This week I attended the meeting for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in Austin, TX. SICB always provides a great opportunity to share ideas with a really diverse crowd of scientists and thinkers and catch up with friends and colleagues. I presented results from a project started by Amy Kostka, an undergraduate … Continue reading SICB 2020 Reflections
The Evolution meetings are not my normal conference “home” (that honor generally goes to SICB and JMIH). However, my inaugural visit to Evolution in Guarujá Brazil in 2015 was a blast. So, with Evolution 2019 being so close in nearby Providence, I decided to make a second appearance. The meeting was, of course, a chance … Continue reading Evolution 2019 Round Up
This past weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a mini-symposium for recipients of NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. The focus of the symposium was the future of biological collections, addressing both how we should support and use collections to best effect. While most … Continue reading Discussing the Future of Biological Collections
For the past seven years or so, I’ve started the new year the same way, by attending the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). Conveniently, the meeting is usually held in a somewhat warm (or at least not frigidly cold) location, and this year’s meeting in Tampa did not disappoint. Aside … Continue reading SICB 2019: Starting the Winter in Florida
Christopher J. Thawley 