Symposium on Borrowed Chloroplasts:Secondary Endosymbiosis and the Chromalveolates - July 7-11, 2007.

借用叶绿体研讨会：次级内共生和 Chromalveolates - 2007 年 7 月 7-11 日。

• 批准号: 0733411
• 负责人: Naomi Phillips
• 金额: $ 0.96万
• 依托单位: Arcadia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0733411&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Symposium; Borrowed; Chloroplasts; Secondary; Endosymbiosis

This symposium will bring together a group of specialists from around the world, in order to provide an interdisciplinary overview of the problems and open questions associated with a group called chromalveolates. Members of this group have plastids that arose via endosymbiosis (a phenomenon in which one organism lives inside the body of another and both function as a single organism). Endosymbiosis continues to attract substantial attention as the most plausible explanation for the distribution of plastid features that would otherwise require multiple novel origins of photosynthesis in distantly-related organisms. The tools from genomics, phylogenetics, and biochemistry will be discussed to unlock the mysteries behind the process of plastid endosymbiosis.Leading researchers in the evolutionary biology of chromalveolates (e.g. diatoms or dinoflagellates) have been invited to participate in the half day symposium on these organisms at the Joint Botany and Plant Biology Congress, in Chicago, July 2007. Where possible, underrepresented groups or minorities were selected to attend the symposium.

这次研讨会将汇集来自世界各地的一组专家，以提供与一个名为ChroMalveolates的小组相关的问题和未决问题的跨学科概览。这一组的成员具有通过内共生(一种一种生物生活在另一种生物体内，两种生物都作为单一生物发挥功能的现象)产生的质体。内生共生作用继续吸引着人们的大量关注，因为它是对叶绿体特征分布的最合理的解释，否则就需要在远缘生物中有多个新的光合作用来源。来自基因组学、系统发育学和生物化学的工具将被讨论以揭开叶绿体内共生过程背后的奥秘。着色菌(例如硅藻或甲藻)进化生物学的主要研究人员已被邀请参加2007年7月在芝加哥举行的联合植物学和植物生物学大会上关于这些生物的半天研讨会。在可能的情况下，选择代表人数不足的群体或少数群体参加专题讨论会。