Society
for Integrative and Comparative Biology
CALL
FOR ABSTRACTS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
2004
Annual Meeting - Submittal Deadline September 5, 2003
We are no longer accepting late abstracts or revisions of submitted abstracts for the New Orleans, Jan 2004 meeting. We officially closed it in the third week of September and have turned down abstracts/revisions since then. The original deadline was 5 September and we did extend the deadline as long as we could. I hope that you will be able to attend the meeting nevertheless. Next year we are in San Diego, so please plan ahead for abstract submission deadline.
-- Changed Dates! -- January 5-9, 2004 - New Orleans Marriott,
New Orleans, Louisiana
You are invited to participate in, and contribute to, the 2004 Annual Meeting of the
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. To maintain the excellent scientific
quality of this meeting, you are encouraged to begin your preparation early.
LOCATION
The meeting will be located at the New Orleans Marriott. The Marriott is centrally
located within walking distance of the famous French Quarter and near many affordable restaurants, nightclubs and shops.
EXHIBITS
'04
There
will be an exhibition at the Annual Meeting. For further information on
exhibiting, contact Lori Strong (
LStrong@BurkInc.com) or Sue Burk (
SBurk@BurkInc.com)at the SICB Business Office 800-955-1236; (703)
790-1745; FAX (703) 790-2672.
MEETING
FORMAT
The
Annual Meeting will encompass three types of scientific sessions.
Poster
Presentations
Poster sessions will be grouped by subject and presented at times designated by the
SICB Program Officer. There will be three different poster sessions, each occuring in
the afternoon from 3:00-5:30 PM. Authors will be assigned to one of the three poster
sessions and must be present to stand by their posters for questions and answers during
this session. For poster presentations, submit an abstract and check the appropriate
box.
Oral
Presentations
Oral presentations will be grouped by subject and assigned a session chair by the SICB
Program Officer and Divisional Program Officers. Each oral presentation should be a
maximum of 15 minutes long, followed by 5 minutes for audience questions and
comments. Speakers will be required by session chairs to adhere to time limits. For
oral presentations, submit an abstract and check the appropriate box.
Symposia
Symposia are pre-arranged sessions in which the speakers have been invited by the
symposium organizers. If your presentation is scheduled for one of the listed symposia, check the appropriate box. There are currently 13 symposia planned for the New
Orleans meeting. A complete list of symposia can be found further below.
WHO
MAY PRESENT?
Attendees who are members of one of the contributing societies may present one oral
and/or one poster presentation (two presentations total). An additional presentation
may be given under any of the Integrative and Comparative Issues topics. Symposium
speakers also may give one contributed oral and/or one poster presentation, in addition
to their symposium presentation. Abstracts for each presentation should be submitted
separately.
Particpants who are not members of SICB or an affiliated/cosponsoring society need the
sponsorship of a member to submit an abstract, or they may join SICB as full members or student
members. Contact the SICB Business Office or the SICB website for membership
applications or help in finding a member sponsor.
SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES
Abstracts must be submitted via the World Wide Web (
http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2004/abstracts/). Please carefully follow any special instructions
for inserting special characters (e.g., italics, diacritical marks, or other symbols) into abstracts submitted via the Web.
SICB cannot be responsible for inserting such special characters and symbols.
Presenting
Author
Enter your name, institution, department, mailing address, telephone and FAX numbers, and e-mail address in the
appropriate boxes on the Abstract/Transmittal Form. SICB will send all correspondence for the 2004 Annual Meeting
to the e-mail and mailing addresses provided. If you change your address during the period between submission of
your abstract and the meeting, please contact the SICB Business Office to update your records.
Primary
Division/Society Affiliation
If
you are a member of SICB, check your primary division.
If
you belong to an affiliated or cosponsoring society, please indicate CSZ, ABS, AMS, TCS.
Symposia
Following
is the list of 2004 Symposia:
- Society Wide: Organized by R. Scott Winters: The Integration of Comparative Genomics and Ecological/ Evolu-
tionary Studies
- Society Wide: Organized by Raymond B. Huey: Integrative Biology: A Symposium Honoring George A.
Bartholomew
- Society Wide: Organized by Robert Dudley and Michael Dickinson: In Vino Veritas: The Comparative Biology of
Ethanol Consumption
- DAB: Organized by Zuleyma Tang-Martinez: Bateman's Principles: Is it Time for a Re-evaluation?
