The Fourth International Volvox Conference in St. Louis, Missouri will bring together international scientists working with Volvox and its relatives. We cordially invite experimentalists and theorists interested in these fascinating organisms. The Volvocine algae have become an important model system for the evolution of multicellularity, development and cellular differentiation, and have yielded important results in fields as diverse as genomics, biological physics, hydrodynamics, and social evolution. We hope that these meetings will foster exchange of ideas and expertise, and will initiate new collaborations to expand and strengthen the Volvocales community.

Organizing Committee, Volvox 2017:

James Umen, Ph.D., Member and PI 
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
e-mail Jim: jumen (at) danforthcenter . org
Meeting organizer
 
Bradley JSC Olson, Assistant Professor, Kansas State University 
email Brad: jgsco (at) ksu . edu
Genomics workshop leader
 
Aurora Nedelcu, Professor, University of New Brunswick, Canada
email Aurora: anedelcu (at) unb . ca
Scientific Committee member
 
Stephanie Hoehn, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge University, UK 
email Stephanie: s.hoehn78 (at) gmail . com
Scientific Committee member
 
Hisayoshi Nozaki, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
nozaki (at) bs.s.su-tokyo.ac . jp
Scientific Committee member
 
Matthew Herron, Senior Research Scientist, Georgia Institute of Technology
X.princeps (at) gmail . com
Scientific Committee member
 
Dinah Davison, graduate student, University of Arizona
dinahdavison (at) email.arizona . edu
​Scientific Committee member