Conference: International Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference, July 10-16, 2015 in Camerino, Italy

该项目将支持博士后研究员和研究生参加2015年7月10日至16日在意大利卡梅里诺举行的国际纤毛虫分子生物学会议。根据这次会议的一个长期优先事项，将强调青年研究人员和代表人数不足的少数群体，包括妇女的参与。 会议将提供机会，在正式和非正式场合分享最新的研究成果，从而将提供一个理想的环境，建立科学网络和合作。这个半年一次的会议是主要的召集实验生物学家与纤毛虫原生动物，并在维持这一重要的研究社区的活力发挥关键作用。参与者是一系列学科特定领域的成员，包括细胞生物学，分子进化，结构生物学，细胞信号传导和核酸生物化学。 本次会议的目标是（i）传播新的研究信息和想法，（ii）分享技术创新，（iii）组织社区资源的进一步开发，以及（iv）加强研究生和本科生的研究和教育活动。本次会议将包含未来方向和纤毛虫在课堂上的研讨会，在纤毛虫分子生物学领域的新的和令人兴奋的研究领域的几个平台会议，和两个海报会议。值得注意的是，将是一个关于基因组进化和适应的会议，这将强调应用计算方法来研究基因和基因组进化。其他会议将采用新技术的应用，以解开这个迷人的生物体组的分子和细胞细节的其他例子。

This project will support attendance by postdoctoral fellows and graduate students at the International Conference on Ciliate Molecular Biology, to be held July 10-16, 2015 in Camerino, Italy. In keeping with a long-standing priority for this conference, participation by young researchers and under-represented minorities, including women, will be emphasized. The conference will offer opportunities for sharing latest research results in both formal and informal settings, and thus will provide an ideal environment for building scientific networks and collaboration.This biannual meeting is the major convocation of experimental biologists working with ciliated protozoa, and plays a critical role in sustaining the vitality of this important research community. The participants are members of an array of discipline-specific fields, including cell biology, molecular evolution, structural biology, cell signaling, and nucleic acid biochemistry. The objectives of this meeting are to (i) disseminate new research information and ideas, (ii) share technical innovations, (iii) organize further development of community resources, and (iv) enhance graduate and undergraduate research and education initiatives. This conference will contain workshops on Future Directions and Ciliates in the Classroom, several platform sessions on the new and exciting research areas in the field of Ciliate Molecular Biology, and two poster sessions. Of note will be a session on genome evolution and adaptation, which will emphasize the application of computational approaches to study gene and genome evolution. Other sessions will feature additional examples of the application of new technologies to unravel molecular and cellular details of this fascinating group of organisms.