Sensory and respiratory physiology 2 Day: Monday, Jan. 6, 13:45-14:45 Room: 616 Session Chair(s): Ian Macdonald Session Author(s) Title 100 KENNY, M*; PENDAR, H; ADJERID, K; SOCHA, JJ What happens when pupae pump? Internal effects of abdominal movements in the beetle Zophobas morio 100 MACDONALD, I/A*; FERRY, L; SUMMERS, A; GIBB, A/C Do Pacific sandfish […]

Immunology Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 08:00-09:45 Room: 416 Session Chair(s): Travis Wilcoxen Session Author(s) Title 10 WILCOXEN, TE*; HORN, DJ; HUBER, SJ; HOGAN, BM; HUBBLE, CN; KNOTT, MH; PLANTS, S; WASSENHOVE, SJ How many measures are enough: using a broad approach to examine health in a community of free-living birds. 10 PULPITEL, T.J.*; SIMPSON, S.J.; […]

Thermal ecology and physiology 1 Day: Saturday, Jan. 4, 08:00-10:00 Room: Salon D Session Chair(s): Amy Moran Session Author(s) Title 1 WALTHER, K; CRICKENBERGER, S; MARCHANT, S; MARKO, P; MORAN, A* Thermal tolerance of larvae of an antitropically-distributed barnacle species 1 BERNARDO, J. Spatial, phylogenetic, and functional ecological perspectives on aquatic insect thermal tolerance 1 […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2014 January 3-7, 2014 Austin, TX Symposium: The micro and macro of nutrient effects in animal physiology and ecology The integrated study of nutrition, which is at the center of animal physiology, ecology and evolution is garnering increased attention. The importance of macronutrients that include protein, lipids and carbohydrates have been a […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2014 January 3-7, 2014 Austin, TX Symposium: The cell’s view of animal body plan evolution Understanding how diverse animal body plans evolved remains one of the most exciting and challenging goals for evolutionary and developmental biologists alike. Over the past few decades, genomic and molecular genetic approaches have provided insights into which […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2014 January 3-7, 2014 Austin, TX Symposium: Terrestrial Locomotion – Where Do We Stand, Where Are We Going? Summary This symposium will synthesize research on animal locomotion in terrestrial habitats, seeking new directions for work in this field. Locomotion is essential to the survival of many animals, and the environment where locomotion […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2014January 3-7, 2014 Austin, TX Symposium: Stress, condition and ornamentation Over the past two decades, the hypothesis that ornamental traits signal the condition of animals has become a prominent paradigm in behavioral and evolutionary biology. At its inception, the concept of condition-dependent signaling was developed with little consideration of the cellular and […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2014 January 3-7, 2014 Austin, TX Symposium: Shaking, dripping and drinking: surface-tension phenomena in organismal biology The subject of this symposium is surface-tension phenomena, or the physics of fluid interfaces on the small-scale. Such interactions are ubiquitous in organismal biology, but have not yet received a unified treatment. In trees, surface tension […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2014 January 3-7, 2014 Austin, TX Symposium: Parasitic manipulation of host phenotype, or how to make a zombie Nearly all animals are infected by parasites, and many parasites alter host phenotype after infection. For example, the fungus Orphiocordyceps unilateralis causes its ant host to leave its colony, climb up to a leaf, […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2014 January 3-7, 2014 Austin, TX Symposium: Methods and Mechanisms in Ecoimmunology It was the noted evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dhabzhansky who stated that “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” This oft-cited quote reflects the importance of applying an evolutionary approach to the study of biological questions. Although […]