Report of the 2015 British Society for Protist Biology Spring Meeting

The 2015 British Society for Protist Biology annual Spring
Meeting was held at the University of Huddersfi eld on the
15-17th April. The meeting comprised two symposia and two
sessions of contributed papers. The symposium on Experimental
Evolution in Protists was organized by Ewan Minter (University
of York) and The Origins of Multicellularity session was organized
by Martin Carr (University of Huddersfi eld). The two
symposia covered a variety of topics, with highlights including
the use of protists to study the potential future effects of climate
change, as well as the genetic changes that occurred in the
genomes of the unicellular ancestors of animals. The programme
included 13 invited speakers and seven contributed papers.