SICB Annual Meeting 2018
January 3-7
San Francisco, SF
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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 sickness: how immune variation across space and species affects infectious disease dynamics and Species Affects Infectious Disease Dynamics | Organizer(s): Daniel Becker, Cynthia Downs |
| S3 | Playing with Power: Mechanisms of Energy Flow in Organismal Movement | Organizer(s): Jeffery Olberding, Michael Rosario, Stephen Deban |
| S4 | Science Through Narrative: Engaging Broad Audiences | Organizer(s): Sara Elshafie, Stuart Sumida |
| S5 | Sensory Feedback and Animal Locomotion: Perspectives from Biology and Biorobotics | Organizer(s): Brett Aiello, Jessica Fox |
| S6 | Understanding the Evolution of Endocrine System Variation through Large-scale Comparative Analyses | Organizer(s): Maren Vitousek, Michele Johnson |
| S7 | Science in the Public Eye: Leveraging Partnerships | Organizer(s): Martha Merson, Nick Hristov |
| S8 | Integrative Biology of Sensory Hair Cells | Organizer(s): Duane McPherson, Billie Swalla |
| S9 | Inside the Black Box: The Mitochondrial Basis of Life-history Variation and Animal Performance | Organizer(s): Karine Salin, Wendy Hood |
| S10 | Behavioral and Physiological Adaptation to Urban Environments | Organizer(s): Jenny Ouyang, Davide Dominoni |
| S11 | Measuring Biodiversity and Extinction: Present and Past | Organizer(s): Julia Sigwart |
Contributed Oral Presentations
| PLENARY | Plenary Session | |
| BART | George A. Bartholomew Lecture | |
| BERN | Howard Bern Lecture | |
| MOORE | Moore Lecture | |
| 1 | Acoustic Communication | Session Chair(s): Scott MacDougall-Shackleton |
| 2 | DEE Best Student Paper: Huey Award | Session Chair(s): Robert Cox |
| 3 | Predator/Prey 1 | Session Chair(s): David Cade |
| 4 | Where’s My Partner? Coral Reef Biology | Session Chair(s): Rachel Wright |
| 5 | Biomaterials: Aquatic | Session Chair(s): Tobin Hieronymus, Petra Ditsche |
| 6 | Feeding: Bites and Strikes | Session Chair(s): Jose Iriarte-Diaz, Andrew Clark |
| 7 | Sensory Biology: Receptors and the Molecular Machinery | Session Chair(s): Nathan Morehouse |
| 8 | Genomics | Session Chair(s): Aide Macias-Munoz |
| 9 | Temperature-Oxygen Relationships & Critical Thermal Limits | Session Chair(s): Erin Brandt, Janet Genz |
| 10 | Complementary to S5: Sensory Feedback and Animal Locomotion: Perspectives from Biology and Biorobotics, Part 1 | Session Chair(s): Brad Dickerson, Eatai Roth |
| 11 | Complementary to S8: Multifunctional Structures and Multistructural Functions: Functional Coupling and Integration in the Evolution of Biomechanical Systems | Session Chair(s): Nicholas Gidmark, Anthony Lapsansky |
| 12 | Locomotion: Snaking Around | Session Chair(s): Phillip Bergmann, Sean Gart |
| 13 | DNNSB Best Student Paper | Session Chair(s): Mike Baltzley |
| 14 | Parental Behavior | Session Chair(s): Kathleen Lynch |
| 15 | Breaking Bleachin – Coral Reef Biology | Session Chair(s): Shayle Matsuda |
| 16 | Development and Behavior | Session Chair(s): Erica Westerman |
| 17 | Biophysical Ecology | Session Chair(s): Arianne Cease, Alex Gunderson |
| 18 | Macroevolution | Session Chair(s): Francesco Santini, Jonathan Chang |
| 19 | Visual Signals | Session Chair(s): Nate Morehouse |
| 20 | Comparative Genomics | Session Chair(s): Kenneth Halanych |
| 21 | Complementary to S4: Science Through Narrative: Engaging Broad Audiences | Session Chair(s): Eugenia Gold, Justice Morath |
| 22 | Complementary to S5: Sensory Feedback and Animal Locomotion: Perspectives from Biology and Biorobotics, Part 2 | Session Chair(s): Tom Daniel, Daisuke Takagi |
