SICB Annual Meeting 2011 January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Symposium: Population Dynamics of Crustaceans Symposium Overview A previous SICB/TCS symposium on Crustacean Genomics and Proteomics highlighted genetic research activities and future directions on model organisms, but there is also an urgent need to gather data on current problems of public interest that directly […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2011 January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Symposium: Neuroecology: Neural Determinants of Ecological Processes from Individuals to Ecosystems I. Symposium Overview Behavior is controlled by nervous systems through processes that are sculpted by evolution through natural selection. The outcomes of behavioral encounters in turn often have profound consequences on populations and […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2011 January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Symposium: I’ve Got Rhythm: Neuronal Mechanisms of Central Pattern Generators Symposium Overview Rhythmic motor patterns such as breathing, chewing, swimming, walking and flying are driven by synaptically connected networks of neurons in the central nervous systems of invertebrate and vertebrate animals. Analysis of these […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2011January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Symposium: Environmentally-Cued Hatching Across Taxa: Embryos Choose A Birthday Environmentally cued hatching is widespread, diverse, and certainly more common than currently appreciated. The symposium focuses on hatching as an ecologically critical, developmentally constrained, plastic life history switch point. It examines embryos as organisms subject to […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2011January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Symposium: Environment, Energetics and Fitness: a Symposium Honoring Donald W. Thomas This symposium is in honor of Professor Donald W. Thomas who died suddenly in early summer 2009 while doing field research in Corsica. The symposium will focus on recent advances linking environmental variation, energetics […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2011January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Symposium: Bridging the Gap between Eco-Immunology and Disease Ecology A wide variety of infectious diseases (e.g., AIDS, influenza, West Nile virus) display pronounced fluctuations in response to environmental changes in both humans and non-human animals. Disease susceptibility is a function not only of pathogen dynamics […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2011January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Symposium: Bioinspiration: Applying mechanical design to experimental biology Our goal is to bring together scientists who work in similar fields of bioinspired robotics but have likely never interacted with each other, to address some of the grand challenge issues: understanding the organism’s role in organism-environment […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2011January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Symposium: A synthetic approach to the response of organisms to climate change: The role of thermal adaptation Organized by M. Sears. Sponsored by: DAB, DCPB, DEE. S9.1 Friday, Jan. 7, 08:00 SEARS, Michael W.*; ANGILLETTA, Michael J.: The world is not flat: defining the thermal landscape…again S9.2 Friday, […]

  SICB Annual Meeting 2011 January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT 2011 Symposia Tuesday, January 4, 2011 I’ve Got Rhythm: Neuronal Mechanisms of Central Pattern Generators, organized by D. McPherson. Sponsored by: DAB, DCB, DNB, American Microscopical Society, NSF Society-wide Symposium: Speciation in Marine Organisms, organized by M.P. Miglietta, F. Santini and A. Faucci. […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2011January 3-7, 2011 Salt Lake City, UTSalt Lake City Marriott Downtown and Salt Lake City Convention Center (Salt Palace) Workshop Series “Phylogenetics for Dummies”Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R The Division of Evolution and Systematic Biology will host a workshop on Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R as part of the Phylogenetics for Dummies […]