Rising Star in Organismal Botany Award Day: Friday, Jan. 5, 08:00-10:00 Room: 1 & 2 Organizer(s): Stacey Smith Session Author(s) Title 37 GEFEN, E*; TALAL, S; AYALI, A On the Mechanistic Basis for Discontinuous Gas Exchange in Actively Ventilating Insects 37 BIRK, MA*; SEIBEL, BA Squids Do Not Breathe Through Their Skin 37 HEDRICK, MS*; […]

Locomotion: From Trees to Ground Day: Thursday, Jan. 4, 13:30-15:30 Room: Salons 13-15 Organizer(s): Baxi Zhong, Brooke Quinn Session Author(s) Title 36 KNIGHT, K.C.*; LEE, D.V. Grasping lizard branch locomotion: an exploration of movement, forces, and torques 36 MOBERLY, IT*; MOON, BR Interplay between Setae and Locomotor Kinematics in an Arboreal Lizard (Furcifer oustaleti) 36 […]

Behavioral Thermoregulation Day: Thursday, Jan. 4, 13:30-15:30 Room: Salons 10-12 Organizer(s): Ryan O’Connor, Danielle Levesque Session Author(s) Title 35 LAM , E.L.*; GUNDERSON, A.R.; TSUKIMURA, B; STILLMAN, J.H. Variation in thermoregulation and linking whole organism behavior to thermosensory neurophysiology in the porcelain crab, Petrolisthes cinctipes 35 O’CONNOR, RS*; BRIGHAM, RM; MCKECHNIE, AE Thermoregulatory Patterns in […]

Complementary to S5: Sensory Feedback and Animal Locomotion: Perspectives from Biology and Biorobotics, Part 3 Day: Thursday, Jan. 4, 13:30-15:30 Room: Golden Gate C-2 Organizer(s): Eric Tytell, Perrin Schiebe Session Author(s) Title 34 BAI, B*; FOX, J Dissecting Fly Haltere Function during Flight and Walking 34 SAVOIE, WC*; LI, S; WARKENTIN, RJ; GOLDMAN, DI Phototaxing […]

Evolutionary Morphology Day: Thursday, Jan. 4, 13:30-15:15 Room: 23 Organizer(s): Ian Cost, Teresa Feo Session Author(s) Title 33 GIRARD, MB; KASUMOVIC, MM; ELIAS, DO* Multimodal communication in peacock spiders: Examining the role of visual and vibratory signals in Maratus volans courtship 33 ANDERSON, RC*; ALI, SB; ANDERSON, Rindy Understanding Complexity in Communication Systems: Song and […]

Best Student Papers – Aubrey Gorbman Award Day: Thursday, Jan. 4, 13:45-14:45 Room: Salons 3-4 Organizer(s): Laura Carruth, Sharon Lynn Session Author(s) Title 32 AMATO, CM*; BOYD, M; MCCOY, KM Early Vinclozolin exposure increases the severity of penile abnormalities 32 SPOOL, JA*; JAY, MD; RITERS, LV Nest cavity exploration stimulates breeding physiology and alters mRNA […]

Neuroethology – Sensorimotor Responses Day: Thursday, Jan. 4, 13:30-15:30 Room: Salons 1-2 Organizer(s): Tanvi Deora Session Author(s) Title 31 DEORA, T*; CAMPOS, EO; BRUNTON, B; DANIEL, TL Role of Touch in Shaping Plant-Insect Pollinator Interaction 31 RAJA, SV; RAMESH, L; VATS, A; SANE, SP* Collective self-organization of traffic in mound-building termites 31 STOTT, TP; OLSON, […]

Feeding in Aquatic Vertebrates Day: Thursday, Jan. 4, 13:30-15:00 Room: Foothill C Organizer(s): Aaron Olsen, Emily Kane Session Author(s) Title 30 OLSEN, AM*; HERNANDEZ, LP; CAMP, AL; BRAINERD, EL Closed loops of joints, rather than the joints themselves, impose the primary motion constraint in the catfish mouth expansion mechanism 30 PROVINI, P*; VAN WASSENBERGH, S […]

Predator/Prey 1 Day: Thursday, Jan. 4, 08:00-10:00 Room: Nob Hill A-B Organizer(s): David Cade Session Author(s) Title 3 CADE, DE*; FRIEDLAENDER, AS; CALAMBOKIDIS, J; CAREY, N; DOMENICI, P; POTVIN, J; GOLDBOGEN, JA Predator-Prey Dynamics and Kinematics of Rorqual Whales and Their Prey 3 JELLISON, BM*; GAYLORD, B Population-Level Variation in Behavioral Tolerance of Intertidal Snails […]

Groovin’ as a Groupie-Population Ecology Day: Thursday, Jan. 4, 13:30-15:30 Room: 16 & 17 Organizer(s): Nathan Senner Session Author(s) Title 29 WETHEY, DS*; WOODIN, SA; GALASKA, MP; HALANYCH, KM; DUBOIS, SF; ARIAS, A Diopatra biscayensis Disjunct Population Not a Relict, Rather Human-Assisted Transport 29 RIDDELL, EA*; CARLO, MA; BALDWIN, RF; ZAMUDIO, KR; SEARS, MW Using […]