| 23 | Comparative Stress Endocrinology | Session Chair(s): Scott MacDougall-Shackleton, Christine Lattin |
| 24 | Division of Vertebrate Morphology Best Student Presentations | |
| 25 | Morphology: Unlocking the Vault | Session Chair(s): Bonnie Kircher, Duncan Irschick |
| 26 | Let’s get Physical-Biophysical Ecology | Session Chair(s): Alex Gunderson |
| 27 | DEDE Best Student Presentations | Session Chair(s): Travis Wilcoxen |
| 28 | Partners for Life-Symbiosis | Session Chair(s): Miguel Reyes |
| 29 | Groovin’ as a Groupie-Population Ecology | Session Chair(s): Nathan Senner |
| 30 | Feeding in Aquatic Vertebrates | Session Chair(s): Aaron Olsen, Emily Kane |
| 31 | Neuroethology – Sensorimotor Responses | Session Chair(s): Tanvi Deora |
| 32 | Best Student Papers – Aubrey Gorbman Award | Session Chair(s): Laura Carruth, Sharon Lynn |
| 33 | Evolutionary Morphology | Session Chair(s): Ian Cost, Teresa Feo |
| 34 | Complementary to S5: Sensory Feedback and Animal Locomotion: Perspectives from Biology and Biorobotics, Part 3 | Session Chair(s): Eric Tytell, Perrin Schiebe |
| 35 | Behavioral Thermoregulation | Session Chair(s): Ryan O’Connor, Danielle Levesque |
| 36 | Locomotion: From Trees to Ground | Session Chair(s): Baxi Zhong, Brooke Quinn |
| 37 | Rising Star in Organismal Botany Award | Session Chair(s): Stacey Smith |
| 38 | Flight: Birds, Bats, and Gliders | Session Chair(s): Per Henningsson, Pranav Khandelwal |
| 39 | Conservation Biology | Session Chair(s): Diana LaScala-Gruenewald |
| 40 | Social Behavior and Predator-Prey Interactions | Session Chair(s): Roslyn Dakin |
| 41 | Parental Care | Session Chair(s): Tony Williams |
| 42 | Animal Communication: Intrinsic States and Extrinsic Signals | Session Chair(s): Greg Pask |
| 43 | Complementary to S2: The Scale of Sickness: How Immune Variation Across Space and Species Affects Infectious Disease Dynamics | |
| 44 | Sharp Bits | Session Chair(s): Maya deVries, Lisa Whitenack |
| 45 | Behavioral Endocrinology | Session Chair(s): Ryan Paitz, Cory Williams |
| 46 | Biomaterials: Baggy Skin is the New Black | Session Chair(s): Molly Grear, Ted Uyeno |
| 47 | Neurobiology and Sensory biology | Session Chair(s): James Strother |
| 48 | Communication and Cognition | Session Chair(s): Tim Wright |
| 49 | Division of Comparative Biomechanics: Best Student Paper Award | Session Chair(s): Shelia Patek |
| 50 | Evo-Devo: From Genotype to Phenotype | Session Chair(s): Matthew Rockman, Prashant Sharma |
| 51 | Bigger and Better? Endocrine Aspects of Growth and Development | Session Chair(s): Kady Lyons, Tracy Langkilde |
| 52 | Reproductive and Social Behavior | Session Chair(s): Luc Donoyer |
| 53 | Behavioral Ecology: Development and Maternal Effects | Session Chair(s): Dan Warner |
| 54 | Smellin’ and Livin’ Together – Chemical and Community Ecology | Session Chair(s): Abigail Cahill |
| 55 | Doin’ it with the Dinoflagellates – Coral Reef Biology | Session Chair(s): Sarah Davies |
| 56 | Host-Pathogen Interactions | Session Chair(s): Jamie Voyles, Daniel Becker |
| 57 | Population Genetics | Session Chair(s): Chris Martin, Elizabeth Henry |
| 58 | Vision | Session Chair(s): Alexandra Kingston |
| 59 | Chemosensory | Session Chair(s): Gabby Wolff |
| 60 | Complementary to S1: Integrative Plant Biology | Session Chair(s): Daniel Stanton |
| 61 | Superfast! Power Amplification! | Session Chair(s): Benjamin Perlman, Zeynep Temel |
| 62 | Host-Parasite Interactions | Session Chair(s): Carol Fassbinder-Orth, Henry John-Alder |
| 63 | Neuroanatomy | Session Chair(s): Ellen Dow |
