Symposium on Borrowed Chloroplasts:Secondary Endosymbiosis and the Chromalveolates - July 7-11, 2007.

本次研讨会将汇集来自世界各地的一组专家，以提供一个跨学科的问题概述和开放的问题，与一组称为染色质酸盐。这一群体的成员有通过内共生（一种有机体生活在另一有机体体内，两者作为一个有机体发挥作用的现象）产生的质体。作为质体特征分布的最合理解释，内共生继续吸引着大量的关注，否则就需要在远亲生物中有多种新的光合作用起源。将讨论基因组学、系统遗传学和生物化学的工具，以解开质体内共生过程背后的奥秘。2007年7月，在芝加哥举行的联合植物学和植物生物学大会上，铬鞭藻（如硅藻或鞭毛藻）进化生物学的主要研究人员被邀请参加为期半天的关于这些生物的研讨会。在可能的情况下，选择代表性不足的群体或少数群体参加专题讨论会。

This symposium will bring together a group of specialists from around the world, in order to provide an interdisciplinary overview of the problems and open questions associated with a group called chromalveolates. Members of this group have plastids that arose via endosymbiosis (a phenomenon in which one organism lives inside the body of another and both function as a single organism). Endosymbiosis continues to attract substantial attention as the most plausible explanation for the distribution of plastid features that would otherwise require multiple novel origins of photosynthesis in distantly-related organisms. The tools from genomics, phylogenetics, and biochemistry will be discussed to unlock the mysteries behind the process of plastid endosymbiosis.Leading researchers in the evolutionary biology of chromalveolates (e.g. diatoms or dinoflagellates) have been invited to participate in the half day symposium on these organisms at the Joint Botany and Plant Biology Congress, in Chicago, July 2007. Where possible, underrepresented groups or minorities were selected to attend the symposium.