SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Symposium: Unsteady aquatic locomotion with respect to eco-design and mechanics The aquatic environment that animals must operate is in a constant state of change and therefore unsteady by nature. The occurrence of currents, turbulence, tidal oscillations, wave action, and the need for predator and […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Symposium: Towards a General Framework for Predicting Animal Movement Speeds in Nature Note: If you (student, postdoc, or faculty) would like to identify your talk or poster with this symposium, please don’t forget to select it on your under “Complementing Sessions” (Section F on […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Symposium: Thinking About Change: An Integrative Approach for Examining Cognition in a Changing World We live in a changing world. Whether natural or exacerbated by human-induced factors, our climate is in a state of constant fluctuation. One important aspect of this change in climate […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Symposium: Soft bodies, hard jaws: phylogenetic diversity of prey capture and processing in jawed, soft-bodied invertebrates Jaws are generally defined as a series of rigid, articulated structures that function to grasp, manipulate, and process food at the entrance of an animal’s alimentary canal. However, […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Symposium: Physiology in changing landscapes: an integrative perspective for conservation biology As natural landscapes continue to be altered due to anthropogenic disturbance and climate change, organisms are faced with new environmental challenges. The growing field of conservation physiology seeks to apply a diversity of […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Symposium: Origins of Neurons and Parallel Evolution of Nervous Systems: the Dawn of Neuronal Organization   The origin of neurons, neural systems and complex brains is one of the major transitions in evolution. It might occur more than once over 600 million years. Here, […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Symposium: New Insights into Suction Feeding Biomechanics and Evolution Because suction feeding is an integral component of prey capture in nearly all aquatic vertebrates, it might often be the single most important axis of feeding performance in many predator-prey interactions. The series of talks […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Symposium: Neurohormones, Brain and Behavior: A Comparative Approach to Rapid Neuroendocrine Function   Date: January 6, 2015 Room: TBA Post-symposium social: TBA Note: If you (student, postdoc or faculty) would like to identify your talk or poster with this symposium, please don’t forget to […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Society Wide Symposium: Leading Students and Faculty to Quantitative Biology Through Active Learning Simulation of flow past a plate in two-dimensions with applications to swimming and flying.   Students quantifying brine shrimp movement by projecting a Petri dish. Students measuring their own force-velocity curves […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Symposium: Integrative Biology of the Crocodilia Sponsors: DAB, DCPB, DEDB, DNB, DEE & DPCB Organizers Valentine Lance Speakers S3.1 Sunday, Jan. 4, 08:00 BROCHU, C. A.*; BURKEY, M. R.; JOUVE, S.; MILLER-CAMP, J. A.; NARVÁEZ, I.; PRITCHARD, A. C.; PUÉRTOLAS PASCUAL, E.; WILBERG, E. W.: When Past […]