Jan 3-7, Austin, TX

Meeting Highlights

Code of Conduct Transparency Report (PDF)

Special Lectures

• Sheila Patek delivered the Plenary Lecture “Impact and discovery: extreme movement in an interdisciplinary and political world”
• Mary Caswell Stoddard presented the Bartholomew Lecture “Diversity of form and function in the colorful world of birds”
• George Bentley spoke on “A bird’s eye view of reproductive endocrinology” for the Bern Lecture
• Emilie Graslie, the Moore Lecturer, spoke on “Prehistoric road trip: Crafting a story 2 billion years in the making”

SICB-Wide Symposia

• New frontiers in antarctic marine biology
• Reproduction: The female perspective from an integrative and comparative framework
• Building bridges from genome to phenome: Molecules, methods and models

Society-Wide Awards

• Morse Award: David Epel, Hopkins Marine Station
• Gans Award: Alyssa Stark, Villanova University
• Skinner Award: Kate Feller, University of Minnesota

Selected Workshops and other Events

• Workshop: 3D visualization and morphometrics with SlicerMorph
• Workshop: Parenting through academia
• Public Affairs Committee workshop: Embracing variation among humans: Perspectives on LGBTQ+ experiences in biology and academia
• Movie and workshop: Can we talk? Difficult conversations with underrepresented people of color: Sense of belonging and obstacles to STEM fields
• American Microscopy Society Lecture: “The Art of seeing: Using microscopy to power STEM learning in biology,” by Sara Lindsay