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5亿年前生活在沿海浅海中的祖先进化而来的。从这些原始种群中，它们的后代适应了许多不同的环境（例如深海、淡水、陆地），并多样化成我们今天看到的各种各样的形状。然而，海洋生物仍然是最不为人所知的生物之一，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受到控制的。海胆和其他海洋无脊椎动物的发育生物学会议将利用海洋生物来发现动物在发育过程中是如何形成的科学家聚集在一起，目的是找到它们之间的相似点和不同点。会议为本科生、研究生、博士后研究人员和教师提供了机会，他们可以通过海报、闪电演讲和同期会议演讲来展示他们的工作。所有与会者都被邀请参加会议前的技术进步研讨会和午餐时间的职业发展研讨会。今年的会议提出了几项新的倡议，以扩大传统上在海洋生物科学领域代表性不足的群体的参与。总的来说，这次会议将导致对海洋生物如何在其环境中发挥作用和繁殖的更深入和更广泛的理解；这种知识交流对于了解基本的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、再生学、免疫学、基因组学和进化生物学（以及其他）。会议提出了几项新倡议，包括：1) 3个会议前研讨会，致力于新兴技术（CRISPR, scRNAseq， BAC重组）的实践培训，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，讨论我们领域的公平，多样性和包容性努力，4)午餐时间主题关于职业发展，5)增加非海胆受邀演讲者的数量，以及6)相关的半卫星会议。因此，DBSUMI 2020的组织者有一个雄心勃勃的新计划，以现代化和扩大会议，使其成为实验室在研究、教学和推广中使用海洋无脊椎动物系统的纽带。目前，世界上没有其他会议关注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，利用海洋生物作为实验系统。会议的结果（讲习班、口头会议、职业发展会议）将通过社会媒体实时传播，会后报告将在开放获取期刊和网站上发表。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.