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

本次研讨会将汇集一组来自世界各地的专家，以提供一个跨学科的概述的问题和开放的问题与一组称为chromalveolates。这一组的成员具有通过内共生（一种现象，其中一个生物体生活在另一个生物体内，并且两者作为一个生物体发挥作用）产生的质体。内共生作为质体特征分布的最合理的解释继续吸引大量的关注，否则需要在远亲生物中进行光合作用的多个新起源。来自基因组学，遗传学和生物化学的工具将被讨论，以解开背后的质体内共生过程的奥秘。在chromalveolates（例如硅藻或甲藻）的进化生物学的主要研究人员已被邀请参加为期半天的研讨会在联合植物学和植物生物学大会，在芝加哥，2007年7月这些生物。在可能的情况下，代表性不足的群体或少数群体被挑选参加专题讨论会。

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.