SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Portland, OR Workshop: Explaining the Importance of “Oddball” Science: Strategies for Public Outreach January 5, 2016, 8:15-10:00pm You know that your work tries to uncover basic truths about the way the world works. But explaining the importance of studying esoteric subjects like Gila Monster venom or the architecture […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Portland, OR Workshop: TAL-K-12: Scientific Outreach for the K-12 Audience January 6, 2016, 7:00-9:00pm Please join us for this year’s TAL-X “TAL-K-12: Scientific Outreach for the K-12 Audience”. This workshop will address how K-12 outreach efforts fit into broader impacts for funding proposals, give you a chance to […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Portland, OR Transcriptomics Workshop Workshop Participant Application Jan. 7, 4-5:30 pm Members of the Animal Genome to Phenome Research Coordination Network will discuss best practices for the de novo assembly, annotation, and expression analysis of RNA-seq data. It will incorporate comments from the RNA-seq feedback booth and twitter […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Portland, OR Genome to Phenome Lunch Lunch Participant Application Jan. 4, Noon “Brown Bag Lunch” – bring your own lunch! The Animal Genomes to Phemones (AG2P) Research Coordination Network (RCN) is seeking input from the integrative animal biology community for establishing best practices for the assembly, annotation, and […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Portland, OR Communicating Science: Practical applications for informal STEM education Jan. 7, Noon-1:30 pm Workshop Participant Application One of the most challenging aspects of being a scientist is often being able to communicate effectively with non-scientists. We have partnered with the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry to […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Portland, OR Student/Postdoctoral Affairs Brown Bag Workshop, Jan. 5, Noon-1:30 pm – C123“Academic Transitions: Successfully Navigating from Undergraduate to Professor” Making a major educational or career transition can be intimidating. And yet, each of us will complete several major transitions as we progress from an undergraduate institution to […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Portland, OR Workshops & Programs Student First Timer/Student Worker Orientation “How to Get the Most Out of Your SICB Meeting“, Sunday, Jan. 3, 5:30-6:30 PM, Oregon Ballroom *Required for students with Charlotte Mangum support Data management plans for NSF proposals: what should they include? A community forum. Monday, […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR 2016 Portland – Symposium Schedule January 4 Neuroecology: Neural Mechanisms of Sensory and Motor Processes that Mediate Ecologically Relevant Behaviors Organizer: Jeff Riffell & Ashlee Rowe ; Sponsors: DAB, DCB, DCE, DEE, DNB, & AMS Life on the Edge: the Biology of […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR Special Session: Annelids: In Memory of Kristian Fauchald Dr. Kristian Fauchald, Research Zoologist (Emeritus) in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology in the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution), died suddenly in April 2015. A loyal and active member of the Society for […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR   List of Sessions Click on session to view list of presentations Symposia S1 Neuroecology Organizer(s): Jeff Riffell, Ashlee Rowe S2 Life on the EdgeLife on the Edge: the Biology of Organisms Inhabiting Extreme Environments Organizer(s): Annie Lindgren S3 Parasites and Pests […]