SICB Annual Meeting 2018January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Workshop: ICB Editor’s Challenge to Define Stress Marty Martin, Editor-in-Chief of Integrative and Comparative Biology, and the Associate Editors will host the first annual Editor’s Challenge, a 1-day workshop at the SICB meeting in San Francisco on January 3, 2018, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA SPDAC roundtable: “Just publish papers” vs. outreach and advocacy Thursday, Jan 4, 12:00-1:30, Golden Gate A Many students go into science not just because of the beauty of science itself, but because they want to change the world, through science communication, education, or policy. But early […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018 January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Journal of Experimental Zoology (JEZ) Workshop: “Discussion with the Editors of JEZ-A and JEZ-B on how to get published” Friday January 5, 12 noon-1:30pm, Salons 1-2 During this workshop, the Editor of the Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, David Crews […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018 January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA TAL-X Workshop: Biology on a Budget – Sharable DIY Bio Lab Activities Saturday January 6, 7-9pm, (Room Pacific H) This year’s Teaching and Learning Workshop will focus on easy to Do it Yourself (DIY) citizen science, presented by Dr. Larry McPhee of Northern Arizona University. […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Broadening Participation Committee Workshop: Beyond traditional mentors: mentoring moments and networks Saturday January 6, 12 noon-1:30pm, (Room TBA) Join us for an interactive session focused on getting the mentoring you want and need to thrive in your career. Designed for scientists from groups underrepresented in the […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Workshop – Best practices for using NGS-based datasets to determine statistically robust evidence of positive selection and convergent evolution of polar organisms We will conduct a NSF-funded workshop using cross-disciplinary approaches for determining genetic adaptations in polar organisms using Next Generation Sequencing-based datasets. In particular, this […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018 January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA DEDB Workshop: Animal Cell Types: Their Origin and Evolution Saturday January 6th, 6:30pm to 9:30pm. Room: Foothills G OPEN BAR DURING THE WORKSHOP!   In this workshop we bring together researchers working on a variety of systems to discuss the nature and the evolutionary origin […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018 January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA 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 WorkshopsNSF-funded Workshop: Best practices for using NGS-based datasets to determine […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018 January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco, CA Symposium Schedule   January 4 From Small and Squishy to Big and Armored: Genomic, Ecological and Paleontological Insights into the Early Evolution of Animals (SICB wide) Organizers: Erik Sperling & Kevin Kocot; Sponsors: DEDB, DEE, DIZ, DPCB, & AMS Spatial Scale and Structural Heterogeneity in […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2018 January 3-7 San Francisco, SF Click on session to view list of presentations Symposia S1 From Small and Squishy to Big and Armored: Genomic, Ecological and Paleontological Insights into the Early Evolution of Animals Organizer(s): Erik Sperling, Kevin Kocot S2 The Scale of Sickness: How Immune Variation Across SpaceThe scale of […]