SICB Annual Meeting 2017January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Workshop: RNA Seq Resources and Training January 5, 2017, 12:00-1:30pm (brownbag), Room 220 The Animal Genomes to Phenomes (AG2P) Research Coordination Network (RCN) is conducting a workshop on metadata and best practices for annotating RNA-seq data. Participants will have the opportunity to analyze sample datasets using […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Broadening Participation Committee Workshop: Microaggressions: The big impact of little things January 7, 2017, 12:00-1:30pm (brownbag), Room 214 Why do you sound so white? You’re the best woman I’ve ever had in this class. No, where are you really from? So which bathroom do you use? […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Student and Postdoctoral Affairs Committee Workshop: Low on the Totem Pole – Power Structures and Power Struggles in Scientific Careers In theory, scientific inquiry has a “flat” power structure, where anyone is able to contribute to knowledge building. In practice, scientific inquiry often takes place at […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Workshop: Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality (Accompanies Symposium S4 – Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality) January 7, 2017, 12:00-1:30pm, Room 215/216 Organisms living in seasonal environments experience fluctuating selection pressures that influence their ecology and physiology, and drive their evolution. The symposium “Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality” aims to […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Workshop: Establishing Standards for Video Data Management January 8, 2017, 12:00-1:30pm (brownbag), Room 215/216 Video recordings have been a growing source of data in organismal biology for several decades. With advances in high-speed and X-ray videography, uses of video now commonly span biomechanics, physiology, behavior, and […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Public Affairs Committee Workshop: DIY Videography Making Your Research Broadly Accessible January 6, 2017, 12:00-1:30pm (brownbag), Room 214 As the world becomes increasingly more interconnected, it is important that scientific research exploits this accessibility to the public and other fields of research. Please join host Dr. […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Workshop: A Primer on Incorporating the Microbiome into Integrative and Comparative Biology (Accompanies Symposium S5 – With a Little Help from my Friends: Microbial Partners in Integrative and Comparative Biology) January 6, 2017, 12:00-1:30pm (brownbag), Room 208/209 This workshop will expose attendees to the basic tools […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Symposium: With a Little Help from My Friends: Microbial Partners in Integrative and Comparative Biology Recent studies have revealed that animals are not individuals but rather are “holobionts” that host highly diverse and interactive communities of microbes. These microbial communities provide a number of services […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Symposium: The Evolution of Arthropod Body Plans – Integrating Phylogeny, Fossils and Development The last few years have seen a huge rise in the amount of data we have about the evolution of the arthropod body plan. This has come from three separate sources: A […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Symposium: The Ecology of Exercise: Mechanisms Underlying Individual Variation in Movement Behavior, Activity or Performance How hard do free-living animals work? What determines how hard individuals will work on specific activities? Is “exercise” a useful paradigm to apply to animal movement? Can animals work too […]