• Callum Backstrom: DIZ Best Talk Winner!

    Tracking heavy metals during bleaching stress and recovery in Hawaiian reef-building corals

    I am a fourth-year graduate student (masters-bypass PhD track) in the Padilla-Gamiño lab at the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. I study the interactive effects of multiple stressors on reef coral physiology and health, focusing on how ocean warming affects the levels of anthropogenic pollutants (such as heavy metals and microplastics) that are ingested by corals and passed to their offspring.

  • Erik Etzler: DIZ Best Talk – Runner Up!

    Exposure to traffic noise changes baseline auditory neural activity and decision-making in crickets

    I’m a 5th year PhD Student at the University of Toronto Mississauga, where I study how urban noise can mediate how orthopterans interact with each other and with predators.

  • Ethan Kahn: DIZ Best Poster!

    DNA Barcoding Nemertean Diversity in the Red Sea

    I am a 3rd year undergraduate at UCLA, majoring in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution and minoring in Linguistics. I am excited to explore biodiversity, systematics, and the intersection of ecological function with evolutionary pressures.

  • Gabrielle Johnson: DIZ Best Poster Runner-Up!

    Nearing the Max: Thermal Stress Decreases Larval Survival in Tortoiseshell Limpets

    Gabrielle Johnson is a junior at Swarthmore College studying biology and statistics. Her primary research pursuits are rooted in her interests in quantitative biology and climate change science!

  • Theodora Po: Wenner Award Winner!

    Directional control of phototactic behavior in sea stars

    I am a 6th-year PhD Candidate in Matt McHenry’s Lab at the University of California, Irvine. I am fascinated by the interplay between collective behavior and central control of biological and engineered systems I am a 6th-year PhD Candidate in Matt McHenry’s Lab at the University of California, Irvine. I am fascinated by the interplay between collective behavior and central control of biological and engineered systems for movement and sensing. I use a combination of experimentation, robotics, and mathematical modeling to explore this concept in the hundreds of appendages called tube feet in sea stars. I look forward to conducting research in neurophysiology, soft robotics, and animal behavior to further our understanding of control in animal locomotion and to develop bio-inspired control algorithms.

About

The mission of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) is to foster research, education, public awareness and understanding of living organisms from molecules and cells to ecology and evolution. SICB encourages interdisciplinary cooperative research that integrates across scales, and new models and methodologies to enhance research and education. SICB is committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) as an organizing and guiding principle at every level of the society.

Learn More

Publications & Media

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Journal

Blog

Integrative Organismal Biology

Journal

Blog

Become a Member

The Society has approximately 3,000 members whose research interests range from organismal biology to population biology/ecology to systematics and evolutionary biology. The Society has approximately 3,000 members whose research interests range from organismal biology to population biology/ecology to systematics and evolutionary biology.

Join Now

Upcoming Events

SICB 2025

January 3-7, 2025

Atlanta, GA

SICB News

View All

SICB Social Media Feed

SICB Follow 6,718 7,742

The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology fosters research, education, and public awareness of organisms from molecules & cells to ecology & evolution

SICB_
Load More

Follow Follow

the Society for
Integrative &
Comparative
Biology
WP Popup