster creative discussions. As for previous versions of the meeting, the proceedings will be published either through a single meeting report and/or by partnering with a sponsoring published to produce a dedicated journal issue made up of several papers focused on tunicates. This version of the international tunicate meeting promises to be particularly vibrant as suggested by the initial enthusiasm generated by our announcement to hold it in New York City.

项目概要该提案旨在资助将于 7 月起在纽约大学举行的第九届国际被囊动物会议 2017年7月16日至7月21日。本次会议吸引了国际上以被囊类动物为研究对象的研究人员用于广泛研究的模型生物，包括细胞和发育生物学、神经生物学和免疫、胚胎后发育和再生、遗传学和基因组学、生态学和进化。被囊动物是现存的最近亲，由数千种在世界各地的海洋中漫游的物种组成。对于上述每一个主题，被囊动物作为模式生物都具有独特的优势：对于细胞和发育生物学，他们展示了具有固定谱系的简单胚胎，使脊索动物的发育能够以前所未有的空间和时间分辨率进行研究；对于神经生物学来说，它们具有极其简化的中枢神经系统仅包含约 150 个神经元。一个完全表征的突触体和简单的游泳行为；对于免疫力，殖民地海鞘拥有唯一已建立的同种识别系统脊椎动物之外；对于进化来说，海鞘早期发育的刻板印象实际上仍然存在面对超过 4.5 亿年的深刻基因组分歧，它们没有改变，使它们成为最好的测试平台研究发育系统漂移；最后，被囊动物准备提供重要的多学科深入了解全球环境变化对海洋群落的影响。以上主题将涵盖大约八次全体会议、两次正式海报会议和两次主题演讲。一个该领域多样性的科学委员会代表已经确定，其任务是选择口头报告的摘要，特别注意不同观点的适当表述团体，尤其是学员。职业小组研讨会将讨论使用的特殊性和机会被囊动物作为学术界的模型系统。圆桌讨论将以市政厅会议的形式举行讨论社区范围的问题，例如开发基因组资源（例如 CRISPR/Cas9 或 RNAi 试剂），定义指南和最佳实践，开发、分发和维护实验和数据库资源）。社交功能将进一步鼓励非正式互动并促进创造性讨论。至于会议的先前版本，会议记录将通过单一会议报告发布和/或与赞助出版商合作制作由多个期刊组成的专门期刊论文重点关注被囊类动物。这一版本的国际被囊动物会议有望特别正如我们宣布在纽约市举办这一活动所引发的最初热情所表明的那样，充满活力。