Day: Friday, Jan. 4, Room: Event Author(s) Title Other Events Friday Broadening Participation Comm Mtg. 7-8am -Mason Other Events Friday SICB Nominating Committee 8-9pm – Sutter Other Events Friday AMS Executive Committee 8-11pm – Powell Other Events Friday Companion orientation program/ continental breakfast 9-10am- Cityscape Other Events Friday DPOs and Symposium Organizers for Austin Noon-1pm […]

Moore Lecture Day: Monday, Jan. 7, 3:00-4:00 pm Room: Continental Ballroom 4/5/6 Session Author(s) Title MOORE Singer, SR Moore Lecture: Promising Practices in Undergraduate Science and Engineering Education: Why Don’t We Implement Them?

Bern Lecture Day: Saturday, Jan. 5, 6:30-7:30 pm Room: Continental Ballroom 4/5/6 Session Author(s) Title BERN KETTERSON, Ellen D. Bern Lecture: Synthesizing research on the adaptable snowbird: geographic variation, seasonality, and evolutionary endocrinology

Bartholomew Lecture Day: Friday, Jan. 4, 6:30-7:30 pm Room: Continental Ballroom 4/5/6 Session Author(s) Title BART Sweeney, A. Bartholomew Lecture: Animal photonics: an integrated, comparative view

Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Character Development and Evolution Day: Sunday, Jan. 6, 10:00 am – Noon Room: Continental Ballroom 9 Organizer(s): Julia H. Bowsher Session Author(s) Title 99 BOWSHER, J H*; ANG, Y; FERDERER, T; MEIER, R Deciphering the evolutionary history and developmental mechanisms of a complex sexual ornament: the abdominal appendages of Sepsidae (Diptera) 99 […]

Digestion Day: Sunday, Jan. 6, 10:20 am – Noon Room: Continental Ballroom 7 Organizer(s): Donovan P. German Session Author(s) Title 98 MCWHORTER, TJ*; SCHONDUBE, JE; NICOLSON, SW; PINSHOW, B; FLEMING, PA; MARTíNEZ DEL RIO, C Convergence in digestive capacity in nectar-feeding birds 98 GERMAN, DP Digestive enzyme activities elucidate the digestive strategies of prickleback fishes […]

Burrowing & Boring Day: Sunday, Jan. 6, 10:00 am – Noon Room: Continental Ballroom 8 Organizer(s): Kristina Vetter Session Author(s) Title 97 SHARPE, S.S.*; MASSE, A.; TAZ, H.; GOLDMAN, D.I. Limb Use During Burial of the Sandfish Lizard 97 SPRINGTHORPE, D.*; GRAVISH, N.; MAZOUCHOVA, N.; GOLDMAN, D.I.; FULL, R.J. Burrowing biomechanics of the ghost crab. […]

Larval Ecology – Mechanisms Day: Sunday, Jan. 6, 10:00 am – Noon Room: Yosemite A Organizer(s): Robert D. Podolsky Session Author(s) Title 96 HODIN, J.*; FERNER, M.C.*; GAYLORD, B. Shake, Settle and Hold: Turbulent shear stimulates settlement in sea urchin larvae 96 KAPLAN, M.B.*; MOONEY, T.A. Adverse effects of elevated CO2 concentrations on squid (Doryteuthis […]

Communication: Fighters Day: Sunday, Jan. 6, 10:20 am – Noon Room: Yosemite B Organizer(s): Diana Hews Session Author(s) Title 95 HEWS, DK*; VITAL, C; ZÚÑIGA-VEGA , JJ; MARTINS, EP Staged territorial intrusions and aggressive visual signaling in males of three Sceloporus lizard species that differ in abdominal patches 95 EDWARDS, JE*; LAILVAUX, SP Staged Interactions […]

Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Vertebrate Morphogenesis I – Fish, Frogs, Fingers and Lungs Day: Sunday, Jan. 6, 8:00 – 9:40 am Room: Continental Ballroom 9 Organizer(s): Jacqueline Webb, Cristina Ledon-Rettig Session Author(s) Title 94 WEBB, JF*; GILLIS, JA Lateral Line Morphogenesis in Chondrichthyan vs. Osteichthyan Fishes: New Perspectives on an Old Problem 94 LEWIS, Z*; KERNEY, […]