THE CNIDARIAN MODEL SYSTEMS MEETING

Cnidofest 2018 was September 6-9, 2018, at Whitney Laboratory. 

Dr. Christine Schnitzler, assistant professor at Whitney Laboratory, was one of the two co-organizers of the event along with Dr. Celina Juliano, assistant professor at the University of California, Davis.

The keynote speaker was Dr. Virginia Weis, professor and chair of the Department of Integrative Biology at Oregon State University. She was also a member of the Whitney Laboratory Board of Scientific Advisers. Her talk title is "Symbiotic Sea Anemones as Model Systems for the Study of Corals: Easier, Faster, Softer."