Welcome to Volvox2017!
Meeting Participants
| Name | Institution | Abstract Title | E-mail address | Ravi Balasubramanian | Harriton High School | Volvox barberi likely use weak forces to aggregate into optimally packed two-dimensional flocks | dinoravi@gmail.com | Jacob Boswell | Georgia Institute of Technology | jacob.boswell@biology.gatech.edu | Irina Chan | University of New Brunswick | The adaptive role of RLS1 in Chlamydomonas:a direct test using genomic and RNAi RLS1 mutants | irinacchan@gmail.com |
| Kimberly I-Chen Chen | Georgia Institute of Technology | Genetic Basis Underlying De Novo Origins of Multicellularity in Response to Predation | kimberly.chen@biosci.gatech.edu |
| Yi-Hsiang Chou | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | ychou@danforthcenter.org | |
| Dinah Davison | University of Arizona | Understanding the ecology of the volvocine green algae AND Changes in phenotypic variability during an evolutionary transition | dinahdavison@email.arizona.edu |
| Alexandra DeShaw | University of New Brunswick | Exploring plastid function in free-living nonphotosynthetic algae | Alexandra.DeShaw@unb.ca |
| Patrick Ferris | University of Arizona | What EverHappened to Sex Inducer? | pjferris56@gmail.com |
| Sa Geng | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | The spermatogenic potential of the volvocine algal sex determining gene MID evolved prior to dimorphic sexes | sgeng@danforthcenter.org |
| Zachariah Grochau-Wright | University of Arizona | Differentparalogs may control somatic cell development in Volvox powersii and Volvox carteri | zig@email.arizona.edu |
| Takashi Hamaji | University of Tokyo | Anisogamy evolved with the reduced sex-determining region | thinkeroid.superwoofer@gmail.com |
| Erik Hanschen | University of Arizona | Evolution of self-fertilization in the volvocine green algae AND Multicellularity drives the evolution of sexual traits | hanschen@email.arizona.edu |
| Matthew Herron | Georgia Institute of Technology | Evolution of multicellularity in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in response to predation | xprinceps@gmail.com |
| Stephanie Hoehn | University of Cambridge | Evolution and variability of morphogenesis in Volvox | s.hoehn78@gmail.com |
| Berenice Jimenez | Kansas State University | bere.underhill@gmail.com | |
| Matthew Juergens | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | mjuergens@danforthcenter.org | |
| Hiroko Kawai-Toyooka | University of Tokyo | Identification and Characterization of Gamete Adhesion Factor FUS1 Orthologs in Isogamous Yamagishiella and Anisogamous Eudorina | hiro_toyo@bs.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
| David Kirk | Washington University | kirk@wustl.edu | |
| Christopher Lee | University of New Brunswick | Investigations into the mechanistic role of Chlamydomonas RLS1 in photosynthetic acclimation using an RLS1 genomic mutant and RNAi knockdown | christopher.lee@unb.ca |
| Junyan Li | Kansas State University | junyan322@ksu.edu | |
| Dianyi Liu | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | dliu@danforthcenter.org | |
| Ryo Matsuzaki | National Institute for Environmental Science | Taxonomy of a new snow-inhabiting species of Chloromonas based on the use of cultured and field-collected materials | matsuzaki.ryo@nies.go.jp |
| Gavriel Matt | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | Transcriptomic analysis of Volvox carteri cell types yields insights into the evolutionary origins of germ and somatic differentiation programs | gmatt@danforthcenter.org |
| Stephen Miller | University of Maryland Baltimore County | Functional analysis of regA paralogs rlsA-rlsD AND CRISPR/Cas9-directed mutagenesis in Volvox carteri | stmiller@umbc.edu |
| Aurora Nedelcu | University of New Brunswick | anedelcu@unb.ca | |
| Ichiro Nishii | Nara Women’s University | Two cellular events for inversion in Volvox carteri, cell shape changes and migration: which drives the morphogenetic movement? | ichironion@gmail.com |
| Hisayoshi Nozaki | University of Tokyo | Volvox carteri from Taiwan | nozaki@bs.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
| Bradley Olson | Kansas State University | bjsco@ksu.edu | |
| David Queller | Washington University | Plenary Speaker | queller@wustl.edu |
| Trevor Romsdahl | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Sphingolipid characterization of Volvocine algae reveals presence of glucosylceramides with α-hydroxylated 18:2 fatty acid and a possible role for sphingolipids in Volvox carteri embryo development | romsdahl414@gmail.com |
| Matheus Sanita Lima | Western University | Unravelling organelle genome transcription using publicly available RNA-sequencing data | msanital@uwo.ca |
| Kasey Swilley | Kansas State University | Evolution of the extracellular matrix for multicellularity | kswille1@ksu.edu |
| Nathan Tung | John Burroughs High School | Mutagenesis and Characterization of Volvox carteri Developmental Mutants | 2018.ntung@jburroughs.org |
| Antariksh Tyagi | Kansas State University | The volvocales genomes project | antariksh@ksu.edu |
| Noriko Ueki | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Anterior–posterior gradient in Ca sensitivity of axoneme studied using detergent-extracted Volvox “model” | volvoxchlamy@mac.com |
| James Umen | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | jumen@danforthcenter.org | |
| Kayoko Yamamoto | University of Tokyo | Mating type locus-like regions in the homothallic species Volvox africanus. | haihailotuslotus@gmail.com |
| Shota Yamashita | University of Tokyo | Cell Biological Analysis of the Embryogenesis in Gonium (Volvocales, Chlorophyta) | yamashii@bs.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
| Ru Zhang | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | Exploring genomic landscapes of heat sensing in photosynthetic cells by using algal high throughput and quantitative approaches | rzhang@danforthcenter.org |