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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