

SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY ANNUAL MEETING
January 5-9, 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana
Schedule of Events
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Times as noted "Tribute
to Aubrey Gorbman" Howard
Bern, 6:30 pm Carondelet Opening
Session-Plenary Address John A.
McLachlan - "Environmen-tal signaling: A systems biology
approach to human and ecological health" 6:50-7:50pm Carondelet Bartholomew
Award/Lecture-Jason Podrabsky- "From mud puddles
to microarrays: Searching for the molecular basis of eurythermy
and diapause in the annual killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus"
6:30-7:30pm Bern
Lecture-Yoshitaka
Nagahama - "The
plasticity of fish gender: An evolutionary basis for sex
determination and differentiation in vertebrates"- 6:30-7:30pm
AMS Past
Presidential Address Mary Beth Thomas - "Hydractinia -
a builder of miniature reefs"
1:00-2:00 pm
8:00am-3:20pm unless
otherwise noted in program Basal Metazoa (am)
Bateman’s
Principles (am) Thermal Reaction
Norms (am) Bartholomew EcoPhysiology &
Conservation (pm) Basal Metazoa (am) Bateman’s
Principles (am) Thermal Reaction
Norms (am) Evolutionary &
Comp Phys (am) Ethanol Consumption EcoPhysiology &
Conservation Evolutionary &
Comp Phys (am) Sponges (am) Sequences in Natural
Sciences Morphological
Innovations Wake Minisymposium
(pm) Neurobiology (pm) Physiol
Reg Mechanisms (pm) Wake
Minisymposium (am) Sponges
(am) Neurobiology
(am) CONTRIBUTED PAPER
SESSIONS 8:00am-3:20pm unless
otherwise noted in program Int & Comparative
Issues (am) Morphology (am) Regulatory Biology (am) Development Ecology & Behavior Evolution x2 all day Morphology x2 all day Ecology & Behavior
(pm) Evo Devo (pm) Comp Session to Basal
Metazoa (pm) Ecology &
Behavior Physiology &
Biochemistry x2 all day Morphology x3 all day Regulatory Biology
Evo Devo (pm) Evolution (pm) Morphology (pm) Comp Session to
Bartholomew (am) Ecology & Behavior
(am) Evo Devo (am) Physiology &
Biochemistry (am) Ecology & Behavior Evolution Morphology x3 all day Development
(am) Ecology
& Behavior (am) Evolution
x2 (am) Int
& Comparative Issues (am)
Morphology (am)
Physiology & Biochem (am)
Regulatory Biology (am) Exhibit Hall Please treat the viewing
times as equivalent to the period when oral papers are presented.
5:00-8:00pm Authors present:
3:20-5:30pm Poster
Session 1 teardown: 5:30-6:00pm Poster
Session 2 set up: 6:00-8:00pm Authors present
3:20-5:30pm Poster
Session 2 teardown: 5:30-6:00pm Poster
Session 3 set up: 6:00-8:00pm Authors present
3:20-5:30pm Poster
Session 3 teardown:5:30-6:00pm Exhibit Hall; Coffee
breaks-9:40-10:20am & 3:20-3:40pm Exhibitor set-up
Noon-8:00pm 9:30am-6:00pm Open 9:30am-6:00pm Open 9:30am-6:00pm Open COMMITTEE & BOARD
MEETINGS Noon-1pm unless otherwise noted in
program Executive Committee
3:00-5:30pm
2003 SICB Nominating Committee
Div
Chrs Pres/Pres-Elect
Division
Program Officer & Affiliated Societies Public
Affairs Comm
Student Support Committee 7:30-10:00pm Advisory Committee 7-8am
Editorial
Board
SICB
Division Secretaries
AMS Executive Committee
8:00-11:00pm
Vendor Appreciation Breakfast
8:00am-9:00am
Education
Council Executive Committee Meeting
7:00am-9:00am
5:30-6:30pm
unless otherwise noted DAB Business Mtg
DCPB Business Mtg
DIZ Business Mtg
DCE Business
Mtg
DDCB Business Mtg
DEDB Business Mtg
DEE Business Mtg
DNB Business Mtg DSEB Business Mtg
DVM Business Mtg TCS Business Mtg
AMS Business Meeting
2:00-3:20pm
SICB Business Meeting
5:30-6:30 pm
Times as noted Student First Timer Orientation
5-6pm
Media Workshop 6:30-8:30pm
DPOs & Symp Organizers - San Diego
Noon-1pm
ADInstruments Wksp 6:30-8:00pm
Evolution Town Mtg 6:30-8:30pm
NSF Session with Judy Verbeke
Systematics for Dummies
Wkshp NSF with
Bill Zamer 6-7:30 pm Times as noted Welcome Reception
7:50-9:30pm
Mardi Gras Ballroom
Companion
Orientation Prog/
Cont.Bkfst 9:00-10:00am
SICB Grad/Postdoc Lunch & Job Prep Wkshp
Noon-1:00pm
DCPB Social 7:30-8:30pm
SRC Breakfast 6:30am-8:00am
DEDB/DDCB
Social 6:30-7:30 pm DVM Social 6:30-7:30pm
DIZ/DEE/AMS/TCS Social 6:30-8:00pm
DCE Social 7:30-8:30pm
AMS Luncheon Noon-1:00pm
DNB Social 6:30-7:30pm
Society-wide
Social in Honor of Students and Postdocs 7:30-9:30pm
Zydeco Band ?? pm
REGISTRATION
10:00am-8:00pm 7:00am-5:00pm 7:00am-5:00pm 7:00am-2:00pm 7:00am-Noon Divisions: DAB Animal
Behavior DCE Comparative
Endocrinology DCPB Comparative
Physiology & Biochem DDCB Developmental
& Cell Biology DEDB Evolutionary
Developmental Biology DEE
Ecology & Evolution DIZ Invertebrate
Zoology DNB Neurobiology DSEB Systematic
& Evolutionary Biology DVM Vertebrate
Morphology Co-sponsoring
Societies ABS Animal
Behavior Society AMS American
Microscopical Society PES/ESA Physiological
Ecology Section
of the Ecological Society of America TCS The
Crustacean Society
EVENTS/FUNCTIONS
Monday, January 5 - Day 1
Tuesday, January 6 -
Day 2
Wednesday, January 7 -
Day 3
Thursday, January 8 -
Day 4
Friday, January 9 - Day 5
SPECIAL SESSIONS & EVENTS
SYMPOSIA
POSTER SESSIONS
Poster Session 1 set up:
Poster Session 1
Poster Session 2
Poster Session 3
EXHIBIT HOURS
BUSINESS MEETINGS
WORKSHOPS & PROGRAMS
Noon-1:00pm
6:00-7:00pm
SOCIAL EVENTS
SICB
GRID 2004