| 64 | Division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology Best Student Presentations | Session Chair(s): Julia Bowsher, Yui Suzuki |
| 65 | Collective Behavior | Session Chair(s): Aaron Corcoran |
| 66 | Care for the Planet – Conservation Biology & Community Ecology | Session Chair(s): Christopher Howie |
| 67 | Terrestrial Locomotion: Walk, Jump and Run | Session Chair(s): Clint Collins |
| 68 | Climate Change and Communities | Session Chair(s): Roger Anderson, Nadejda Mirochnitchenko |
| 69 | Population Differentiation | Session Chair(s): Joel Havird, Nathan Whelan |
| 70 | Swimming with the Fishes | Session Chair(s): Anabela Maia, Michael Fath |
| 71 | Sensory Biology | Session Chair(s): Dan Speiser |
| 72 | Complementary to S11: Size & Shape: Ontogenetic Origins of Organismal Form | Session Chair(s): Ken McKenna, Austin McKenna |
| 73 | Animal Communication | Session Chair(s): Talia Moore |
| 74 | Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Metabolic Diversity 1 | Session Chair(s): Meghan Duell, Erika Eliason |
| 75 | Social Behaviors and Predator-Prey Interactions | Session Chair(s): Brett Seymoure |
| 76 | Terrestrial Locomotion: Gait and Posture | Session Chair(s): Michael Granatosky, Krijn Michel |
| 77 | Maternal Stress Endocrinology | Session Chair(s): Ben Dantzer, Michael Sheriff |
| 78 | Complementary to S5: Stress Phenotype: Linking Molecular, Cellular and Physiological Stress Responses to Fitness, I | |
| 79 | Immune Trade-Offs | Session Chair(s): Travis Wilcoxen, Robert Srygley |
| 80 | Predator/Prey 2 | Session Chair(s): Zach Chejanovski |
| 81 | Ventilation & Circulation | Session Chair(s): Hunter King, Lindsay Waldropp |
| 82 | Life History Evolution | Session Chair(s): Lars Schmitz |
| 83 | Coral Reef Systems | Session Chair(s): Dianna Padilla |
| 84 | Conservation Genetics | Session Chair(s): Andrew Mohan, Leva Roznere |
| 85 | Locomotion on Variable Substrates | Session Chair(s): Chen Li |
| 86 | Developmental Plasticity | Session Chair(s): Billie Swalla, Vivek Prakash |
| 87 | Sensory Biology – Active and Environmental Sensing | Session Chair(s): Brooke Vetter |
| 88 | Ekoehlogical Biomechanics: A Tribute to Mimi Koehl, II | Session Chair(s): Tom Daniel |
| 89 | Complementary to S6: Beyond the Powerhouse: Integrating Mitonuclear Evolution, Physiology, and Theory in Comparative Biology | Session Chair(s): Justin Havird, Geoff Hill |
| 90 | Complementary to S5: Stress Phenotype: Linking Molecular, Cellular and Physiological Stress Responses to Fitness, II | |
| 91 | Meta-Swimming: Greater than the sum of its parts | Session Chair(s): Austin Francis Jr. |
| 92 | Flies in the Honey | Session Chair(s): Bo Cheng |
| 93 | Thermobiology of Endotherms | Session Chair(s): Anusha Shankar, Donald Powers |
| 94 | Plasiticity and Evolution | Session Chair(s): Ben Dantzer |
| 95 | Reef Communities | Session Chair(s): Amanda Kahn, Brendan Cornwell |
| 96 | Neurobiology & Anatomy | Session Chair(s): Mark Willis |
| 97 | Bird Flight: Wing Morphing and More | Session Chair(s): Anthony Lapsansky, Laura Matloff |
| 98 | Ecomorphology: Locomotion | Session Chair(s): Natasha Mhatre, Aja Carter |
| 99 | Rhythm and Behavior | Session Chair(s): James Newcomb |
| 100 | Muscle Physiology | Session Chair(s): Jennifer Dearolf, Anthony Hessel |
| 101 | Complementary to S6: Beyond the Powerhouse: Integrating Mitonuclear Evolution, Physiology, and Theory in Comparative Biology | |
| 102 | Complementary to S5: Stress Phenotype: Linking Molecular, Cellular and Physiological Responses to Fitness, III | |
| 103 | Evolution of Developmental Processes | Session Chair(s): Christine Bohmer, Mihaela Pavlicev |
