SICB Annual Meeting 2019January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL January 4 – Symposium S2: The scale of sickness: how immune variation across space and species affects infectious disease dynamics Biology, relative to physics and much of chemistry, lacks strict organizing principles. Whereas physicists can predict with exquisite accuracy how far a ball will fly when thrown, […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019 January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL January 7 – Symposium S12: The path less traveled: Reciprocal illumination of gecko adhesion by unifying material science, biomechanics, ecology, and evolution Gecko research over the past two decades has been as diverse as the group itself, including ecological, evolutionary, morphological, biomechanical, and material science foci. […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019 January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL January 7 – Symposium S11: Allometry, Scaling and Ontogeny of Form In its simplest form, the study of allometry is about investigating and quantifying the relative sizes and shapes of body parts. Insofar as size and shape are among the most characteristic aspects of a species, […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019 January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL January 7 – Symposium S10: The world is not flat: Accounting for the dynamic nature of the environment as we move beyond static experimental manipulations The world that animals live in is constantly changing. Depending upon where they live, they may need to respond to daily […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL January 4 – Symposium S1: Integrative Plant Biology (SICB Wide) This symposium is part of an effort to bring greater participation of plant biologists to SICB, and is part of the Special Focus Meeting on Organismal Botany within the Tampa SICB meeting. SICB began in 1902 as […]

SICB Annual Meeting 2019 January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL Symposium Schedule   January 4 S1. Integrative Plant Biology (SICB Wide) Organizers: Matt Ogburn, Erika Edwards Sponsors: DAB, DCB, DCE, DCPB, DEDB, DEDE, DEE, DIZ, DNNSB, DPCB, DVM, AMS, TCS S2. The scale of sickness: how immune variation across space and species affects infectious disease dynamics […]

    SICB Annual Meeting 2019 January 3-7, 2019 Tampa, FL #SICB2019 Honorary Membership in SICB The SICB Executive Committee bestowed an Honorary Membership on Sandra Gaunt for her efforts in helping to endow the Gans Fund, which supports the Gans Award, and for her contributions to support SICB students. Most recently, the Abbot S. […]