Today is day one of the Third International Volvox Conference in Cambridge, U.K. I arrived yesterday via Chicago, Ottowa, and a bus from Heathrow. Apparently there is a direct flight from Chicago to Heathrow; why I didn’t take that is a mystery. The accommodations at Wychfield are quite comfortable, although many of us have had the usual troubles figuring out English plumbing.

Last night was a pub dinner with half or so of the attendees; I had some very good fish & chips (good, but not as good as Go Fish).

Pub dinner with Stephanie Höhn, one of the organizers, in the foreground.

The Michod lab is well represented, though Rick himself is at the Evolutionary Cell Biology meeting at KITP:

Current and former Michod lab members.