NSF BII for Mechanisms of Cellular Evolution's Annual 2025 Symposium
About the Event
Date
Wednesday, November 5 - Saturday, November 8
The CME Symposium on Mechanisms of Cellular Evolution is being organized by the Biology Integration Institute for Mechanisms of Cellular Evolution at Arizona State University. The event is scheduled to take place from November 5-8, 2025, in Tempe, AZ. The symposium is the fourth in a series of annual events focused on the emerging interdisciplinary field of evolutionary cell biology (ECB). This field combines evolutionary biology and cell biology with other related disciplines, including biochemistry, biophysics, population genetics, molecular biology, and mathematics. The symposium aims to bring together leading researchers and experts from diverse fields to discuss current advances and future directions in ECB, and to provide opportunities for interdisciplinary discussions, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.
The organizing committee
Brad Olson (Kansas State University) and Jeremy Wideman (Arizona State University)
We will be soliciting abstracts during the event registration process for both poster presentations and selected talks. The deadline for submission will be October 1, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. Arizona time.
Keynote Speaker Professor Susannah Porter
University of California, Santa Barbara Title: TBC
Associate Professor Pascale G. Charest
University of Arizona Title: "From Slime to Sublime: How Ancient Amoebae Reveal the Secrets of Human Cell Biology."
Professor Henrik Buschmann
University of Osnabrück Title: TBC
Professor Petra Levin
Washington University Title: "The Environment Defines the Cell"
Assistant Professor Beatriz Baselga Cervera
University of Minnesota Title: "Deciphering phenotypic signatures in response to directional selection"
Professor Shin-ya Miyagishima
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan Title: "Unicellular red algae Cyanidiophyceae as a model lineage for understanding Archaeplastida evolution"
Professor Matthew Brown
Mississippi State University Title: "Unearthing diversity in amoeboid protists"
Key Dates
June 23, 2025 Event Registration OPENS Call for abstract submissions OPENS
October 1, 2025 Call for abstract submissions CLOSES
October 15, 2024 Registration CLOSES
Contact Info For abstract symposium-related questions, contact Hisham Ali at ahisham@asu.edu
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