The current ABS 2024 In-Person Meeting program is listed below. Please be sure to reference this page regularly as program changes are expected up until the meeting.
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Saturday, June 29 |
| Time | NSC 145 | SSC 2028 | SSC 2032 | SSC 2036 | SSC 2050 |
| 9:30 am - 12:00 pm | Symposium: Increasing the visibility of LGBTQ+ scientists and building a queer-friendly community in the Animal Behavior Society (4) | Ecological effects
Moderator(s): Ignacio Escalante, Kiyoko Gotanda | Sexual selection & sexual conflict 2
Moderator(s): Carrie Branch, Jeffrey R Lucas | Predation & foraging
Moderator(s): Brett Seymoure, Lauren Witterick | Neuro/endocrine and physiological mechanisms
Moderator(s): Karan J. Odom, Dara Orbach |
| 9:30 | Plasticity, Modularity, and Cross-sexual Transfer: A Nonbinary Framework for Sexual Diversity
K. Warkentin | Male Bachman’s sparrows with larger beaks persist in territorial defense during simulated intrusions
R. Anderson, W. Abbott | Seeking smarts: Female chickadees choose extra-pair males with enhanced spatial cognition
C. Branch, B. Sonnenberg, J. Welklin, B. Butcher, V. Heinen, A. Pitera, L. Benedict, E. Bridge, I. Lovette, M. Webster, V. Pravosudov | Hiding in the face of danger: shelter availability and risk level influence crayfish exploration
G. Achtymichuk, A. Baruah, M. Ferrari | Sociosexual Behavior in POMC-Deficient Mice
K. Argyle, Z. Thompson, L. Silvatti, A. Hsieh |
| 9:45 | External temperature and body size, not load bearing, drive locomotion of tropical wolf spiders
I. Escalante, D. Villaseñor-Amador, L. Vilas-Bôas M.P. de Cerqueira, Q. Gómez, F. Zamora Cornejo, J. Paulucci | How does temperature affect the resource-dependent development of sexual traits in wolf spiders?
Y. Phan, N. Leith, K. Fowler-Finn | Personality in the Chalk-browed Mockingbird: The Role of Risk Aversion in the Face of Predation
M. JACOBY, J. REBOREDA, V. FIORINI | The silent assumption of the masking hypothesis: avian auditory processing and anthropogenic noise
M. Gall, T. Chou, K. Henry |
| 10:00 | Bite force variation in urban and non-urban Darwin's finches
K. Gotanda, S. Knutie, A. Love, T. McCaffrey, G. Tattersall, J. Chaves, A. Herrell | Auditory processing vs. mate choice via coercion and resistance, persuasion and skepticism
J. Lucas | Bat Predation on Sleeping Birds: A Novel Foraging Strategy for an Eavesdropping Specialist?
M. Jingco, L. Norwood, L. Gómez-Feuillet, M. Dixon, J. Falk, L. James, R. Page | A whole-brain map of pair bond expression in a monogamous rodent
M. Gustison, R. Muñoz-Castañeda, P. Osten, S. Phelps |
| 10:15 | All the things you might have missed: a queer scientist’s perspective on behavior and physiology
C. Gabor, A. Aspbury | Reproductive allotment affects cognition in the live-bearing Western Mosquitofish
K. Irwin, E. Edgar, C. Gabor | Signal-preference coevolution in the rapidly speciating Hawaiian cricket Laupala
K. Shaw, M. Xu | Host Plants as Predator Learning Signals for Defended vs. Undefended Prey
N. Martin | Transcriptomics reveal neurogenomic associations with female and male song in a temperate songbird
K. Odom, T. Liddle, N. Prior, A. Magnaterra, C. Haakenson, C. Krieg, T. Stevenson, G. Ball |
| 10:30 | Flexible parental roles: Lesson from poison frogs
E. Fischer, S. Westrick, J. Moss | Landscape of giants: Elephant-induced habitat alterations and behavioral cues shape ungulate behavior
M. Jones, R. McCleery, R. Fletcher, Jr., L. Kruger, A. Monadjem, S. Wisely, C. Reynolds, K. Glennon, K. Roques, P. Simelane, J. Keller, S. Nhlabatsi | Female choice in a guinea pig social group
P. Verzola-Olivio, P. Monticelli | Effects of Callinectes sapidus predator on the activity, foraging, and social behavior of Alpheus angulosus
R. Prostko, M. Hughes | Energetics of Dolphin Bow Riding Behavior
D. Orbach, C. Vaquero, L. Fiori, R. Davis, B. Würsig |
| 10:45 | Behavior’s role in the evolution of species ranges
K. Pfennig, B. Loflin | Sweet somethings? The functions of vocalizations during and after copulation invertebrates
M. Vincent, K. Harms, H. Asgari, P. Brennan | The efficacy of fear-based management for ungulates on crop fields
K. Rutherford, D. Visscher, G. Fowler, C. Cassady St. Clair | Friends and Food: Investigating Neural Mechanisms of Behavior Across Contexts in Pupfish
M. St. John, L. Stein |
| 11:00 | Academics As Activists: Using Our Biological Knowledge to Advocate for LGBTQI Positive Legislation
Z. Tang-Martinez | | Modeling Condition and Sexually Selected Fitness in a Field Cricket
M. Von Deylen, I. Hamilton, A. Muñoz-Garcia, S. Gershman | Differential predation across urban and rural sites in the white-lined sphinx moth, Hyles lineata.
B. Seymoure, L. Horne, K. Pollard, B. Sanchez, E. Field, O. Da Cunha | Branchiopod crustacean behavioral responses to visible and UV light: are there neural implications?
B. Stevens, P. Huffman, M. Gaughan, N. Lessios |
| 11:15 | End of Session | Optimal polyandry: the effects of multiple mating on female fitness
J. Yan, J. Rosenbaum, D. Yang, R. Dukas | Infection alters foraging decisions in a common songbird
F. Tillman, J. Adelman | The Relationship Between Planned Participation and Benefits from a Modern Ecstatic Ritual
I. Tasevoli, A. Fulmer |
| 11:30 | Recap/Discussion | End of Session | Food and soil preferences of an invasive snail and the impacts of zoonotic nematode infection
E. Trotman, T. Shaw, C. Keiser | Interactive effects of chronic stress on the physiological stress response of budgerigars
A. Villalba, J. Jawor, T. Wright |
| 11:45 | Fear of predators has enduring effects on behaviour and the brain in wild animals
L. Witterick, S. MacDougall-Shackleton, C. Bailey, M. Clinchy, L. Zanette | End of Session |
