Sea Urchin Developmental Biology Conference XIV

海胆细胞和发育生物学研究团体以及尾索动物、半索动物和头索动物研究人员的第14次会议将于2002年5月1 - 5日在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔举行。这次会议是对非脊椎动物后口动物的细胞、分子、发育和进化生物学感兴趣的研究人员最重要的聚会。第14次会议具有特别重要的意义，因为正在进行三个基因组项目（两个关于被囊动物，一个关于海胆）。讲习班、研讨会和非正式讨论对于与这些项目有关的协调和合作将具有极其重要的意义。对细胞生物学、发育和进化具有重要意义的已鉴定基因的爆炸性增长，催化了对该领域的兴趣的巨大扩展。海胆胚胎和被囊动物胚胎在世纪前就被作为模式生物进行了研究。 这些胚胎为实验操作提供了许多优势，并且仍然是理解细胞，发育和进化机制的重要工具。可用基因的激增为这些系统注入了决定功能的巨大新力量。直到最近，包括文昌鱼和橡子虫（一种半索动物）在内的其他模式系统一直相当外围，只用于比较系统的研究。最近的努力也为使这些生物适应实验方法提供了新的动力。因此，当后口动物进化和发育的机制被揭示出来时，社区中出现了巨大的兴奋。会议汇集了experimentalists分享他们的发现在分子，细胞和基因组水平。会议包括8场全体会议，共有44名发言者，加上6场同期会议和两个研讨会，共有46名发言者。 海报会议和用餐时的讨论增加了高度互动的气氛。会议将包括约200人。受邀者将包括所有对海胆、被囊动物、半索动物和头索动物的细胞、发育和进化机制感兴趣的人。会议将涵盖受精，分子规格，轴向组织，原肠胚和形态发生，激活发展，基因组学和影响发展的进化机制的细胞机制。 同时举行的会议为研究生和博士后提供了宝贵的机会，使他们能够在国际会议上获得演讲经验，而研讨会则在这些胚胎中引入了新的方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 14th meeting of the Sea urchin cell and developmental biology research community and of researchers working on Urochordates, Hemichordates, and Cephalochordates will be held on May 1-5,2002 at Woods Hole Mass. This meeting is the most important gathering of researchers interested in the cell, molecular, developmental and evolutionary biology of non-vertebrate deuterostomes. The 14th meeting has special importance because of three genome projects being conducted (two on tunicates and one on sea urchins). Workshops, seminars, and informal discussions will be of immense importance for the coordination and collaborations associated with those projects. A vast expansion of interest in this field has been catalyzed by an explosion of identified genes of importance to cell biology, development and evolution. The sea urchin embryo and tunicate embryo were adapted for study as model organisms more than a century ago. These embryos offer many advantages for experimental manipulation and have remained as important tools for understanding cellular, developmental and evolutionary mechanisms. The explosion of available genes has infused these systems with enormous new power for determination of function. Until recently other model systems that include amphioxis and acorn worms (a hemichordate) have been quite peripheral and used only for comparative systematic studies. Recent efforts have given new impetus to adapt these organisms for experimental approaches as well. As a result there is great excitement in the community as mechanisms of deuterostome evolution and development are uncovered. The meeting brings together exiperimentalists to share their findings at the molecular, cellular, and genomic level. The meeting includes 8 plenary sessions with a total of 44 speakers, plus 6 concurrent sessions and two workshops with 46 speakers. Poster sessions and discussions over meals add to the highly interactive atmosphere. The meeting will include about 200 people. Invitees will include all those interested in cell, development, and evolutionary mechanism in sea urchins, tunicates, hemichordates and cephalochordates. Sessions will cover fertilization, molecular specification, axial organization, gastrulation and morphogenesis, cellular mechanisms that activate development, genomics, and evolutionary mechanisms that impact development. The concurrent sessions offer valuable opportunities for graduate students and postdocs to gain experience speaking at an international meeting, and the workshops introduce new approaches in these embryos.