- DCPB: Organized by Carl L. Reiber: Ontogeny of Physiological Regulatory Mechanisms: Fitting into the
Environment
- DCPB: Organized by John G. Swallow and Theodore Garland, Jr.: Selection Experiments as a Tool in Evolution-
ary and Comparative Physiology: Insights into Complex Traits
- DEE: Organized by Michael J. Angilletta Jr.: The Evolution of Thermal Reaction Norms for Growth Rate and
Body Size in Ectotherms
- DIZ: Organized by Neil Blackstone: Model Systems for the Basal Metazoa: Cnidarians, Ctenophores, and
Placozoans
- DIZ: Organized by Scott Anthony Nichols and Gert Wörheide: Sponges: New Views of Old Animals
- DSEB: Organized by Jonathan Jeffery: The Study of Sequences in Natural Sciences
- DEDB: Organized by Gerd B. Mueller and Stuart A. Newman: Morphological Innovations
- PAC: Organized by Rich Satterlie: Advances in Neurobiology
- DCE/DIZ/Crustacean Society: Organized by Robert Stevenson and Shea R. Tuberty: EcoPhysiology and Conservation: The Contribution
of Endocrinology and Immunology
- Mini-Symposium: Minisymposium in Honor of Marvalee Wake--Vertebrate Morphology
Workshop
Student/Postdoctoral Committee Sponsored Workshop - Organized by M. Patricia Morse, Thomas Daniel, Kevin Kelley
and Joseph Thorn:: Biology As a Way of Knowing (BAWOK).
Contributed Presentation Format
Select whether your presentation is to be oral only, poster only, or either. Checking the "either" box will give the program
officers greater flexibility.
Audio/Visual Requests
Computer projectors will be present in all presenting and practice rooms. Please indicate if you will need a video projector
(VHS and monitor) and/or slide or overhead projector for your presentation. Note that you are responsible for providing a
computer for the presentation and are expected to bring slides or overheads as a backup. You are also responsible for
computer set-up and will be expected to visit the Ready Room prior to your presentation to ensure that your presentation
will work on the projector that is provided.
Topics
of Sessions
SICB Contributed Papers and Posters will be arranged by topic. There are eight major topic groups and each topic group contains sub-topics. It is mandatory that you select three sub-topics that best characterize your presentation and rank them in order of preference (e.g.
A.1, A.12, D.12.1) so your contribution can be grouped with similar presentations when scheduling them. If your presentation is more closely related to a symposium, please select I as your first choice and select the symposium in the pop-up box below the topic boxes.
A.
Development
1 cell differentiation
2 development of behavior
3 developmental morphology and morphogenesis
4 dispersal and recruitment
5 ecological development
6 larval biology and ecology
7 life cycles
8 metamorphosis
9 nervous system development
10 pattern formation in early embryos
11 regeneration
12 settlement
13 vision
B.
Ecology and Behavior
1 animal communication
2 behavioral ecology
3 community ecology
4 mechanisms of behavior
5 navigation
6 non-reproductive social behaviors
7 population ecology
8 macroecology
9 predation and predator avoidance
10 reproductive behaviors
11 reproductive tactics
12 symbioses
13 vision
C.
Environmental Biology
1 biodiversity
2 biogeography
3 bioindicators
4 conservation biology
5 coral reef biology
6 deep-sea biology
7 meiofauna
8 environmental ecology
9 environmental endocrinology
10 environmental toxicology
11 geographic surveys
12 pollution
13 UV irradiation
D.
Evolution
1 adaptation
2 character development and evolution
3 cladistics/phylogenetic analysis
4 comparative evolutionary morphology
5 evolution of development
6 evolutionary ecology
7 evolutionary paleobiology
8 evolutionary physiology
9 historical biogeography
10 life history evolution
11 microevolution
11.1 population genetics
11.2 species and speciation
11.3 sexual selection
11.4 co-evolution
12 macroevolution
13 molecular evolution
14 comparative genomics and proteomics
E.
Integrative and Comparative Issues
1 biology
education and teaching
2 conceptual
and methodological
studies
3 promise
of integrative biology
4 historical
studies
5 monographic
systematics
6 public
policy
F.
