*2010 ISOP/BSPB Joint Meeting, Canterbury, UK* Medieval protistologists

The 60th annual meeting of the International Society of Protistologists will be held jointly with the British Society of Protist Biology from 18-23 July 2010. This UK-based meeting will be on the campus of the University of Kent, Canterbury, located in the coastal countryside about 1.5 hours southeast of London. The city of Canterbury is readily accessible from London by rail. Meeting information and registration will be available through the ISOP website (http://www.uga.edu/protozoa/) later this year.

*Assistance for students and young investigators.

* The ISOP and BSPB are committed to fostering student and postdoc participation at the meeting. Those in need of travel assistance are encouraged to apply for Travel Support. Application instructions will be available on the meeting website. Reduced registration fees will be provided for student members of ISOP and BSPB. *Housing.* A limited number of single occupancy dorm rooms will be available on the University of Kent campus at a modest cost. Dorm rooms are available with shared bath, or with private bath at slightly higher rate. Dorm reservations will be arranged during meeting pre-registration. Off-campus housing will be by personal reservation at local hotels or bed-and-breakfasts. A list of options will be available on the meeting website. Featured program elements. In the spirit of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the meeting organizers are developing an informative and contemporary program that assembles a wide range of participants: students, young investigators, and established scientist from diverse backgrounds.

In that effort, ISOP and BSPB are sponsoring one full symposium and several mini-symposia:

*ISOP Symposium: Alternative Nutritional Strategies.* - Chair: Bob Sanders, Temple University. Speakers include:

• - Bob Sanders, Temple University, Alternative nutritional strategies in freshwater protists: a short review
• - Diane Stoecker, University of Maryland, Acquired phototrophy in ciliates
• - Ruben Sommaruga, University of Innsbruck, A photobiological perspective of mixotrophy in ciliates
• - Per Juel Hansen, University of Copenhagen, Role of food uptake and photosynthesis in free-living marine dinoflagellates
• - Hae Jin Jeong, Seoul National University, Mixotrophy in the raphidophytes
• *Mini-symposium: Dynamics of Genomes and Life Cycles. *Chairs: Laura Katz & Laura Parfrey, Smith College.
• *Mini-symposium: Bioinformatics as a Tool to Understanding the Biology & Biochemistry of Parasitic and Free-living Protists.* Chairs: Burt Goldberg, New York University & Tim Paget, Universities of Kent and Greenwich at Medway Plenary speakers: David Lloyd, University Wales, Cardiff, TBA Martin Embley, Newcastle University, TBA
• *Mini-symposium: Species Concepts in Protists, Cryptic Species, Parasites and Non-parasites.* Chair: Tom Cavalier-Smith, University of Oxford.
• *Mini-symposium: New Insights into Free-living Flagellates.* Chairs: David Bass, University of Oxford & Edvard Glücksman, Pembroke College MCR.
• *Mini-symposium: Pushing the Boundaries: Protist Diversity Never Ending*. Chair: Jan Keithly, Wadsworth Center. Plenary speaker: Ross Waller, University of Melbourne, TBA
• *Mini-symposium: From Gause to Gaia: Using Protists to Model Ecological Processes. *Chairs: David Montagnes, University of Liverpool & Steve Wickham, University of Salzburg . Plenary speaker: Owen Petchey, Sheffield University, Extinctions, warming, and food webs linked using microbial microcosm experiments.