SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Symposium: Chemicals that Organize Ecology: Towards a Greater Integration of Chemoreception, Neuroscience, Organismal Biology, and Chemical Ecology Primary goal: integrate organismal and ecological chemically-mediated mechanisms. We feel there is an important gap worth bridging between 1) how olfactory and defensive chemicals organize the movement […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Symposium: Breaking Boundaries for Evolutionary Synthesis: An Interactive, and Integrative Symposium Linking Crustacean and Insect Physiology Insects and crustaceans represent critical, dominant animal groups (by biomass and species number) in terrestrial and aquatic systems, respectively. Insects and crustaceans are historically grouped under separate taxonomic […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Marriott West Palm Beach TALX Teaching and Learning Workshop, Jan. 6 The TALX (Teaching and Learning: X) workshop series provides an annual forum for current and future faculty to engage in hands-on activities and share innovation. As part of a “Quantitative Biology” educational theme […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FLMarriott West Palm Beach Student/Postdoctoral Affairs Workshop, Jan. 5The Ins and Outs of Writing Fundable Grants Writing winning research proposals is one of the most critical skills a researcher can learn. But, what qualities characterize a highly effective proposal? How does one craft the objectives, hypotheses, […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FLMarriott West Palm Beach Public Affairs Committee Workshop, Jan. 4Speak your Science: How to Engage with Policy Makers Want to get your voice in on the debate on science funding? Does your research have something to say that policymakers need to hear? Wondering if there’s any […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FLMarriott West Palm Beach Pancrustacean Workshop to complement Breaking Boundaries for Evolutionary Synthesis: An Interactive, and Integrative Symposium Linking Crustacean and Insect Physiology Wed, January 7th, 6-8 pm in Room 1E of the Convention Center Insects and crustaceans represent critical, dominant animal groups (by biomass and […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FLMarriott West Palm Beach Broadening Participation Committee Workshop, Jan. 4The academic juggling trick: How to effectively manage your time during the professoriate (and beyond!) Ever feel like the you are Alice with the red queen, never feeling like you are getting ahead? Trying to manage all […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Marriott West Palm Beach Workshops & Programs Workshops – Public Affairs Committee Workshop: Speak your Science: How to Engage with Policy Makers, Jan. 4 – Broadening Participation Committee Workshop I: The academic juggling trick: How to effectively manage your time during the professoriate (and […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015 January 3-7, 2015 Marriott West Palm Beach, FL 2015 West Palm Beach Symposium Schedule January 4, 2015 Towards a General Framework for Predicting Animal Movement Speeds in Nature Organizer: Robbie Wilson; Sponsors: SICB wide; DAB, DCB, DCPB, DEE, & DVM Physiology in Changing Landscapes: An Integrative Perspective for Conservation Biology Organizers: […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2015January 3-7, 2015 Marriott West Palm Beach, FL Special Sessions If you think your talk fits into one of these two special sessions, be sure to submit your abstract indicating the special session as your primary topic. Sally Woodin and Soft-Sediment EcologyDr. Sarah “Sally” Woodin, a past-President of the Society for Integrative […]