Download Dear Proposed Symposium Organizers for New Orleans, 2004

Colleagues:
In terms of the selected symposia for the SICB Annual Meeting in New Orleans, 2004, the Divisional
Program Officers, John Pearse (past SICB Program Officer), Sue Burk, Lori Strong and I as the SICB
Program Officer had our first Program Meeting Sept 28 and 29, 2002 in Toronto. At this meeting we fully
completed the program for the meeting in Toronto that will be held Jan, 2003, and reviewed and decided
on the symposia for New Orleans, Jan. 2004. All symposia proposals submitted for consideration were
impressive and the Divisional Program Officers and others at our Program Meeting had an extremely
difficult task in selecting symposia for the New Orleans meeting. Prior to our Program Meeting, all
symposia were reviewed by the SICB Divisional Officers, Program Advisory Committee and Executive
Committee and a ballot was provided in which the results were tabulated and comments were discussed at
our recent program meeting. I do want to thank these people for their review and input into the process.
This was a terrific group of symposia to review. We look forward to an outstanding program in New
Orleans, 2004. Stacia Sower, Program Officer
APPROVED NEW ORLEANS SYMPOSIA-2004
SICB Wide:
1) R. Scott Winters: The Integration of Comparative Genomics and Ecological/ Evolutionary Studies
2) Raymond B. Huey: Integrative Biology: A Symposium Honoring George A. Bartholomew
3. Robert Dudley and Michael Dickinson: In Vino Veritas: The Comparative Biology of Ethanol Consumption
DAB:
Zuleyma Tang-Martinez: Bateman's Principle: Is it time for a re-evaluation?
DCPB
1) Carl L. Reiber: Ontogeny of physiological regulatory mechanisms: Fitting into the environment
2) John G. Swallow and Theodore Garland, Jr.: Selection Experiments as a Tool in Evolutionary and Comparative
Physiology: Insights into
Complex Traits
DEE
1) Michael J. Angilletta Jr.: The evolution of thermal reaction norms for growth rate and body size in ectotherms
DIZ
1) Neil Blackstone: Model Systems for the Basal Metazoa: Cnidarians, Ctenophores, and Placozoans
2) Scott Anthony Nichols: Sponges: New views of old animals
DSEB
Jonathan Jeffery: The Study of Sequences in Natural Sciences
DEDB
G.B. Mueller and A.A. Newman: Morphological Innovations
PAC
Rich Satterlie: Advances in Neurobiology
DCE
Robert Stevenson and Shea R. Tuberty: EcoPhysiology and Conservation: The contribution of Endocrinology and
Immunology