| Division of Animal Behavior |
| Best Student Oral Presentation |
Maren Vitousek, Princeton University |
Heterospecific alarm-call recognition in a non-vocal reptile |
| Best Student Poster |
Jennifer Curtis, University of Central Oklahoma |
Collared Lizards Decrease Testosterone Levels in Response to Staged Territorial Intrusions: A Test of the Challenge Hypothesis |
| Division of Comparative Biomechanics |
| Best Student Oral Presentation |
Anne Peattie, University of California Berkeley |
Effect of Variation in Length and Width on Single Seta Force in Geckos |
| Best Student Poster |
Kevin Miklasz, Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove |
A Low-Reynolds number conundrum: How fast should diatoms sink? |
| Division of Comparative Endocrinology |
| Best Student Oral Presentation |
Jamie M. Cornelius, University of California Davis |
Seasonal variation in the stress physiology of an opportunistic, nomadic songbird, the red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) |
| Best Student Poster |
Alison Hagemeister, North Dakota State University |
Somatostatin Isoforms Selectively Activate the MAPK Pathway through Somatostatin Receptor Subtype One |
| Division of Comparative Physiology & Biochemistry |
| Robert C. Terwilliger Best Student Oral Presentation Award |
Kristin Hardy, University of North Carolina Wilmington |
Intracellular diffusion constraints may influence organelle distribution in skeletal muscle |
| Robert C. Terwilliger Best Student Poster Award |
Michael Elnitsky, Miami University |
Salinity Tolerance in the Antarctic Midge: Seawater Acclimation Confers Cross Tolerance to Freezing and Dehydration |
| Division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
| Best Student Oral Presentation |
Pierre Le Pabic, East Carolina University |
Evolutionary divergence of pharyngeal arch specification in teleosts |
| Best Student Poster |
Nathan Bird, George Washington University |
Differential growth and the evolution of novel vertebral morphology: lessons from the cypriniform Weberian apparatus |
| Division of Ecology & Evolution |
| Best Student Oral Presentation |
Phillip Bergman, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Conservatism in lizard vertebral number evolution is widespread but not universal |
| Best Student Poster |
Allison Churcher, University of Victoria |
In search of the sea urchin nose: The molecular basis for chemoreception in S. purpuratus |
| Division of Invertebrate Zoology |
| Best Student Oral Presentation |
Lindsay Waldrop, UC Berkeley |
Fluid dynamics of antennule flicking of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus |
| Best Student Poster |
Joerg Hammel, FSU Jena, Germany |
Morphogenesis during asexual bud-formation and growth in the poriferan Tethya wilhelma: silica skeleton, aquiferous system and the mesohyle |
| Adrian M. Wenner Strong Inference Award |
Nicholas Alcorn, Bowdoin College |
How do changes in parental investment influence larval development in Gulf of Maine echinoids? |
| Division of Neurobiology |
| Best Student Oral Presentation |
Jessica L. Fox, University of Washington |
Encoding characteristics of haltere mechanoreceptors |
| Best Student Poster (two winners) |
Kyle A. Willingham, Abilene Christian University |
The effect of the hyperpolarization-activated inward current antagonist, ZD7288, on the locomotor rhythm of Clione limacina |
| Rebecca M. Calisi, UC Berkeley |
Capture-handling stress and its effects upon hypothalamic EGR-1 and GnIH expression in House sparrows (Passer domesticus) |
| Division of Systematic & Evolutionary Biology |
| Best Student Oral Presentation (two winners) |
Ka Yan Ma, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Molecular phylogeny of Dendrobranchiata inferred from two nuclear markers |
| Annie R. Lindgren, Ohio State University |
Evolution of recent squids (Cephalopoda: Decapodiformes) inferred from molecular data |
| Best Student Poster |
Johanna T. Cannon, Auburn University |
Hemichordate relationships and insights into ancestors |
| Division of Vertebrate Morphology |
| D. Dwight Davis Award |
Andrew Farke, Stony Brook University |
Evolution of the frontal sinuses in Bovidae |
| Best Student Poster (two winners) |
Brad A. Chadwell, Wake Forest University |
When Designing Rays, Function Matters |
| Leah H. Brown-Wilusz, University of Connecticut, Storrs |
Ontogenetic effects of hatching plasticity in spotted salamanders due to larval and egg predators |
