Conference: 7th International Volvox Conference

第七届国际团藻大会将于2023年6月11日至14日在马里兰州巴尔的摩市巴尔的摩县马里兰大学校园内举行。 本次会议将由本科生和研究生和博士后研究员，以及高级研究人员参加，讨论和推进我们对光合绿色团藻及其近亲生物学各个方面的理解，其中包括单细胞物种和作为一个单位游泳的殖民形式。 会议将包括关于发展的会议，具有一个以上细胞的生物体的进化，生殖，游泳附属物和对光的反应，以及这些生物体的DNA和RNA。 研究这些生物的新技术的应用也将提出和讨论。 教师在各级和教育机构的多样性的相互作用将增加对这些生物体的理解，他们与学生在各级的参与，将增加未来的科学家对这种生物体的重要了解藻类功能，包括其能力，增加其光合作用输出通过对光的行为反应。 将通过两次海报会议促进这种参与，以使高级和初级科学家之间能够进行互动。 NSF的支持将用于支付注册费和/或差旅费，以使参与者能够从职业生涯的早期阶段参加，特别是对于历史上在该领域代表性不足的群体的成员。在第七届国际团藻会议上提出的科学将涵盖生物化学，基因组学和转录组学，和细胞生物学的一个物种的基本了解从单细胞绿色藻类的多细胞生物体的演变。 会议将包括关于这些生物的发展和繁殖的讲座和海报会议（从单细胞到未分化的多细胞到分化的多细胞），它们的行为光反应，以及它们的基因组和转录组的分析。 受邀演讲者以及研究生和研究生中所代表的学科的多样性将为所有与会者之间的互动提供丰富的机会，并有望激发对多细胞生物进化机制，纤毛功能和行为的创新思维，以响应不断变化的光照水平，作为优化光合作用输出的一种手段。 广泛的研究生和博士后研究员的教育将增加未来研究这些生物的独立研究人员的临界质量，这对了解藻类生长功能，光合作用和纤毛功能至关重要。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。

The 7th International Volvox Conference will be held in Baltimore, MD on the campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, from June 11-14, 2023. This meeting will be attended by undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as senior researchers to discuss and advance our understanding of all aspects of the biology of the photosynthetic green alga Volvox and its close relatives, which include single-celled species and colonial forms that swim as a unit. The conference will contain sessions on development, the evolution of organisms with more than one cell, reproduction, swimming appendages and responses to light, and the DNA and RNA of these organisms. The application of novel techniques for studying these creatures will also be presented and discussed. The interactions of faculty members at all levels and from a diversity of educational institutions will increase understanding of these organisms, and their engagement with students at all levels, will increase the number of future scientists working on this organism important for understanding algal function, including its ability to increase its photosynthetic output through behavioral responses to light. This engagement will be facilitated by two poster sessions to allow interactions between senior and junior scientists. NSF support will be used to defray registration fees and/or travel costs to allow attendance of participants from early stages of their careers, especially for members of groups historically under-represented in this field.The science presented at the 7th International Volvox Conference will cover the biochemistry, genomics and transcriptomics, and cell biology of a species fundamental to understanding the evolution of multicellular organisms from single-celled green algae. The meeting will include talks and poster sessions on the development and reproduction of these creatures (which span the range from unicellular to undifferentiated multicellular to differentiated multicellular), their behavioral photoresponses, and analyses of their genomes and transcriptomes. The diversity of disciplines represented among invited speakers and graduate and post-graduate students will offer abundant opportunities for interactions among all conference participants, and is expected to inspire innovative thinking about mechanisms of evolution of multicellular organisms, ciliary function, and behavior in response to changing light levels as a means to optimize photosynthetic output. Education of a wide range of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will increase the critical mass of future independent investigators studying these organisms, which are critical to understanding algal growth function, photosynthesis, and ciliary function.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.