The Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and Other Marine Invertebrates Meeting, Woods Hole, MA, April 15 - 19, 2020.

海胆和其他海洋无脊椎动物发育生物学会议，马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔，2020 年 4 月 15 日至 19 日。

• 批准号: 1937613
• 负责人: Deirdre Lyons
• 金额: $ 1.8万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1937613&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developmental; Biology; Sea; Urchin; Other

All animals alive right now evolved from ancestors that once lived over 500 million years ago in shallow coastal oceans. From those original populations, their descendants adapted to inhabit many different environments (e.g. deep sea, fresh water, terrestrial), and to diversify into the dazzling variety of shapes we see today. Yet, marine organisms remain among the least-understood organisms, especially in regards to how their development, physiology, and behavior are controlled at the level of cells and molecules. The Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and Other Marine Invertebrates Meeting brings together scientists who use marine organisms to discovery how animals are built through the process of development, with the goal of finding both the similarities and differences among them. The meeting provides opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty to present their work through posters, lightning talks, and concurrent session talks. All meeting participants are invited to participate in pre-meeting workshops on technology advancement, and lunchtime workshops on career development. This year’s meeting features several new initiatives to broaden participation among groups that are traditionally under-represented in the ocean biosciences. Overall, the meeting will lead to a deeper and wider understanding of how marine organisms function and reproduce in their environments; this exchange of knowledge is critical for understanding basic biological process, as well as for understanding how organisms will respond to changing ocean environments in the coming decades. The Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and Other Marine Invertebrates (DBSUMI) meeting will be held at the Marine Biological Laboratory in April 2020. It attracts a diverse group of 150 scientists who use marine invertebrates to study cell biology, developmental biology, neurobiology, regeneration, immunology, genomics, and evolutionary biology (among others) in a broad phylogenetic context. The meeting boasts several new initiatives including: 1) 3 pre-meeting workshops dedicated to hands on training in emerging technologies (CRISPR, scRNAseq, BAC recombineering), 2) lightning talks associated with poster sessions to promote student work, 3) a Broadening Participation Plenary session and poster session to discuss Equity, Diversity and Inclusion efforts in our fields, 4) lunch time themes on career development, 5) an increased number of non-sea urchin invited speakers, and 6) an associated Hemichordate satellite meeting. Thus, the organizers of DBSUMI 2020 have an ambitious new plan to modernize and expand the meeting to make it the nexus for labs using marine invertebrate systems in their research, teaching, and outreach. Currently, no other meeting in the world focuses on the comparative development of marine invertebrates. The meeting will help recruit the next generation of broadly trained biologists using marine organisms as experimental systems. The results of the meeting (workshops, oral sessions, career development sessions) will be disseminated in real time through social media, and post meeting reports will be published in open access journals and websites.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.

现在所有活着的动物都是从5亿年前生活在浅海的祖先进化而来的。 从这些原始种群开始，它们的后代适应了许多不同的环境（例如深海，淡水，陆地），并多样化为我们今天看到的各种各样的形状。 然而，海洋生物仍然是人们最不了解的生物之一，特别是在细胞和分子水平上如何控制它们的发育，生理和行为方面。 海胆和其他海洋无脊椎动物会议的发育生物学汇集了使用海洋生物的科学家，以发现动物是如何通过发育过程建立的，目的是找到它们之间的相似性和差异。 会议为本科生、研究生、博士后研究人员和教师提供了通过海报、闪电会谈和同期会议会谈展示他们工作的机会。 邀请所有与会者参加关于技术进步的会前讲习班和关于职业发展的午餐讲习班。 今年的会议提出了几项新倡议，以扩大传统上在海洋生物科学中代表性不足的群体的参与。 总的来说，会议将导致更深入和更广泛地了解海洋生物如何在其环境中发挥作用和繁殖;这种知识交流对于了解基本生物过程以及了解生物如何应对未来几十年不断变化的海洋环境至关重要。 海胆和其他海洋无脊椎动物的发育生物学（DBSUMI）会议将于2020年4月在海洋生物实验室举行。 它吸引了150名科学家，他们使用海洋无脊椎动物在广泛的系统发育背景下研究细胞生物学，发育生物学，神经生物学，再生，免疫学，基因组学和进化生物学（等）。 会议提出了几项新举措，包括：1）3次会前研讨会，专门进行新兴技术的实际操作培训（CRISPR，scRNAseq，BAC重组工程），2）与海报会议相关的闪电会谈，以促进学生的工作，3）扩大参与全体会议和海报会议，以讨论我们领域的公平，多样性和包容性工作，4）关于职业发展的午餐时间主题，5）增加非海胆邀请演讲者的数量，以及6）相关的半索动物卫星会议。因此，DBSUMI 2020的组织者制定了一项雄心勃勃的新计划，以现代化和扩大会议，使其成为在研究，教学和推广中使用海洋无脊椎动物系统的实验室的纽带。目前，世界上没有其他会议侧重于海洋无脊椎动物的比较发展。 这次会议将有助于招募下一代受过广泛训练的生物学家，将海洋生物作为实验系统。 会议的结果（研讨会，口头会议，职业发展会议）将通过社交媒体进行真实的传播，会后报告将在开放获取期刊和网站上发布。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。