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

现在活着的所有动物都是从5亿多年前生活在沿海浅海的祖先进化而来的。从这些原始种群，它们的后代适应了许多不同的环境(例如深海、淡水、陆地)，并多样化地形成了我们今天看到的令人眼花缭乱的各种形状。然而，海洋生物仍然是最不被了解的生物之一，特别是关于它们的发育、生理和行为是如何在细胞和分子水平上被控制的。海胆和其他海洋无脊椎动物发育生物学会议汇集了利用海洋生物来发现动物是如何在发育过程中形成的科学家，目的是找到它们之间的相似和不同之处。会议为本科生、研究生、博士后研究人员和教职员工提供了通过海报、闪电演讲和平行会议演讲的机会来介绍他们的工作。所有与会者都被邀请参加关于技术进步的会前工作坊和关于职业发展的午餐工作坊。今年的会议有几项新的倡议，旨在扩大海洋生物科学中传统上代表性不足的群体的参与。总体而言，这次会议将导致对海洋生物在其环境中如何运作和繁殖的更深入和更广泛的了解；这种知识交流对于了解基本的生物过程以及了解生物将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名不同的科学家，他们利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(以及其他)。会议有几项新举措，包括：1)3个专门针对新兴技术(CRISPR、scRNAseq、BAC重组工程)实践培训的会前研讨会，2)与海报会议相关的闪电演讲，以促进学生工作，3)扩大参与全体会议和海报会议，讨论我们所在领域的公平、多样性和包容性努力，4)午餐时间主题职业发展，5)更多的非海胆受邀演讲者，以及6)相关的半官方卫星会议。因此，DBSUMI 2020的组织者有一个雄心勃勃的新计划，要使会议现代化并扩大会议规模，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，世界上还没有其他会议关注海洋无脊椎动物的比较发展问题。会议将帮助招募下一代训练有素的生物学家，使用海洋生物作为实验系统。会议结果(研讨会、口头会议、职业发展会议)将通过社交媒体实时传播，会后报告将发表在开放获取的期刊和网站上。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.