Sensorimotor Day: Friday, Jan. 4, 08:00-09:45 Room: 24 Organizer(s): Amanda Powers, Aaron Olsen Session Author(s) Title 10 THANDIACKAL, R*; MELO, K; PAEZ, L; KANO, T; ISHIGURO, A; IJSPEERT, AJ Undulatory swimming control with local exteroceptive sensory feedback 10 LUNSFORD, ET*; SKANDALIS, D; LIAO, JC Efferent Neurons have Binary Control over the Lateral Line during Swimming […]

Acoustic Communication Day: Friday, Jan. 4, 08:00-09:45 Room: 1 & 2 Organizer(s): Scott MacDougall-Shackleton Session Author(s) Title 1 IWANIUK, AN*; O’NEIL, NP; DEAUX, E; CHARRIER, I Individual and Seasonal Variation in the Courtship Display of Ruffed Grouse. 1 ZIADI, P*; BLAKELY , B; CERBONE, B; ANDERSON, R Testing hypotheses about song type matching and song […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019 January 3-7 Tampa, FL Click on a session to view list of presentations Symposia S1 Integrative Plant Biology Organizer(s): Matt Ogburn, Erika Edwards S2 The Scale of Sickness: How Immune Variation across Space and Species Affects Infectious Disease Dynamics Organizer(s): Daniel Becker, Cynthia Downs, Lynn Martin S3 Playing with Power: Mechanisms […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019 January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL January 6 – Symposium S9: Chemical responses to the biotic and abiotic environment by early diverging metazoans revealed in the post-genomic age Extant early diverging metazoans (Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Porifera) have survived in a changing and increasingly complex world, and -omics data are providing novel insights […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL January 6 – Symposium S8: Multifunctional structures and multistructural functions: Functional coupling and integration in the evolution of biomechanical systems The goal of functional, organismal biologists is to understand how the parts of an organism affect the organism’s ability to persist in a given environment. However, the […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019 January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL January 6 – Symposium S7: Comparative Evolutionary Morphology and Biomechanics in the Era of Big Data (SICB Wide) All biological motion is guided by the laws of physics. The major features of evolutionary fitness – locomotion, feeding, and reproduction – are guided by mechanical laws. Thus, […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL January 5 – Symposium S6: Beyond the powerhouse: integrating mitonuclear evolution, physiology, and theory in comparative biology Mitonuclear Reckoning by Megan Parker Life depends on the efficient production of useable energy. Complex life, in the form of eukaryotes, exists only with a continuous and rich supply of […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019 January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL January 5 – Symposium S5: Stress phenotype: linking molecular, cellular, and physiological stress responses to fitness Most organisms initiate a highly conserved, ‘stress response’ in the face of stressful environmental and social stimuli. However, studies relating variation in organismal level stress hormones and fitness are often […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019 January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL January 5 – Symposium S4: Adaptation and Evolution of Biological Materials (SICB Wide) Location: Rooms 16&17 Biological materials, whether inside or outside an organism, play a vital role in survival and mediation of interactions with the environment. Although the characterization of biomaterials performance has leapt forward […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL January 4 – Symposium S3: Playing with Power: Mechanisms of Energy Flow in Organismal Movement Across multiple evolutionary clades and size scales, organismal movement requires controlling the flow of energy through the body to enhance a variety of functions. Whether energy is released or absorbed by the […]