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
Jacob Boswell	Georgia Institute of Technology
Irina Chan	University of New Brunswick	The adaptive role of RLS1 in Chlamydomonas:a direct test using genomic and RNAi RLS1 mutants
Kimberly I-Chen Chen	Georgia Institute of Technology	Genetic Basis Underlying De Novo Origins of Multicellularity in Response to Predation
Yi-Hsiang Chou	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Dinah Davison	University of Arizona	Understanding the ecology of the volvocine green algae AND Changes in phenotypic variability during an evolutionary transition
Alexandra DeShaw	University of New Brunswick	Exploring plastid function in free-living nonphotosynthetic algae
Patrick Ferris	University of Arizona	What EverHappened to Sex Inducer?
Sa Geng	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	The spermatogenic potential of the volvocine algal sex determining gene MID evolved prior to dimorphic sexes
Zachariah Grochau-Wright	University of Arizona	Differentparalogs may control somatic cell development in Volvox powersii and Volvox carteri
Takashi Hamaji	University of Tokyo	Anisogamy evolved with the reduced sex-determining region
Erik Hanschen	University of Arizona	Evolution of self-fertilization in the volvocine green algae AND Multicellularity drives the evolution of sexual traits
Matthew Herron	Georgia Institute of Technology	Evolution of multicellularity in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in response to predation
Stephanie Hoehn	University of Cambridge	Evolution and variability of morphogenesis in Volvox
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
David Kirk	Washington University
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
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
Stephen Miller	University of Maryland Baltimore County	Functional analysis of regA paralogs rlsA-rlsD AND CRISPR/Cas9-directed mutagenesis in Volvox carteri
Aurora Nedelcu	University of New Brunswick
Ichiro Nishii	Nara Women’s University	Two cellular events for inversion in Volvox carteri, cell shape changes and migration: which drives the morphogenetic movement?
Hisayoshi Nozaki	University of Tokyo	Volvox carteri from Taiwan
Bradley Olson	Kansas State University
David Queller	Washington University	Plenary Speaker
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
Matheus Sanita Lima	Western University	Unravelling organelle genome transcription using publicly available RNA-sequencing data
Kasey Swilley	Kansas State University	Evolution of the extracellular matrix for multicellularity
Nathan Tung	John Burroughs High School	Mutagenesis and Characterization of Volvox carteri Developmental Mutants
Antariksh Tyagi	Kansas State University	The volvocales genomes project
Noriko Ueki	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Anterior–posterior gradient in Ca sensitivity of axoneme studied using detergent-extracted Volvox “model”
James Umen	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Kayoko Yamamoto	University of Tokyo	Mating type locus-like regions in the homothallic species Volvox africanus.
Shota Yamashita	University of Tokyo	Cell Biological Analysis of the Embryogenesis in Gonium (Volvocales, Chlorophyta)
Ru Zhang	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Exploring genomic landscapes of heat sensing in photosynthetic cells by using algal high throughput and quantitative approaches