Complementary Symposium to Biomechanics Symposium: Locomotion Day: Thursday, Jan. 5, 08:00 – 10:00 Room: Ireland A Session Chair(s): M. Hyde Session Author(s) Title 11 PARRA, Laura G.*; HYDE, Martha L. Characterization of Bipedal Locomotion While Feeding in Kangaroo rats in the Natural Habitat 11 HYDE, Martha L.*; PARRA, Laura G. Theoretical Aspects of Bipedal Locomotion […]

Regulatory Biology: Stress I Day: Thursday, Jan. 5, 10:00 – 11:00 Room: Scotland C Session Chair(s): C. L. Buck Session Author(s) Title 10 WHITMAN, B.A.*; BREUNER, C.W.; DUFTY, A.M Investigator Handling, Stress, and Nestlings: Should We be Concerned? 10 HEIDINGER, Britt/J*; NISBET, Ian/CT; KETTERSON, Ellen/D Attenuation of the stress response may mediate an increase in […]

Feeding Behavior: Predation and Predator Evasion Day: Thursday, Jan. 5, 08:00 – 10:00 Room: Diamond Session Chair(s): J. Walker Session Author(s) Title 1 FERRER, R.P.*; ZIMMER, R.K. When prey becomes predator: an ontogenetic shift in the role of olfaction. 1 GRANT, Jacqualine B. Ontogeny of defensive behavior and adaptive coloration in larvae of the panic […]

Movers and Shakers: The Evolution and Development of Mesoderm Symposium organized by Brad Davidson and John Gerhart   Symposium overview Over the last 5-10 years, a surge of research has begun to illuminate key aspects of comparative mesoderm development and their evolutionary significance (see Technau and Sholz, 2003; Int. J. Dev. Biol. 47: 531-9; Martindale, […]

Zebrafish in Comparative Context Organized by Jacqueline F. Webb (Villanova Univ.) and Thomas F. Schilling (UC Irvine) Funded by: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Division of Vertebrate Morphology Division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology Division of Developmental & Cell Biology Division of Systematics & Evolutionary Biology American Microscopical Society (www.amicros.org) National Institutes of Health (R13 […]

Metamorphosis: A multi-kingdom approach Andreas Heyland, Jason Hodin, Cory Bishop, and Leonid Moroz This symposium is sponsored by the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, the University of Florida, SICB and the American Microscopic Society   Links: NEW! Open access table of contents, with free PDFs of all symposium papers Press Release (.pdf) Symposium questionnaire and […]

  Integrating Function over Marine Life Cycles Organized by Bob Podolsky (College of Charleston) and Amy Moran (Clemson University) Images courtesy of (1) Richard Emlet, (2) Chris McDermott, (3) Richard Emlet, (4) Carol Thornber, (5) Dean Wendt.  Please do not use without permission.     Symposium overview Life cycles are composed of stages that can […]

Ecological Immunology: Recent Advances and Applications for Conservation and Public Health   Symposium organized by Kelly A. Lee, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Bram Lutton, Boston University, Boston, MA Martin Wikelski, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Overview The field of eco-immunology has been an area of rapid growth over the last decade, and much has been learned […]

  EcoPhysiology and Conservation: The Contributions of Energetics Conservation Physiology and Energetics   Symposium organized by Robert D. Stevenson Sponsoring Division: DCPB   Maintaining biological diversity is perhaps the most important challenge facing environmental biology today. Habitat loss, habitat fragmentation and degradation, natural resource harvesting, global warming, invasive species, and novel diseases pose immediate threats […]

Biomechanics and Neuromuscular Control   Symposium organized by Kiisa Nishikawa and Andrew Biewener How do animals achieve the remarkably impressive performance they display when feeding and moving? Such ability reflects robust mechanisms for the control of motor function. It is becoming increasingly clear that, in order to understand the neural control of movement, an understanding […]