| 104 | Complementary to S11: Measuring Biodiversity and Extinction – Present and Past | Session Chair(s): Elizabeth Sibert, Francesca Leas |
| 105 | Comparative Endocrinology | Session Chair(s): Diana Hews, Bobby Fokidis |
| 106 | Reproductive Physiology | Session Chair(s): Sherry Tamone, Ned Place |
| 107 | Larval Ecology | Session Chair(s): Bruno Pernet |
| 108 | Neuroethology – State-Dependence and Neurobiology | Session Chair(s): Megan Gall |
| 109 | Neuroethology | Session Chair(s): Lisa Mangiamele |
| 110 | Bioindicators and Pollution | Session Chair(s): Melanie Guigueno |
| 111 | Metamorphosis and Regeneration | Session Chair(s): Brian Nedved |
| 112 | Livin’ the Vida Larvae – Larval Ecology | Session Chair(s): Kit Yu Karen Chan |
| 113 | Genetics of Adaptation | Session Chair(s): Michael Logan |
| 114 | Sexual Selection and Reproductive Behavior | |
| 115 | Developmental Endocrinology | Session Chair(s): A. Kelsey Lewis, Kyle Selcer |
| 116 | Bird Morphology | Session Chair(s): Alida Bailleul, Ashley Heers |
| 117 | You Should Chew Your Own Food | Session Chair(s): Mark Westneat |
| 118 | Muscle and Tendon | Session Chair(s): Michael Rosario, Danielle Adams |
| 119 | Sexual Dimorphism and Sexual Selection | Session Chair(s): Christine Miller |
| 120 | Evolutionary Physiology – Oxygen | Session Chair(s): Lars Tomanek |
| 121 | Scaling and Other Complexities of Metabolic Rate Estimation | Session Chair(s): Marshall McCue, Tricia Neptune |
| 122 | Awesome Biomechanics: From Righting to Fighting | Session Chair(s): Mary Stoddard |
| 123 | You Are What You Eat – Bioindicators | Session Chair(s): Jackson Johnstone |
| 124 | Finding the Way, Finding Home | Session Chair(s): Guy Levy |
| 125 | Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Metabolic Diversity 2 | Session Chair(s): Eric Riddell |
| 126 | Species and Speciation | Session Chair(s): Sabrina Pankey, Brian Counterman |
| 127 | Symbiotic Relationships | Session Chair(s): Brendan Cornwell |
| 128 | Complementary to Symposium S9: Inside the Black Box: The Mitochondrial Basis of Life-History Variation and Animal Performance | Session Chair(s): Antonine Stier, Yufeng Zhang |
| 129 | Fluids: Low Reynolds Number | Session Chair(s): Arvind Santhanakrishnan, Olaf Ellers |
| 130 | Sexual Selection | Session Chair(s): Alejandro Rico-Guevara |
| 131 | Evolutionary Physiology | Session Chair(s): Teri Orr |
| 132 | Dynamics of Predator-Prey Interactions | Session Chair(s): Ashley Peterson |
| 133 | Immune Trade-Offs | Session Chair(s): Michael Butler, Franziska Sandmeier |
| 134 | Aquatic Locomotion: It is a Fluke | Session Chair(s): Christopher Mayerl, Frank Fish |
| 135 | Complementary to S2: Spatial Scale and Structural Heterogeneity in Skeletal Muscle Performance: Less Than a Cell to Behavior | Session Chair(s): Chris Tijs, Nikolai Konow |
| 136 | Complementary to S7: Comparative Evolutionary Morphology and Biomechanics in the Era of Big Data | Session Chair(s): Anne-Claire Fabre, Ryan Felice |
| 137 | Character Development and Evolution | Session Chair(s): Jeanne Serb, Eric Erkenbrack |
| 138 | Filter Feeding | Session Chair(s): Kakani Katija |
| 139 | Body Size, Ontogeny and Scaling | Session Chair(s): Bryan Helm, Kelsey James |
| 140 | Osmotic Stress and Ionic Regulation | Session Chair(s): Jehan-Herve Lignot, Shelly McCain |
| 141 | Evolution of Behavior | Session Chair(s): Callin Switzer |
| 142 | Evo: Eco-Morpho | Session Chair(s): Kristy MacLeod |
Contributed Poster Presentations
| P1 | Poster Session 1 |
| P2 | Poster Session 2 |
| P3 | Poster Session 3 |
