SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Symposium: The Development and Mechanisms Underlying Inter-individual Variation in Pro-social Behavior Animals spend a high proportion of their time interacting cooperatively with conspecifics. This ranges from courtship, mating, and parental care behaviors to the complex coordinated behavior among related or unrelated individuals in group-living species. […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Symposium: Physical and Genetic Mechanisms for Evolutionary Novelty In recent years, developmental biophysics and developmental molecular genetics have begun to merge within the discipline of EvoDevo. This integration has been fostered by new knowledge molecular pathways in both animals and plants as well as advances […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Symposium: Molecular and Neuroendocrine Approaches to Understanding Tradeoffs: Food, Sex, Aggression, Stress, and Longevity Figure: Healthy little brown bat covered in condensation during hibernation. The invasive fungal disease white-nose syndrome (WNS) may have introduced a trade-off for species like the little brown bat. Bats require […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Symposium: Low Spatial Resolution Vision – Function and Evolution Light carries a vast amount of information about the surroundings and photoreception is thus a wide spread and import sense in animals. The quality and amount of information taken up by the animal dependent on the […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Symposium: Integrative Life-History of Whole-Organism Performance Whole-organism performance traits constitute key links between animals and their environments. So important is performance to organismal survival and fitness that not only has it formed a cornerstone of the study of adaptation over the last ~40 years, it […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Symposium: Integrating Cognitive, Motivational and Sensory Biases Underlying Acoustic and Multimodal Mate Choice A standard, yet simple, construct has emerged for understanding the basis of female mate choice decision-making and the flexibility that arises in females’ responses to males. This standard construct typically distinguishes between […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Symposium: Indirect Effects of Global Change: from Physiological and Behavioral Mechanisms to Ecological Consequences (SICB wide) An important goal of current biological research is to understand how global change makes species vulnerable to extirpation. Many, if not most, analyses of global change vulnerability focus solely […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Symposium: Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality Organisms living in seasonal environments experience fluctuating selection pressures that influence their ecology and physiology, and drive their evolution. Classic work by Dobzhansky and early researchers identified seasonal fluctuations as a potentially important mechanism maintaining genetic polymorphism in natural populations, […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Workshops & Programs Student First Timer/Student Worker Orientation “How to Get the Most Out of Your SICB Meeting“, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 5:30-6:30 PM, Grand Ballroom A/B, Hilton Hotel. *Required for students with Charlotte Mangum support Workshops Workshop: “X-ray Computed Tomography: It’s Not Just For Bone!” […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2017 January 4-8, 2017 New Orleans, LA Symposium Schedule   January 5 Indirect Effects of Global Change: from Physiological and Behavioral Mechanisms to Ecological Consequences (SICB wide) Organizers: Alex Gunderson, Jonathon Stillman & Brian Tsukimura; Sponsors: DAB, DCPB, DEE, DIZ, DNB, & TCS The Ecology of Exercise: Mechanisms Underlying Individual Variation in […]