SICB Annual Meeting 2010 January 3-7, 2010 Seattle, WA Symposium: Evolutionary Paths among Developmental Possibilities: A Symposium Marking the Contributions and Influence of Richard Strathmann. Artwork created by Karen Chan (with apologies to Shepard Fairey) The symposium brings together a diverse group of larval ecologists to review past research and develop new ideas that can […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2010 January 3-7, 2010 Seattle, WA Symposium: Identifying the Architectures that Regulate the Development, Function, and Evolution of Fish Body & Fin Shape: a Truly Grand Challenge The evolution of fish body shape is one of the central problems in vertebrate morphology. Models of fish body shape diversity have generally relied on […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2010January 3-7, 2010 Seattle, WA Symposium: Assembling the Cnidarian Tree of Life Phylum Cnidaria is one of the earliest branching of the animal tree of life. Cnidaria comprises more than 11,000 described species; among these are prominent members of the marine fauna such as corals, sea anemones, and jellyfish. Their ancient origins, […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2010January 3-7, 2010 Seattle, WA Symposium: Advances in Antarctic Marine Biology In this full day, society-wide symposium eleven invited speakers, who are among the foremost in their field, will present an overview of the recent advances in marine biology of this unique environment. Our speakers will cover a broad spectrum of topics […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2010January 3-7, 2010 Seattle, WA 2010 Symposia Alexa Bely: Animal Regeneration: Integrating Development, Ecology, and Evolution. Divisional support: DCDB, DDEB, DIZ, DEE, AMS James M Harper: Metabolism, Life History and Aging. Divisional support: DCPB, DEE David Lambert: Spiralian development: Conservation and innovation. Divisional support: DCDB, DDEB Paulyn Cartwright: Assembling the Cnidarian Tree […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2010 January 3-7, 2010 Seattle, WA Events and Orientation Opening Plenary Session Sunday, January 3 The Plenary Address, “Reflections of a twentieth-century biologist“, will be given by Dr. John Pearse, Past President of SICB, and will take place at the Convention Center. Sessions-Symposia-Social Events The 2010 Annual Meeting for the Society for […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2010 January 3-7, 2010 Seattle, WA Seattle Sheraton Hotel and Washington State Convention and Trade Center Program Online Schedule Schedule Grid incl. Events (.pdf) Final Program (.pdf, 13 MB in size) Events Sessions

SICB Annual Meeting 2011January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Symposium: The Biomechanics and Behavior of Gliding Flight S11.1 Friday, Jan. 7, 08:00 DUDLEY, R.*; YANOVIAK, S.P.: Animal Aloft: The Origins of Aerial Behavior S11.2 Friday, Jan. 7, 08:30 MUNK, Y*; YANOVIAK, S P; DUDLEY, R: Directed aerial descent in canopy ants S11.3 Friday, Jan. 7, 09:00 JUSUFI, A.*; ZENG, Y.; […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2011January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Symposium: Synthesis of Physiologic Data from the Mammalian Feeding Apparatus using FEED, the Feeding Experiments End-User Database I. Symposium Overview This symposium will highlight a new database, the Feeding Experiments End-User Database (FEED), which serves as the first digital repository for comparative physiologic data. FEED […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2011 January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Symposium: Speciation in Marine Organisms (Photo by Anuschka Faucci) I. Symposium Overview One hundred and fifty years after the publication of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”, speciation remains one of the most important, and least understood, topics in evolutionary biology. The vast majority […]