Best Student Presentation Awardees 2016 Cash prizes and journal subscriptions are provided to the awardees by Wiley-Blackwell Publishers. DAB Wiley Journal Oral Presentation Nick Keiser, Univ. of Pittsburgh Ethology Poster Presentation Sydney Hope, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Honorable Mention: Madeleine Naylor, Oklahoma State University Ethology Wenner Strong Inference Award Alexandra Bentz, University of […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2016 January 3-7, 2016 Oregon Convention Center – Portland, OR #SICB2016 Meeting Highlights This was the largest SICB meeting ever, with a total of 1,688 abstracts submitted and approximately 2000 attendees!!! New Integrative and Comparative Biology Editor, Lynn (Marty) Martin, began his five-year term at the annual meeting. We all owe many […]

Symposium: The Development and Mechanisms Underlying Inter-individual Variation in Pro-social Behavior Day: Sunday, Jan. 8, 07:45-15:30 Room: 206 Organizer(s): Ben Dantzer, Dustin Rubenstein Symposium Author(s) Title S9 DANTZER, Ben Introduction: what is the importance of individual variation in cooperativeness? S9 RUBENSTEIN, DR From individual to group-level variation in cooperative behaviors and complex societies S9 VAN […]

Symposium: Integrative Life-History of Whole-Organism Performance Day: Saturday, Jan. 7, 08:00-15:30 Room: 206 Organizer(s): Simon Lailvaux, Jerry Husak Symposium Author(s) Title S8 LAILVAUX, SP*; HUSAK, JF Predicting life-history trade-offs in whole-organism performance S8 FRENCH, S.S. Trade-offs in ecoimmunology: Costs for individuals and populations S8 MARTIN, L. B.*; SCHREY, A. W.; HANSON, H. E.; KILVITIS, H. […]

Symposium: The Evolution of Arthropod Body Plans – Integrating Phylogeny, Fossils and Development Day: Saturday, Jan. 7, 08:00-15:30 Room: 207 Organizer(s): Ariel Chapman, Doug Erwin Symposium Author(s) Title S7 PISANI, D Problems and progresses in Ecdysozoan relationships: do we have an emerging consensus? S7 TWEEDT, S.M. Development and a model for morphology: Phylogenetic applications and […]

Symposium: Integrating Cognitive, Motivational and Sensory Biases Underlying Acoustic and Multimodal Mate Choice Day: Friday, Jan. 6, 08:00-15:30 Room: 207 Organizer(s): Kathleen Lynch, Scott MacDougall-Shackleton Symposium Author(s) Title S6 LYNCH, Kathleen S. Understanding receiver biases in reproductive contexts S6 FORLANO, P.M. Roles for dopamine in peripheral auditory sensitivity and motivation for mate localization in a […]

Symposium: With a Little Help from My Friends: Microbial Partners in Integrative and Comparative Biology Day: Friday, Jan. 6, 08:00-15:30 Room: 208/209 Organizer(s): Kevin Kohl, Denise Dearing Symposium Author(s) Title S5 MOREAU, Corrie S. The Diversity and Function of Gut Bacteria in Herbivorous Ants S5 KOHL, K.D.*; BROOKS, A.W.; BRUCKER, R.M.; VAN OPSTAL, E.; BORDENSTEIN, […]

Symposium: Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality Day: Friday, Jan. 6, 07:50-15:30 Room: 206 Organizer(s): Caroline Williams, Greg Ragland Symposium Author(s) Title S4 RAGLAND, GJ*; WILLIAMS, CM Introduction to Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality symposium S4 CHEVIRON, ZA*; STAGER, M; SWANSON, DL Comparative transcriptomics of seasonal phenotypic flexibility in three species of North American resident songbirds. S4 KRIEGSFELD, […]

Symposium: Molecular and Neuroendocrine Approaches to Understanding Tradeoffs: Food, Sex, Aggression, Stress, and Longevity Day: Thursday, Jan. 5, 08:00-15:30 Room: 207 Organizer(s): Jill Schneider, Pierre Deviche Symposium Author(s) Title S3 EMMONS, S.W. Neural circuitry that mediates behavior governing the tradeoffs between survival and reproduction in Caenorhabditis elegans S3 BROZEK, J How do maternal programming strategies […]

Symposium: The Ecology of Exercise: Mechanisms Underlying Individual Variation in Movement Behavior, Activity or Performance Day: Thursday, Jan. 5, 08:00-15:30 Room: 206 Organizer(s): Tony Williams, Shaun Killen Symposium Author(s) Title S2 YAP, KN*; SEROTA, M.W.; WILLIAMS, T.D. The physiology of exercise in free-living animals: What can we learn from current model systems? S2 CALSBEEK, Ryan […]