Travel grants for Volvox 2019

Volvox 2019 logo

The Fifth International Volvox Conference will be July 26-29, 2019 at the University of Tokyo Hongo campus. For past meetings, generous support from organizations such as the American Genetic Association, the Company of Biologists, Wellcome Trust, and the Phycological Society of America has allowed the organizing committee to award travel fellowships to students and postdocs. It’s not yet clear if that will be the case for next year’s meeting.

Stephanie Höhn has helpfully put together a list of outside travel grants available to students and/or postdocs, along with their deadlines and membership requirements:

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Chlamydomonas 2018

Chlamydomonas

Image from www.chlamy2018.com.

The website for the 18th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas is live at www.chlamy2018.com/. The meeting will be at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC June 17-21, 2018. Abstract submission is open, with submissions due by May 26, 2018.

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Volvox 2019 dates and location

The Fifth International Volvox Conference will be held at the University of Tokyo July 26-29, 2019, hosted by Professor Hisayoshi Nozaki. The tentative schedule is as follows:

Friday 26 July 2019
Registration and welcoming reception and poster set up.

Saturday 27 July 2019
Oral session and Poster session
Mixer

Sunday 28 July 2019
Oral session
Dinner party

Monday 29 July 2019
One day and/or half day trips to Volvox-field collection/algal culture collection at NIES etc. (not determined).

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Chlamy 2018 dates and venue announced

Chlamydomonas zygotes

The dates and location have been announced for the 18th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas:

The 18th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas will be held from June 17-21, 2018 in Washington DC. We look forward to seeing all of you there, so please keep those dates open. The venue will be the historic Carnegie Institution headquarters located in the heart of DC at 1530 P Street NW. To learn more about the venue go to https://rentals.carnegiescience.edu/. More information will be posted concerning the conference over the next couple of months.

I’ll keep you posted as more information becomes available.

AbGradCon 2018

AbGradCon 2018

AbGradCon is an astrobiology conference for graduate students and other early-career researchers. It is intended to provide

a unique setting for astrobiologically-inclined graduate students and early career researchers to come together to share their research, collaborate, and network,

and it’s coming to Georgia Tech next year.

AbGradCon 2018 will be hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. The conference venue and attendee lodging will be at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center. The Technical Program for AbGradCon 2018 runs from June 4-8, while the Proposal Writing Retreat (PWR) will be held on June 1-4.

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Volvox meeting posters

I thought I had already done this, but if so I can’t find it. Here are the full-resolution versions of all four Volvox meeting posters:

  • First International Volvox Meeting (Volvox 2011, Tucson, Arizona) pdf jpg
  • Second International Volvox Meeting (Volvox 2013, Fredericton, New Brunswick) pdf jpg
  • Third International Volvox Meeting (Volvox 2015, Cambridge, U.K.) pdf jpg
  • Fourth International Volvox Meeting (Volvox 2017, St. Louis, Missouri) pdf jpg (there wasn’t really a poster for this one; this is the cover of the abstract booklet)

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Volvox 2017 pictures

The Fourth International Volvox Meeting in St. Louis was everything I hoped. It was well organized, small enough to talk to everyone, and full of great talks. David Kirk was indeed there, briefly, though I failed to get a photo, and so was David Queller.

I thought I was pretty connected in the (relatively small) Volvox world, but there were several people there I’d never met and lots of research that was news to me. I’ll be blogging more about some of that research, but for now I’ll just share a few photos from the meeting.

Danforth Center

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is the perfect setting for a movie with scientist working on super high-tech stuff.

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