Disease and Immunity in Response to Social and Environmental Cues Day: Saturday, Jan. 7, 13:30-15:15 Room: 219 Organizer(s): Robert Srygley, Travis Wilcoxen Session Author(s) Title 104 SRYGLEY, RB*; BRANSON, DH Predator or Competitor? A Seemingly Benign Interaction and Its Effects on Immune Function 104 CORNELIUS RUHS, E*; VEZINA, F; KARASOV, W Do differing levels of […]

Thermal Tolerance: Coping with Extreme Temperature Day: Saturday, Jan. 7, 13:30-15:30 Room: 218 Organizer(s): Zack Darnell Session Author(s) Title 103 JOST, JA AMPK Activity Increases in Response to Acute Cold Stress in the Zebra Mussel 103 MUNGUIA, P; BACKWELL, P; DARNELL, MZ* Thermal constraints on microhabitat selection and mating opportunities in fiddler crabs. 103 GLEASON, […]

Complementary to S10 – Physical and Genetic Mechanisms for Evolutionary Novelty Day: Saturday, Jan. 7, 13:30-15:15 Room: 217 Organizer(s): Tetsuya Nakamura, Leslie Babonis Session Author(s) Title 102 NAKAMURA, T*; GEHRKE, AR; LEMBERG, J; SZYMASZEK, J; SHUBIN, NH Digits and fin rays share common developmental histories 102 LOZIER, JD*; PIMSLER, ML; JACKSON, JM Population Genomics of […]

Complementary to S4 – Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality III Day: Saturday, Jan. 7, 13:30-15:00 Room: 215-216 Organizer(s): Danielle Levesque Session Author(s) Title 101 LISOVSKI, S*; RAMENOFSKY, M; WINGFIELD, JC Biologically Significant Dimensions of Seasonality 101 VERHAGEN, IC*; GIENAPP, P; LAINE, VN; VAN OERS, K; MATEMAN, C; PIJL, AS; VISSER, ME The Physiological Mechanism Underlying Timing […]

Adhesion II Day: Saturday, Jan. 7, 13:30-15:15 Room: 214 Organizer(s): Jason Nadler, Alexis Noel Session Author(s) Title 100 ZACHOW, Z*; NOEL, A; HU, DL Earwax has properties like paint, enabling self-cleaning 100 NOEL, A*; MARTINEZ, A; JUNG, H; TSAI, TW; HU, DL Cat Tongue Velcro 100 ZHANG, C*; POMETTO, S; SANDE, L; BEARD, CE; APRELEV, […]

Evolution of Communication Systems Day: Thursday, Jan. 5, 08:15-10:00 Room: 222 Organizer(s): Nate Morehouse Session Author(s) Title 10 MOREHOUSE, NI*; ZUREK, DB; TAYLOR, LA; CRONIN, T Repeated Evolution of Color Vision Underlies Rapid Diversification of Salticid Male Coloration 10 SUKHUM, KV*; CARLSON, BA Extreme Enlargement of the Cerebellum is Associated with the Evolution of Electroreception […]

Evolution of Complex Traits Day: Thursday, Jan. 5, 08:00-09:45 Room: 210 Organizer(s): Jacqueline Moustakas-Verho Session Author(s) Title 1 MOUSTAKAS-VERHO, JE*; STENBERG, OE; ANTTILA, J; JERNVALL, J Is high complexity unbearable? 1 MEISEL, RP The Evolution of Sex Determination in House Fly 1 GRIFFITH, OW*; CHAVAN, A; PROTOPAPAS, S; MAZIARZ, J; WAGNER, GP The Evolutionary Origin […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Workshop: “X-ray Computed Tomography: It’s Not Just For Bone!” Wednesday, January 4th, 2017, 3:00pm – 4:30pm Innovative uses of radiopaque chemical contrast agents, which are opaque to X-rays, allow for non-destructive 3D imaging of soft tissue in vertebrate specimens, either in-vivo or ex-vivo. Specifically, micro-computed […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA TAL-PULSE Workshop: “Using Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) resources to stimulate transforming STEM education at the department level” Saturday January 7 at 7:30-9 pm, Room 224, Convention Center In 2013, the SICB Educational Council hosted its first Teaching and Learning workshop and focused […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Workshop: Sketch Your Conference Notes! A Hands-on Visual Note-taking Workshop January 5, 2017, 12:00-1:30pm (brownbag), Room 222 Sketchnoting, also known as visual note taking, is the practice of sketching or doodling notes while listening to a lecture with the purpose of summarizing or recording key […]