{"id":2124,"date":"2022-08-17T14:27:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/?page_id=2124"},"modified":"2022-10-14T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:02:25","slug":"fall-2022-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/?page_id=2124","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2022: Division of Comparative Biomechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>DCB Officers and Elections<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Current DCB Officers<\/h4>\n<p>Through January 2023, your DCB officers are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chair:<\/strong> John Long, <a href=\"mailto:chair.dcb@sicb.org\">chair.dcb@sicb.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chair-elect:<\/strong> Brooke Flammang, <a href=\"mailto:chairelect.dcb@sicb.org\">chairelect.dcb@sicb.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Program Officer:<\/strong> Jimmy Liao, <a href=\"mailto:dpo.dcb@sicb.org\">dpo.dcb@sicb.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Secretary:<\/strong> Laura Habegger, <a href=\"mailto:secretary.dcb@sicb.org\">secretary.dcb@sicb.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Student and Postdoctoral Representative:<\/strong> Armita Manafzadeh, <a href=\"mailto:armita.manafzadeh@yale.edu\">armita.manafzadeh@yale.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Welcoming New Division Leaders<\/strong><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2191\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2191\" src=\"http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Misty_Paig-Tran-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Chair-Elect Misty Paig-Tran\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Misty_Paig-Tran-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Misty_Paig-Tran-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Misty_Paig-Tran-768x512.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Misty_Paig-Tran-702x468.jpeg 702w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Misty_Paig-Tran.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Incoming Chair-Elect Misty Paig-Tran<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2193\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2193\" src=\"http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Andrew-Schulz-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew K Schulz \" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Andrew-Schulz-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Andrew-Schulz-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Andrew-Schulz-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Andrew-Schulz-768x767.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Andrew-Schulz-1536x1534.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Andrew-Schulz-2048x2046.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Andrew-Schulz-469x468.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Incoming SPD representative Andrew K Schulz<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last spring, we held our election for the DCB Chair and had two outstanding candidates: Stephanie Pierce, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University and Misty Paig-Tran, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Cal State Fullerton. Our thanks to you both for running for the position and your dedicated service to the division. Congratulations to Misty Paig-Tran on being elected as the DCB Chair! Misty will begin her term as Chair-Elect at the end of the 2023 SICB conference when Brooke Flammang, current Chair-Elect, will take over as Chair. Misty will assume the position as DCB Chair at the end of the 2025 annual meeting. Thank you for your commitment to the division\u2019s leadership team!<\/p>\n<p>We also would like to welcome our new Student\/Postdoc representative Andrew K Schulz who will join the Student\/Postdoctoral Affairs Committee (SPDAC) as DCB&#8217;s representative in January 2023. As SICB 2023 gets closer, we want to thank our outgoing SPDAC representative<strong>:<\/strong> Armita Manafzadeh. Thank you for all your hard work and commitment towards our division!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Carl Gans Young Investigator Award Winner<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2194\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2194 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rico-Guevara--300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Alejandro Rico-Guevara\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rico-Guevara--300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rico-Guevara--1024x698.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rico-Guevara--768x523.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rico-Guevara--687x468.jpg 687w, http:\/\/sicb.burkclients.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rico-Guevara-.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Alejandro Rico-Guevara is the 2023 recipient of the Carl Gans Award<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We had a number of excellent candidates for the Carl Gans Young Investigator Award. We would like to congratulate the winner: \u00a0Dr. Alejandro Rico-Guevera, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Curator of Birds, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington.\u00a0 In recommending the winner to the divisional officers, the Gans Award Committee had this to say about Dr. Rico-Guevera: \u201cDr. Rico-Guevera uses a uniquely integrative approach to explore the trade-offs of avian morphology, feeding, and behavior, concentrating on hummingbirds. Dr. Rico-Guevera has developed specific high-speed macro-imaging and tracking techniques to allow for the collection of behavioral data on large-scale dynamics of hummingbird flight and feeding in the field as well as feeding biomechanics in the lab.