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).

This is all I know at this point, but I will keep you posted.

Previous meetings have been at Biosphere 2 outside Tucson, Arizona; University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick; Cambridge University in Cambridge, U.K.; and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri. This meeting will represent the third continent and the fourth country for the current series of Volvox meetings, which began in 2011.