Meeting Abstract AMS-1  Sunday, Jan. 5 19:00 – 20:00  The Art of Seeing: Using Microscopy to Power STEAM Learning in Biology LINDSAY, SM; University of Maine, Orono slindsay@maine.edu Close observation is central to both art and science, as practitioners in both disciplines describe, compare, and seek to understand or interpret the natural world. Indeed, as the artist […]

ECKELBARGER, K.; University of Maine: The Dawn of Invertebrate Zoology in America: A Tribute to the Pioneers In the early 19th century, America had virtually no invertebrate zoologists as we know them today, but there were men and women studying invertebrates who described themselves as “naturalists” or “natural philosophers”. Interest in invertebrates was overshadowed by […]

Meeting Abstract AMS.1  Thursday, Jan. 3  The Snail: Evolving Metaphors and Visual Representations HICKMAN, C. S.; Univ. of California, Berkeley caroleh@berkeley.edu Depicting the structure and function of organisms relies heavily on verbal metaphor and visual representation. The rich metaphorical landscape of biology is continually changing in order to achieve the closest transfer of knowledge within and between […]

Meeting Abstract AMS.1  Tuesday, Jan. 5  Life in the colonies: learning the foreign ways of colonial organisms Winston, J.;

Meeting Abstract AMS.1  Wednesday, Jan. 5  The discovery and naming of marine larval forms: shallow and deep, then and now YOUNG, Craig M.; Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon cmyoung@uoregon.edu The description of life cycles and the discovery of larval forms were mainstream endeavors in the 18th and 19th centuries and these activities captured the […]

Meeting Abstract AMS.1  Thursday, Jan. 5  A Tribute to Dr. Mary E. Rice: From Neanderthals to Naples – A Brief History of Marine Biology from Antiquity to 1900 ECKELBARGER, Kevin J; University of Maine kevine@maine.edu Marine biology was born in the Mediterranean where Neanderthals exploited marine invertebrates, pinnipeds, cetaceans, and fish on the eastern shores of Gibraltar […]

Meeting Abstract AMS.1  Monday, Jan. 5 19:30  Comparative development of life history diversity in Sipuncula: a microscopic view BOYLE, Michael J.; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute BoyleM@si.edu Sipuncula (peanut worms) is an ancient group of marine worms with a global distribution, divergent life histories and a unique larval form, the pelagosphera. Life history patterns range from direct development […]

Meeting Abstract AMS-1  Friday, Jan. 6 19:30 – 20:30  Life in the Plankton, Stories from automated submersible microscopy and flow cytometry SOSIK, H.M.; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution hsosik@whoi.edu This presentation will highlight vignettes that include parasitoid control of diatom blooms, dynamics of harmful algal blooms that threaten human health, sex and death in the plankton, and climate-related […]

Meeting Abstract AMS-1  Saturday, Jan. 5 19:00 – 20:00  Functional Morphology Meets Infectious Disease Epidemiology: How Parasitic Flatworms Move Between and Within Hosts CONN, David-Bruce; Berry College, Mount Berry, GA and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA bconn@berry.edu https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Conn7 The emerging integrative field of One Health science departs from traditional focus on disease as malady and conceptualizes infection as […]