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July 16, 2019

Full registration and applications for banquet and one-day excursion have been closed.
One-day registration (without lunch and dinner) will be possible at the registration desk in 27 July and 28 July:
Faculty - 6,000 yen/day
Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Fellows - 4,000 yen/day
Undergraduate Student & Accompanying person - 2,000 yen/day
Undergraduate Student of the Univ. of Tokyo - 0 yen (show UTokyo Student ID card).

June 17, 2019

Detailed program has been released. See “Program.”

Numbers of attendees for one-day excursion to Tsukuba Science City (Monday 29 July) have been the maximum. Additional attendees of this excursion are not possible.

June 4, 2019

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION AND PAPER REGISTRATION FINISHED
Followings have been determined:
65 registrations (including 23 from foreign countries)
32 oral papers
Each oral paper has 15 min talk and 4 min question/discussion.
11 poster papers
Each poster board measures 900 mm wide and 200 mm high.
1 special lecture (PM 27 July)
“Evolution of Sexual Plant Reproduction and Its Key Molecules”
By Prof. Tetsuya Higashiyama

Thank you!

May 20, 2019

Dr. Ken-ichi Wakabayashi of Tokyo Institute of Technology agreed to become a new member of Local Organizing Committee of Volvox2019.

May 10, 2019

TRAVEL AWARDS FOR OVERSEA YOUNG SCIENTISTS FROM COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS

Funding from the Company of Biologists for three travel awards for overseas (i.e. non-Japanese) students (PhD, Masters, undergraduates) and postdocs for Volvox 2019, 26-29 July, Tokyo is now available. Travel awards are 50,000 yen per person (~$500 US) and will be distributed at the Volvox 2019 registration desk by the local organizers, on 26 July 2019. Applicants are required to submit both a pdf file of the completed application form and an MS-word file of the abstract (download from the registration site of this web) to Hisayoshi Nozaki (E-mail: nozaki (at) bs.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp) by May 20, 2019.
In addition, need for financial support should be described in the e-mail message. Three awardees will be chosen based on their abstract and need for financial support. The successful applicants will be informed by May 25, 2019. Travel receipts must be submitted to the local organizers at the conference to be eligible for reimbursement.


April 26, 2019

Four awardees have been determined! (Travel Awards for Oversea Young Scientists from Life Science Foundation of Japan)

The Committee members have reviewed the travel grant applications, and the following four awardees have been determined. They all replied us that they will accept the award.

- Cecilio Valadez-Cano, Supervisor: Adrian Reyes-Prieto (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
- I-Chen Kimberly Chen, Supervisor: Matthew Herron (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
- Sa Geng, Supervisor: James Umen (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
- Zach Grochau-Wright, Supervisor: Richard Michod (University of Arizona, USA)

Congratulation!!


April 3, 2019

Dr. Noriko Ueki of Hosei University agreed to become a new member of Local Organizing Committee of Volvox2019

March 28, 2019

TRAVEL AWARDS FOR OVERSEA YOURNG SCIENTISTS FROM LIFE SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF JAPAN
Funding from the Life Science Foundation of Japan for five travel awards for overseas (i.e. non-Japanese) students (PhD, Masters, undergraduates) and postdocs for Volvox 2019, 26-29 July, Tokyo is now available. Travel awards are 50,000 yen per person (~$500 US) and will be distributed at the Volvox 2019 registration desk by the local organizers, on 26 July 2019. Applicants are required to submit a pdf file of the completed application form (download here) to Volvox2019 Office (E-mail: volvox2019 (at) gmail.com) by April 4, 2019. Five awardees will be chosen based on their abstract and need for financial support. At least one of the five will be a young scientist from a developing country. The successful applicants will be informed by April 12, 2019. Travel receipts must be submitted to the local organizers at the conference to be eligible for reimbursement.


March 18, 2019

Five Awardees have been determined! (Travel Awards for Oversea Young Scientists from Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation)

The Committee members have reviewed the travel grant applications, and the following five awardees have been determined. They all replied us that they will accept the award.
- Rani Saggere, Supervisor: Aurora Nedelcu (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
- Alexandra DeShaw, Supervisor: Adrian Reyes-Priesto (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
- Pedram Samani, Supervisor: Max Reuter (University College London, UK)
- Dinah Davison, Supervisor: Richard Michod (University of Arizona, USA)
- Leticia Berenice Jiménez Marín, Supervisor: Brad Olson (Kansas State University, USA)

Congratulation!!


March 01, 2019

REGISTRATION FOR VOLVOX2019 NOW STARTED!
For details, see Registration in this web.

ACCOMMODATION ON THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HONGO CAMPUS:
SANJŌ CONFERENCE HALL TATSUOKAMON ANNEX are available for Volvox2019 participants (26-29 July nights) via only our application form, although only a limited number of rooms are available. If you want to use the room, please fill in the application form (download here) and send it to Hiroko Kawai-Toyooka, (hiro_toyo(at)bs.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp). A reservation will be first come first served basis. But, if your payment for early bird registration (not later than June 1, 2019) to Volvox 2019 may not be completed until June 10, 2019, your reservation will be automatically canceled.


February 07, 2019

TRAVEL AWARDS FOR OVERSEA YOURNG SCIENTISTS FROM KATO MEMORIAL BIOSCIENCE FOUNDATION
Funding from the Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation https://www.katokinen.or.jp/ for five travel awards for overseas (i.e. non-Japanese) students (PhD, Masters, undergraduates) and postdocs for Volvox 2019, 26-29 July, Tokyo is now available. Travel awards are 50,000 yen per person (~$500 US) and will be distributed at the Volvox 2019 registration desk by the local organizers, on 26 July 2019.
Applicants are required to submit a pdf file of the completed application form (download here) to Volvox2019 Office (E-mail: volvox2019 (at) gmail.com) by February 20, 2019. Five awardees will be chosen based on their abstract and need for financial support. The successful applicants will be informed by March 1, 2019. Travel receipts must be submitted to the local organizers at the conference to be eligible for reimbursement.


February 4, 2019

Dr. Ryo Matsuzaki of National Institute for Environmental Studies agreed to become a new member of Local Organizing Committee of Volvox2019

December 12, 2018

Dr. Mitsunori Iwataki of the University of Tokyo agreed to become a new member of Local Organizing Committee of Volvox2019

November 06, 2018

Funding opportunities to attend conferences
About the funding that students can apply on their own, we have some information below:
Society for Experimental Biology/Compay of Biologists
Royal Society of Biology
International Phycological Society
British Phycological Society

October 30, 2018

Financial help by Communications Biology (Nature Research) to sponsor a Welcoming Reception of Volvox2019 has been confirmed.

August 01, 2018

Financial help provided by Kurita Water Environment Foundation (KWEF), Japan, has been determined.

April 29, 2018

Volvox 2019 : 26-29 July – the University of Tokyo Hongo campus

Registration will begin in March 2019.
 >>First Circular[pdf file]
The Fifth International Volvox Conference in Tokyo, Japan, 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 grow in various freshwater environments worldwide and have important roles in the water ecosystems. Furthermore these organisms have become an important model system for investigating the evolution of sex and multicellularity, development and cellular differentiation, and have also yielded important insights in fields as diverse as genomics, biological physics, hydrodynamics, and social evolution. We hope that this meeting will foster exchange of ideas and expertise, and will initiate new collaborations to expand and strengthen the Volvocales and volvocine algal community.