\u201d\u00a0 Dr. Rico-Guevera will give the Gans Award keynote address at the annual meeting this January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our most sincere acknowledgement to the Gans Award Committee members Drs. Anabela Resende Da Maia (chair), Venkata Amarnadh Surapaneni, Raul E. Diaz, Jr, Peishu Li and Talia Moore.\u00a0 Their hard work has made a significant and positive contribution to the Division.\u00a0 In considering this year\u2019s nominees, the committee wanted to acknowledge the runner-up as an Honorable Mention, Dr. Nicholas Burnett.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Best Student Paper Competition 2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We had 20 eligible submissions for the DCB Best Student Paper competition! Of these, DCB officers chose the top 8 finalists to compete for the annual <strong>Mimi A.R. Koehl and Stephen A. Wainwright Award<\/strong> for Best Student Presentation in Biomechanics. Officers decided that we will not hold a competition for the <strong>Stephen Vogel Award<\/strong> for Best Student Poster in Biomechanics this year. Keep an eye out for the special session dedicated to DCB student award finalists at the 2023 meeting! This year\u2019s finalists are (in alphabetical order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christian Brown. \u201cSkydiving salamanders: How some lungless salamanders jump, glide, and generate lift\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alice Leavey. \u201cModeling the effect of different skeletal proportions on hindlimb mechanics in frogs\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Theodora Po. \u201cThe collective and central control of locomotion in sea stars\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Divya Ramesh. \u201cStudying terrestrial fish locomotion on wet deformable substrates\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Gargi Sadalgekar. \u201cTemplate-level robophysical models for studying sustained terrestrial locomotion of amphibious fish\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bradley Scott. \u201cCompetition from jawed vertebrates was not the only cause of Heterostraci (Agnatha) extinction\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mikayla Struble. \u201cTerrestrial to Aquatic Locomotor Transitions in <em>Notophthalmus viridescens<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Melody Young. \u201cClimbing is hard (at least for humans)\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Unfortunately, a number of submissions for the BSP paper award were deemed ineligible because they did not follow the BSP rules for extended abstracts.\u00a0 If this was the case for you, please try again for SICB 2024!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Upcoming Regional SICB Meetings<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to the organizers of three regional SICB meetings.\u00a0 Information can be found here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Midwest Regional Meeting at the University of Chicago.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdNkucF_LxkYC3REULToLHmQfNj4Y19imquvt2w20iuVcDa0g\/viewform\">Interest form<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Southeast Regional Meeting at Duke University.\u00a0 Tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patek_lab\">@patek_lab<\/a> for registration form.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Southwest Regional Meeting at Cal State San Bernardino.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEBASTESinBLUE\/status\/1557869226588745728\">Save the date info<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Symposia at SICB 2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are the topics that DCB is sponsoring for SICB 2023:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pathways to adulthood: environmental, developmental, and evolutionary influences on the ontogeny of form and function<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Neuroethology in the age of gene editing: New tools and novel insights into the molecular and neural basis of behavior<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Biology at birth: the role of infancy in providing the foundation for lifetime success<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Envisioning a Diverse, Inclusive &amp; Safe Future for Field Biology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The role of mechanosensation in robust locomotion<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Large-scale biological phenomena arising from small-scale biophysical processes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Students and Postdocs<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The DCB Student\/Postdoctoral Affairs Committee Representative is available to serve as (1) a liaison between the student and postdoctoral members of our division and the division leadership, and (2) an advocate for the amazing research you\u2019re all doing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are a student or a postdoc and you have suggestions, comments, concerns please contact Armita Manafzadeh by email (<a href=\"mailto:armita@brown.edu\">armita.manafzadeh@yale.edu<\/a>) or Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/armanafzadeh\">@armanafzadeh<\/a>) with your SICB-related feedback, and she will pass them along to the DCB officers.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Social Media<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To keep up with our latest news please check our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/258733714665123\/\">Facebook group<\/a>, and feel free to send us your questions or tag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SICB_DCB_DVM\">@SICB_DCB_DVM<\/a> in any tweets you\u2019d like us to signal boost to our community!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DCB Officers and Elections Current DCB Officers Through January 2023, your DCB officers are: Chair: John Long, chair.dcb@sicb.org Chair-elect: Brooke &hellip; 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