Morphology
1 adaptation
2 adhesion
3 biomechanics
4 feeding,
intake, and digestion
5 functional
morphology
6 growth
and form
7 locomotion
and movement
8 nervous
system structure and function
9 sensorimotor
function
G.
Physiology and Biochemistry
1 cardiovascular
physiology
2 cell
and molecular physiology
3 comparative
biochemistry
4 digestion
and nutrition
5 energetics
6 immunology
7 metabolism
8 muscle
physiology and biochemistry
9 osmotic
and ionic regulation
10 respiration
and acid base
11 thermobiology
12 reproductive physiology
13 signal transduction
14 vision
H.
Regulatory Biology
1 comparative
endocrinology
2 environmental
endocrinology
3 hormone-binding
proteins
4 molecular
evolution of hormones and
receptors
5 neuroendocrinology
6 osmoregulatory
hormones
7 regulation
of metabolism
8 regulation
of growth
9 regulation
of development
10 regulation
of reproduction
11 regulation
of behavior
12 sensory
systems
13 signal
transduction
14 stress
Check appropropriate checkboxes ("I would like to be a Session Chair"
and/or "I would like to be in a session complementing a regular symposium.") and fill in name of symposium if requesting a complementing session.
Best
Student Paper Program
Best
Student Paper Awards are given by most SICB divisions and affiliated societies.
Visit the SICB website (
www.sicb.org/awards.php3#bsp)
for information, and if you wish to compete, check the Best Student Paper box.
If a letter is required
from your advisor, forward it to the SICB Business Office indicating that it is
for the award, and give your name, e-mail address, and title of your abstract. Each submission
must select a division in which to compete. You
must
be a member of the division which you select.
Author
Box
Type each author(s) name all in upper case, last name followed by initials, in the appropriate box i.e., SOWER, S. A. (Author
Box 1), BURK, B. (Author Box 2) and WINGFIELD, J.C,* (Author Box 3). Use an * (asterisk) following the name of the
presenting author if more than one author is listed.
Institution
Box
Type the institution(s), and location(s) in upper and lower case in the box. DO NOT include your department, or
repeat the city or state when they are already part of the institution(s) name, or the zip code when listing the address(es)
of the author(s). Capitalization and punctuation must be as shown in the sample (University of California, San Diego
and Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC).
Title
Box
Enter
the title of your abstract in the box in upper and lower case.
Abstract
Keywords
Keywords are used to develop the index in the Final Program. You must use at least one, but no more than three,
keywords to submit your abstract. Enter them in the Keyword 1, Keyword 2, and Keyword 3 boxes. NOTE: This
year you are allowed up to add 1 keyword of your choosing (if you wish). The complete keyword list will appear when
you click the button.
Abstract
Box
The abstract will be published as submitted in the Final Program and in the abstract issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology. There should be no margin at the top; keep all text flush left. Enter only the single-paragraph body of the
text in the abstract box. DO NOT re-enter your name(s) or institution(s).
Final
Notes
The
total number of characters including authors, institutions, email address,
title, spaces, and abstract body is 2000. The abstract text-body will not be
accepted if the
total
exceeds
that number.
To
be considered for inclusion in the Program, all poster, oral, and symposium
submissions must be received by the SICB Business Office by September 5, 2003.
Submissions for posters, oral presentations, and symposia MUST be made using
the SICB website,
www.sicb.org/meetings/2004/abstracts/.
The
full schedule of presentations, with dates and times, will be posted on the
SICB website by the end of October.
No
Abstract Submission Fee
For
the 2004 Annual Meeting, no abstract fee will be charged. However, those
submitting abstracts for contributed papers and/or posters must register for
the meeting by the deadline of October 31, 2003.
YOU
WILL RECEIVE AN E-MAIL FROM THE SICB BUSINESS OFFICE ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF
YOUR ABSTRACT, HOWEVER, IT IS NOT ACCEPTED UNTIL YOU REGISTER. IF AN EMAIL CONFIRMATION IS NOT RECEIVED, YOUR ABSTRACT HAS NOT BEEN RECEIVED. CHECK WITH THE BUSINESS OFFICE (SICB@BURKINC.COM) IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE.
QUESTIONS??
SICB
Business Office:
Toll free: 800-955-1236, FAX: 703-790-2672, Email:
SICB@BurkInc.com