SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR Symposium: Parasites and Pests in Motion: Biology, Biodiversity and Climate Change Climate change is now recognized as one of the most important alterations to ecosystems. Current data suggests that temperature-induced environmental changes will likely accelerate over time, dramatically impacting global distribution of […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR Symposium: Frontiers in the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior: Nothing in Neuroscience Makes Sense Except in the Light of Behavior How animals interact with each other and their environment has eternally fascinated scientists and non-scientists. Unfortunately, when studies are limited to a […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR Symposium: Neuroecology: neural mechanisms of sensory and motor processes that mediate ecologically relevant behaviors. How do animals detect and process information, and respond appropriately? Animal behavior mediates many critical ecological processes that, in turn, have implications for the evolution of these interactions. […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR Symposium: Life on the Edge: Biology, Physiology, and Evolution of Extremophiles From the deepest corners of the ocean, to hot bubbling springs, to the freezing Polar Regions, the extent to which organisms are capable of persisting in environments uninhabitable by humans continues […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR Symposium: Integrative and Comparative Biology of Venom Venom has evolved multiple times in animals and shows a remarkable diversity in function, structure, and gene sequence across and within lineages. This diversity has both phylogenetic and functional components, reflecting the lineage of the organism […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR Symposium: Extraocular, non-visual, and simple photoreceptors It has been recognized for decades that animals sense light using photoreceptors in addition to those that are used for vision. However, the nature of these receptors, their molecular components, their physiological responses, and their biological […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR Society-wide Symposium: Evolutionary Endocrinology: Hormones as mediators of evolutionary phenomena Hormones are agents of biological coordination, orchestrating the (co)expression of genes and phenotypes in response to both intrinsic and extrinsic cues. Hormones circulate systemically, signal diverse tissues, and regulate nearly all aspects […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR Symposium: Beyond the mean: Biological impacts of changing patterns of temperature variation Changing climate is having far-reaching impacts on ecosystems around the globe. Much research has documented changes in mean temperature and correlated shifts in the distribution, phenology, abundance of organisms and […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR Symposium: Are migratory animals superspreaders of infection? Animal migrations have fascinated comparative and integrative biologists for centuries. There is now an emerging interest in the role of these mass movements in the transmission and evolution of parasites and pathogens in host communities. […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR Symposium: A bigger picture: organismal function at the nexus of development, ecology, and evolution What links the ontogenetic stability and instability of phenotypes with the patterns of morphological diversity seen across the tree of life? Comparative anatomists tend to approach this question […]