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

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

SYMPOSIA

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)

POSTER SESSIONS

Exhibit Hall

Please treat the viewing times as equivalent to the period when oral papers are presented.

Poster Session 1 set up:

5:00-8:00pm

Poster Session 1

Authors present: 3:20-5:30pm

Poster Session 1 teardown: 5:30-6:00pm

Poster Session 2 set up: 6:00-8:00pm

Poster Session 2

Authors present 3:20-5:30pm

Poster Session 2 teardown: 5:30-6:00pm

Poster Session 3 set up: 6:00-8:00pm

Poster Session 3

Authors present 3:20-5:30pm

Poster Session 3 teardown:5:30-6:00pm

EXHIBIT HOURS

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

Advisory Committee 7-8am

Editorial Board

Vendor Appreciation Breakfast

8:00am-9:00am

Executive Committee Meeting

7:00am-9:00am

BUSINESS MEETINGS

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

WORKSHOPS & PROGRAMS

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
Noon-1:00pm

Systematics for Dummies Wkshp
6:00-7:00pm

NSF with Bill Zamer 6-7:30 pm

SOCIAL EVENTS

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

AMS Luncheon Noon-1:00pm

DNB Social 6:30-7:30pm

Society-wide Social in Honor of Students and Postdocs 7:30-9:30pm

REGISTRATION

10:00am-8:00pm

7:00am-5:00pm

7:00am-5:00pm

7:00am-2:00pm

7:00am-Noon