SICB Annual Meeting 2018 January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Symposium: Integrative Biology of Sensory Hair Cells Sensory hair cells are used to sense vibration and water movement through the lateral line system, posture and acceleration through the inner ear labyrinth system, and auditory stimuli through combinations of the labyrinthine sensory epithelia and specialized auditory […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018 January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Symposium: Inside the black box: the mitochondrial basis of life-history variation and animal performance Mitochondria play a critical role in determining animal performance. Mitochondria produce ATP molecules that fuel nearly all organismal processes, but also are responsible for the production of reactive oxygen species – […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018 January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Symposium: From small and squishy to big and armored: Genomic, ecological and paleontological insights into the early evolution of animals The origin of animals and their early evolutionary history—culminating in the Cambrian ‘explosion’ when essentially all animal phyla appear in the fossil record within the […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018 January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Symposium: Evolution in the dark: unifying understanding of eye loss Symposium Description: The evolution of eye loss in subterranean, deep sea and nocturnal habitats has fascinated biologists since Darwin wrestled with it in On the Origin of Species. This phenomenon appears consistently throughout the animal […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018 January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Symposium: Behavioral and physiological adaptation to urban environments As urban areas continue to grow, understanding how species respond and adapt to urbanization is becoming increasingly important. Knowledge of the mechanisms behind observed phenotypic changes in urban animals will enable us to better judge the impact […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Student Support Committee – Workshop for Graduate Students: Writing a Competitive GIAR/FGST Grant Proposal Saturday January 6, 12 noon-1:30pm, (Room TBA) An interactive forum for graduate students to learn more about how to generate a competitive grant proposal for SICB’s GIAR/FGST mechanisms of support (with broad […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Transcriptomics Brownbag Lunch Saturday January 6, 12 noon, (Room TBA) The transcriptomics brown bag lunch will update the SICB community on the activities and resources of the Genome to Phenome Research Coordination Network (G2P RCN). Bring your questions for discussion in a casual setting. All those […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Sketch Your Conference Notes! A Hands-on Visual Note-taking Workshop Friday January 5, 12:00-1:30pm (brownbag), (Salons 3-4) 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 concepts visually. […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Public Affairs Committee / Science as Narrative Symposium Workshop: Science Through Story: Strategies for science communication inspired by Pixar’s creative process Thursday January 4, 12 noon-1:30pm, (Salons 3-4) This workshop adapts story development techniques from filmmaking to help scientists engage broad audiences. We use examples from […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA NSF Update Friday January 5, 12:00-1:30pm, Golden Gate C2 NSF Program Officers from the Directorate for Biological Sciences will give an update on changes to submission and review of proposals in the core programs, NSFs 10 big ideas and other opportunities. Come meet your program officers, […]